I wrote my first little app in Ruby tonight. Well, that’s a lie. I’ve been writing cute little inapplicable apps for the last month but they’ve just been exercises out of Chris Pine’s “Learn to Program” book. Tonight I actually decided to write a very basic time tracking app armed only with the knowledge I’ve cultivated thus far and it came out swell. I know it’s quite basic and lame, so please laugh. I am laughing at it right now. But I’m learning as quickly as I can with only 2 hours of time a night available for learning Ruby. 

I did end up having to use a hack to display my time (from seconds) to a pretty-formatted date/time string. But I hope to come back to this problem later and come up with my own solution. It doesn’t store the data to a file yet but I’ll be adding that tomorrow evening. I know it will only take 5 minutes but the kids do wake up around 5am and I’d sure like to sleep now

Here’s the nuby code: