From: Fleck Jean-Julien Date: 2010-01-03T18:32:46+09:00 Subject: Re: use ruby for what? Hello Jenn, 2010/1/3 Ruby Newbee : > May I ask, what jobs are you using ruby for? Well, on my part, I mainly use it for scripting purpose: updating part of a static website via ftp checking only for modified files, creating exercise sheets written in LateX from a pool of separate exercises (and make it compute automatically numeric values), compute mean values of marks from my students, organize all these datas into Tioga graphs so to see their evolution over time, etc.. Every time I have something slightly repetitive to do on the computer, I write or reuse a small ruby script to do the job for me. Chandler ~>ls ~/bin/ruby/lib/*rb | wc 186 187 11140 Most of it have been written some years ago during my PhD where I had a lot of data to process using different kind of techniques but there are some scripts I continue to use on a daily basis today. Cheers, -- JJ Fleck PCSI1 Lycée Kléber