Jay McGavren's Journal

Extlib for everyday use...

Looks like a couple of my core enhancements may be reinventing the Extlib wheel, so…

irb(main):002:0> "foo\nbar".compress_lines
NoMethodError: compress_lines not defined
  from /Users/jay/ruby/lib/utility/enhancements.rb:12:in `method_missing'
  from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> exit

FAIL. A tweak to DeferredActiveSupport (now DeferredExtensions)…

-module DeferredActiveSupport
+module DeferredExtensions
   def method_missing(method, *arguments, &block)
     require 'activesupport'
+    require 'extlib'

 class String

-   include DeferredActiveSupport
+   include DeferredExtensions

#And other classes...

And retry:

jay@dandelion:~
$ /Users/jay/Shortcuts/ruby\ shell
irb(main):001:0> "foo\nbar".compress_lines
=> "foo bar"

Yay! I don’t even know everything I’ve gained yet. Time to play around a bit.

Fun QuickSilver stuff...

Set your Search Mode to “Snap to Best”. That’ll make sure your last selected action jumps to the top for a given subject.

Typing “.” (period) gets you free text entry as the subject. Pretty handy in conjunction with “Run Command in a Shell”.

Heard this one before, but I have new appreciation for it…

On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --Charles Babbage

Been waiting for a sign?

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OK, just finished porting my toolbox to OS X. I’ve gotten rid of all those dumb text files and generators, as they were really only needed under Windows.

I ported some stuff to take advantage of my Ruby utilities library, and threw out a lot of cruft. Here’s what made the cut…