Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines

So you want your Ruby script to install missing gems instead of dying? Take this method:

def installing_missing_gems(&block)
  yield
rescue LoadError => e
  gem_name = e.message.split('--').last.strip
  install_command = 'gem install ' + gem_...

When the Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts/) and finds out that you are defining ActiveRecord classes inside it, **it eva...

It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to convert texts, images, audio and video clips into each other.

For the everyday use without any parameter tweaking I'm using a collection of ti...

A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform some one-time actions on your Rails application. A Rails script has a few advantages over pasting some prepared code into a R...

When you're writing specs for ActiveRecord models that use memoization, a simple #reload will not do:

it 'updates on changes' do
  subject.seat_counts = [5]
  subject.seat_total.should == 5
  # seat_t...

Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this:

>> Socket.gethostname
=> "happycat"

That should work right away for your Rails application. For plain Ruby, you first need to do:

requi...

Recently I needed to benchmark an Active Record query for performance measurements. I wrote a small script that runs each query to benchmark 100 times and calculates the 95th percentile.

Note: The script requires sudo permissions to drop RAM cach...

In ruby you can easily read and write CSVs with the standard CSV library class.

On top of this, you can use the gem smarter_csv f...

As Bill Dueber has on his blog, you can call rvm in the shebang to select a Ruby version like this:

 #!/usr/bin/env rvm 1.9 do ruby

Standard arguments to do apply, see $> rvm help do.