The document discusses the author's experience learning Ruby programming language. It includes code snippets and references to the author coding in Ruby. The author expresses excitement about coding in Ruby and renouncing other languages like Java and C++ in favor of Ruby.

1. My
First
Ruby
by Murray Steele (aged 31 1/2)

2. Me in 2010
Passport photo: Employed by:
Codes mostly in:

3. Me in 2003
Passport photo: Employed by:
Codes mostly in:

4. I FORSAKE JAVA! I RENOUNCE
C++! ALL HAIL the Mighty
RUBY!!
Riddle:
2.upto(100) { |num|
print "ruby is #{num} times
better that java or c++"
}
Work it out...
.... if you dare.

7. L LED
N CE
C A

8. I am all dressed up ready to code
me some Ruby. YEAH!!!

9. You don’t even know Ruby, I’ll
make sure you do it right.

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/4196202909/

11. @ -24,8 +24,8 @@ class Config < Hash
}
end
- def initialize(name)
- self[Config::Name] = name
+ def initialize(name=nil)
+ self[Config::Name] = name if name != nil
end
end

12. public Config(String name) {
if (name != null) {
this.put(Config.NAME, name)
}
}
public Config() {
super(null);
}
def initialize(name=nil)
self[Config::Name] = name↩
if name != nil
end

13. For frequent
strong language

14. FUCKNUT

16. def handleMessage(message)
sender = @users.findByEmail(message.header.from[0])
if (sender == nil)
return
end
message.header.delete('From')
message.header['From'] = sender.preferredFromAddress
processSubject(message) # modify the subject
addListHeaders(message) # add the list headers
archive(message) # archive the mail
processAttachments(message) # modify attachments
sendToMembers(message) # send it out.
end

18. def processSubject(message)
sub = message.header.subject.dup
prefix = "[" + @config.listHeaders["List"] + "]"
i = sub.index(prefix)
sub.slice!(i..(i+prefix.length)) if (i != nil)
found = 0
re_str = "re: "
i = sub.downcase().index(re_str)
while (i != nil)
sub.slice!(i,re_str.length)
i = sub.downcase().index(re_str)
found = 1
end
prefix = "Re: "+prefix if (found == 1)
message.header.subject = prefix + " " + sub
end

19. def processSubject(message)
sub = message.header.subject.dup
prefix = "[" + @config.listHeaders["List"] + "]"
sub.gsub!(/#{Regexp.escape(prefix)}/,'')
if sub =~ /re: /i
sub.gsub!(/re: /i, '')
prefix = "Re: "+prefix
end
message.header.subject = prefix + " " + sub
end

20. # this is a loosely extended Hash with some little
# things to make it's use more convenient
class ListConfiguration < Hash

21. # this method is a bit overkill, but by caching
# the actual list header object instead of having
# to get it from the main config hash each time
# we should save some overhead. the ListHeaders
# part is the most frequently accessed, because
# it contains a lot of varied list info.
def listHeaders
if @listHeaders.id != self[ListHeaders].id
puts "recaching"
@listHeaders = self[ListHeaders]
end
@listHeaders
end

22. @config[ListHeaders]
def listHeaders
self[ListHeaders]
end

23. def listHeaders
if @listHeaders.id != self[ListHeaders].id
puts "recaching"
@listHeaders = self[ListHeaders]
end
@listHeaders
end
# these just resolve to unique strings,
# used as keys within the config hash
Name = "name"
ListHeaders = "listheaders"
# this is the root directory
BaseDir = "basedir"

24. log("looking at "#{part.header.media_type}"")
if !TypesToKeep.include?(part.header.media_type)
md = name_regex.match(part.header["Content-Type"])
filename = "null"
if md != nil
filename =
newUniqueFile(AttachmentDir, md[3]) { |f|
f.write(part.decode())
}
saveAttachmentMetaData(filename, message)
else
log("error getting filename from
"#{part.header["Content-Type"]}"")
end
size = File.size(File.join(
base_dir, @config[AttachmentDir], filename
))

25. def handleMessage(message)
sender = @users.findByEmail(message.header.from[0])
if (sender == nil)
return
end
message.header.delete('From')
message.header['From'] = sender.preferredFromAddress
processSubject(message) # modify the subject
addListHeaders(message) # add the list headers
archive(message) # archive the mail
processAttachments(message) # modify attachments
sendToMembers(message) # send it out.
end

29. #!/home/room206/bin/narf
fucknut_home = '/home/room206/fucknut'
$: << fucknut_home # add our library path
to the search path
require 'web'

30. AddHandler cgi-script .rb
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/archives/(.*)$ /handler.rb?↩
listname=$1&mode=archive&$2

31. listname = Web['listname']
if listname != nil and listname != ""
# main processing when we have a listname param
else
lists = Config.possible
lists = lists.collect { |i|
{'name' => i, 'value' => i}
}
if lists != []
Web.print_template("what_list.html",
{'listname' => listname, 'listnamevalues' =>
lists})
else
Web.print_template("generalerror.html",
{'error' => "No lists defined, get a better
admin"})
end
end
Web.flush

32. <html>
<head>
<title>Login to {$listname}</title>
<link href="/arse.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Error during login to {$listname}</h1>
<p>{$error}</p>
<narf:form formname="tryagain" method="POST">
<narf:hidden name="listname">
<input type="submit" value="Try Again">
</narf:form>
</body>
</html>

33. class LoginHandler
LoginTemplate = "login.html"
LogoutTemplate = "login.html"
LoginCommand = "login"
LogoutCommand = "logout"
def showLogin()
@web.print_template( *loginTemplateArgs() )
end
def loginTemplateArgs()
[LoginTemplate, {"listname" => @web['listname'],
"cmd" => LoginCommand}]
end
end

34. def showLogin()
@web.print_template(LoginTemplate,
loginTemplateParams() )
end
def loginTemplateParams()
{"listname" => @web['listname'],
"cmd" => LoginCommand}
end

35. def showLogin()
@web.print_template(LoginTemplate,
{"listname" => @web['listname'],
"cmd" => LoginCommand}
end

37. errors = ""
commalist = @web['addresses'].gsub(/n/, ",")
list = RMail::Address.parse(commalist)
if list.empty?
errors += "<br><h2>no valid email addresses given in
list</h2>"
end
user.addresses = list
sendTo = RMail::Address.parse(@web['sendto'])[0]
sendToString = @web['sendto']
if nil == sendTo
errors += "<br><h2>Send To Address is not valid</h2>"
sendToString = "INVALID: " + sendToString
else
sendToString = sendTo.format.to_s
user.sendTo = sendTo
end

38. /archives/<year>/<month>/<message_id>.msg

39. if @config[StartYear] < lastyear.year
lastyear = "<a href=
"#{baseurl}year=#{lastyear.year}&month=#{lastyear
.month}">&lt;&lt;</a>"
elsif @config[StartYear] == lastyear.year
if @config[StartMonth] <= lastyear.month
lastyear = "<a href=
"#{baseurl}year=#{lastyear.year}&month=#{lastyear
.month}">&lt;&lt;</a>"
else
lastyear = "&lt;&lt;"
end
else
lastyear = "&lt;&lt;"
end

40. The End