Geronimo89.dk » ruby http://geronimo89.dk A blog about me, my doings and everything I think deserves attention. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:02:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 coding projects http://geronimo89.dk/2006/10/31/coding-projects/ http://geronimo89.dk/2006/10/31/coding-projects/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:16:56 +0000 Jonathan Hethey http://geronimo89.dk/blog/?p=9 I’ve got ideas for coding projects involving PHP, MySQL and Ruby. I know that I need more practice, but I really would like to set up a dictionary server for me and parts of my frenchclass. We could not find a good open source library for french->german, german->french. I would like to create a database, that would be able to be converted into a textfile, readable by ding, an open source, linux dictionary application. I have never started a database project before, so this is going to be fun. I’ll need a server that is available 24/7 or at least mostly. The amount of traffic will not be large, so I would be really happy if someone would offer me a user and one or two databases on his/her server. Since this is not very likely to happen, I will set up a low-end server by the end of the month and find some place for it.

Learning ruby is fun. I try to drag other people in it and some of them seem to be interested. I think I’m making progress in small steps and I’m looking forward to the integration of Ruby in The Gimp, so I some day maybe will be able to write Gimp extensions in Ruby.

related links:

Google soc The Gimp

Google soc Ruby central

Ding dictionary

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Let’s have a short look at methods in ruby:

geronimo@Zero-1:~$ irb1.8
irb(main):001:0> def greetings(name)
irb(main):002:1> puts "Rise and shine #{name}..."
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> greetings("sleepyhead")
Rise and shine sleepyhead...
=> nil

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