2011 who?

I had a great week. I stayed warm for the holidays, I played Settlers with friends, I drank hot cocoa, I worked on my grad school applications, and I jumped in the lake on New Year's Day to celebrate the arrival of 2012 with a wee bit of hypothermia.

But I didn't work on any Ruby projects. After a week off, I'm now scratching my head and trying to figure out what I thought I knew. Back to the basics.

I'm still reading through the RSpec book, and I'm now into the Cucumber section. I spent some time today looking back on the code that I wrote in 2011 and trying to write acceptance tests for it. I quickly realized that I need a basic Ruby refresher, so I spent some time re-writing my code and looking over documentation for the parts that still confuse me. With Ruby, everyday I'm moving two steps forward and one step back.

I've also identified a goal. In the next two months, I would like to publish at least one Ruby file to GitHub that helps others in some small way. I'd like to write a piece of code that solves a simple problem that Ruby developers face.

I'm open to suggestions.