[#163583] webcrawler/robot — "mikkel@..." <mikkel@...>
Hi Guys,
[#163587] PDF with Arabic — "Tobin Harris" <tobin@_do_not_spam_tobinharris.com>
Hi there,
[#163634] walkthrough for consuming web service from ruby? — "rpardee@..." <rpardee@...>
Hey All,
[#163659] "RubyConf for Stragglers" has moved (mp3/video from the conf) — Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
If this has been posted already forgive me. Ezra's site with the
[#163662] Would you find it useful? — Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
... I've been thinking about this for a little while, but, would any of you
[#163681] Any OKC Rubyists? — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I ask this every couple of months, but what can I say... I want a
[#163694] urirequire: I got yer Web 2.0 right here — "Francis Hwang" <sera@...>
Fellow Rubyists! How many times have you thought to yourself: "If only
[#163711] Re: [ANN] urirequire: I got yer Web 2.0 right here — "Daniel Sheppard" <daniels@...>
> if expected_digest
Daniel Sheppard wrote:
actually, we need to write a ruby-based version control system. that would
[#163715] Ruby vs REBOL — "Peter Carlsson" <peter.carlsson.konsult@...>
Hello!
Peter Carlsson wrote on 11/2/2005 2:00 AM:
[#163730] ruby-dev summary 27393-27541 — Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Hi all,
Selon Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>:
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@free.fr>:
mental@rydia.net wrote:
mental@rydia.net writes:
Hi,
>> >> How about block level?
Hi --
HI,
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, nobuyoshi nakada wrote:
Hi --
Selon "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net>:
>> How about block level?
[#163818] Compiled version of Ruby — "zero" <web2ed@...>
I know this has been discussed before but I would like to know if
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:12, zero wrote:
[#163829] soap + wsdl troubles — Kero <kero@...>
Hi all,
[#163857] Fun with Permutations — "Daniel Sheppard" <daniels@...>
For a little project I've been doing, I've been playing around with
[#163862] Doing a splat within a C extension — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#163865] Ruby On Rails Tutorials That Actually Work? — "Dale" <dmgreer@...>
This may not be the group to ask, if not pardon me. I've gone through three
Dale wrote:
Kev Jackson wrote:
I think most of the Rails tutorials online are out-of-date with the
[#163889] ruby 1.8.4 ??? — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Any other Debianites seen this (after an update of etch this morning) :
[#163894] execeute gawk from inside ruby script — Robert Gilaard <rgilaard@...>
Dear folks,
[#163910] TumbleDRYer (#53) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Great quiz Hugh! This is one of those unique ideas that was a lot of fun to
[#163911] Ruby Certification — "Chintakrindi Meghanath" <Meghanath@...>
Hi
Chintakrindi Meghanath wrote:
On 03/11/05, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
Daniel Lewis wrote:
> I have a hard time believing that someone experienced with only C and
Peter Hickman wrote:
[#163938] Question about NUM2LONG, symbols — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#163940] http-access2 help — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#163955] Continous running thread — iamscottwalter@...
Hi,
On Fr, 2005-11-04 at 03:02 +0900, iamscottwalter@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I changed it to:
On 11/3/05, iamscottwalter@gmail.com <iamscottwalter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[#163993] memoize and yaml — Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@...>
Hello,
[#163995] Re: Ruby Certification — "Nathaniel S. H. Brown" <nshb@...>
Taken from a JavaUG here in Vancouver written by Lydon Tiu:
Nathaniel S. H. Brown wrote:
[#163998] DRb recycled objects. — Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
I started this as a question but figured out the answer while I was
Kevin Brown wrote:
[#163999] Ruby Performance vs. Java — Robert Bazinet <rbazinet@...>
I am new to this list and Ruby in general. I had read a blog post recently
[#164018] Possible Array#pack issue on OS X? — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#164059] lazy.rb — MenTaLguY <mental@...>
I've got an 0.0 release of lazy.rb, an implementation of lazy evaluation
MenTaLguY schrieb:
[#164064] Re: Ruby Certification — "Nathaniel S. H. Brown" <nshb@...>
> On 11/3/05, Nathaniel S. H. Brown <nshb@inimit.com> wrote:
[#164079] http-access2 — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#164082] Some comments on new 1.9 features — "Trans" <transfire@...>
Just looking at http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9.
On 04/11/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Trans wrote:
Block local variables:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
On 11/4/05, Domenico De Felice <defelicedomenico@gmail.com> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
Trans wrote:
[#164084] Compiling C extensions with MSVC — Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@...>
Hello,
Hey Eric, I just went through all this myself. I did a write up that
[#164101] ruby-gdchart-1.0.0 initial release — Daniel Wislocki <daniel.wislocki@...>
Hi, I'm annoucing the release of ruby-gdchart, a ruby gem wrapper
> > Hi, I'm annoucing the release of ruby-gdchart
[#164104] i wanna get involved — Cam <cameron.matheson@...>
Hi,
On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Cam wrote:
On 11/4/05, Cam <cameron.matheson@gmail.com> wrote:
[#164106] two arguments in a block? — Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Hi,
[#164107] MS SQL Access from Ruby in Windows — Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
Alexey wrote:
"Dave Burt" <dave@burt.id.au> writes:
On 11/4/05, Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@dessyku.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
[#164120] double byte string numbers to_int?? — Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
Selon Horacio Sanson <hsanson@moegi.waseda.jp>:
[#164126] win32ole: Passing an Array to Autocad — "Michael Mueller" <muellerix@...>
Hi!
[#164129] float round — Igor Anic <ianic@4dva.hr>
Sorry for the stupid question, but I colud not find the method to round
[#164149] Re: any good racc examples that parse from an IO instead of a String? — Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Eric Mahurin wrote:
[#164168] RUBYLIB on Windows — "aurelianito" <aurelianocalvo@...>
Hi all,
[#164169] postal code/zip code distance — Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code.
[#164180] What about {:a => "a", :b => "b"} argument — Nicolas Rassat <nicolas.rassat@...>
Hi
[#164187] Class and Mixin with same method name problem — petermichaux@...
Hi,
>>>>> "p" == petermichaux <petermichaux@yahoo.com> writes:
What if two moduals are included and each uses the same method name? In
[#164195] Ruby making inroads at big corporation... small anecdote. — Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Stephen Waits wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Stephen Waits wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, James Britt wrote:
On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
In message <436BCA68.7070003@neurogami.com>, James Britt
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:11AM +0900, Stephen Kellett wrote:
[#164215] getopt-1.3.0 — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#164235] Setting RUBYLIB — Stu Glaser <stuglaser@...>
Hi,
[#164245] Getting a stack trace of a running Ruby program. — Ron M <rm_rails@...>
[#164263] access to url arguments, Ruby on rails — Jimchris@...
Hello leaders,
[#164283] parser performance comparisions — Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@...>
Jim Freeze was curious as to how Grammar (LL parser) compares to RACC (LR
In article <29256ea00511041519i654e648fia23b73856ef95936@mail.gmail.com>,
On 11/4/05, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
On 11/5/05, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
On 11/5/05, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
[#164309] Optional block arguments? — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
How can I have a block that optionally takes an argument? Thanks.
[#164310] How does one sort hash of hashes by multiple values? — "joe.yakich@..." <joe.yakich@...>
Imagine I have this data structure:
[#164318] RSS::Parser not showing <content:encoded> tags — lists <lists@...>
Hi,
[#164320] Ruby/GD2 alternative to Ruby/GD — Rob Leslie <rob@...>
Hi all,
[#164333] what does "class << self" do? — petermichaux@...
Hi,
[#164348] Problem in writing ruby extension. — Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@...>
Hi,
[#164420] can you recommend some easy ruby project for newbie? — nonocast <nonocast@...>
i am a ruby newbie
thanks for everybody
thanks Nathan.
[#164423] Help requested -- regexp — Srinivas Jonnalagadda <srinivas.j@...>
I have a text file with each line representing a 'record'. The line
[#164440] Namespace pollution in Rails — Leslie Viljoen <leslie@...>
Hi all
[#164450] what does --can't define singleton method-- mean? — Daniel Sche <uval@...>
RubyNG.hello /.*/
On 11/6/05, Daniel Sche <uval@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
[#164456] Access control and class methods — Mads Kristensen <madsk@...>
Hi.
It just doesn't work when done in this way becuase public, private and
Trans wrote:
gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
[#164472] rubyforge-0.0.0 — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#164484] Need DSL assistance — swille <sillewille@...>
I'm sort of pondering a project in which I think a DSL would be a good
[#164488] Basic help with understanding RoR Inheritance — "TomRossi7" <tomrossi7@...>
I'm sorry for the newbie question, but I can't seem to find a basic
[#164502] Lazy fun: Make unary minus silence stderr for backticks — Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@...>
I was reading about mentalguy's lazy.rb and thought it'd be fun to use
On 11/6/05, Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/6/05, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
[#164503] CommandLine-0.7.10 — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
CommandLine-0.7.10
[#164506] RubyOnRails: Problem representing objects in forms — rexlorenzo@...
