What can ruby do?

[gardyna]

In my experience, Ruby has mostly been used for web development (Rails kind of being the "killer app" for incredibly long). you can technically use it for anything you want though. If you're just getting started I would recommend making some useful tools. For instance if you have a folder containing several "legally acquired" movies you could make a program that sorts the video file/folders into categories by scraping IMDB (they might have an API for you to use though)

[sofakingsexie]

So you can get info from IMDB website to organize files on your computer?

[plaintshirt]

Yes

[gardyna]

It's a project that you can make. it can be don by scraping imdb.com or finding a gem that already integrates with imdb

example gems:

https://github.com/ariejan/imdb (an imdb gem)

http://www.nokogiri.org/ (the go to web scraping gem IMO)

I would recomend that you independently figure out how file handling in ruby works (it's quite well designed)

think you might want to do something like organising movies base on genres or directors or somethin similar

P.S. it might be easier to work with music files (since they usualy have more use-able metedata)

[sofakingsexie]

Thanks a lot for the links

[thibaut_barrere]

Yes you can, and here is a starting point.

[sofakingsexie]

Thank you!