From: Phrogz Date: 2010-01-04T09:55:09+09:00 Subject: Re: use ruby for what? On Jan 3, 1:44 am, Ruby Newbee wrote: > May I ask, what jobs are you using ruby for? * Web Dev using Ramaze (my sites) and Sinatra (on Heroku). * Automation: slurping information from Rally, generating executive summaries of project statuses, and pushing it to a MediaWiki-based corporate wiki. * Code Generation: Using ERB to auto-generate hundreds of C++ files based on XML source documents processed with REXML. * Document Generation: Similarly, using ERB to generate HTML documentation frameworks based on XML files describing a custom DOM hierarchy. * Day-to-day text munging: scanning, re-ordering, formatting, and perhaps numbering whatever it is I happen to want to have done by a computer instead of my fingers. Taking any menial task that would take 10 minutes to do by hand and reducing it to 2 minutes of (fun Ruby) coding and 10s of watching it run.