RailsConf 2008

In Portland, Oregon all this weekend for RailsConf 2008, any like-minded readers interested in chatting over a beer?I gave a lightning talk on rubber today, if anyone wangts a more detailed demo, seek me out (twitter: mattconway). 

Replacing AppleScript with Ruby

I had a brief run-in with AppleScript trying to overcome an OS X terminal bug.  and its not something I enjoyed.  I would much rather be able to do scripts like this in a language I'm more comfortable in like ruby.  I've known for a while that one of the enhancements in OS X Leopard is that it has native support for scripting the UI from within other scripting languages like python and ruby, however, I didn't realize that I could drop those scripts in the user scripts folder (~/Library/Scripts) and have them available from the scripts toolbar icon.