[#199757] Re: [QUIZ] C-Style Ints (#85) - not a spoiler, a test harness — "John Baylor" <john.baylor@...>
Given the number of edge conditions for this quiz it seemed like a good
On 7/1/06, John Baylor <john.baylor@gmail.com> wrote:
[#199777] Taking Control of Un-handled Exceptions — Steven Hansen <runner@...>
[#199778] can require 'date' be used in irb — dave rose <bitdoger2@...>
i get a lot of errors when i require 'date' in irb what's wrong
[#199785] Differences between irb and ruby. — "Minkoo Seo" <minkoo.seo@...>
Hi list.
[#199818] Help please — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
Recently I asked here about where "end" goes, in relation to code
On Jul 1, 2006, at 13:24, Dark Ambient wrote:
On 7/1/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
On 7/1/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
[#199820] Arrray#to_proc — "Matthew Harris" <shugotenshi@...>
I don't know if this was posted previously, but I had the idea of a
[#199824] License of IRB ? — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Hello ruby-talk,
[#199852] How to open a console and ruby a ruby script from ruby? — transfire@...
I know I can do
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 transfire@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 transfire@gmail.com wrote:
Windoze equivalent inserted below :)
Beware that you're technically detecting both windows and mac (darwin)
[#199861] For SciTE Users: Snippets — "mitchell foral" <ffsnoopy@...>
To all SciTE users,
mitchell foral skrev:
[#199896] Ruby plugin in EasyEclipse — Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@...>
Hi you all,
> When I run the program in EasyEclipse nothing appears in the console. I
Parv G wrote:
[#199926] win32ole copying excel sheets — "Bryan Weatherly" <bryan.weatherly.ruby@...>
Hi,
[#199929] Minitar#tar? and inclusion in Ruby? — transfire@...
Using Archive::Tar:Minitar, is there any way to quickly check if a file
[#199946] how to unset a hash member? — aa bb <isengoi@...>
how do i unset a hash member (as in php)?
[#199959] Re: if problem in loop causing weirdness — Nuralanur@...
You can use the break command to stop iterating through a block, eg.
Break doesn't seem to be the solution. To jump ahead to the
I suspect that the problem is with the deletion from an array within a loop
I 'suspected' this as I had a similar issue (different behaviour) in
On Jul 3, 2006, at 14:59, Dark Ambient wrote:
On 7/3/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
[#199970] About 1.9 #__method__ feature. — transfire@...
I think the name __method__ is probably a poor choice b/c "shadow
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On 7/4/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
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On 7/7/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Logan Capaldo wrote:
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On 7/7/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:39:12AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:48:18AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
Gregory Seidman wrote:
Daniel DeLorme wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 transfire@gmail.com wrote:
[#199979] One-Click Ruby Installer 184-18 Release Candidate 3 is available — "Curt Hibbs" <curt.hibbs@...>
Originally, this was planned to be the final 1.8.4 release of the One-Click
Hello Curt,
[#200036] Problem with rubygems (and postgres) — "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@...>
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
On 7/3/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
[#200041] IORCC — Philip Schalm <pnomolos@...>
Was curious if anyone knew the email of the individual who originally
[#200043] Array loops: new thread — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
I thought it would be better to start a new thread for my current
[#200056] Retired Ruby Mascott? — "Pawel Szymczykowski" <makenai@...>
Hi all,
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On 7/3/06, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
Pawel Szymczykowski wrote:
On 7/3/06, Pawel Szymczykowski <makenai@gmail.com> wrote:
[#200091] open-uri speed — Elliot Temple <curi@...>
I just discovered this. Lots of people already know, I'm sure, but
[#200095] Hpricot 0.1 -- quick, cinchy HTML parsing — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Associates worldwide, here is some unpolished software for you. You'll need a
[#200120] Re: ed borasky and his second favourite programming language — Nuralanur@...
Thank you, Paul, for the link.
On Jul 4, 2006, at 17:03, Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:
On 7/4/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
[#200121] Get file by inode number? — Timo Hoepfner <th-dev@...>
Hi,
[#200132] Multiple Threads? — Marcus Andersson <m-lists@...>
I need to create a little client for a third party web service. The
Look at EventMachine in Rubyforge.