Hello,
[#164528] terminology: "class method" = "singleton method"? — petermichaux@...
I've seen references to singleton methods and class methods. They seem
[#164529] programming best practices — swille <sillewille@...>
I have a couple of standard programming questions. The first is that
[#164567] rake/rdoc problem — Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Hi,
[#164573] ANN: eric3 3.8.0 released — Detlev Offenbach <detlev@...>
Hi,
[#164589] YARV web site moved or down? — David L痙aro Saz <dlazaro@...>
Hi, there,
[#164599] why? — Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
hi all,
[#164610] Ruby Web Bench 0.0.0 (RWB) — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Hi all,
Nice. I think your calculations on the mean request time might be wrong
[#164613] Refresh Phoenix (AKA Not-quite Phoenix.rb) — James Britt <james_b@...>
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 8, will be the first Refresh Phoenix[0]
[#164619] catching a system call output — "Tool69" <kibleur.christophe@...>
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Tool69 wrote:
Thank you very much for your answers, I'll try them. I've just received
[#164625] Daemons written in ruby... — "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...>
I've written a simple daemon as a ruby script... it writes all
[#164638] Cannot install qtruby — Gunnar <gunnar.larsson2@...>
I'm running OpenSUSE 10.0 on a AMD64. I tried using the Suse ruby rpm
[#164655] Scheudle display — "csjasnoch@..." <csjasnoch@...>
I have made a scheduler for lights that uses a labjack. I would like to
From: "csjasnoch@wisc.edu" <csjasnoch@wisc.edu>
[#164656] Instant Rails -- Are You Using it? — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>
Its been a little over three weeks since I released the first preview
[#164658] Investigating Ruby - key limitations ? — "mortench" <mortench@...>
I have been looking at the Ruby programming language recently. I like
Ruby does have support for native threads in the form of Proc.new
Thanks for all the replies. Since I can't possibly reply to all, I will
On 11/8/05, mortench <mortench@gmail.com> wrote:
Re: comments by Austin Ziegler
On 11/8/05, mortench <mortench@gmail.com> wrote:
"mortench" <mortench@gmail.com> writes:
Daniel Spiewak <djspiewak@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 07 November 2005 2:07 pm, mortench wrote:
Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
[#164659] from text file to array in shortest way — ngoc <ngoc@...>
books_array = Array.new()
[#164666] navigation script — "Nolith" <nolith@...>
Hi,
[#164676] Bug in URI.parse? — <sixtus@...>
Hello all,
[#164721] Ruby Developer Needed — "Adam Michaels" <jobs@...>
Hello,
[#164722] Win32API help: PathFindOnPath() — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#164728] which open source licence? — petermichaux@...
Hi,
On 11/8/05, petermichaux@yahoo.com <petermichaux@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#164738] crash of extension on rb_str_new2 — "newbie" <zhimin.wen@...>
Hi, all
[#164749] change default timezone — "Remco van 't Veer" <rwvtveer@...>
Hi,
[#164776] Ruby Web Bench 0.1.0 was Re: [ANN] Ruby Web Bench 0.0.0 (RWB) — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
On 11/7/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
[#164779] Can ActiveRecord handle columns containing spaces? — "Anthony Hrvojic" <a.hrvojic@...>
Hello,
[#164784] String#match shim for Ruby 1.6 — Bil.Kleb@...
How do I shim 1.6 for String.match?
[#164786] Test::Unit — Mohammad Khan <beeplove@...>
Hello,
On 11/8/05, Mohammad Khan <beeplove@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/8/05, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/8/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
Lou Vanek wrote:
[#164789] Can a action view invoke a methode of a controller then display its results — sayoyo@...
Hi,
[#164818] Better way to build string — marcus <m-lists@...>
I'm trying to build a query string based on an array of properties. Is
[#164824] Checking for race conditions with Ruby threads — Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
I've got an untrustworthy legacy app that seems to have a nasty race
Quoting Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>:
Thanks. This code exposed the problem successfully. Not sure if it's
Quoting Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>:
Unfortunately, this is a SQL Server application being used as a 'work
On 11/9/05, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
[#164831] Ruby with WMI but that is not the problem. — "happy-jack" <timgerr@...>
Hey I am new to ruby and I do Windows administration. I have been
[#164842] gsub and gsub! are inconsistent — "aurelianito" <aurelianocalvo@...>
Hi all!
[#164843] ASCII code thing...what gives? — "Todd" <toddkennethbenson@...>
Hello,
[#164845] win32ole --Dynamic lookup vs Static? — "greg.rb" <ghalsey@...>
I am using 'win32ole' to script excel.
[#164861] Numeric <=> — "ChrisH" <chris.hulan@...>
Just looking at the docs on ruby-doc.org and noticed that Numeric
[#164863] Is RubyForge on the fritz? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
I'm getting a timeout error trying to install gems and grabbing files
[#164881] Question about symbols — "Jacek Olszak" <jacekolszak@...2.pl>
Hi everyone...
mental@rydia.net wrote:
[#164944] Equvialent of RoboCode and/or Terrarium for Ruby? — kheon@...
Just wondering if there is an equivalent to RoboCode (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/) or Terrarium (http://www.windowsforms.net/Applications/application.aspx?PageID=30&tabindex=8) currently available for Ruby.
I've not used RoboCode (by the time I heard of it I was already happily
[#164949] Re: Equvialent of RoboCode and/or Terrarium for Ruby? — kheon@...
I'd love to be involved but I'm learning Ruby myself right now so I don't know how much I'd be able to contribute. I'm more then willing to assist in anyway I can though.
[#164956] Re: Equvialent of RoboCode and/or Terrarium for Ruby? — kheon@...
Yes, that is the premise. You build bots and put them into an arena where they compete against each other.
Heh, I've thought about building stuff like that many times ... the problem
Although I'm just starting to learn Ruby and really don't know much about AI
[#164958] OT: Alternative code — "gregarican" <greg.kujawa@...>
Apologies for a slightly OT question. Due to some portability issues
[#164960] How to install something on MacOS X? — pete boardman <pete.boardman@...>
So far I've been learning Ruby (1.8.2 as pre-installed on Mac/Tiger)
pete boardman wrote:
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Timothy Hunter wrote:
On 11/9/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
[#164971] RUBY GRAMMAR — puellula@...
Hi!
On 11/9/05, puellula@gmail.com <puellula@gmail.com> wrote:
Rob,
In article <20051109184727.GB9100@puritan.petwork>,
[#164987] RWB 0.2.0 (now with extra RubyForge goodness) — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
RWB 0.1.1 was released last night, but before I put together an
you guys ever think of explaining wtf you talking about? rwb?? what is it?
[#164996] Nested hash constructor confusion — Ben Armstrong <BArmstrong@...>
Can anyone explain the following? Our "intuitive" solution (h1) to
[#165008] How to remove POSTData? — sayoyo@...
Hi,
[#165009] Logging vs. Exceptions — "lroland@..." <lroland@...>
Hi all
[#165012] Question regarding <=> operator and Comparable Mixin — Manuel Kasten <kasten.m@...>
Hello,
Hi,
[#165016] Writing my own attr_* methods — David Brady <ruby_talk@...>
Hi All,
[#165020] Which Error for bad config files? — "Trans" <transfire@...>
When loading a configuration file and it proves to be invalid in some
[#165031] method_missing — Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
hi everyone,
[#165045] Re: Ruby Windows administration — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
[#165049] to which object does the global scope belong? — Daniel Sche <uval@...>
x = RubyNG.each {|user| user.hello }.find {|user| user.knows_answer? }
[#165055] My usage of const_missing and method_missing — John Lam <drjflam@...>
I was wondering if folks with much more experience with Ruby than I could
[#165069] Red: The Ruby Journal, a professional periodical for Ruby developers — ruby.journal@...
I am pleased to pre-announce the launch of a new, professional
On 11/9/05, ruby.journal@mac.com <ruby.journal@mac.com> wrote:
On 11/9/05, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
"Red Dawn"
The Hunt For Red *insert current month here*
On 11/9/05, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
If someone submits an article and it is rejected, can the author shop
Jim wrote:
ruby.journal@mac.com wrote:
> ruby.journal@mac.com wrote:
On 11/12/05, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
On 11/12/05, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/12/05, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@gmx.de> writes:
[#165073] Best way to time-limit a rails/ruby application — "Warren Seltzer" <warrens@...>
Some "Customers" just don't like to pay their contracting bills. What's the best way for
[#165111] fork windows — "Alexander Fleck" <Fleck@...>
Hi,
[#165117] Ruby, SOAP and WSDL — "jansenh" <henning.jansen@...>
Hi group, this is another RubyNewbie...
