To search your php.ini file quickly and easily with the option to use regular expressions, I tend to drop back to the cli. The reason for this is I can easily parse the output of phpinfo() with grep, and can do various things with the output, could even pass it to a script if I really wanted to.

And now an example of how I write my ruby code and get it down to the bare, readable, minimum code needed. This is real life code taken from a website I'm building, but I've changed the objects to a blog post because more people will relate to that easier.

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So mother (who can't program) just posed me the question