Ruby can be Perl if We Want it To Be…

I’ve just noticed Damon Clinkscales’ post at the Damon Clinkscales blog entitled ’Presentation Downloads Top 1 Million‘. In the post, he quickly whips up a small Ruby app to parse his logfiles to determine how many times a certain presentation of his has been downloaded. It is really a simple-ten line piece of code, but quite powerful.

Cool Code - check it out!

This really reminds me of alot fo the short Perl scripts I’ve seen floating around. I’ve noticed over time that alot of Perl programmers like to emphasize how they can ‘do so much with so few lines of code’. Well, check this out Perlies!

Cool stuff Damon!

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