From: James Britt Date: 2005-07-01T22:50:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Rails day results are in Douglas Livingstone wrote: > On 7/1/05, James Britt wrote: > >>YubNub: Was this completed within the timespan? >> >>It has two nice features: It runs, and it's finished. >> > > > It is nice! Try this: > > Open Firefox. > Browse to about:config > Find keyword.URL > Change it to http://75.railsday.rufy.com/parser/parse?command= > Restart Firefox > > Now, from the address bar, you can type "define rails" and it will > take you to Answers.com, or you can use any other search put in by > other people. Your address bar just became the web OS command line! > nice :) Ah. I'm too lazy to open a browser, though. I have a Ruby script that takes command-line parameters and calls out to yubnub.com. So, from a dos box I can run yub define Nitro Now the address bar that just became the web OS command line has just become the OS command line address bar! (BTW, wouldn't the URL http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command= be better than the potentially transient railsday URL?) James -- http://www.ruby-doc.org - The Ruby Documentation Site http://www.rubyxml.com - News, Articles, and Listings for Ruby & XML http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys