I’ll definitely come back to this book and use as a reference. Anyone new or already experienced using Ruby, will definitely benefit from reading this book. I hope this book (all editions) gets the high praise from the Ruby community, which it deserves, as in my eyes this is a classic programming book and I see this title as the Llama/Camel book for the Ruby World.

Chapter 1: Let’s Get it Started: Installing Ruby
Chapter 2: Programming == Joy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation
Chapter 3: Ruby’s Building Blocks: Data, Expressions and Flow Control
Chapter 4: Developing a Basic Ruby Application
Chapter 5: The Ruby Ecosystem
Chapter 6: Classes, Objects, and Modules
Chapter 7: Projects and Libraries
Chapter 8: Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing
Chapter 9: Files and Databases
Chapter 10: Deploying Ruby Applications and Libraries
Chapter 11: Advance Ruby Features
Chapter 12: Tying it Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application
Chapter 13: Ruby on Rails: Ruby’s Killer App
Chapter 14: Ruby and the Internet
Chapter 15: Networking, Sockets, and Daemons
Chapter 16: Useful Ruby Libraries and Gems

Beginning Ruby (2nd Edition)
5/5

I originally planned on writing a full mail (Unix command line email client) like program in Ruby. Though I was able to have an almost identical console interface to mail’s reading, viewing, and deleting emails, using POP. I was having a really hard time, keeping the connection alive after a certain number of seconds after initiating the connection.

So instead of having the incoming POP email client like usage that mail provides, I instead wrote the application to only support the mail sending features almost similar to mailx.

I would think developers or anyone wanting to send email from a Linux/Unix server without the hassle of sendmail, postfix, exim, etc… may find this simple program useful. I know I do, since I always find myself wanting to easily send emails from the command line whenever I’m using or doing some sort of testing on a Virtual Machine.

If you’ve ever used mail on a Linux/Unix system to send email messages, Ruby cli_mailer is practically identical.

Basic Usage:
Will get prompt to write email message that gets sends to root@rubyninja.net and blinds copy ccemailaddress@rubyninja.org

rcli_mailer.rb -s 'Title of message' -c ccemailaddress@rubyninja.org root@rubyninja.net

Will email the contents of sendmail.cf to root@rubyninja.net

cat /etc/mail/sendmail.cf | rcli_mailer.rb -s 'God help me' root@rubyninja.net


rcli_mailer.rb -s "I'm so sorry" -c jrsysadmin@rubyninja.net root@rubyninja.net < /etc/postfix/main.cf

NOTE: Ctrl-D is NOT supported by Ruby cli_mailer at the moment, you'll need to use the '.' (dot) character
to send the email message.

I tried to make Ruby cli_mailer as moduler as possible, since I'm planning adding the project to github, and I already have in mind more features to add into it.

Enjoy
rcli_mailer-01.tar.gz

Documentation
rdoc

Now I have documentation for the dead simple Ruby script that I wrote to encode videos for my iphone.
iphone_encode.rb documentation


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$_ = ucfirst($_);
print $_, "?\n";


I simply had to edit the /usr/share/vim/vimrc file. Full instructions are in http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2009/03/enable-syntax-highlighting-other-options-in-vim-mac-osx-leopard