my-profile.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
class Person
    def initialize(name, email)
        @name, @email = name, email.gsub('|', '').gsub('*','.')
    end
    def show_name
      @name
    end
    def visit(site)
        if (@data["portfolio"].match(/http:\/\//) && system("firefox #{site}"))
            true
        else
            gtk.show_dialog "Visit #{site} for info."
        end
    end
    def email(message, from)
      begin
        require 'net/smtp'
        Net::SMTP.start('localhost',25) do |emailer|
            emailer.send_message(message, from, @email)
        end
      rescue
        false
      end
    end
    def format(string)
        string.to_s.capitalize.gsub(/_|-/, ' ')
    end
    def my_data
      {:name => @name, :email => @email}
    end
end
class Iain < Person
    def initialize(*args)
      super(*args)
      setup_iain
      yield self if block_given?
    end
    def setup_iain
      @data = \
        {"i like to be" => 'outside running around!',
         "favorite programming language" => 'ruby',
         "my portfolio site is" => "codejoust.com"}
      @music = \
        {:genre => %w{rock-roll techno baroque electronica celtic},
         :artist => "coldplay bach enya john-mayer".split(' ')}
      @twitter = 'codejoust'
    end
    def about_me
        @data.map do |thing, like|
            format(thing) + ': ' + format(like)
        end.join("\n")
    end
    def music
       @music.to_a.map{ |name, val| (name.to_s + ' ' + val.join(", ")) }\
       .join("\n")
    end
    
    def full_profile
        my_data.map{|name,val|
          format(name) + ': ' + format(val) + "\n"
        }
    end
    def my_data
      {:music=> music, :about_me=> about_me}.merge(super)
    end
    def twitter
      full_profile.merge({:twitter => @twitter})
    end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  iain = Iain.new('Iain Nash', 'me|@|iain*in') do |person|
   puts [person.show_name,
         person.full_profile,
        "Thanks for reading this, ☺ #{Time.now.strftime('%Y')}"].join("\n") 
  end
end