6720 4e72eb8d-a60b-4885-ac05-2b1d52cacf70 Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts: Useful Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems Steve Pugh calibre (9.6.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2009-05-14T23:00:00+00:00 <div> <p>Are you spending valuable time on work a well-trained monkey could do? If so, Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts will teach you how to automate repetitive tasks using Ruby, one of the most powerful and easy-to-use programming languages around. </p> <p>Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts provides 58 scripts that offer quick solutions to problems like system administration, manipulating images, and managing a website. After getting your feet wet creating simple scripts to automate tasks like file compression and decompression, you’ll learn how to create powerful web crawlers, security scripts, and full-fledged libraries and applications, as well as how to:* Rename files, disable processes, change permissions, and modify users* Manipulate strings, encrypt files, and sort efficiently* Validate web links, check for orphan files, and generate forms* Mass edit photos, extract image information, and create thumbnails* Parse CSV files and scrape links, images, and pages from the WebAnd as a nod to our security friends, you’ll even learn how to use Ruby to write Metasploit exploits. </p> <p>For each script you get the code, a discussion of how it works, and tips on how to customize it to solve real-world problems. By the time you’re finished, we think you’ll agree that Ruby is a wicked cool way to get things done.</p></div> No Starch Press 9781593271824 DopXkPKzOUAC eng Computers General Programming Languages Programming Languages Pascal Ruby