I'm starting to love Ruby, mainly because it allows me to do what I like most about programming. Scratching personal itch it's a great thing, specially when it allows you to tackle boring repetitive tasks. Ruby allows to do it fast, really quickly wrapping up a script that solves your problem, and then move on.
I just did that when facing the problem on having to create some sprites for a new website, I just didn't want to open GIMP and star fiddling around with layers, pixel, screen rulers and that kind of thing. So I just came up with an easy script that allowed me to create a png sprite based on a list of images, and also generates the CSS code to paste in my stylesheet (just because we can).
Since I thought somebody might find it useful, I packaged it as a gem and now is available in RubyGems, just:gem install spritey
and run it with:spritey -i foo.png,bar.png,baz.png -o name
and voila! I should note that I did the optparse part and the actual gem packaging really fast so expect (and please report) issues .
you can see and contribute code on the project repo
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