dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

JosephPecoraro

# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd` 
# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
#   Synchronous (blocking)
#   Returns the output of the shell command
#   Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111