From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2013-05-20T05:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: new, with an idea, and not sure what to learn next

On Mon, 20 May 2013, Wendy Randquist wrote:

> But I want to be able to run this program multiple times... one of my
> problems here is that, I can create an array with my hours, then ask for
> input (how many hours today? for instance), and add the input into that
> array, then sum all of the hours in the array. But once the program is
> finished running and I run it again... the array is back to square one.
> What kind of knowledge do I need to make it so I can create a program
> that would save new data even after I closed it? What do I need to start
> googling, above and beyond Ruby syntax, to understand how to do a
> project like this? What other sources are there for learning how to do
> things like divide time in pay periods and having the program deal with
> real-time?

You need some form of persistent data storage.  For me, I had a similar 
problem recently so I set up MySQL and am using the Sequel gem to provide 
a simplistic (and not even relational) data store.  Using Sqlite would be 
even easier for your application.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.