From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T11:41:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling an Ambient Orb with Ruby

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:02:30 +0900, Mike Clark wrote

> If you wouldn't mind contributing a few paragraphs or so describing 
> how you end up using Ruby to control the Orb, I'd love to post it on 
> http://pragmaticautomation.com.  You'll get full credit, of course.
> 
> We have a few posts highlighting Ruby, but I'd like to showcase more 
> automation techniques using Ruby on the site.

Mike, what kind of things are you interested in with regard to Ruby
automation?  I use some Ruby scripts to automate regenerating sendmail
database tables, to monitor/stop/start Iowa application processes, to act as a
smart(ish) FTP proxy to fetch data files from one site and transfer them to
another, to automatically load data feed files to database tables, and stuff
like that.  It's all pretty mundane, but easy to setup stuff with Ruby.


Kirk Haines