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: 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
15 Nov 08 ColdFusion MySQL Search Utility
There's a legacy app I work on that currently requires adding 4 columns and a couple rows (in different tables) every time you add a row to another table. It doesn't happen often and it would be a nightmare to refactor so I wrote little script that would search the database for any columns named 'x' as well as any fields with a value of 'x' and return an array of the offending tables.
I cleaned it up a little bit and cfc-ized it in case I ever have to do anything similar. I haven't tested it at all aside from the one time I ran it today so use it at your own risk. It's really simple to use, you just need to pass in the ColdFusion datasource name and the search term.
Example Usage:
<cfset db_util = CreateObject("component","db_util").init(dsn = "datasource_name")/> <cfoutput>Looking for column <strong>#search_term#</strong></cfoutput> <cfdump var="#db_util.FindColumn(search_term)#"> <cfoutput>Looking for value <strong>#search_term#</strong></cfoutput> <cfdump var="#db_util.FindValue(url.looking_for)#">
Download ColdFusion MySQL Search Utility!
PS: it won't search numeric columns if you aren't searching for a number.
Tags: coldfusion, mysql, 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