Francis Cianfrocca skrev:
[#200140] progress on "Automated Wrapper Generation for Information Extraction" — "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
As you may or may not be aware, I am currently working on one of the 10
On 7/4/06, A. S. Bradbury <asbradbury@tekcentral.org> wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:50, Justin Bailey wrote:
[#200162] Question about Epoch — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
I'm under the impression at Epoch is January 1, 1970 00:00:00
[#200172] Parallel Array — "Nasir Khan" <rubylearner@...>
If I have two arrays a=[1,1,1,1] and b=[2,2,2,2] and I want to add each
fr Nasir:
On 7/5/06, Pe, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
[#200192] can I alias foo --> LongModuleName.foo? — "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@...>
I'd like to save some typing and do:
On 7/5/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
[#200200] module methods acting like instance methods in extension module — "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@...>
I'm working with an extension module (written in C) that is a wrapper
>>>>> "J" == John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> writes:
[#200202] Problem installing gem — Alex Gian <alexgian@...>
Hi, first post here, hope it's the right forum.
=BUMP=
On 7/7/06, Alex Gian <alexgian@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
Well, I finally solved it.
Alex Gian wrote:
[#200217] Pickaxe code error — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
Not sure what's going on with some code in Programming Ruby, it's
[#200235] Automatic Ruby to JavaScript conversion — "Paul Battley" <pbattley@...>
Here's something for the hungry mob to tear apart: automatic Ruby toJavaScript conversion. It seems somehow wrong, like grafting a prettygirl's head onto a donkey, but I've done it anyway!
[#200246] Find Position of text — j3n7il jones <jamescnewsom@...>
Im trying to recreate a function I had in Delphi for ruby, but cannot
[#200275] thread mystery — ara.t.howard@...
[#200292] camping install — "Alexandru Popescu" <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Hi!
[#200293] bug in Process.times? — Robert Joseph Sheehan <r.sheehan@...>
After repeatedly getting user+system times that are longer than real
[#200294] debugging proposal — "Max Muermann" <max@...>
Hi everybody,
Max Muermann wrote:
On 7/6/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
[#200299] Ruby Reports Roundtable on Freenode (2006.07.08) — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...>
Hello folks,
2006/7/6, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:
On 7/6/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 7/6/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 6, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
On 7/6/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
[#200307] Re: debugging proposal — "Max Muermann" <max@...>
Thanks! Somehow I did not spot this...
[#200313] SOAP and WSDL? — fish man <danperrett07087@...>
Hi,
[#200317] non-ASCII characters into equivalent ASCII — "Dmitrii Dimandt" <dmitriid@...>
What is the correctr Ruby-way to transform non-ASCII characters intotheir sort-of equivalent ASCII characters?
> What is the correctr Ruby-way to transform non-ASCII characters into> their sort-of equivalent ASCII characters?>> That is, how do I transform, say, Turkish characters ＂殪權崘 into> corresponding igusocIGUSOC? For Russian the excellent rutils gem> exists. What about other languages? Or at least those with scripts> based on Latin.
[#200332] MP3 - ID 2 or 3 tags — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
Can anyone give me a hint how to pull MP3 ID tags out of the file ?
I found the ID3lib on rubyforge which looks pretty good. Could I just
[#200336] thread/sync.rb memory corruption — ara.t.howard@...
Ara, I still believe the error is in the script (see my other posting).
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Robert Klemme wrote:
2006/7/6, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov>:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Robert Klemme wrote:
2006/7/6, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov>:
[#200357] Re: Why is there no Smalltalk-like IDE for Ruby? — hanumizzle@...
[#200358] Re: Grails — "Oliver Wong" <owong@...>
[#200359] A newbie would like some code criticism, please... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
I'm learning Ruby and I'd like some criticism on a program that I wrote.
[#200366] Re: Rails: http://localhost:3000/say/list_rcv OK on FireFox; nil on IE — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Hi Robert,
Richard wrote:
[#200377] Re: Grails — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...>
surfunbear@yahoo.com wrote:
[#200382] GC oddness — Alex Young <alex@...>
Hi all,
Hi,
nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> writes:
Yohanes Santoso wrote:
On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Alex Young wrote:
[#200392] Float#==. Legacy? — Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
As far as my experience goes, using Float#== is always an error. Float
On 7/6/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
[#200398] Question: formatting strings from array for text files — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
I'm not sure who to have an array format correctly when written to a text file.
2006/7/6, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
I must have not explained myself well.
Dark Ambient wrote:
Thank you that was a huge improvement, still battling a few more format issues:
I'd think there has to be a way.
[#200411] The Gateway Showing Signs of Life... — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I'm sure all you mailing list regulars noticed the threads coming
[#200429] Achieving Equality — transfire@...
I have this fancy class:
[#200451] Converting Directory Names to Strings — Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding@...>
I'm having a little trouble understanding something. Save the following
> I was expecting x[0] to be a one-character string.
Phillip Hutchings wrote:
On 7/7/06, Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding@gmail.com> wrote:
[#200456] Easy Pathname — transfire@...
I find myself always using File.join, and never utilizing Pathname b/c
transfire@gmail.com wrote:
[#200470] Redefining core classes — Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@...>
Hi you all,
On 7/6/06, Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@yahoo.es> wrote:
Hi again,
On 7/9/06, Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@yahoo.es> wrote:
What if I'm running two rails apps on the same (apache) server?
[#200473] URI.escape() broken or misdocumented in Ruby 1.8.4? — Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@...>
I posted this in the Ruby On Rails forum a moment ago because of other
[#200479] Accessing strings — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
If I something like word = "ruby"
[#200485] quick metaprogramming question: collecting arguments across calls — William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Hi all,
On 7/6/06, William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net> wrote:
[#200491] Marshal Problem — Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Hi,
[#200506] Danish Characters in Ruby Uri — Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Hi,
Steve Callaway wrote:
ah cool, thanks very much, that looks a much sweeter
On 07/07/06, Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:> ah cool, thanks very much, that looks a much sweeter> fix :)
[#200517] ruby-opengl — "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@...>
I've tinkered a bit with Yoshi's original ruby-opengl. My changes are
From: "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com>
[#200526] RFuzz HTTP Destroyer 0.2 -- Ragel HTTP Client — Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
In my constant quest to turn evil activities into useful tools I have
[#200532] Regexp — Fred VD <outrelouxhe@...>
Hello,
[#200555] Problem with http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/1 — "Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohalpin@...>
Hi,
[#200573] Gateway Restored — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Welcome back friends from the other side!
[#200579] Panagrams (#86) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
So is it "pangram" or "panagram"?
Is it a spoiler if we post a resulting pangram (no code)?
On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:34 PM, brian.mattern@gmail.com wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
Hi,
Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> writes:
[#200592] hyphens in variable names — Paul Hepworth <paul@...>
Hello,
2006/7/7, Paul Hepworth <paul@hepworthinc.com>:
[#200605] Task list in Eclipse — "bpettichord@..." <bpettichord@...>
Eclipse automatically creates a task list when you write comments like
[#200610] ASN.1 for Ruby — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>
On another thread ("Grails"), Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <jadedgamer@hotmail.com>
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
[#200627] instance_exec — ara.t.howard@...
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:22:31AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
Duh! I'm sitting here screwing with this and the answer's sitting one
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:44:32PM +0900, transfire@gmail.com wrote:
[#200673] Pickaxe — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
I've been reading the pickaxe book the last few days. As a newbie to
[#200674] What's up w/this group now that the gateway is back? — "Kenosis" <kenosis@...>
We keep getting answers to posts but not the original post. Is there
On 7/7/06, Kenosis <kenosis@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 7, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Jacob Fugal wrote:
[#200691] make this code more Rubyish — "Jason Sweat" <jason.sweat@...>
I have the following code I pounded out today. It works, but it feels
[#200699] libhxml Node#remove! kills each loop and extension to #<< — transfire@...
hi,
[#200714] newbie Q - calling a method for an object in an .each block? — william robb <otherwill@...>
Hello All. Sorry if this is obvious, but I have looked over the list
Logan Capaldo wrote:
2006/7/8, william robb <otherwill@yahoo.com>:
[#200718] storing and using references to variables — Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...>
Hi,
On 7/8/06, Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
[#200734] One-Click Ruby Installer 184-19 Final is available! — "Curt Hibbs" <curt.hibbs@...>
The final 1.8.4 release of the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is
[#200744] for loop decrementing ? — pere.noel@... (Une b騅ue)
the incrementing for loop :
[#200751] OT: Regexp buddy — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
Curious too know if anyone uses or has used the product Regex Buddy ?
