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

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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: clipboard utility, coldfusion, eclipse, ruby, tools

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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!

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Tags: clipboard utility, ruby, tools

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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

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Tags: clipboard utility, gd2, ruby, tools

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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.

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