Charles Strahan cstrahan

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How I Work, Part 1: Ruby

Since the first of the year I've been trying to write one of that sort of post where the blogger describes the tools they use. Obviously, I haven't succeeded yet. And what's more, it's taken me until now to precisely identify why it's been so hard.

It's not that I find these "setup" posts to be a form of pornography. They are, and I do, but in this scenario I would be the porn star, not the lonely guy who looks for tips on productivity blogs in lieu of an actual life. And it's not that my setup isn't interesting. It's not that mind-blowing or innovative, honestly, but over the years I've learned a lot about what I need to do my job and that knowledge feels worth sharing.

What I've concluded, rather, is that in trying to talk about my tools in a single post, I was going about it totally the wrong way. Tools and best practices are things I care deeply about, and trying to cram everything into a single, 5,000-word monster post would be exhausting for me to write, at least as tir

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Aggregate Print useful information from /proc/[pid]/smaps
	#
	# pss - Roughly the amount of memory that is "really" being used by the pid
	# swap - Amount of swap this process is currently using
	#
	# Reference:
	# http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt#361

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby
	# usage:
	# $ das_download.rb email password [download_directory]

	require 'mechanize'
	# gem 'mechanize-progressbar'

	email = ARGV[0] or raise('Please provide the email address for your account')
	password = ARGV[1] or raise('Please provide the password for your account')
	path = ARGV[2] \|\| './'

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC
	"-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
	"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>homebrew.mxcl.bitlbee</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	%w(erb git net/ssh resolv chef chef/knife/cookbook_upload chef/cookbook_uploader chef/knife/node_run_list_add chef/knife/bootstrap net/ssh/multi chef/knife/core/bootstrap_context chef/knife/ssh mixlib/cli).each do \|gem\|
	begin
	require gem
	rescue LoadError
	raise "Could not load gem #{gem}, please install with sudo gem install #{gem}"
	end
	end

	From: Chris DeSalvo <chris.desalvo@voxer.com>
	Subject: Why we can't process Emoji anymore
	Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:49:20 -0800
	Message-Id: <AE459007-DF2E-4E41-B7A4-FA5C2A83025F@voxer.com>

	--Apple-Mail=_6DEAA046-886A-4A03-8508-6FD077D18F8B
	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
	Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=utf-8

	auth_basic "Restricted";
	auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd;

	###
	# Scheme code is translated to YARV byte code, then evaluated in the
	# Ruby Virtual Machine

	require 'rbconfig'
	require 'dl'
	require 'fiddle'
	require 'strscan'

	class RubyVM

	--colour
	-I app