From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T15:23:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this a reasonable application for Ruby?

Joe Percival wrote:
> ...
> Are these reasonable applications of ruby?  Since I am going to be 
> learning Ruby anyway for RoR, I thought maybe I could use Ruby for this 
> kind of task rather than trying to do it all in MS Dos Batch files 
> (which would require re-learning the intracacies of DOS).
> 

Yes.  The devil is in the details, but overall these are reasonable 
tasks for Ruby.

There are nice libraries for working with ImageMagick (not sure about 
GIMP), plus Ruby ships with the REXML  XML parser.  (And you can use 
libxml as well, if you prefer, thanks to recent reactivation of that 
project.)



-- 
James Britt

"A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it."
   - Len Bullard