[#118612] OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6 — Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>

I'm not sure who to talk to about this, but in my correspondence with

17 messages 2004/11/01

[#118651] symbol solver.. early experiments — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2004/11/01

[#118675] fastcgi performance problems and ruby — andrew.stuart@...

Hello

16 messages 2004/11/02

[#118679] US Presidential Election — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Election Day is upon us!

135 messages 2004/11/02
[#118690] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Ara.T.Howard@... 2004/11/02

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#118696] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2004/11/02

I am neither a Kerry or Bush supporter. Idealy I would vote

[#118681] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/02

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#118734] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2004/11/02

Bush, with conviction ;-)

[#118744] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Thomas Kirchner <lists@...> 2004/11/02

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:18:12PM +0900, Richard Kilmer wrote:

[#118836] From getoptlong to optparse — Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>

15 messages 2004/11/02

[#118863] Programmatically and dynamically catching exceptions — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>

Allright here was my idea which seems to have been shattered by the

13 messages 2004/11/03

[#118965] Ruby Package for MacOS X — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>

Hi all,

11 messages 2004/11/04

[#118970] Ruby and civil political discussion? (Re: [OT] US Presidential Election) — "Dave Burt" <burtdav@...>

"David Morton" <mortonda@gmail.com> wrote:

18 messages 2004/11/04

[#118988] rails: gem install rails is bombing — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2004/11/04
[#118994] Re: rails: gem install rails is bombing — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/04

> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix

[#118997] Ruby BitTorrent — (Curne) Simon Conrad-Armes <curne@...>

Has anybody started a Ruby BitTorrent transfer library? I wanted to

13 messages 2004/11/04

[#119059] Will ActiveRecord support Berkeley DB? — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/11/04

[#119111] FastCGI parameters (get and post) — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

21 messages 2004/11/04
[#119114] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/11/04

GET parameters you have to parse from ENV['QUERY_STRING'].

[#119117] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — "J. D." <jd@...> 2004/11/04

Kent Sibilev wrote:

[#119176] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/05

[#119208] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — MoonWolf <moonwolf@...> 2004/11/05

Patrick May wrote:

[#119275] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/05

Quoting MoonWolf <moonwolf@moonwolf.com>:

[#119289] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/11/05

Patrick May ha scritto:

[#119357] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/06

[#119358] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Ara.T.Howard@... 2004/11/06

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Patrick May wrote:

[#119132] recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>

I wanted to learn Ruby, so I picked a small task of trying to write a

19 messages 2004/11/05
[#119149] Re: recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2004/11/05

Hi,

[#119161] Re: recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/11/05

On Nov 4, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Mark Hubbart wrote:

[#119148] Ruby 1.4.6 - trouble with require path — primehalo@... (Ken Innes)

I inherited a project that uses Ruby 1.4.6 on a RedHat Linux 6.1J. I

12 messages 2004/11/05

[#119168] value provided for argument with default value - how to check inside method? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Is there an equivalent of block_given? to check if the caller provided a

16 messages 2004/11/05

[#119223] GEDCOM Parser (#6) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

40 messages 2004/11/05
[#119224] Re: [QUIZ] GEDCOM Parser (#6) — Jim Menard <jimm@...> 2004/11/05

> <gedcom>

[#119371] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>

I sometimes use the method definition shorthand 'attr_reader',

29 messages 2004/11/06
[#119373] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...> 2004/11/07

On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:23 PM, James Britt wrote:

[#119386] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/07

[#119406] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119417] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/07

[#119428] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119432] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2004/11/07

Quoteing jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com, on Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:26:26AM +0900:

[#119439] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Sam Roberts wrote:

[#119535] rdoc and vim folding — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>

24 messages 2004/11/08
[#119540] Re: rdoc and vim folding — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/08

[#119543] Re: rdoc and vim folding — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/11/09

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119545] Re: rdoc and vim folding — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...> 2004/11/09

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Hans Fugal wrote:

[#119597] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...>

This release candidate of the One-Click Installer for

22 messages 2004/11/09

[#119598] RedCloth 3.0.0 -- Textile and Markdown Elope! — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>

RedCloth 3 is out. You know? RedCloth? Perhaps you've heard of it.

14 messages 2004/11/09

[#119607] Iterating trough hash — Kevin =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6rgens?= <kevin@...>

Hi!

19 messages 2004/11/09

[#119685] new spam at the wiki — Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@...>

been checking my pages and it looks like we've got a new spammer on board.

41 messages 2004/11/10
[#119708] Re: new spam at the wiki — Jim Weirich <jim@...> 2004/11/10

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 02:00 am, Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote:

[#119748] Re: new spam at the wiki — Asfand Yar Qazi <see@...> 2004/11/10

Jim Weirich wrote:

[#119754] Re: new spam at the wiki — Henrik Horneber <ryco@...> 2004/11/10

Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:

[#119756] Re: new spam at the wiki — Charles Comstock <cc1@...> 2004/11/10

[#119796] A Wiki/Spam Report — "Jim Weirich" <jim@...> 2004/11/10

Hello all.

[#119895] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2004/11/11

Jim Weirich wrote:

[#119911] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/11/11

Ben Giddings ha scritto:

[#119935] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — "Jim Weirich" <jim@...> 2004/11/11

[#119799] array.each restart when array is changed — Kevin =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6rgens?= <kevin@...>

Hi!

18 messages 2004/11/10

[#119825] Arachno users? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Any Arachno IDE users out there? Do you mind sharing your opinion of the

16 messages 2004/11/11
[#119908] Re: Arachno users? — Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@...> 2004/11/11

I've been programming in Ruby for 3 years, and using ArachnoRuby for

[#119826] ruby idiom for attribute definition? — "Corey" <corey_s@...>

19 messages 2004/11/11

[#119878] Thinking About Java Interfaces In Ruby — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I'm currently reading "Holub on Patterns", an excellent volume on

18 messages 2004/11/11

[#119974] warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop — Stu <ceaser@...>

12 messages 2004/11/12

[#120037] Copland to Needle article on RubyGarden — Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>

For those not subscribed to RubyGarden's rss feed[1], Jamis Buck has

35 messages 2004/11/12
[#120214] Re: [ANN] Copland to Needle article on RubyGarden (LONG) — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2004/11/13

Chad Fowler wrote:

[#120431] Starter question on Test::Unit — Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...> 2004/11/15

Hello,

[#120056] Countdown (#7) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

26 messages 2004/11/12

[#120061] why does rss/maker not raise errors? — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

There are lots of mandatory attributes (yes, which are mandatory is

26 messages 2004/11/12
[#120133] bug: rss/maker is requiring <image> for rss/0.9 — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2004/11/13

It says it is optional here:

[#120071] assert — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

I could not find a standard "assert" in Ruby. Is there one?

29 messages 2004/11/12

[#120248] Dynamic define_method on class creation per module namespace — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Here's a wee challenge for Rubyists at large. Consider:

12 messages 2004/11/14

[#120261] Countdown (#7) — Dennis Ranke <dennis.ranke@...>

Hi, here is my second solution for this very interesting quiz.

15 messages 2004/11/14

[#120271] Ruby in the enterprise... — "Wood, Jeff" <jeffwood@...>

Hello all,

14 messages 2004/11/14

[#120299] OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

How 'bout an OpenStruct#update for adding values after initialization. Or is

72 messages 2004/11/14
[#120306] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/14

On Sunday 14 November 2004 03:42 pm, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#120337] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/14

Hi,

[#120355] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/15

On Sunday 14 November 2004 06:16 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#120395] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/15

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#120401] Kernel#singleton_class (was: Re: OpenStruct#update ?) — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2004/11/15

Hi --

[#120405] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/15

David A. Black wrote:

[#120407] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2004/11/15

Hi --

[#120446] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/15

Hi,

[#120449] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/15

On Monday 15 November 2004 12:28 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#120380] Arachno Ruby 0.3 (patch 2) — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2004/11/15

[#120485] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...>

15 messages 2004/11/15
[#120516] Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Matt Armstrong <matt@...> 2004/11/16

[#120626] Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2004/11/17

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:08:23PM +0900, Matt Armstrong wrote:

[#120573] Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Kevin Hinners <kevin.hinners@...>

I've downloaded the stable 1.8.1 release of Ruby. When I attempt to run make

21 messages 2004/11/16
[#120574] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/16

Hi,

[#120577] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Kevin Hinners <kevin.hinners@...> 2004/11/16

