[Ruby] Why Ruby? RubyCamp Posting about Seattle.rb

[Phil Hagelberg]

"Gerald Bauer" <geraldbauer2007 at gmail.com> writes:

> Up in Vancouver we are of course in awe about Seattle.rb and all the
> high-profile Rubyists and outstanding projects. To promote the
> Seattle.rb  group to all RubyCamp attendees I'd be delighted to post a
> story on our event blog about Seattle.rb.

That sounds like a lot of fun; I wish I could attend.

> To get the story off the ground I need your help and I invite you
> to send me or post here on the mailing list a quote or paragraph why
> you have chosen Ruby as your programming language or why Ruby is an
> attractive language or why coding in Ruby is more fun compared to
> alternatives.

"Seattle.rb is my favourite place to go to write Lisp."[1]
--Phil Hagelberg

Hmm... maybe not.

> If you post or send me a quote, paragraph or more, please include a
> link to your blog (and/or your projects you want to get highlighted)
> so I can attribute your quote and promote your blog and projects in
> the posting too.

Oddly enough, we don't really seem to have any kind of roster. I wonder
if a kind of "Planet Seattle.rb" would be fun. Might be a good use for
Sam Ruby's port of Planet to Ruby. Has this been discussed before?

(http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/12/19/Yet-Another-Planet-Refactoring)

> Also if you know about any interesting or fun Seattle.rb facts or you
> want to see included in the posting about Seattle.rb let me know too.

require 'open-uri'

File.open('seattle_rb_facts.html', 'w') do |f|
 f.puts open('http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com').read.gsub(/Chuck Norris/the typical Seattle.rb member/i)
end

That should do the trick!

-Phil
http://technomancy.us

[1] - http://bus-scheme.rubyforge.org