Writing Utility Scripts with Ruby
Ruby is a really fantastic language for writing general purpose scripts, especially when processing files. I find myself using it regularly for personal needs in addition to the daily needs of my job.
I recently wanted to organize thousands of MP3 files in a folder into subfolders based on the artist and album, so I wrote a little Ruby script to do so. It reminded me how fun it is to do and how Ruby can be quite a bit friendlier to work with than bash for writing little one-off scripts.
So that's what this episode is: organizing a bunch of MP3s with a simple Ruby script and adding some error handling.
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