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require "active_support/all"

def format_date_range(from, to = false)
  to = from if to.blank?
  return '' if from.nil? && to.nil?
  from, to = [to, from].sort

  if from == to
    month_day_year(from)
  elsif from.year == to.year

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Books

• Programming Ruby (aka, The Pickaxe)
• The Well Grounded Rubyist
• _why's Poignant Guide _ a little scattershot, mad
• Learn to Program - designed for newcomers with no programming experience

Screencasts

• Ruby Tapas

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What's the name of your app?

Household Gizmo

Fitgrapher (just developed this for fun on Sunday, but also demonstrates competency in Rails)

What does it do?

Household Gizmo is a house communication and expense calculation app.

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begin
  p @user_input.nil? ? 'Your phrase here please:' : "That wasn't a phrase! Try again."
  @user_input = gets.strip
end while @user_input == ""

print "Daffy says \"#{@user_input.gsub!(/S/, "Th").gsub!(/s/, "th")}\"!"

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What's the name (or codename) of your app? What will your app do?

I'm not sure that I want to work on a single app. Current project ideas include:

Kitten of the day! - an app which takes email addresses and sends the compiled list a photo of a kitten every morning.

Background processing - evaluating a collection of data to see if it meets requirements, and recording which combinations meet requirements. A little background: last quarter Cheri and I worked on Slacker Meals, which generated a meal from a database of ingredients. Meals needed to be within certain ranges for protein, calcium, and calories. The naive method we used to generate meals randomly tried ingredients until it found a match. This usually took around a hundred tries. Instead, I would like to take a database, generate possible combinations, and evaluate the combos based on requirements.

When the database changes new combinations which include new ingredients should be evaluated... If the requirements change, the entire d

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namespace :cleaner do
  task :find do

    models    = Dir.glob("app/models/**/*")
    methods   = %w[]

    models.each do |model|
      if File.file?(model)
        File.open(model).lines.each do |line|
          if method = method_name? line

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Shoes.app :height => 215, :width => 215, :title => "SassyTomato" do
  background pink

  @time_to_start = Time.new
  @stopped = true

  def timer_button(args)
    button args[:name] do
      @time_to_stop = Time.now + args[:minutes] * 60 + 0.05
      run