Here’s a fantastic tutorial from MacZealots to get you started on automating your Mac using Ruby (instead of, say, AppleScript). If AppleScript is too hinky and irregular for you programmer types, this might be just the ticket.

My favorite unixy scripting language has been married to my favorite all purpose Mac scripting language! RubyOSA provides hooks for Ruby to access AppleScript (a.k.a. the Open Scripting Architecture). This might keep me busy for a while…