[#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: [ANN] Copland to Needle article on RubyGarden (LONG)

From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-11-13 22:19:18 UTC
List: ruby-talk #120214
Chad Fowler wrote:
> For those not subscribed to RubyGarden's rss feed[1], Jamis Buck has
> written a new feature piece discussing his journey from
> dependency-injection-novice to two-time-IoC-frameworker.  He also
> discusses the (unusual) decision to start over on a framework that is
> less than a year old and demonstrates the differences between these
> two frameworks (Copland and Needle).  Big thanks go to Jamis for his
> fascinating contribution.
> 
> The article is available on RubyGarden's front page or at:
> http://rubygarden.org/index.cgi/Libraries/copland-to-needle.rdoc
> 
> Request: If you'd like to write an article or tutorial or conduct an
> interview to be published on RubyGarden.org, please send me an email
> directly.  I'm working to establish a rhythm of new content releases,
> so if you're interested in contributing I would love to hear from you.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chad Fowler
> 
> [1] http://rubygarden.org/index.cgi/index.rss

Jamis Buck's and Jim Weirich's articles are great. I could never get
through the Java-oriented discussion of this subject, and now that the
subject is presented for rubyists a dim bulb is finally going on in my
head.

What really helps me think about this is to reduce it to some simple,
standard Ruby idioms, which don't provide as many features as Needle,
but are close enough to code that I've actually written to make it all
seem meaningful.

Let's take Jim's example[1], which is clear, rubified, and explicit
about DI constructs, and translate it into some concrete,
mundane ruby code without those constructs. Here's the original:

   def create_application
     container = DI::Container.new
     container.register(:logfilename) { "logfile.log" }
     container.register(:db_user) { "jim" }
     container.register(:db_password) { "secret" }
     container.register(:dbi_string) { "DBI:Pg:example_data" }

     container.register(:app) { |c|
       app = WebApp.new(c.quotes, c.authenticator, c.database)
       app.logger = c.logger
       app.set_error_handler c.error_handler
       app
     }

     container.register(:quotes) { |c|
       StockQuotes.new(c.error_handler, c.logger)
     }

     container.register(:authenticator) { |c|
       Authenticator.new(c.database, c.logger, c.error_handler)
     }

     container.register(:database) { |c|
       DBI.connect(c.dbi_string, c.db_user, c.db_password)
     }

     container.register(:logger) { |c| Logger.new(c.logfilename) }
     container.register(:error_handler) { |c|
       errh = ErrorHandler.new
       errh.logger = c.logger
       errh
     }
   end

And here's a rewrite that functions in about the same way, but without
being explicit about containers and services.

   class Application
     def logfilename
       @logfilename ||= "logfile.log"
     end

     def db_user
       @db_user ||= "jim"
     end

     def db_password
       @db_password ||= "secret"
     end

     def dbi_string
       @dbi_string ||= "DBI:Pg:example_data"
     end

     def app
       @app ||= WebApp.new(quotes, authenticator, database)
     end

     def quotes
       @quotes ||= StockQuotes.new(error_handler, logger)
     end

     def authenticator
       @authenticator ||=
         Authenticator.new(database, logger, error_handler)
     end

     def database
       @database ||= DBI.connect(dbi_string, db_user, db_password)
     end

     def logger
       @logger ||= Logger.new(logfilename)
     end

     def error_handler
       @errh ||= (
         ErrorHandler.new
         @errh.logger = logger
         @errh
       )
     end
   end

   def create_application
     Application.new
   end

So we're using the Application class itself as the container, and
we're using the instance methods of this class as the service points.
The methods return the services, and also store them in instance
variables. A service is registered using "def". Instead of using the
block parameter to pass the container to the service definitions, you
just use self. The familiar ||= idiom provides the singleton service
model.

It's quick and dirty, and it obscures the conceptual structure, but if
you're familiar with ruby, you can see immediately what is going on.
You've probably even written code a little like this. Why would you
want to "upgrade" your code to a more explicit form of DI? There are
several disadvantages to this implicit DI style, aside from the
implicitness itself:

- It doesn't help much with things like interceptors, although you
   could bring in your favorite AOP library.

- It mixes your service namespace with the namespace inherited from
   Object and Kernel: maybe you want a service called "dup" or "puts",
   but then you cannot call the Object and Kernel implementation of
   these methods from within methods of the Application class.

- Reflection must be done using standard ruby reflection on classes,
   so you have to, for example, filter out methods that are not really
   services.

OTOH, you can use class inheritance and module inclusion to build
trees of container definitions in a very natural and familiar way,
emulating some of the functionality of Needle:

   module LoggingServices
     def logger; ...; end
   end

   module GUIServices
   end

   module DatabaseServices
   end

   class MyServiceContainer
     include LoggingServices
     include GUIServices
     include DatabaseServices

     def app
       MyApp.new(logger, gui, database)
     end
   end

The other service models besides the singleton model are also easy to
implement with quick and dirty ruby code:

- Threaded:

   def per_thread_logger
     @per_thread_logger ||= {}
     @per_thread_logger[Thread.current] ||= Logger.new
   end

- Prototype:

   def gui_button
     MyButtonClass.new
   end

- Deferred (ok, this one gets a little messy, and the details should
   be abstracted away by some fancy metaprogramming):

   def big_resource
     @big_resource || big_resource_proxy
   end

   def big_resource_proxy
     @big_resource_proxy ||= (
       proxy = [proc {|br| @big_resource = br}]
       def proxy.method_missing(*args, &block)
         big_resource = BigResource.new
         at(0).call(big_resource)
         big_resource.send(*args, &block)
       end
       proxy
     )
   end
   private :big_resource_proxy

There are other service models that are very easy to construct with
methods, but I'm not aware of an equivalent construct in Needle:

   def printer(kind)
     @printers ||= {}
     @printers[kind] = Printer.new(kind)
   end

   def printer_for_code_files
     @printer_for_code_files ||= printer(:monochrome)
   end

   def printer_for_images
     @printer_for_images ||= printer(:color)
   end

It might be possible to do the above in Needle using Pipelines.[2]

Namespaces, if I understand the Needle docs correctly, work something
like this:

   class PictureApp
     class ColorNamespace
       def red; PrimaryColor(:red); end
       def green; PrimaryColor(:green); end
       def yellow; @yellow ||= red+green; end
     end

     def colors
       @colors ||= ColorNamespace.new
     end

     def picture
       @picture ||= Picture.new(:background => colors.yellow)
     end
   end

Alternately, if you want color instances to shared by all PictureApps,
you might want to define the colors service like this:

     def colors
       @@colors ||= ColorNamespace.new
     end

I hope there aren't too many inaccuracies in the above, and that this
helps other folks move from older ruby idioms to the new idioms
that Needle gives us.

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[1] 
http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/DependencyInjectionInRuby.rdoc

[2] Anybody know? Or are parameterized services a misuse of the DI
     pattern?

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