[#165159] Problem with LDAP::SSLConn.new — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#165160] ruby-dev summary 27542-27662 — Kazuo Saito <ksaito@...>
Hi all,
[#165162] Ruby - Newbie to Guru - Advice? — Sean Hussey <seanhussey@...>
Alright, I've been bitten by the Ruby bug, but I haven't yet had that
Sean Hussey wrote:
> Well, the most recent version of Programming Ruby. It's bigger than the
On 11/10/05, Sean Hussey <seanhussey@gmail.com> wrote:
[#165165] Golf, anyone? — "m4dc4p" <jgbailey@...>
I spent a day figuring out how to solve this problem, and it seems like
[#165166] Getting CPU usage of a process — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Hi,
> I'd like to be able to get the CPU usage of a particular process.
[#165172] Thread Safety — "jwesley" <justin.w.smith@...>
I'm an experienced developer starting to learn Ruby. On the whole I
[#165187] bash says command not found for ri and irb — cles2@...
Converting from Windows XP to Linux, I have formatted one of my
Thanks a bit of yours and a bit of others and I got the RubyGems
[#165192] pdf::writer can it do layers? — mjfreshyfresh@...
Hello-
[#165207] gem install fcgi — Mohammad Khan <beeplove@...>
[root@www dhaka]# gem install fcgi
[#165210] Ubuntu + Ruby == undefined `type_tag' for YAML:Module — "Phlip" <phlip2005@...>
Rubies:
[#165212] printing Avery labels — "Joseph Alotta" <jalotta@...>
Greetings,
[#165218] Network computer name problem w/ Tiger and DRb — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Hi
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
On 11/10/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
On 11/10/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:
[#165241] A question about class variable — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>
Hello!
[#165263] Accurate Timing in ruby — Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@...>
Believe it or not, I'm attempting to make an action-driven game with ruby. Is there a way to get the time in milliseconds since the program started, or something similar? I've tried using Time.now.to_f, but all too often that value will be the same in two consecutive update calls, causing jumps in motion and "infinite" fps readings.
[#165266] Ruby / Rails discrepancies — "burak@..." <burak@...>
Hey,
[#165268] Re: [Ruby] Rubyholic — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
On 11/10/05, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> What's rubyholic?
[#165273] sqlite3-ruby: Unable to find libsqlite3.so at runtime — "Lars Olsson" <lasso@...>
Hi, I've custom-built both Ruby and SQLite on a shared Debian box but
[#165274] Putting -r ubygems in the path permanently? — David Brady <ruby_talk@...>
According to the Ruby on Rails download page, Gems is "the soon-to-be
[#165309] net/http broken? — tsuraan <tsuraan@...>
The documentation for net/http on ruby-doc.org gives the following
[#165313] Ruport 0.2.2 Released: Cleanup, Modules, and MORE! — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Quick Update
On 11/11/05, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
There are couple of minor errors in your "Ruport, MySQL and Windows"
[#165345] How do I access the http request from within a XMLRPC::WEBrickServlet? — jro@...
[#165350] Sprintf bug — "jwesley" <justin.w.smith@...>
I think I've found a bug in the sprintf function:
[#165376] DocBook to PDF — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
I'm wanting to do some docbook to pdf conversion.
Hal Fulton wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:
Keith Fahlgren wrote:
[#165379] Index and Query (#54) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
Hi,
On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Interfecus wrote:
Thanks, I'll remember that. I was getting rather confused about which
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Interfecus wrote:
OK, here's a real down and dirty implementation of the basic bitmap
[#165395] I rea......lly need your help ( C++ ) — ashmangat@...
Hey I am new, but I don't have time to intruduce myself yet.
Uhm,
[#165424] Execute block in context of yielding method's module — "Trans" <transfire@...>
Mental block. Is there a reasonable way to do this?
Use
Ah, right. Thanks.
Hey guys,
[#165449] Converting between Time and DateTime — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
What is the recommended method for converting between Time objects and
Hi --
On Saturday 12 November 2005 11:26 am, David A. Black wrote:
Is there any reason to choose one over the other? At least for post
On Monday 14 November 2005 11:12 am, Adam Sanderson wrote:
On 11/15/05, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> Sounds a bit to me like the difference between Fixnum and Bignum...
Chris Pine wrote:
[#165465] Mailing list <-> web forum gateway — Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Hi,
[#165468] Re: Ruby headers and OS X 10.4.3 & XCode 2.2 — Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
[#165480] RFC: Audio — Hans Fugal <hans@...>
I've noticed that the frequency of questions about doing audio stuff
[#165488] rubycocoa, and 1. hello world 2. nibs — "anne001" <anne@...>
I am starting with ruby, but I would like to use rubycocoa and xcode.
[#165494] Want to write something like speech coder using Ruby — "Jianhong.Wang@..." <Jianhong.Wang@...>
Hi, guys!
[#165498] More fun with C — Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@...>
Well, it turns out writing C extensions wasn't as easy as I had originally thought, and for only one reason: poor documentation. Maybe I'm missing something though, does anyone know where the ruby API is documented?
[#165500] KirbyBase 2.3: How to insert record if key does not exist — "basi" <basi_lio@...>
Hello,
[#165518] www.ruby-lang.org down? — Toby DiPasquale <toby@...>
Can anyone else get to *.ruby-lang.org right now? It's not responding for
[#165530] SAP::Rfc now available for win32 — Piers Harding <piers@...>
Hi all -
[#165536] Re: More fun with C — Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@...>
I really wasn't trying to complain, I just wanted a little help, and I guess I got carried away since I was frustrated and confused. Reading it over again I realize that I sounded stupid. But you people seem to have a lot of free time to pick apart everything that I say. Sorry for wasting it.
[#165591] Test (please ignore) — Andreas Schwarz <f@...>
Testing the gateway.
[#165595] Ruby Forum — Andreas Schwarz <f@...>
Hi,
andreas wrote:
On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
This is a wonderful piece of software.
james wrote:
Toby DiPasquale wrote:
On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Devin Mullins wrote:
This is really cool, I'm not a big fan of high-traffic mailinglists (I
>>IMHO, it's in the tools, not in another archive that holds the same content.
[#165597] Re: Equvialent of RoboCode and/or Terrarium for Ruby? — "Daniel Sheppard" <daniels@...>
Sorry,
Reyn Vlietstra mused:
Yes, and while this is basic in principle is really why it's such a great
So, come on! Lets get a mailing list or some sort of forum set up to
No way! Lets discuss the possibility of discussing this some more!
Adam Sanderson wrote:
Looks interesting, I think you have a lot of teh right ideas here.
Just bubbling this thread event back up to group conciousness.... :-)
Nice to see that people are interested. I don't know Ruby well enough to
Kyle Heon wrote:
[#165598] question of regexp select — Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
Regexp error?
[#165629] RMagick 1.9.3: examples/histogram.rb - erro — ces.fci.junk@...
Trying to run the histogram.rb ~/$myimage produces the following error:
ces.fci.junk@gmail.com wrote:
[#165630] Ferret 0.2.1 (port of Apache Lucene to pure ruby) — David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Hi Folks,
[#165656] Recursive functions — hans.sjunnesson@...
I know that this is a trivial problem, but I'm having a hard time
On 14/11/05, hans.sjunnesson@gmail.com <hans.sjunnesson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Brian Schrer wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what happened here. Did I transgress some
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:12 AM, hans.sjunnesson@gmail.com wrote:
[#165670] REXML article on XML.com — James Britt <james_b@...>
There a nice article by Koen Vervloesem about REXML up on the XML.com site:
[#165672] trouble reading a gzipped xml-file — Guido de Melo <guido.de-melo@...>
Hi,
[#165682] Putting unit test cases in the code - RDoc & UnitTest — listrecv@...
Hi. I find that the best place to put unit test cases is in the file
[#165752] Parameter names from reflection? — "Charlie Squires" <mercury542@...>
Is there a way to use reflection or some other method to return the names of
[#165755] removing a constant definition from an environment — Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Hi,
On 11/14/05, Robert Evans <robert.evans@acm.org> wrote:
Hi Ryan,
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:56:59AM +0900, Robert Evans wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:16:06AM +0900, Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:
[#165774] Reading a signed byte in network byte order — Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Hi,
Hi,
[#165788] Ruby/GD2 1.0 — Rob Leslie <rob@...>
Greetings,
[#165823] DateTime beauty — Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
I've got strings created by doing something on the order of
[#165831] Has anyone written an extconf.rb that depends on a Mac OS Framework? — Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@...>
I once built a game with Ruby/SDL [1] called Tadpoles [2]. (SDL is a
Hi,
[#165837] Database Transactions — listrecv@...
