Another script I have previously posted was about parsing one of our Apache’s log files to determine the actual browser share on our site. Sure, you can find the aggregate numbers online from a pan-Internet perspective, but when choosing test data for our site I really only care about the numbers as they relate to our site. This is another important piece of the scripting puzzle: make it work for your own needs first. Only then should you make it generic. And only if you have time.

I’m sure there are more scalable and/or efficient ways of gathering and displaying the data (dynamically adding keys to the hash for example) but the script is both unrefactored and one of the first ones I wrote in Ruby so there is a lot of newbie-isms in there as well.

The script itself is in Ruby (as mentioned above) and is shown in the midst of a larger discussion on the definition of Quality.