kch’s gists

kch / yaml-to-plist.rb

Created August 4, 2010 14:50

Writes ruby object structures to plists. When called directly, takes a YAML file.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# encoding: UTF-8
	require 'yaml'
	require 'rexml/document'

	class PlistWriter
	PLIST_STUB_DOC = %q[
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0"></plist>]

kch / Open URLs from Pastboard.rb

Created August 4, 2010 10:20

Script to open URLs from pasteboard. For use with FastScripts.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# encoding: UTF-8

	# URL regexp from http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
	# URL regexp adapted to have captures removed

	RX_URL = %r[
	\b
	(?:
	[a-z][\w-]+: # URL protocol and colon

kch / plist-to-yaml.rb

Created August 4, 2010 09:54

converts plist files to really pretty, aligned yaml files with mostly literal utf8 strings

	#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
	# encoding: UTF-8
	require 'yaml'
	require "base64"
	require 'rexml/document'

	class PList < BasicObject
	ELEMENT_PROCESSORS = {}
	def self.process_element_named(name, &block); ELEMENT_PROCESSORS[name.to_s] = block; end
	def self.process_element(elt) ; ELEMENT_PROCESSORS[elt.name][elt]; end

kch / ftff-events.rb

Created August 3, 2010 13:34

mac: watch home dir via fsevents and set encoding attr and reveal extension for txt and rb files

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# encoding: UTF-8

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'fsevent'
	require 'shellwords'

	class Time
	def age_in_seconds(now = Time.now)
	now - self

kch / Copy Window's URLs.rb

Created July 3, 2010 23:16

Copies the URLs from all tabs in Safari/WebKit's front window to the pasteboard.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# encoding: UTF-8
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'appscript'
	include Appscript

	# Copy Window's URLs:
	# Copies the URLs from all tabs in Safari/WebKit's front window to the pasteboard.

	# `process_for_either_browser` will be any process named Safari, this includes

kch / initializer_macro.rb

Created July 3, 2010 02:07

generate initializers that just set instance variables without wasting lines

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby1.9 -ryaml
	# encoding: UTF-8

	class Class
	def initialize_with_attributes(*attrs)
	attr_reader *attrs
	define_method(:initialize) do \|*args\|
	attrs.zip(args).each { \|attr, v\| instance_variable_set("@#{attr}", v) }
	end
	end

kch / gist:410051

Created May 22, 2010 12:50

convert all erb html templates to haml

kch / cd-last.sh

Created May 7, 2010 12:42

make each new terminal tab open in the last dir you cd'd to. put this in your .bashrc

	lastdir_store="$HOME/.last_cd_path"

	function cd () {
	builtin cd "$@"
	exitcode=$?
	pwd > "$lastdir_store"
	return $exitcode
	}

	[ -f "$lastdir_store" ] && target=`cat "$lastdir_store"`

kch / Rewind 30 Seconds.rb

Created May 2, 2010 21:40

Rewind currently playing track 30 seconds in iTunes

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby1.9
	# encoding: UTF-8

	require 'appscript'
	include Appscript

	itunes = app("iTunes")
	pos = itunes.player_position.get
	pos = pos > 30 ? pos - 30 : pos / 2
	itunes.player_position.set pos

kch / rb_main.rb

Created May 2, 2010 16:09

A more idiomatic rb_main for MacRuby applications

	# Loading the Cocoa framework. If you need to load more frameworks, you can do that here too.
	framework 'Cocoa'

	# Loading all the Ruby project files.
	[__FILE__].concat(Dir[File.join(NSBundle.mainBundle.resourcePath.fileSystemRepresentation, '*.{rb,rbo}')])
	.map { \|path\| File.basename(path, File.extname(path)) }.uniq[1..-1]
	.each { \|name\| require(name) }

	# Starting the Cocoa main loop.
	NSApplicationMain(0, nil)

Caio Chassot kch