ActiveRecord's standard procedure for transactions is to send a block,
[#165865] module_function question — Carmine Moleti <carmineaskme@...>
Hi to everyone,
[#165866] unexpected behaviour in Pathname? — Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
[#165873] Ask for some experience — Joe Black <allenbobo@...>
hello everyone.
[#165920] comp.lang.ruby FAQ — <hal9000@...>
RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2005-4-14)
[#165922] YAML and constant objects — Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@...>
Hello all,
[#165931] toplevel namespace justification — "Trans" <transfire@...>
When is using the toplevel constant namespace justified? (Other then
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 1:07 pm, Trans wrote:
[#165934] Rake Hates Me Today — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I'm trying to package up a new gem to release, but Rake and I just
[#165935] DRb Crashing — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
If I launch this server:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Nov 15, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Hugh Sasse wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:
[#165937] gem and stubs — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
[#165951] Nihongo Benkyo 0.3 — "Mathieu Blondel" <mblondel@...>
Hi all,
[#165990] RubyGems Index Slow to Update — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I uploaded a gem about five hours ago and I'm still not seeing it in
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 13:30 +0900, James Britt wrote:
[#165996] The subtleties of const_missing — Nicholas Seckar <nseckar@...>
Hello all,
[#166011] How to set up the RI view for RDoc in Ruby RDT for Eclipse? — "rubynuby" <nmanole@...>
Could someone tell me how to make the RI view in the Eclipse Ruby RDT
[#166014] Nested classes — Groleo Marius <groleo@...>
hi list.
On 16/11/05, Groleo Marius <groleo@gmail.com> wrote:
[#166025] YAML on 1.8.3 question — George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Hello all,
[#166032] static variable; behaviour in ruby? — Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Any idea how to create or simulate a static variable in ruby?
[#166060] rubycocoa error "No such file to load -- tcltklib (LoadError)" — "anne001" <anne@...>
I installed tcltk from
[#166072] Learning Ruby Hackfest Hosted by new_haven.rb this Friday. — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
The New Haven Ruby Brigade is putting on a mini Hackfest this friday evening.
On Nov 16, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
Time to setup netmeeting (or equivalent) so those of us outside of New
[#166073] interactive shell on windows — "py" <codecraig@...>
I downloaded and installed Ruby via the One-Click installer, version
Instead of typing "ruby", type "irb" (stands for interactive ruby).
[#166077] Proposed RCR: Object#replace — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
On the Sydney list, Daniel Berger has been asking about a generic
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> i see where you are coming from, but wouldn't this more accurately be called
> class Object
On 11/16/05, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/16/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
[#166122] Ruport 0.2.5: Enumerable DataSets, and things that go bump in the night — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Welcome to the release of Ruport 0.2.5:
On 11/16/05, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/19/05, swille <sillewille@gmail.com> wrote:
[#166123] Object#to_b — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Currently, as far as I know, `if' and `unless' merely check if an object
[#166131] RubyCocoa question — Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Hey list-
On Nov 16, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
[#166143] Re: Object#to_b — "Daniel Sheppard" <daniels@...>
The actual need for an Object#to_b is that there's no way to make your
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Hi,
[#166160] Improving code... — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
It should be fairly obvious as to what I'm doing (getting information
[#166168] Determining the directory a script is running in — Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
How can I find the directory that the current script is running from?
[#166177] Nitro + Og 0.25.0 Og scope, dynamic finders, evolution, helpers, bug fixes — George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Dear devs,
[#166178] extracting lines from an address — Kris Leech <krisleech@...>
I have an address stored in mysql as a text field.
[#166198] step by step tutorial on using emacs with Ruby — "anne001" <anne@...>
I downloaded emacs from
"anne001" <anne@wjh.harvard.edu> writes:
Thank you
[#166200] Keyword arguments like grandma makes 'em — "Trans" <transfire@...>
I'm messing around with some methods trying to figure out how to offer
I'm a fan of having optional named arguments, because a lot of the time
"Trans" <transfire@gmail.com> writes:
> Without trying to get personal or offensive, I'd recommend you
[#166203] 7-zip or rar lib? — Tim <Tim.Ferrell@...0nspark.com>
Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in ruby?
[#166206] Time.yesterday ? :) — Marcin Jurczuk <mj-usunto@...>
Hello group.
Kirk Haines wrote:
[#166212] Serializing an instance with arbitrary methods (in rails) — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
(I know there's a rails mailing list. For some reason this feels more
[#166224] ruby-gnome2: emit key press — ces.fci.junk@...
I'm trying to have a listbox page up/down based on keys pressed. so I
[#166235] Apache + FastCGI + RoR — Mohammad Khan <beeplove@...>
First question:
[#166243] embedded ruby limitations — Derek Wyatt <derek@...>
[#166253] .yml/host: localhost fails in Rails app generation — "Richard Lionheart" <NoOne@...>
I'm running mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.15, for Win32 (ia32) on a WinXP/SP2
[#166267] Snakes and Rubies? — James Britt <james_b@...>
This may be of interest, especially if you live in or near the Windy City.
Daniel Berger wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
[#166270] officeofgreatideas.com — Mike Schwab <michael.schwab@...>
Good evening,
Interesting site/idea and all but ruby related?...
[#166277] Ruby not commercial, right? — boscomonkey@...
I'm trying to organize a Ruby Meetup group in San Francisco
Thanks everyone for your input. I emailed the SFPL contact person an
boscomonkey@gmail.com wrote:
Timothy Hunter <cyclists@nc.rr.com> writes:
[#166292] Question about begin, rescue, end. — Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Here's my code. It's dumb:
Harold Hausman wrote:
On 11/17/05, zdennis <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:
[#166304] Ordinal Date String to Standard Date String for a Beginner — "davyb" <david.a.boyd@...>
Hi,
davyb wrote:
Somewhat off-topic, but I notice that neither of you have registered.
On 11/18/05, J. Merrill <jvm_cop@spamcop.net> wrote:
[#166312] Block Syntax Error — "newbie" <zhimin.wen@...>
Hi,
[#166322] Re: Ordinal Date String to Standard Date String for a Beginner — Pe, Botp <botp@...>
davyb [mailto:david.a.boyd@gmail.com]
Botp, Todd,
[#166335] Method Definitions — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Just a little curiosity: If method definitions (`def foo; end') were to
Hi --
David A. Black wrote:
Hi --
[#166338] Euchre Hands (#55) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
[#166349] Problem with Daemon written in ruby... — "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...>
I recently asked about daemonizing a process in ruby and, in brief, I
[#166353] Ruby IDE — "Rawn027" <Rawn027@...>
I am running mac os x and was wondering a good IDE with at least good
[#166361] IO.lineno= not behaving as expected — Belorion <belorion@...>
What am I missing here (apologies if this is just my 7am brain fog
[#166377] ruby-snmp annoying problem :( — Marcin Jurczuk <mj-usunto@...>
Simple script (Should set Integer=1 into device)
[#166407] gem install getopt problem — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
$ gem install getopt
[#166410] Ruby and WMI — "timgerrlists" <timgerrlists@...>
I have been playing with ruby for a few weeks now to do windows
[#166431] ruby's weird operators (||=) — "mark" <maggelet@...>
Hi,
[#166450] overriding NArray.new — "Hans Fugal" <fugalh@...>
class Sound < NArray
[#166452] web development w/ ruby — Cam <cameron.matheson@...>
Hi guys,
cameron.matheson wrote:
On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:30 AM, rahul benegal wrote:
On 6/7/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've come up against the lack of tutorials for such a thing as well.