Top segment of mkmk.log:

[#120582] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/16

Hi,

[#120609] Ruby to C to another language (perhaps Java (I Don't Need JRuby)) — Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>

This posting is more for a learning thing then anything else at this

10 messages 2004/11/17

[#120727] About Regular Expressions — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>

Lately there have been a bunch of posts on this list about regular

31 messages 2004/11/18
[#120739] Re: About Regular Expressions — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/18

On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:34 am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#120745] Re: About Regular Expressions — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...> 2004/11/18

* trans. (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> [Nov 18, 2004 14:10]:

[#120764] Re: About Regular Expressions — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/18

On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:26 am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#120754] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>

Hi,

30 messages 2004/11/18
[#120772] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — David Ross <dross@...> 2004/11/18

Michael Neumann wrote:

[#120870] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com> 2004/11/19

David Ross wrote:

[#120877] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2004/11/19

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:42:36PM +0900, David Garamond wrote:

[#120872] mission critical Ruby? — Mark VanOrman <mark@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2004/11/19

[#120890] Object Browser (#8) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

65 messages 2004/11/19
[#121093] Object Browser (#8) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/11/23

Hello Group,

[#121357] Re: [Solution] Object Browser (#8) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/11/25

So I took some time and refactored my solution. It now has a modular and extendible structure (at least I hope so). It should be possible to easily write non-gtk ui's and extend the reporting capabilities.

[#121006] Re: [SOLUTION] Object Browser (#8) — "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...> 2004/11/22

I'm new to using gems. Can you tell me the command I need to run to get

[#120940] Inner Class Relationship — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I have an inner class that needs to send it's parent object (outer

24 messages 2004/11/20
[#120946] Re: Inner Class Relationship — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/20

Since you haven't said much about how you're using this, maybe my

[#120947] Re: Inner Class Relationship — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/11/21

On Nov 20, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Francis Hwang wrote:

[#120952] Re: Inner Class Relationship — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/21

[#120961] Windows - calling system with multiple parms — colotechpro@... (John Reed)

I'm having a problem getting a system call to Windows XP to work. I

13 messages 2004/11/21

[#121015] Some progress but have hit a new error working through the Todo tutorial... Anyone recognize it? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

The error is below. Ugh. But at least it works up to this point. I don't

12 messages 2004/11/22
[#121016] Re: Some progress but have hit a new error working through the Todo tutorial... Anyone recognize it? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...> 2004/11/22

Oh, whups. The state of the todo_controller.rb file that evokes this error

[#121026] Instiki problems — Ryco@...

Hi!

19 messages 2004/11/22
[#121031] Re: Instiki problems — Ryco@... 2004/11/22

Update:

[#121129] Re: Instiki problems — Ryco@... 2004/11/23

Hi!

[#121126] rails is awesome — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>

46 messages 2004/11/23
[#121134] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/23

> Couldn't help sending a big 'thank you' to DHH for Rails.

[#121194] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/23

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:11:24 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121196] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/23

> I haven't seen this myself, but from something said by others, it

[#121217] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:01:17 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121243] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/24

> Essentially, David, this is a *problem* with ActiveRecord.

[#121247] Re: rails is awesome — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2004/11/24

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 9:23:09 PM, David wrote:

[#121260] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:48:18 +0900, Gavin Sinclair

[#121267] Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

[#121271] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — George Moschovitis <gm@...> 2004/11/24

> do, maybe it's worth considering that ActiveRecord is not not the only

[#121274] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:58:09 +0900, George Moschovitis <gm@navel.gr> wrote:

[#121275] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

Austin, what DB are you using anyway? Dunno if I caught that in this

[#121173] Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Okay, okay, okay. Instiki does need a new maintainer. At least a

12 messages 2004/11/23
[#121195] Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/23

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:35:21 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121210] Marshal vs. YAML vs. something else (Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer) — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

More generally, let me ask: What formats are people using to persist

[#121205] How to avoid inheriting Object? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

How do I create a class that does not inherit from Object?

17 messages 2004/11/24
[#121218] Re: How to avoid inheriting Object? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:29:09 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:

[#121227] editors/IDEs — Jamie Orchard-Hays <jamie@...>

I'm curious what people are favoring for editors and IDEs for Ruby.

