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+ <meta name="description" content="Baddest Ruby gem evar." />
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+ <meta name="author" content="Giles Bowkett / Original design: Andreas Viklund - http://andreasviklund.com/" />
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+ <title>Utility Belt: Authorship</title>
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+ <body>
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+ <div id="wrap">
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+ <div id="header">
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+ <h1><a href="http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org">Utility Belt</a></h1>
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+ <p><strong>IRB tools, tricks, and techniques</strong></p>
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+ <li><a href="index.html">Overview</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="authorship.html">Authorship</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/utilitybelt/">RubyForge Project</a></li>
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+ <h2>Copyright And Authorship</h2>
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+ <h3>COMMUNITY EFFORT</h3>
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+ <p>The majority of this code was written by other people and compiled, nicked, nabbed, herded, gathered, copied, or pilfered by me (Giles Bowkett). Check the links in the copyright notice for more detail. Thanks also to Bob Hutchison, Avdi Grimm, Marcus Derencius, Markus Prinz, Ben Bleything, Reginald Braithwaite-Lee, and Robert Berger for bug fixes, new features, documentation, and bug reports.</p>
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+ <h3>LICENSE</h3>
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+ <pre>
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+ (The MIT License)
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+ Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/" title="Giles Bowkett">Giles Bowkett</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://blog.bleything.net/2007/7/30/announcing-shell-style-history-for-irb-the-fixed-edition" title="bleything.blog(:stuff) Announcing Shell-Style History for irb, the fixed edition!">Ben Bleything</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/10/stringtoproc.html" title="String#to_proc">Reginald Braithwaite-Lee</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/use-vi-or-any-text-editor-from-within.html" title="Giles Bowkett: Use vi (Or Any Text Editor) From Within irb">Gregory Brown</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/8/watching-activerecord-do-it-s-thing" title="the { buckblogs :here : Watching ActiveRecord Do Its Thing}">Jamis Buck</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/09/03" title="Mike Clark's Weblog">Mike Clark</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/08/ruby-adding-not-method-for-readability.html" title="Jay Fields Thoughts: Ruby: Adding a "not" method for readability">Jay Fields</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2005 <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Symbol.html" title="Class: Symbol">David Heinemeier Hansson</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/9c1febbe05513dc0" title="shutting irb up - ruby-talk-google | Google Groups">Ara T. Howard</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/smalltalk-cleverness-in-rails-revisited.html" title="Giles Bowkett: Smalltalk Cleverness in Rails, Revisited">Pat Maddox</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://amazon.rubyforge.org/" title="AWS::S3 - Ruby Library for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)">Marcel Molina, Jr.</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/9c1febbe05513dc0" title="shutting irb up - ruby-talk-google | Google Groups">Rick DeNatale</a>
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://project.ioni.st/post/1334" title="Projectionist: A tumblelog">Projectionist</a> (Marcel Molina? Chad Fowler?)
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+ Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2007 <a href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ruby-talk/3573982" title="Re: "with" statement :: ASPN Mail Archive :: ruby-talk">Dan Yoder</a>
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+ SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.</pre>
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+ <h3>THE BATMAN GRAPHIC</h3>
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+ <p>Is that cool or what? I have no idea where I found it. (If you're the creator, a thousand apologies. I just hella dig it.)</p>
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+ <h1><a href="http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org">Utility Belt</a></h1>
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+ <p><strong>IRB tools, tricks, and techniques</strong></p>
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+ <h2>Installation And Overview</h2>
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+ <p>Utility Belt is a grab-bag of tricks, tools, techniques, trifles, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions. It also includes a couple command-line widgets. Its primary inspirations were <a href="http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/" title="Pablotron: Wirble">an awesome gem called Wirble</a> and <a href="http://slash7.com/articles/2006/12/21/secrets-of-the-rails-console-ninjas" title="Slash7 with Amy Hoy - Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas">a blog post by Amy Hoy called "Secrets Of The Rails Console Ninjas"</a>.</p>
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+ <h3>INSTALL</h3>
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+ <p>sudo gem install utility_belt</p>
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+ <li>Interactively edit IRB code in your preferred text editor</li>
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+ <li>Read from and write to OS X clipboard</li>
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+ <li>Post your code to Pastie with one command (OS X only)</li>
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+ <li>Kick-ass Unix-style history buffer</li>
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+ <li>Write command history to file or vi</li>
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+ <li>Grep classes and methods for strings</li>
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+ <li>Verbosity controls for regular IRB and Rails console</li>
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+ <li>Finder shortcuts for Rails console</li>
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+ <li>Upload shortcut for Amazon S3</li>
