A Recap of Cool Libraries for Ruby

The Case gem (some information here: http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/03/16/tighter-rub... ) for pattern matching is also great, especially if you're dealing with large S-exp structures for compilation. After discovering a few of these libraries, Ruby has become my de facto compiler language.

A Ruby shell that allows you to do things like,

    local_dir = Rush::Box.new('localhost')['/Users/adam/server_logs/'].create
    servers = %w(www1 www2 www3).map { |n| Rush::Box.new(n) }
    servers.each { |s| s['/var/log/nginx/access.log'].copy_to local_dir["#{s.host}_access.log"] }