21 messages 2004/11/24

[#121318] Ruby/DL tutorial — bjsp123@... (Benjamin Peterson)

Hi,

15 messages 2004/11/24

[#121381] Re: Ruby GUIs and installation effort — "bin liu" <ruby@3cn.com.cn>

I think one GUI system dos not depends others except ruby will bee more flexible.

19 messages 2004/11/25

[#121455] Using unit-tests as examples for a documentation — benny <listen@...>

dear list,

13 messages 2004/11/25

[#121468] oneclick installer, freeride — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

anybody NOT developing the oneclick installer or freeride can skip

12 messages 2004/11/25

[#121506] Multiplexer - linear non-blocking I/O — Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>

Blocking I/O is really easy to use. But when you use it to write

32 messages 2004/11/26

[#121517] Banned Words (#9) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

29 messages 2004/11/26

[#121611] initialize always — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

It is rather a common occurrence that I find myself creating a mixin module

16 messages 2004/11/27

[#121647] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC10 — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...>

This release is mainly in upgrade the included FreeRIDE

13 messages 2004/11/28

[#121730] Seeking advice on some method names — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Hi all,

28 messages 2004/11/29

[#121847] to_s, inspect, etc. — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Where would I find a nice summary of to_s, inspect, p, etc. and the core

16 messages 2004/11/29

[#121903] PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python (vs. Rails) — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering about the differences in

15 messages 2004/11/30

[#121916] Python 2.4 released — Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>

A coworker of mine came and hollarred at me because on /. it mentioned

21 messages 2004/11/30

[#121936] Optional static typing (or, What can Ruby 2.0 borrow from Boo?) — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

23 messages 2004/11/30

[#121943] profile — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2004/11/30

[#121949] singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

irb(main):025:0> x = :any

20 messages 2004/11/30
[#121956] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/30

itsme213 wrote:

[#121970] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/12/01

[#121975] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Christoph <chr_mail@...> 2004/12/01

Francis Hwang schrieb:

Re: rdoc and vim folding

From: Ralph Amissah <ralph@...>
Date: 2004-11-09 14:18:33 UTC
List: ruby-talk #119595
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:58:01 +0900, Gavin Sinclair
<gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:47:07 PM, Gavin wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:43:34 PM, Ara wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
>>>> Isn't there a way to limit the number of folds created by
>>>> fm=indent?
>
>>> yes - but you can say do THIS and THAT level.  just a depth
>
>> Maybe the fm=syntax option, then?  I don't know anything about that,
>> but it sounds promising.
>
> Follow-up: it's not promising.  Vim's current syntax definition for
> Ruby (http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org) does enable syntax-based folding,
> but it can't be selective about what it folds (i.e. classes and
> methods only, per Ara's request).
>
> The following settings should be OK:
>
>   set foldmethod=syntax
>   set foldnestmax=2        " or 3
>
> If anyone knows enough about Vim to make the folding smarter for Ruby
> files, please step forward :)
>
> Gavin
>
I don't know about making folds smarter than you already have.

This is the folding I use with ruby and like, for what that is worth,
as someone who would not like to be without vim folding. I use the
attached folding setup and open ruby (and other files) in folded mode -
it is a bit like having a table of contents. It is made up from things
extracted from vim tips a couple of years back, modified as required
over time.

Lets see what does it include:

<leader>ff   folds file

fs           after a search, shows only search results all else folded 
(no idea whether this feature has become part of mainstream vim)

to open a file in fold mode (i.e. with the fold instructions installed):
gvim -c :R 

In additon to folding on def, class, and module (also public protected
private) it folds on #{{ (until the next fold), i use comment markers
and {{ to place folds in all files in which i want fold headings ... 
vim setup files included.

There is no recursive (levels of) folding here.

Vim is so flexible how you choose to work with these things is a
matter of taste.
I don't have the time to clean it up, or to extract things (just) ruby
right now but share as is, unedited, (and including some non-ruby folding,
and probably some other superflous bits, actually i did start deleting a bit).
(there may be problems with line breaks). Oh and final caveat, apart from
having figured out what folds i was comfortable with using some time in the
past, (and using that ever since) i can't claim to know much about vim folds.

