From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T01:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sending Ruby code vs. provding URLs

On 7/3/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:30:09AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> > why not create a really simple form on the ruby quiz site for submitting
> > quizes?  the form would allow a subject, short message, and uploaded code or
> > tar.gz of code.  i hate that kind of stuff but it could have real value
> > since it could format a nice message for the list, enter the submission in
> > db, etc.  in short it could do everything you currently do by hand and,
> > considering rubyquiz is a volunteer effort, i think people would be fine
> > using a form - so long as it was mirrors to the list for the archives.
>
> This is quite obvious, but...
> shouldn't the next 4-5 quizzes be used to implement such functionality?
>

This was/is my solution to Ruby Quiz #77:
http://rpaste.com/

It uses simply_restful and edge Rails to allow things like:
HTML version:
http://rpaste.com/pastes/293
Plain-text version:
http://rpaste.com/pastes/293.txt

I like the latter, because you can do silly things like:
patch -p0 < wget http://rpaste.com/pastes/some_number.txt

Just a thought. Heh.