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If you are going to RubyConf 2005, and want to make your visage known to others so that they may recognize you, there's a page started by Francis Hwang on the Ruby Garden wiki for posting pix.

For my entry, I just couldn't decide what picture to use, so I wrote a Ruby script to redirect to a random image:

  #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
 
  def redirect( new_page)
   print "Location:#{new_page}\n\n"
  end
 
  pix = Dir[ " !rubyconf05 .{jpg,gif,png}" ].map{ |f| f.gsub( /^\.\//, '' ) }
  img = pix[ rand( 300) % pix.size ]
 
  redirect( "http://www.jamesbritt.com/images/#{img}" )
 

The link-making code for the wiki page will magically turn an image URL into an img element, but my script ends with the .rb extension. No problem; I just appended a vestigial query string to the URL:

http://www.jamesbritt.com/images/james_britt_pix.rb?.jpg

Wiki pleasure.

Now, you may have noticed, that in addition to being so friendly, we Ruby folk are a handsome lot, too! And, so, the new Ruby promo phrase: