https://nyghtowl.com/tags/ruby/ Recent content in Ruby on Nyghtowl Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:40:14 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2013/07/ruby-on-rails-python-trek/ Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:40:14 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2013/07/ruby-on-rails-python-trek/ <p>Wow its been a while since I last posted. Lots going on with interviews last month and then deciding to teach myself Ruby on Rails and being obsessed with Julython. I completed and launched my first Rails app (technically second after the sample app from the tutorial) at the beginning of this week. It is a simple thing that literally is just a button and I couldn’t be prouder.</p> <p><strong>What is Python Trek?</strong><br> Python Trek is a mashup of Stark Trek and Monty Python scripts, quotes, etc. I built a program to generate random sentence or sentences using a Markov Chain algorithm and post those to the Twitter account @pythontrek. I used Ruby to build the program that generates the tweets and I applied Rails to set up a webpage where anyone can press a button that will generate the random tweet and post it.</p>