The past several years have seen a sea of keyboard productivity tools introduced:

• Gnome Do
• Launchy
• Quicksilver
• Synapse
• LaunchBar

These tools enable users to associate complex actions with keywords or shortcuts. Alfred is similar to these solutions but has grown very popular thanks to its emphasis on user friendliness and flexibility.

Note: Alfred is OSX-exclusive.

One of the great things about Alfred is the ability to compose your own workflows. These can be constructed using the built-in editor, optionally including your own scripts written in PHP, Shell, Python…

…and Ruby.

In this tutorial, we will create a simple random number generator workflow using a Ruby script.

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