MadRuby is an on-the-fly keyboard macro recorder. You simply start recording while using any application, perform a task using the keyboard, stop recording and play it back as many times as you want, anywhere you want.
As a simple example, say you have a folder with 23 images from your nephew Billy’s 1st birthday party that you want to rename. If you don’t own Willow (shame on you) and you’re not a Terminal guru, you might find yourself doing the following for each of the 23 images:
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•Highlight an image in Finder.
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•Hit enter to start a rename.
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•Delete “IMG_”.
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•Type “Billys 1st Birthday” - bonus points for copying this to the clipboard.
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•Hit enter again to complete the rename.
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•Hit the down arrow to select the next image.
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•Rest your head on the table and sigh.
What you could have done is hit a keyboard shortcut to tell MadRuby to begin recording in the background, rename the first image, stop recording and play it back to rename the remaining images. MadRuby has a handy multi-play feature that allows you to repeat your macro a specified number of times, in the example above you'd instruct it to repeat 22 times (not 23 because you already renamed the first image manually).
