Tag Archive for 'coding'

Plists in Ruby

I’m currently working on tweaking Apple’s lazy GUI design by alphabetising VPN connections in both System Preferences and the VPN Connection menu. This is definitely only intended for Leopard and I wont be testing it in Tiger or supporting it. It’s just for my own personal use as I have 40 odd VPN connections. The initial proof of concept code is below. I still need to work on getting things to work reliably and smoothly. MORE »

Terminal, colour and Ruby

I use ruby for system administration tasks all the time and find a little colour always helps to highlight certain information. The only problem is I’ll forget which colour is represented by which number. The ruby script below prints out a nice box of all foreground and background colours. I’ve uploaded a screenshot of the output below so you can see how it looks. MORE »