Note: This was written for an early version of JRuby back in 2006. It is currently not working. I recommend checking out ruby processing This is a preview release of Dynamite! Dynamite is a Ruby interface to the Processing graphics...

# This ruby script will retrieve a Blogger Atom feed which is for members only # see http://wiki.derelik.net/ruby:google_calendar_api_example require 'net/https' blog_url = ARGV[0] email = ARGV[1] password = ARGV[2] post_data = {"accountType" => "GOOGLE", "Email" => email, "Passwd" => password,...

An on going list of simple tips and info. return is slower than implicit return require 'benchmark' def ret(x); return x+1 end def nret(x); x+1; end n = 50000 Benchmark.bm do |b| b.report { n.times{|x| ret(x)}} b.report { n.times{|x| nret(x)}}...

Something I needed for a recent project to handle converting SMPTE codes to frame numbers and back again. I am using this with FFMpeg to generate thumbnails and editted clips based upon hand entered time codes. The PAL and DV...