I've been shipping and supporting commercial applications in
[#166457] Symbol#inspect bug? — "Dominik Bathon" <dbatml@...>
Hallo,
Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/19/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
On Nov 18, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Dominik Bathon wrote:
[#166489] Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting — "Rawn027" <Rawn027@...>
Which is the best OS to use for ruby development...My vote goes to Mac
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:12:23PM +0900, Rawn027 wrote:
On 11/19/05, Mauricio Fern叩ndez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:12:23PM +0900, Rawn027 wrote:> > Which is the best OS to use for ruby development...My vote goes to Mac> > OS X?>> matz uses Debian ;-)
> Lots of people happen to like FreeBSD for its Ruby support. One of its> major system utilities, portupgrade, is written in Ruby, so that's one> neat aspect. I'd recommend staying away from Gentoo: I prefer> source-based OSs, but Gentoo just breaks too often for it to be worth> it. Also, Gentoo users are on the whole jerkyer and less helpful than> normal people.
jqshenker wrote:
Rawn027 <Rawn027@gmail.com> wrote:
[#166490] Ruby/RoR - Lucene integration question ?? — Ruban Phukan <phukan_ruban@...>
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:49:20PM +0900, Ruban Phukan wrote:
Just actually read a bit about Lucene after your post, and found that there
[#166502] why is my array a hash? — Lady Michelle Bhaal <michelle@...>
I have a chunk of code, where I define an array, and the very next time
[#166535] An alternative to Gems — "Trans" <transfire@...>
On 11/19/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Austin Ziegler schrieb:
[#166537] Cond loop vs iterator and scope questions — "Todd" <toddkennethbenson@...>
Hello, just 2 simple questions...
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Todd wrote:
[#166548] Small practice programs — "dark2" <brianmartin@...>
For someone with some programming background and an interest in
[#166550] Building Ruby 1.8.2 on HP-UX 10.20 — Gerardo Santana Gez Garrido <gerardo.santana@...>
I get the following error:
Hi,
[#166585] Environment Variable for Ruby on Rails — "TomRossi7" <tomrossi7@...>
Is there an entry in the request.env hash for the host header? I can
[#166586] ruby lexer/parser package ? — didier.prophete@...
a quick question: is there a lex/yacc package for ruby ? or actually
[#166591] problems with making wordwrap — "luke" <l.d.u.n.c.a.l.f.e@... (dot)>
hi,
[#166625] Euchre Hands (#55) — Robin Stocker <robin@...>
Hi
=begin
On Nov 20, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Robin Stocker wrote:
Here is my solution.
Here is another solution to the problem. I got the idea for this while
On 11/20/05, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:20:16 +0100, Zed Lopez <zed.lopez@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks to inspiration from reading Zed Lopez's code, I've been able to
Ryan, how about changing /(J#{u})|(J#{v})/ to /J[#{u}#{v}]/? That'll
On 11/21/05, David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's my terribly hacky version of Ryans;
[#166626] Pipelined Processing — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...>
[#166647] Crash Course on Speed for Ruby — Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge
Damphyr wrote:
Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
>> http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html
[#166651] Help requested: new book — "Mark Watson" <mark.watson@...>
I would appreciate some help defining the topics for a new free web
[#166659] Problems with Gruff — hoyhoy@...
I've been trying to use Geoffrey Grosenbach's excellent Gruff package,
hoyhoy wrote:
Interesting... I actually installed rmagick from gems, but ImageMagick
hoyhoy@gmail.com wrote:
[#166684] Building an array of matching strings. — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
I want to search through a block of text and build an array of all
[#166706] Parsing excel CVS data on a mac OSX to extract blocks of cells — "anne001" <anne@...>
I would like to parse some excel CVS data which has a repetitive block
On 11/20/05, anne001 <anne@wjh.harvard.edu> wrote:
On 11/21/05, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you so much for your help
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, anne001 wrote:
[#166720] Active Record without rails — Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
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With all due respect, talking about AR outside of rails belongs off the
[#166723] Dir — wes.monk@...
Dir.foreach("c:/wes/photos/Bike/*.JPG") {|x| puts "Got#{x}" }
[#166759] url-monitoring script question — Torsten Schmidt <torstello@...>
Hi @all,
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Torsten Schmidt wrote:
Thanks a lot to all for your imput.
[#166780] xampl 0.1.0 — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Hi,
[#166787] How to get font info on *nix? — "rmagick@..." <rmagick@...>
I'm thinking about writing a Ruby extension for Linux/*BSD/Darwin to
[#166796] fixrbconfig broken in 10.4.3 — "Rawn027" <Rawn027@...>
I get an error saying that ruby.h cannot be found please install dev
On 11/21/05, Rawn027 <Rawn027@gmail.com> wrote:> I get an error saying that ruby.h cannot be found please install dev> tools but i have dev tools installed and ruby.h is there when i use> locate. I have no idea how to fix this, did 10.4.3 fix the problems> previously there with 10.4's broken ruby? Can I compile my own and have> it work? Where can I go from here because I was told to use the ruby> howto on technoblog.
On 11/22/05, Dave Baldwin <dave.baldwin@3dlabs.com> wrote:>> On 22 Nov 2005, at 13:50, Michal Suchanek wrote:>> > On 11/21/05, Rawn027 <Rawn027@gmail.com> wrote:> >> I get an error saying that ruby.h cannot be found please install dev> >> tools but i have dev tools installed and ruby.h is there when i use> >> locate. I have no idea how to fix this, did 10.4.3 fix the problems> >> previously there with 10.4's broken ruby? Can I compile my own and> >> have> >> it work? Where can I go from here because I was told to use the ruby> >> howto on technoblog.> >> > Hello> >> > You can install fink, and use the fink package of ruby. Since ruby> > does need some tweaking to build on OS X you should probably try> > installing some package management system (fink, darwinports,> > gentoo,..) that provides a collection of patches that makes ruby work> > (more or less) seamlessly on OS X.> >> > hth> >> > Michal>> Ruby is trivial to install on OS X without using fink and friends.
[#166801] Regular Expressions and Ruby — George Lunsford <george.lunsford@...>
Hi, I'm new to the list and I hope this is the right place to ask the
hi,
[#166819] Nano & Mega ... Gems removed? — Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
I just tried installing Nano & Mega via gem and it's coming back saying
hmm, can't find them on rubyforge at all ... or the RAA, were those projects
Ah, they got merged into Facets ... there should be some documentation on
[#166820] Trying to change my OS from Windows to Linux/Mac — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>
Hello, Ruby people!
> Most *nix users do make heavy use of the command line, but usually via
On 11/21/05, Kero <kero@chello.single-dot.nl> wrote:
I highly recommend Ubuntu for a laptop - almost all the time StuffJust Works. Wifi, audio, you name it. It's running great on mythinkpad, and it has a good Ruby environment to boot (if you rememberto install an updated Ruby from a .deb or from source, the packagedone it broken).
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Sam Kong wrote:
[#166849] Problem with Pickaxe and Yaml — Mark Haliday <markhaliday@...>
I've got the Pickaxe book (2nd edition) and was doing some of the Yaml
[#166865] "Basic" problem with Threads (?) — "Eric K" <cosmocracy@...>
I just upraded to Ruby 1.8.3 (from sources) on my Redhat Linux box.
[#166867] mkdirs function? — Daniel Sche <uval@...>
Hello all,
[#166892] GUI Applications with Ruby — Tony <nospam2@2nospam.com>
Hi,
[#166897] How to upgrade to Ruby1.8-3? — Tony <nospam2@2nospam.com>
Hi, I already installed Ruby 1.8-2 but I'd like to upgrade to 1.8-3
On 11/21/05, Tony <nospam2@2nospam.com> wrote:> Is there an easy way to upgrade Ruby? Maybe through gems?
[#166904] ruby/vim folding question — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:33:23AM +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:55:51PM +0900, Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:
[#166930] Command buffer in irb — "Todd" <toddkennethbenson@...>
So I decided to try out Ubuntu on a different partition. I built Ruby
[#166936] Proposed new feature: Drop to debugger on failed test — listrecv@...
I'd like to propose a simple new feature which I think could be very
listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
[#166959] Ron Jeffries implementing Extended Sets — Pit Capitain <pit@...>
For those of you not reading the Extreme Programming mailing list, Ron
[#166960] Optimization anyone — Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
[#166963] Ruby and cygwin: supported? — Pascal Sartoretti <Pascal.Sartoretti@...>
Hello,
Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
I ran into this problem a while ago: Uninstall your native Windowsversion, and get the cygwin version. It's really hard (impossible,maybe) to make the native version play nicely with cygwin. I also hadto recompile Ruby from source, as one of the bundled cygwin binarieskept crashing.