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+ <li>Command-line Amazon S3 upload script</li>
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+ <li>Command-line Google shortcut (OS X only)</li>
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+ <li>Auto-indentation</li>
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+ <li>_ special variable (like Unix shell var !!)</li>
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+ <li>Extremely basic themes for Wirble syntax coloring</li>
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+ <li>Pascal/JavaScript-style "with" statement</li>
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+ <li>String#to_proc</li>
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+ <li>Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more "is_a? Array" statements</li>
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+ <h1><a href="http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org">Utility Belt</a></h1>
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+ <p><strong>IRB tools, tricks, and techniques</strong></p>
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+ <h2>Synopsis And Usage</h2>
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+ <h3>SYNOPSIS</h3>
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+ <p>Utility Belt gives you a ton of new options and techniques in IRB. (You may find yourself putting its language patches in actual projects as well.) The way to use Utility Belt is to edit, or create, your .irbrc file. This is analogous to a Unix .bashrc, .tcshrc, .profile, or similar file.</p>
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+ <pre>amazon -b blog_files some_file.name</pre>
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+ <p>And you're good to go. Of course, if that were too many characters to type, you could always take it one step further with a shell script. For instance, in bash:</p>
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+ <pre>alias b1="amazon --bucket my_main_bucket $1"
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+ <p>And of course tab completion will handle all the typing of the file name, assuming you choose your file names deliberately ahead of time to make tab completion effective, in which case all you have to type is "b1 f[tab]" and bam.</p>
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+ <h4>Command-line Google shortcut (OS X only)</h4>
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+ <p>(The last approach is useful for unusual command-line error messages.)</p>
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+ <p>Just type as normally. This just enables built-in but underused functionality in IRB. (The IRB default auto-indentation isn't perfect, but it clobbers the living hell out of no indentation at all.)</p>
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+ <h4>_ special variable (like Unix shell var !!)</h4>
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+ <p>More activation of built-in but underused functionality in IRB. _ functions like !! in Unix, with one subtle difference. Instead of re-issuing the previous command in your history, it gives you the last result of evaluating a command. This means when you start a new IRB session, _ won't go to your history, it'll just give you nil, and it means that some commands can't be repeated exactly. Nine out of ten times, however, it's pretty much the same thing.</p>
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+ <p>Note that when combined with the h! in the command history code, you basically have two synonyms for !! here. Neither one is an exact replica, but between the two of them, you should have what you need.</p>
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+ <p>Utility Belt incorporates <a href="http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/" title="Pablotron: Wirble">Wirble</a> as a dependency. Wirble provides syntax coloring. Utility Belt allows you to choose between two syntax coloring themes: Wirble's default, and an alternate color set for terminals with light backgrounds. The default theme is enabled by default (duh), but if you have a terminal with a light background, you can enable the light-background theme just by putting the following line of code in your .irbrc:</p>
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+ <pre>UtilityBelt::Themes.background(:light)</pre>
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+ <p>To specify an entirely new syntax color scheme, see the source code for this gem or for Wirble.</p>
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+ <p>I use this with RSpec's spec_helper. Instead of:</p>
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+ <p>Note however that this blew up once and I have no idea why. Caveat emptor, et cetera.</p>
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+ <p>Syntactic sugar for functional programming. (<a href="http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/10/stringtoproc.html" title="String#to_proc">More detail here</a>.) Rails' Symbol#to_proc is also included.</p>
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+ <pre>(1..3).map(&amp;&apos;*2&apos;) =&gt; [2, 4, 6]
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+ (1..3).map(&amp;&apos;x -&gt; y -&gt; x * y&apos;).map(&amp;&apos;[2]&apos;) =&gt; [2, 4, 6]
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+ (1..3).map(&amp;&apos;x -&gt; y -&gt; x * y&apos;).map(&amp;&apos;.call(2)&apos;) =&gt; [2, 4, 6]
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+ [5].map(&amp;&quot;(1.._).inject(&amp;&apos;*&apos;)&quot;) =&gt; [120]</pre>
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+ <pre>{:a =&gt; :b} + {:c =&gt; :d} = {:a =&gt; :b, :c =&gt; :d}
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+ {:a =&gt; :b, :c =&gt; :d} - :c = {:a =&gt; :b}</pre>
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+ <p>You could already do this with Arrays; now you can do it with Hashes as well. (I was kinda surprised the first time I tried to do this and realized I'd have to write it myself.)</p>
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+ <h4>Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more "is_a? Array" statements</h4>
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+ <p>Most people don't care, but personally, "is_a? Array" drives me completely insane.</p>
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+ <p>Syntactic sugar for boolean conditions. (<a href="http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/08/ruby-adding-not-method-for-readability.html" title="Jay Fields Thoughts: Ruby: Adding a "not" method for readability">More detail here</a>.)</p>
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