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September 6, 2005
Ruby script for checking Slickdeals
I've been learning Ruby and decided to tackle my first project this week.
I've been a long-time fan of Slickdeals and always thought it would be cool to get a notice when a new post pops up. Especially since many of the deals are limited-time and I often will miss a good deal because I don't check often enough.
So, my first Ruby program is a Slickdeals notification program.
Get the code here.
This works, but doesn't utilize a lot of Ruby OO features. There's lots more Ruby-ization I will be doing in the future.
As an aside, learning Ruby has reminded me a lot of when I learned Scheme as an undergrad. After having done a lot of programming in Pascal, AppleSoft (BASIC), and assembly language, Scheme was the first language I learned that was really intuitive (Joe Zachary was my prof and taught what Scheme we needed for our first assignment in about 20 minutes).
Posted by pete at September 6, 2005 10:13 PM