Vim fold section follows:

" arch-tag: vimrc folds related ralph@amissah.com
:filetype on
:filetype indent on
set foldexpr=Foldexpr_fun('^\\i')
:hi FoldColumn          ctermfg=Black ctermbg=magenta
:hi Folded              ctermfg=Black ctermbg=magenta
"{{~foldsearchx FoldSearch (opens result of search all else closed)
"mapped to \f & \z t77 late
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum-1)!~@/&&getline(v:lnum)!~@/&&getline(v:lnum+1)!~@/
:map fs :set foldmethod=expr foldcolumn=2 foldlevel=0 <cr>
:map <leader>see :set foldmethod=expr foldcolumn=2 foldlevel=0 <cr>
:map <leader>fa :Fa<cr>
function! FoldInst()
  if ( &filetype == "ruby" )
    "erase folds, first fold then erase, or just use open folds zR
    :map <leader>fe :R<cr> zE
    :R
  else
    :map <leader>fe :F<cr> zE
    :F
  endif
endfunc
:nmap <silent> <leader>ff :silent call FoldInst()<cr>
:map <leader>fO :R <cr>fe<cr> " erase folds
"{{~foldtoggle Fold Toggle mapped to <space>
" Toggle fold state between closed and opened.
" If there is no fold at current line, just moves forward. If it is present,
" reverse it's state.
fun! ToggleFold()
  if foldlevel('.') == 0
  	normal! l
  else
    if foldclosed('.') < 0
    	.	foldclose
    else
    	. foldopen
    endif
  endif
"  Clear status line
  echo
endfun
" Map this function to Space key.
:noremap <space> :call ToggleFold()<cr>
"{{~foldtype Fold? set foldtext 
:set foldtext=v:folddashes.substitute(getline(v:foldstart),'{{\\d\\=','','g',)
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum-1)!~@/&&getline(v:lnum)!~@/&&getline(v:lnum+1)!~@/
"{{~foldsearch t77: Fold on search result 
"(Fs <pattern> or Fc Frb Flm Fp) Fs pattern Fold search #Str (structure)
" ruby program pattern based on module class and def #Strlm (structure)
" lm file pattern based on <!1!> etc.
function! Foldsearch(search)
  set fdm=manual
  normal zE
  normal G$
  let folded = 0     "flag to set when a fold is found
  let flags = "w"    "allow wrapping in the search
  let line1 =  0     "set marker for beginning of fold
  while search(a:search, flags) > 0
    let  line2 = line(".")
"    echo "pattern found at line # " line2
      if (line2 -1 > line1)
:       "echo line1 . ":" . (line2-1)
:       "echo "A fold goes here."
:       execute ":" . line1 . "," . (line2-1) . "fold"
:       let folded = 1       "at least one fold has been found
:     endif
:     let line1 = line2     "update marker
:     let flags = "W"       "turn off wrapping
:  endwhile
"  Now create the last fold which goes to the end of the file.
:  normal $G
:  let  line2 = line(".")
"  echo "end of file found at line # " line2
:  if (line2  > line1 && folded == 1)
"    echo line1 . ":" . line2
"    echo "A fold goes here."
:    execute ":". line1 . "," . line2 . "fold"
:  endif
:  normal 1G
:endfunction
"{~folds Fold Patterns
"Command is executed as ':Fs pattern'"
:command! -nargs=+ -complete=command Fs call Foldsearch(<q-args>)
:command! -nargs=+ -complete=command Fold call Foldsearch(<q-args>)
"{{~folds :T Fold Patterns exuberant tag list :T
:command! T Fs ^\s*\S\+\s\+(
"{{~folds :R Fold Patterns Ruby :R
:command! R Fs \(^\s*\(\(def\|class\|module\)\s\)\|\
  \(\(public\|protected\|private\)\(\s\|$\)\)\)\
  \|^[0-9]{\|[#%"]\{1,4\}\s*{\({\|!!\)
:command! Re Fs \(^\s*\(\(def\|class\|module\)\s\)\)\
  \|^\s*[ #%"0-9\~]\{0,4\}{\({{\|!!\)
"{{~folds :F Fold Patterns SiSU Markup :F
:command! F Fs [1-8]{\|#\s*{{\|^[#%"0-9]\{0,4\}\s*{[{!]


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