Ruby Poetry

Clicked expecting a poem that is also valid Ruby, like what people used to do with Perl. Was somewhat disappointed, but LOL'd at the Eurozone Bailout poem.

Nice little hack. My favorite find of that sort came from a verse-finder in Python run over the text of The Lord of the Rings -- it was looking for scansion, not rhyme -- i.e., blank verse like Paradise Lost:

    One turned to stone. A brief vision he had
    Of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it
    Towers and battlements, tall as hills,
    Founded upon a mighty mountain-throne
    Above immeasurable pits; great courts
    And dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs,
    And gaping gates of steel and adamant:
    And then all passed.

I suppose it's not a coincidence the longest passage the program found came at the climactic moment of the story.

This is off topic, but the code highlighting with slight background noise seems like a good idea in general. Has anyone tried this in their editor of choice?