From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T02:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Ruby's biggest strength ?


On Mar 30, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Tuan Minh wrote:
> Thank everybody, indeed!
> I always believe Ruby is a good programming language.
> But you praise it as beauty, art language..etc, however, why don't you
> give some examples to prove those opinion.

. a really nice piece of code by michael fellinger

   http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/global_rb.html

this small dsl (the 'o' method) adds both global configuration options  
and command-line options at once.

. a little script i use for time tracking written on top of the  
main.rb dsl for command-line generation

   http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/punch.html

this dsl configures a multi-mode command line program including  
sharing of options across sibling modes, casting/parsing of switches,  
and automaticaly generates usage globally and per mode

. amazingly concise sql generation via sequel

   http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/sequel_query_rb.html


beauty is subjective but i think at least one of these is beautiful

kind regards.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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