04 Jan 09 Ruby Line Formatting
I wrote a little utility to turn something like this
this=that, something_else="something else entirely"
Into the much easier to read
this = that, something_else = "something else entirely"
I use it in conjunction with my clipboard utility so I can just copy, run, paste. I mostly use this when I'm working with ColdFusion, so it also works for those pesky cfsets.
Usage: (After copying your target text to your clipboard)
ruby clipboard_format_set.rb
PS: I'd love to set some of my scripts up as Eclipse shortcuts so I've been toying with the idea of writing an Eclipse plug-in to act as a proxy. I realize you can set up and run "External Tools", but I have yet to see a way to bind a key. I'd like the plug-in to take care of the "pasting" to save me that extra ctrl-v. Maybe this would make a good New Years Project?
Tags: Add new tag, clipboard utility, coldfusion, eclipse, ruby, tools
13 Dec 08 Ruby Clipboard Directory List Utility
I wrote this little script to copy the filenames of a directory into the clipboard a while back and forgot to post about it. I've been particularly surprised about how often it's come in handy for this or that.
require 'clipboard' c = Clipboard.new list = '' if ARGV.size == 0 path = "." else path = ARGV[0] end Dir.foreach(path) { |file| if(file.length > 2) list << file << "\n" end } c.set_data list
To use it, simply call run the script with the directory you want copied to your clipboard as an argument!
Tags: clipboard utility, ruby, tools
07 Nov 08 Ruby Resize Utility
I wanted to demo an ad rotator the other day at work and I wanted to load up a bunch of images of various sizes to make it look legit. It would have taken forever to do it ad by ad, so I wrote a little ruby script to automatically resize all the images in a directory. Then I used my directory listing utility to copy the files into my clipboard. Pasted into the database from there!
(Requires GD2)
Usage:
r = Resizer.new input_path, output_path, width, height r.crop_files
Tags: clipboard utility, gd2, ruby, tools
24 Oct 08 Ruby Clipboard XML Format Utility
Here's another little utility I put together. It uses my clipboard utility to copy and format xml data stored in the clipboard. Just copy, run the script and paste!
It comes in handy.
I got (and ever so slightly modified) the xml formatting code from DZone.
Tags: clipboard utility, ruby, tools
02 Oct 08 Small Ruby Clipboard Update
I made a small update to my ruby clipboard utility. Now it works in both Windows and Gnome...*ahem* again.
In particular I renamed my Clipboard class to Clipboardr to avoid a naming conflict.
Tags: clipboard utility, ruby, tools
01 Sep 08 Ruby Clipboard Utility
I have a few ruby scripts that I use to make life a little easier at work. Some of said scripts utilize the clipboard. My work machine is windows and my laptop runs Ubuntu. I'm able to use the same scripts on both computers but I have a few qualms with how I'm doing it.
Right now I've got classes for gnome and windows, a clipboard wrapper class to be used by my scripts and a basic (and poorly named) OS class I use to determine which class desktop class to use.
First off, the method I'm using to determine OS is...terrible. Currently I'm doing a string comparison in my OS class, but it doesn't actually tell me which desktop application I'm actually running, so at the moment it's just a dirty hack but I'm not sure of the preferred way to do it..
def is_linux return RUBY_PLATFORM == 'i486-linux' end
Second, I'm uncomfortable with how I'm importing my desktop specific code in the main clipboard class. Is there a ruby-er way of doing this, or maybe just a smarter way anyone knows of?
class Clipboard def initialize os = OS.new if(os.is_linux) require 'clipboard/clipboard_gtk' clipboard = GTKClipboard.new else require 'clipboard/clipboard_win32' clipboard = WinClipboard.new end #other stuff end
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Download the code: Clipboard Utility
PS: I realize there's quite a bit of other stuff I need to do to really get this usable, but you have to start somewhere!
Tags: clipboard utility, ruby, tools
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