They say the cobbler's child is the last to have shoes. It's the same for software developers--we write applications for others, but rarely take the time to automate our own processes. This is crazy: if we let our computers do more of the repetitive, tedious, and boring work for us, then not only do we free up our time to do more worthwhile things, we also guarantee more repeatable results.

This talk gives you soup-to-nuts recipes for automating your software project (and your life!) using Ruby: