http://www.uwec.edu/code/ Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:33:59 GMT UW-Eau Claire Web Development code snippets http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/33 Allows you to do x = { :a => 1 } y = { :b => 2 } # x + y => { :a => 1, :b => 2 }, but x and y are untouched # x + { :c => 3 } => { :a => 1, :c => 3 } Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:33:59 GMT http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/33 hoganbp) http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/34 Ruby implementation of the well-known comma regular expression. format_with_commas 1222343561234 would return "1,222,343,561,234" Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:33:46 GMT http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/34 hoganbp) http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/36 Quickly encode URLs in Ruby. Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:33:02 GMT http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/36 hoganbp) http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/38 Adds a handy function that lets you randomly pick n elements from an array. Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:32:28 GMT http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/38 hoganbp) http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/39 number_to_ordinal(12) => "12th" number_to_ordinal(7) => "7th" Note that floats will be converted to ints (without rounding) before processing. Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:32:17 GMT http://www.uwec.edu/code/Ruby/show/39 hoganbp)