The Ruby Programming Language

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Sample Programs

I think that the programs written in Ruby will demonstrate its benefits most clearly. The following are small sample programs:

        # tiny "cat"
        while line = gets()
          print line
        end
 
 
        # print "From " line from stdin
        STDIN.each{|line| print line if /^From / =~ line}
 
 
        # rename filenames specified in args into lowercase names
        ARGV.each{|path| File.rename(path, path.downcase)}
 
 
        # Ruby/Tk
        require 'tk'
        TkButton.new(nil, 'text'=>'hello', 'command'=>'exit').pack
        Tk.mainloop
 
 
        # socket example - httpget
        # usage: ruby httpget.rb http://host/path 
        require 'socket'
 
        host = "localhost"              # default values
        port = 80
        path = "/"
        # process URL (%r!..! means regular expression)
        if %r!http://(.*?)(?::(\d+))?(/.*)! =~ ARGV[0]
          host = $1
          port = Integer($2) if $2
          path = $3
        end
 
        s = TCPsocket::open(host, port)
        # send out HTTP header
        s.print "GET #{path} HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"
        print s.read