Toys: September 2006 Archives

I stole the code posted on reddit earlier today and ported it to ruby. Now I can do the following:

layout = BoxLayout.html <<-END
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END

puts layout % [header, left_sidebar,
               body,
               right_sidebar, footer]

and get layout code that looks much much cleaner than the equivalent HTML/rhtml/whatever. I can instantly look at this code and know what it is gonna look like in a browser. I'll release this soon, but I have some enhancements for codeforpeople's rubyforge and seattle.rb's hoe first.

I found Shortest Python Quine? and thought I'd check it out. I wasn't aware of python's %r, but apparently it is equivalent to our %p (which I always forget about). Anyhow, here is our version:

% ruby quine.rb 
_="_=%p;puts _%%_";puts _%_
% ruby quine.rb | ruby
_="_=%p;puts _%%_";puts _%_

or eric's morph:

% echo '_="_=%p;puts _%%_";puts _%_' | ruby | ruby
_="_=%p;puts _%%_";puts _%_

Comes in at 28 characters, and ties the shortest on rubygarden.