26.12 Mac in the Shell: Ruby Basics for IT

by Edward Marczak
Dec, 2010 Issue

Article Synopsis

Last month, we began looking at MacRuby as a way Macintosh system administrators can solve administrative challenges. We began with some of the history of Ruby, showed how it treats everything as an object, and gave some basic examples. This month, will continue to delve into Ruby. I'll introduce you control structures and other Ruby idioms through an example that we'll refine over time: copying a file into user home directories.

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