Ruby Project

The past few weeks I've been working with ruby creating a few small short projects. I've been impressed with what I've been able to do with little effort. Almost everything I've tried has taken little time, and has been fairly easy to debug and get working well enough for me to use.

This is a short list of what I've been doing over the past few weeks.
Image file replacement program with GUI interface
XML feeds from a web site to populate a database with values
Retrieve a list of paid checks from Oracle ERP and place them into an excel spreadsheet
Send an e-mail with attachments (file mentioned above)

most of these were work related, some were just to test, while others turned into great time savings.

I'll post some details on some of the programs that I've written. The only dissappointment I have with ruby at the moment is the lack creating a compiled program. I want to distribute one program so that I don't have to actually run it anymore. Oh well.