[#166966] newbie question — Vamsee Kanakala <vamlists@...>
Hi all,
[#166993] There must be a better way -- requiring multiple files — David Teare <dteare@...>
Hi all,
[#167002] PLATFORM tests — Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Dear list,
Kaspar Schiess wrote:
[#167015] Re: There must be a better way -- requiring multiple files — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
[#167021] C extensions and class constants nested within modules — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#167035] debugging a cgi — "mark" <maggelet@...>
Hi,
On Mi, 2005-11-23 at 04:27 +0900, mark wrote:
[#167048] what is the ruby way to do this? — "ako..." <akonsu@...>
hello,
On 11/22/05, ako... <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:
I would do
Hi --
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:
On 11/22/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
It would be nice if there was a wiki page somewhere of these Uberdioms...
sorry, forgot to phrase the question. the question is is there a way to
On 11/22/05, ako... <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:
Konstantin,
Hi,
thanks. this form of Hash creation with blocks is not documented in
[#167051] How convert an integer to a bit array — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>
Does anyone have a clever way to convert an integer to an array of bit
On Nov 22, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
[#167089] String#to_rx ? — Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Possible RCR: would anyone else find this a useful addition to the core
Yes, I agree. In Facets, its more like:
I disagree that either #to_re or #to_rx would be a good name for this
Alex Fenton wrote:
I believe the Facets project already contains a method like this for String
Jeff Wood wrote:
nikolai,
Trans wrote:
How does this differ from embedding variables in regular expressions now with
Jeff,
I didn't want them to be ... I wanted the body of the string to be
Although I am surprised there isn't a String#escape ( or maybe #escaped ) method
Jeff Wood wrote:
Yes I did read the original thread.
Jeff Wood wrote:
On 11/27/05, Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Jeff Wood wrote:
I do agree that I should have reviewed the document before posting a
Jeff Wood wrote:
On 11/27/05, Nikolai Weibull
[#167095] DRb Questions — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I've seen a couple of tutorials now claim that both sides need access
[#167096] net/smtp question — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>
I am experimenting with SMTP mail from my local machine, to basically send
[#167102] /usr/bin/gem:3:in `require': no such file to load — Tony <nospam2@2nospam.com>
Ok, I removed Ruby 1.8-2 and installed Ruby 1.8-3 from source
[#167124] pattern: auto-running module init code — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
[#167138] string range membership — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>
All,
[#167152] teaching ruby as cs intro? — Mike Schwab <michael.schwab@...>
My school teaches intro to programming with Java or C#, intro to cs
On 11/23/05, Mike Schwab <michael.schwab@yale.edu> wrote:
[#167169] using hashes as keys in hashes — Steven Arnold <stevena@...>
I've seen several posts related in some way to the subject of using
[#167184] Re: [BUG] string range membership — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>
Ara,
[#167189] How does this work? — "Graham" <gandalfmeister@...>
I cam across a construct in the FXRuby examples which I've not seen
[#167193] getting stdout and stderr for system calls on windows — Damphyr <damphyr@...>
OK, I'm stuck with a pretty problem:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Damphyr wrote:
[#167194] Re: [BUG] string range membership — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>
Matz,
Hi,
[#167197] Continuations — Anders Janmyr <anders.janmyr@...>
Hello Everyone,
[#167239] Buncha logging stuff showing up in unit tests — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
I'm using Ruby's standard Logger to log a bunch of debug, info, and errors.
On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
On 11/23/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
[#167255] syntax error warning: useless use of a variable in void context — Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
class Tl
[#167266] Is there a Rails-like project out that just makes writing software easier? — Adam Van Den Hoven <mail@...>
Hey guys,
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[#167286] PLEAC-Ruby — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Has anyone seen this before?
[#167295] Pickaxe tutorial section missing info on writing to files — Greg Gibson <greggib@...>
The Pickaxe seems to be missing an example (or two) about how to write a
Greg Gibson wrote:
On 11/24/05, Damphyr <damphyr@freemail.gr> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
On 11/24/05, Damphyr <damphyr@freemail.gr> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
On 11/24/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
[#167301] Watir problem — Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Hi,
Kev Jackson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:48:29PM +0900, Kev Jackson wrote:
Also, if you simply set an environment variable "RUBYOPT" to be "rubygems"
[#167310] syntax error when defining index setter []= — "jchris@..." <jchris@...>
Hi,
> That's it for the setup. The convenience methods I want to write
[#167319] Re: Fixnum <=> — "v.nainar" <vnainar@...>
I may be missing something obvious . Why is the '<=>' operator not
[#167325] RRobots - ducks, armed and dangerous — Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@...>
RRobots v0.1
In article <4385BB50.5000408@gmx.de>,
SimonKroeger wrote:
Edwin van Leeuwen wrote:
On 11/24/05, Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
Gyoung-Yoon Noh wrote:
You get a gold star on the chart for the day!
Another robot to play with...
I wasted my time creating my first real bot (should have fixed
[#167327] newbie scope issue — "jemptymethod@..." <jemptymethod@...>
I'm brand new to ruby, as in, one hour! So along with perhaps
On 11/25/05, jemptymethod@gmail.com <jemptymethod@gmail.com> wrote:
[#167349] UDP Socket problem — "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@...>
Hi there,
[#167356] Legal symbol names and generics — John Lam <drjflam@...>
I've just started thinking about generics in my Ruby <=> CLR bridge. This is
it is legal (just use another symbol construction literal):
Ah, so it is, but if I override Object.const_missing, I still have the
Hi --
Thanks David, I wasn't really thinking about those corner cases at all
[#167396] Mac OS X TK — "James Edward Gray II" <james@...>
Is it possible to get a pure aqua TK running through Ruby on Mac OS X?
On 11/24/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On 11/25/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:> On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Logan Capaldo wrote:>> > If you use the apple installed ruby its all of> > require 'tk' # Aqua GUI -- done>> If you have X11 installed. I have this working now. Thanks.>> > This may even work with a ruby installed from source, because I> > believe the> > magic is actually in the Tcl/Tk libs, not ruby.>> I can't get my custom compiled Ruby to do the same. I'm seeing:>> $ ruby -r tk -e1> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7:in `require': No such file to load --> tcltklib (LoadError)> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:7>> If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong there, please let me know.
On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 25, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:23 AM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 26, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 27, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 27, 2005, at 9:30 PM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
[#167407] system() on windows — snacktime <snacktime@...>
I'm trying to figure out why a particular system command is returning
[#167420] Improving min/max for Range — Alexander <madevilgenius@...>
Range relies entirely on Enumerable to implement #min and #max, which
Hi,
On 11/25/05, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
[#167423] Zlib issue — Breno Leitao <breno.leitao@...>
Hello people,
[#167453] Faster way to pick the every other array member? — Damphyr <damphyr@...>
we have [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] and want [2,4,6]
res=[]; 1.step(a.size-1,2) {|n| res << a[n] }
I'm kind of surprised that you don't get an array of values back if you call
[#167461] Tree class — Mickael Faivre-Macon <faivrem@...>
Hi,
Mickael Faivre-Macon wrote:
[#167465] `finalize' method? — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Yeah, it's me again, your friendly neighbourhood power-suggester!
dasch wrote:
Jim Weirich wrote:
dasch wrote:
Jim Weirich wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Hugh Sasse wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Hugh Sasse wrote:
[#167481] recursion — "cyberco" <cyberco@...>
I'm trying to print every combination of three characters from the
[#167493] Dynamic finding of missing constants. — Ola Bini <Ola.Bini@...>
Hi.
[#167550] forcing STDOUT.sync for scripts — "Frayzhe" <google@...>
I'm trying to figure out a way to force STDOUT to be synchronized when
daz schrieb:
[#167551] How do two objects communicate? — "anne001" <anne@...>
I wrote a small program the procedural way, now I would like to write
anne001 wrote:
Depending on the relationship between the classes, you may want to look
Thank you so much!
[#167555] How to make a system tray program in Windows? — Sung Soo Kim <sskim.box@...>
How can I make my program appear in the system tray of the Windows?
[#167565] Marshal.dump(obj) as String bug? — "Hampton" <hcatlin@...>
Alright, so I've been scratching my head about this along with some
[#167585] Nubish questions about syntax and gems — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...>
Hi folks.
[#167598] warning: default `to_a' will be obsolete — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
I'm getting this warning, which I think is new in 1.8.3.
[#167606] Frappr! map for ruby-lang — daniel cremer <daniel@...>
Hi,
[#167622] Turing 0.0.7 && cry for help — Michal <lists+rubytalk@...>
Hello all,
Oh well :-/
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:42 +0900, Michal wrote:
Hi,
Great work on the library!
Hi,
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Michal wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Michal wrote:
What am i doing wrong? the text being rendered is very very small.
On 3/20/07, Pingu Penguin <penguin.pingu@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Mathew, I am using the turing package to try and create captcha
Pingu Penguin wrote:
[#167699] Object access heirarchies — Leslie Viljoen <leslie@...>
I often have this problem in my projects.
Leslie Viljoen wrote:
[#167705] floating point subtraction question — Nicholas Rahn <nick@...>
Hi,
[#167715] Rails Web Service: Convert Parameter to Class Method Call? — "Craig" <craigjordanlaw@...>
I'm trying to write a method for a web service that will find objects
Craig wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm just starting with both Ruby and Rails,
[#167723] string substitution question — ljw1001@...
