Moderately Interesting Ruby Exercises

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I don't know if this posted earlier today, so I'm resending it.

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--- Brian Wisti <brianwisti@yahoo.com> wrote:

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@yahoo.com>
Subject: Moderately Interesting Ruby Exercises
To: Ruby Talk <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>

Yep, the geekery continues. Now there are the MIREs, "Moderately
Interesting Ruby Exercises". Every week, I try to think up something
kinda cool to do with Ruby. Nothing big is planned. It needs to be
small enough for me to finish writing about it within a stretch of a
day or two, so I won't be building any major application frameworks
unless I get *really* fast at typing. By the end of it, a complete
and
vaguely useful Ruby script will have been completed. Oh, and I'll try
to throw in a couple ideas for things you could do to improve or
enhance the script.

The intent is just to chart my thinking process as I go from "ooh,
what
if I could do XXX?" to actually having a complete product/tool/toy.
This way I'm sure to get some daily practice in as well.

  http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/mire/

Today's MIRE is: reading headlines from fark.com on the command line.

    http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/mire/0001.html

Have fun, and please let me know what you think!

Kind Regards,

Brian Wisti
http://coolnamehere.com/

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Brian Wisti wrote:

Today's MIRE is: reading headlines from fark.com on the command line.

    http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/mire/0001.html

Have fun, and please let me know what you think!

I don't know where you posted this the first time, but thank! It's
interesting, well presented, and a good resource for the long term, I
think. Keep it up.

Gavin

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Very nicely done. I'd be interested in seeing these announced on the ng
every time you post a new one.

martin

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Brian Wisti <brianwisti@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Yep, the geekery continues. Now there are the MIREs, "Moderately
> Interesting Ruby Exercises". Every week, I try to think up something
> kinda cool to do with Ruby. Nothing big is planned. It needs to be