What do you use Ruby for?

ruby-talk
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What do you use Ruby for is my question.Me,being 17 I have lots of
spare time on my hand, and with that time I've decided to learn a
programming language, Ruby. Right now I'm learning the basics of ruby
and how it works, this will help me understand and read ruby easier.
Back on the topic: what do you use ruby for? When I ask that question
I mean how do you use Ruby and why. This question later on when I get
more into ruby will help me decide how to use ruby from your
experience, thanks

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http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/99105

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:30:12 +0900, coke <coke2k5@gmail.com> wrote:

What do you use Ruby for is my question

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Hi,

coke wrote:

What do you use Ruby for is my question.Me,being 17 I have lots of

Have a look at this: http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RealWorldRuby

Cheers

Stephan

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Web spiders, data mining, general slice and dice of data while moving it from one place to another. Soon I'll have a bunch of system configuration and installation tools written in Ruby.

I'm nowhere near as bright as a lot of the people on this list and, I'm no longer a programmer, I've been a systems administrator for many years now.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts, it's what I can remember in time to use.

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, coke wrote:

What do you use Ruby for is my question.Me,being 17 I have lots of
spare time on my hand, and with that time I've decided to learn a
programming language, Ruby. Right now I'm learning the basics of ruby
and how it works, this will help me understand and read ruby easier.
Back on the topic: what do you use ruby for? When I ask that question
I mean how do you use Ruby and why. This question later on when I get
more into ruby will help me decide how to use ruby from your
experience, thanks

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coke wrote:

What do you use Ruby for is my question.Me,being 17 I have lots of
spare time on my hand, and with that time I've decided to learn a
programming language, Ruby. Right now I'm learning the basics of ruby
and how it works, this will help me understand and read ruby easier.
Back on the topic: what do you use ruby for? When I ask that question
I mean how do you use Ruby and why. This question later on when I get
more into ruby will help me decide how to use ruby from your
experience, thanks

I learned the basics of Ruby 4 years ago just after the first edition
of Programming Ruby was published. It was fun, but I did not use it.
But recently I created some Ruby programs for my research work. See
"Appendix: Computer Program Tools, Threshold Transformations and
Dynamical Systems of Neural Networks" in
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Takao

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* Whenever shellscripts would get too complicated (I always forget the
syntax of for-rof loops...)
* For each program I write in my spare time
* Whenever I want to try out a new idea, I think how I would code this
in ruby, then I write it in the language that I have to use.
* When writing Java/C++ code, I sometimes rewrite stuff in ruby just to
see how this should really look like :slight_smile:

martinus

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CT wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:30:12 +0900, coke <coke2k5@gmail.com> wrote:

What do you use Ruby for is my question

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/99105

Another thread that touched this subject starts at
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/120271

regards,
Henrik

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Thanks, very usefull links everyone.

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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 05:30:54 +0900, Matt Lawrence <matt@technoronin.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, coke wrote:

> What do you use Ruby for is my question.Me,being 17 I have lots of
> spare time on my hand, and with that time I've decided to learn a
> programming language, Ruby. Right now I'm learning the basics of ruby
> and how it works, this will help me understand and read ruby easier.
> Back on the topic: what do you use ruby for? When I ask that question
> I mean how do you use Ruby and why. This question later on when I get
> more into ruby will help me decide how to use ruby from your
> experience, thanks

Web spiders, data mining, general slice and dice of data while moving it
from one place to another. Soon I'll have a bunch of system configuration
and installation tools written in Ruby.

I'm nowhere near as bright as a lot of the people on this list and, I'm no
longer a programmer, I've been a systems administrator for many years now.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts, it's what I can remember in time to use.