I'm reading a file using:
[#167741] htmltokenizer bug? — Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
[#167752] 2dim array/matrix — Wolfgang <wollez@...>
hello,
[#167768] AOP in Ruby ... — "Mark Collins-Cope" <markcollinscope@...>
Hi there,
Mark Collins-Cope wrote:
On 11/28/05, Mark Collins-Cope <markcollinscope@gmail.com> wrote:
[#167780] Re: [BUG] string range membership — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>
Matz,
Hi,
Hi --
English speaker.
Dave Howell wrote:
Dave Howell wrote:
Hi --
David A. Black wrote:
[#167786] building ruby for speed: wise or otherwise? — Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
My active record based script is taking longer than I'd like.
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:
Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
Hugh Sasse wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Hi Joel,
Wayne Vucenic wrote:
vjoel wrote:
[#167822] Re: [BUG] string range membership — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>
Matz,
[#167827] Float precision and FIT — Ed Howland <ed.howland@...>
Hello,
[#167848] Wizard quiz — Leslie Viljoen <leslie@...>
I have written a few text adventures in TADS, the Texts
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
On 11/29/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:15 AM, David Balmain wrote:
[#167850] Problem fetching web-page — James Mulholland <james.mulholland@...>
I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but I hope someone
[#167854] Programming Newbie: Ruby or Java? — "Dab" <dabhar1959@...>
Thanks for looking!
On 11/28/05, Dab <dabhar1959@hotmail.com> wrote:
mental@rydia.net wrote:
Quoting Isaac Gouy <igouy@yahoo.com>:
mental@rydia.net wrote:
Quoting Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com>:
Quoting Isaac Gouy <igouy@yahoo.com>:
On 11/29/05, mental@rydia.net <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
On 11/28/05, Dab <dabhar1959@hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure why you guys think Ruby is easier than Java from a "Learn It"
On 11/28/05, Christian Leskowsky <christian.leskowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
I see where you're coming from. I think there may even be a thread over on
On 11/28/05, Christian Leskowsky <christian.leskowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> VB is a terrible language, Delphi at least has some design to it,
Excellent! Great job!
[#167869] what to do, what to do.. — Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
hi everyone!
Dirk Meijer wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Timothy Hunter wrote:
[#167888] GUI IDE for Ruby — tony <L@...>
Hi all,
On 11/28/05, tony <L@l.com> wrote:
Joe Van Dyk wrote:
On 11/28/05, tony <L@l.com> wrote:
Joe Van Dyk wrote:
tony wrote:
Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> writes:
>> Arachno Ruby is quite good also. It's still a work in progress but I love
[#167905] Mastering ruby or rails? — tony <L@...>
Let's say that a person is a very good ruby programmer but so far hasn't
[#167918] Ruby/Tk and MacOS X framework — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>
Hi,
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
[#167930] Bluetooth on OSX — Peter Burns <rictic@...>
I'm looking to automate transferring pics from a cellphone via bluetooth on
[#167952] unknown node type 0 — Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
I'm getting the error message;
[#167969] Record-separator is a regular expression — "William James" <w_a_x_man@...>
=begin
On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:22 AM, William James wrote:
[#167974] Using Amazon's WSDL services — "H. Wade Minter" <minter@...>
I'm trying to create a simple test script to hit Amazon's web services via
[#167986] File.new and encoding — "Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH)" <achim.domma@...>
Hi,
[#167995] Re: GUI IDE for Ruby — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>
[#168020] ljust and rjust broken on OSX — "kleinman" <martin.dufort@...>
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-03) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]
[#168023] Grab Image From Web Server — Hunter Hillegas <lists@...>
Hi,
lists wrote:
[#168029] Splitting a text file into sentences — "basi" <basi_lio@...>
Looking for ideas on how to split a text file into sentences. I see the
Depending on the text you might be able to search for a period (or other
On 11/29/05, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@duke.edu> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 11/30/05, Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 11/30/05, Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:> Austin Ziegler wrote:>> Then, quite honestly, you were taught wrong. I was taught to use>> double spaces with a typewriter or when using fixed-pitch fonts>> (although that was later, since most computers and printers didn't>> have reliable kerning routines until I was out of university).>> Ultimately, the use of double spaces after a period is wrong *even>> with fixed-pitch fonts*, but it was done to be clearer since the>> width of the em-space and an en-space on a typewriter with a>> Courier-like font is exactly the same. The two spaces *simulates* an>> em-space in a typeset piece of work. (And that is *fact*, not>> opinion.)
I think "right" or "wrong" are a tad strong for most of the cases
On 11/29/05, basi <basi_lio@hotmail.com> wrote:
basi wrote:
Yes, I learned this convention when I took a keyboarding (i.e., typing)
[#168035] WWW::Mechanize with frames — "AlexG" <alexg@...>
Hi,
[#168048] ruby-postgres 0.8.0 [RC] — Dave Lee <davelee.com@...>
Hello,
[#168055] Ruby and C network interaction — "cilphex" <cilphex@...>
Hi,
[#168084] How to properly debug? — miriamraphael@...
I am writing my first rails script and am having lots of trouble doing
[#168085] Re: Random gauss numbers? ( and other distributions of random numbers) — Nuralanur@...
Dear Daniel,
[#168095] ClassMethods: Module creation hook / Capitalized method — "Trans" <transfire@...>
I'm sure everyone knows about the ClassMethods technique for getting a
[#168108] Quality of Ruby Implementation ? — "GJB" <gjblomquist@...>
Much of the discussion concerning Ruby focuses on the language itself
[#168113] Ruby Enterprise App Design Advice — "TeslaOMD" <teslaomd@...>
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice/thoughts/input
<disclaimer>I have done web applications and I have done enterprise level
[#168117] Exim mail filter in ruby — "chrisjroos@..." <chrisjroos@...>
Hi,
[#168144] Dumb question: in documentation, why Object#method, and not Object.method ? — "Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@...>
I keep seeing this syntax in documentation: Object#method, but in actual
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:17:30AM +0900, Elf M. Sternberg wrote:
Notice that "Object" in "Object#method" is capitalized. We're talking
[#168164] If like smalltalk — Jules Jacobs <julesjacobs@...>
Hi, I have a question about Ruby if constructs. Why aren't they like
[#168170] Help constructing interesting hash? — "Chris McMahon" <christopher.mcmahon@...>
Suppose I have an array of arrays like
[#168172] Point an element in Hash Object — Andrew <andrea.reginato@...>
I'm trying to create an hash object using object string for key and
[#168175] Ruby, MySQL on WinXP? — "planetthoughtful" <planetthoughtful@...>
Hello All,
> planetthoughtful wrote:
Ruby Weekly News 14th - 20th November 2005
http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20051120.html
Ruby Weekly News 14th - 20th November 2005
==========================================
Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week's activity on the ruby-talk
mailing list / the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup, brought to you by
Tim Sutherland.
[Contribute to the next newsletter.]
Articles and Announcements
==========================
* RedCloth mailing list
-----------------------
why the lucky stiff introduced a new mailing list for RedCloth, the
Ruby library for using the Textile humane text format.
* Use of Ruby in Laboratory Automation
--------------------------------------
Neil Benn is guest-editing 'The Journal of the Association for
Laboratory Automation', and is looking for examples of how Ruby is
used in this area. (Or, even better, someone to write an article.)
Devin Mullins said that Brent Roman gave a presentation on this topic
at RubyConf 2005 ("Embedding Ruby into a Robotic Marine Laboratory"),
and gave links to audio & video of the talk.
He also mentioned the [SciRuby] project, which is concerned with the
use of Ruby in science.
* Ruby/SDL for Mac OS X
-----------------------
Duane Johnson wrote an article on using Ruby/SDL on Mac OS X.
| Ruby/SDL is a binding for the Simple DirectMedia Layer, which is a
| library that makes 2D (and some 3D) graphics as well as sound and
| basic keyboard/mouse support available in a cross-platform way.
| Perfect for building games with!
* Fosdem : Developers Room, Presence
------------------------------------
Thomas Riboulet said that, with the next Fosdem (Free and OpenSource
Developers' European Meeting) coming up in February 2006, we have the
opportunity to register a "presence", and arrange to have a room set
aside for Ruby.
"Any help, and remarks are welcomed."
* Help requested: new book
--------------------------
Mark Watson is planning on writing a new book on "Enterprise Ruby",
and asked for help defining the topics it will contain.
"I am going to release this as a free PDF file under a Creative
Commons license, but I would also like to find a publisher who would
make hard copy versions available to readers who want a physical
book."
