Continuing on a theme, this post brings you the latest news from Prawn, the Ruby PDF library currently being developed under the auspices of the Ruby Mendicant project. The news this time around focuses on m17n progress, TTF font embedding, and some new goodies from contributors. Sexy screenshots and code samples lie just beyond the cut for those who wish to learn more.

I really like the open command on OS X, but I was too lazy to look for its Linux equivalent.

Actually, my solution probably took less time than sifting through a google search:

system(case ARGV[0]
when /\.pdf/
“epdfview”
when /\.html/
“firefox”
when /\.(rb)|(pl)|(pm)/
“vim”
end + ” #{ARGV[0]}”)

Anyone else have fun little hacks they want to share?