I just finished a quick how to on reading a text file in Ruby. Now that I have the new software working I'm hoping I will be able to write a few more how to's on a regular basis. Mostly I plan to write about core stuff like reading a file, writing a file, reading command line parameters, etc... While learning Ruby I found very few simple examples of how to do A, B, or C. Typically you find more like an (A^2/B^3)^C or some such thing that distracts from the core principle. When you want to learn about A, you don't want B and C mucking up the works. Anyway, I hope to rectify the situation.

I am also hoping to do some of the same for XQuery. But more on that in another post