User Group News
===============
* Learning Ruby Hackfest Hosted by new_haven.rb this Friday
-----------------------------------------------------------
Gregory Brown announced a mini Hackfest run by the New Haven Ruby
Brigade (Connecticut, U.S.) on November 18th. The aim is to pair up
experienced Ruby programmers with newbies and have them work through a
Ruby Quiz together.
* London Ruby Users Group meeting - 23 Nov
------------------------------------------
Rob announced the London Ruby Users Group meeting on the 23rd of
November. "Tiest will present a summary of what happened at RubyConf
2005. Followed by general Ruby chat and a move to the pub."
Image of the Week
=================
"LONELY IN THE CROWD" by napaey
Threads
=======
Ruby, SOAP and WSDL
-------------------
Henning Jansen wanted to write a Ruby server that provides a SOAP
interface, matching an already-defined WSDL specification.
He couldn't find any tool for generating Ruby code from a WSDL file, and
had also heard "Dyanamic languages like Ruby don't really need WSDL".
The the first point, Hiroshi Nakamura referred him to wsdl2ruby.rb, which
is part of the SOAP4R project, but not in the standard Ruby distribution
(which only includes the runtime components).
It is also possible to simply call driver =
SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("http://some/foo.wsdl").create_driver to load
the WSDL at runtime, instead of generating code.
As to whether Ruby needs WSDL, Ryan Leavengood said that being a dynamic
language it can intercept and create methods "on the fly", so it isn't
necessary to know what the target methods are at `compile time'.
James Britt noted that WSDL is more than just method/type declarations; it
also provides information on what services are available, and how to
invoke them.
Equvialent of RoboCode and/or Terrarium for Ruby?
-------------------------------------------------
Kyle Heon wondered if Ruby had any equivalents to "RoboCode" or
"Terrarium" (or RoboWar), multi-player systems where developers create AI
to compete with each other.
Dave Burt said there wasn't, yet. "Tim Bates started work on Rubots, and I
have early-stages code and ideas based on RoboCode, but that's the extent
of it."
There was lots of discussion and interest in creating such systems.
ruby's weird operators (||=)
----------------------------
Mark asked what was with all the "weird" operators in Ruby like ||=
?
Guillaume Marcais said that they're not so weird; a <op>= b is just a
shorter way of writing a = a <op> b.
For example, x ||= 3 means x = x || 3, in other words, set x to 3 if it is
not defined, is nil, or is false.
why the lucky stiff noted the [FunnySymbolsInCode] page on RubyGarden.
Converting between Time and DateTime
------------------------------------
This thread discussed the difference between Time, Date and DateTime, and
in particular how to convert between Time and DateTime.
One technique was given by David A. Black, although it was observed that
it works by generating and parsing intermediate string representations,
which is less efficient than a more `direct' approach of initialising one
via the fields of another.
# time = ... some Time
# date_time = ... some DateTime
d = DateTime.parse(time.iso8601)
t = Time.parse(date_time.strftime("%c"))
Kirk Haines said that this works because the parse method for both classes
is based on a single shared method, while an alternative approach was
given by Daniel Schierbeck: (although it doesn't handle timezones,
fractional seconds etc.)
class DateTime
def to_time
Time.mktime(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec)
end
end
class Time
def to_datetime
DateTime.civil(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec)
end
end
As to the reason for the separate classes, Kirk said that they are in fact
different in significant ways.
| Time and Date/DateTime use two entirely different mechanisms for keeping
| track of the passage of time. Time utilizes seconds since the start of
| 1970-standard Unix time tracking.
|
| Date/DateTime uses keeps tracks of days and fractions of days using
| Rational, and it's start of time is about the start of the year in 4712
| B.C.
Ron M, noting limitations with Time on systems where time_t is 32-bits,
thought it would be good if Time would automatically convert to some sort
of BigTime object when the year is out of range. (In the same way that
Fixnum converts to Bignum.)
"Today, that's not the case, and selecting fields representing a
200-year-lease throws an error when done through DBI."
Tanaka Akira said that this would be hard, since Time just uses the
underlying operating system's time support, from which information on
out-of-range years is not readily available.
A solution is to use an operating system that has 64-bit time_t.
In the Time out of range when selecting from database? thread, Kirk said
that it wouldn't be too difficult to make DBI::Timestamp behave nicely
when the time doesn't fit in a Time.
Euchre Hands (#55)
------------------
James Edward Gray II introduced Ruby Quiz number 55, "Euchre Hands".
The problem is to write a program that determines the "trump suit" for
hands in the card game Euchre.
Small practice programs
-----------------------
dark2: "For someone with some programming background and an interest in
learning Ruby, what are a few good "practice" programs to write?"
Gregory Brown: http://www.rubyquiz.com/.
James Britt: "Do you use a computer on a regular basis? Do you find
yourself doing the same little things over and over, by hand? Write Ruby
code to automate or simply them."
Crash Course on Speed for Ruby
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Damphyr and his colleagues will be providing a three-hour introduction to
Ruby for a group of "high calibre, experienced professionals with very
good theoretical and practical background, so we only need to provide a
highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it's course".
Has anyone already prepared material suitable for a three-hour workshop?
Edwin van Leeuwen suggested the [WhyRuby] repository.
A dRuby application running as a Windows service?
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Dominic Marks asked how he could turn a druby (distributed Ruby)
application into a Windows service.
Jamey Cribbs pointed out an example he'd written which uses the
win32-service Ruby library.
New Releases
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isi.rb Version 0.8
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Takeshi Nishimatsu announced for "Rubies and TeXnichians" a new version of
the ISI Export Format to BibTeX Format convertor.
Brian Schrer added a "shameless plug" for his rbibtex, a Ruby library
for manipulating BibTeX.
Ruby-GNOME2-0.14.1
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Ruby-GNOME2-0.14.1 was announced by Masao Mutoh, fixing some serious
memory leaks. All users of 0.14.0 are advised to upgrade.
Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby bindings for the GNOME 2 development
environment.
Ruby RTF 0.1.0
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Peter Wood released the first version of Ruby RTF, a library for creating
RTF (Rich Text Format) files.
ruby-feedparser : RSS/Atom feed parser
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Lucas Nussbaum said that ruby-feedparser had been extracted from the
Feed2Imap project and is now available as a standalone library. It is used
to parse Atom and RSS feeds, and is designed to be robust in the face of
invalid input.
No formal release has been made, but the SVN (Subversion repository)
version is usable.
rctool-1.1.0
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rubikitch announced the latest version of his tool allowing developers to
programatically update `rcfiles' (e.g. ".emacs"), while providing
notifications and control to users.
Nitro + Og 0.25.0 Og scope, dynamic finders, evolution, helpers, bug fixes
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George Moschovitis was pleased to announce new versions of Nitro and Og, a
web application framework and object-relational mapping library,
respectively.
The focus of the release was on stability, but features were also added,
including "constrained / scoped queries", dynamic finders/generators, and
an experimental schema evolution system.
Ruby/GD2 1.0
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Rob Leslie improved the API of Ruby/GD2, a wrapper around the library for
creating images.
Documentation was also added.
Ferret 0.2.1 (port of Apache Lucene to pure ruby)
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David Balmain updated Ferret, his port of the Apache Lucene searching and
indexing library to Ruby.
The query interface now supports searching across multiple fields at the
same time, the library is threadsafe, and simple interfaces for updating
and deleting documents are provided. Primary keys were also added.
ruby-growl 1.0.1
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Eric Hodel fixed ruby-growl to work with the version of Ruby distributed
with Mac OS X Tiger.
"Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Applications can
register messages which Growl displays on the screen in a variety of ways
depending upon your preferences."
ruby-growl allows you to send growl messages from non-Mac OS systems (but
not receive them).
Nihongo Benkyo 0.3
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Mathieu Blondel let out a new release of Nihongo Benkyo, a tool for use
with Japanese dictionary files.
Ruport 0.2.5: Enumerable DataSets, and things that go bump in the night
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Gregory Brown bumped through the "I'm releasing too often" edition of
Ruport, a report generation framework.
Robert Canieso has joined the project, and will be working on the
Ruport::Format module.
The query interface has been improved in this release.
Reg - Ruby Extended Grammar 0.4.6
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Caleb Clausen made a new release of Reg, a mini-language for "matching
patterns in ruby object graphs".
"Reg provides matchers for Strings (via Regexps), Symbols, Hashes, and
several alternatives for matching Objects, but the main feature is the
ability to match Arrays of arbitrary ruby data using vaguely Regexp-like
syntax."
FasterCSV 0.1.3--CSV parsing without the wait!
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James Edward Gray II posted another version of FasterCSV, a library
intended to be a faster (currently ~ 10x) parser of CSV than the `csv'
library that comes standard with Ruby, while remaining pure-Ruby code.