Ruby Templates

Quick-start aids.

Originally published 2006

Once you’ve begun finding out how things work, you need some code fragments you can read and reuse.

Rakefiles

Rakefiles gathered from the web. (Apologies. I should have copied the files, rather than linking to them. All but one seems to have disappeared!)

1. Rakefile that loops over a specified list of files (my copy).
   (It is also possible to dynamically generate the list of files to operate on, using standard Ruby code.)
2. Rakefile to build a prototype
3. Rakefile for a project build
4. Rakefile that generates version numbers for each build
5. Rakefile for building Rails gems
6. Rakefile for the ActiveRecord part of the Rails project

Basic Templates

A template does the basic things you need to do in an application: Handle command line arguments, print usage instructions, and implement a main method. These are initial efforts. I expect things to change as I learn more:

• Script Template
• Program Template
• Module Template
• Ara Howard’s template for code that be executed as a script or added as a module to another program and invoked as a subroutine.
• Module Installation Template
• Non-Ruby Installation
• Simple Screen Handler

Code Fragments

• Ruby Code Snippets
• Timer Program

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