Dark Ambient schrieb:
Should have asked this in my original post, but just thought of it.
2006/7/8, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:04:50 +0900, you wrote:
Speaking of learning regexps for ruby, is there somewhere a
[#200758] Why Ruby over Python? — howachen@...
Besides ROR, can you give me a reason why perfer ruby instead of
What about GUI programming?
Marcelo wrote:
Marcelo wrote:
Oh, yes, I saw that page, but for what I saw, most of them are in early
As a longtime Perler, I dislike Python's significant whitespace. That's why
howachen@gmail.com wrote:
vasudevram wrote:
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:
On 7/9/06, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
On 7/9/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
"Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> writes:
Hi --
howachen@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 howachen@gmail.com wrote:
unknown wrote:
1) Ruby groks better than Python ... at least for me.
On 7/10/06, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi John,
On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Tim Pease wrote:
[#200780] IF test in FOR loop — Josselin <josselin@...>
is it possible to test a condition (true-false) for each element in a
[#200795] Sweet Lord! — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Why haven't I thought of this before?
Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
William James wrote:
[#200799] WAtir usage — junkone@...
Hi
On Jul 8, 2006, at 19:25, junkone@rogers.com wrote:
[#200801] Algorithm searched ... — Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Hi,
[#200804] String#starts_with? — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Has anyone run tests to see what the fastest way to do a
Martin DeMello wrote:
[#200837] Rescuing exceptions with "redo" — Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@...>
Hi aaall,
[#200839] Alternative to the Symbol#to_proc hack — Ashley Moran <work@...>
I've always been in two minds about the Symbol#to_proc hack, it's
[#200840] Win32OLE Question — "studlee2@..." <studlee2@...>
All right, so I decided to write this *bubblegum* script while
studlee2@gmail.com wrote:
[#200852] Definition of methods: self — Damaris Fuentes <dfl_maradentro@...>
In Why's poignant guide to Ruby some examples appear where he defines a
Um...wait...Do I have to set the name of the class before the name of
Damaris Fuentes wrote:
[#200864] accessors and anonymous classes — Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...>
Hmmm... odd I wrote a version of this last night but it would appear
[#200872] Write to specified line number of file — Aditya Rajgarhia <adityar7@...>
Hi,
[#200893] List gem updates without installing? — Mason Brown <masonbrown@...>
Is there a way to list, but not install, updated gems? I know that 'gem
[#200910] Marshal's handling of floats — Brian Palmer <rubytalk@...>
I was thinking about writing a patch to modify how Marshal handles
Hi,
On Jul 9, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#200953] Question about magic enumerators in > 1.8 — dblack@...
Hi --
[#200955] why does block know about one instance variable and not the other? — "anne001" <anne@...>
I can't find what the problem is with @foundinfo: since it is defined
Hi --
[#200968] renaming files randomly — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Got this request yesterday and still haven't had
[#201041] Windows Mobile 5.0 support? — Alex Ye <xyzyx@...>
Windows Mobile 5.0 support? Why don't work?
[#201054] static website generation — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Anyone have a static site generation tool to recommend? I'm looking at
[#201112] two Date classes? — "Mark Volkmann" <r.mark.volkmann@...>
It seems that there is a Date class in the core library and the
[#201118] LDAP search and return — Stuart Brand <stuart@...>
Hi all
[#201126] wxRuby and getting the display size — "Tim" <tgaihdc@...>
Hi, I'm using wxRuby v0.6.0 and am trying to get the size of the
[#201145] 1.8.4 One-Click deletes my Rails gems! — Jeff Cohen <cohen.jeff@...>
I noticed that Curt posted the 1.8.4 OCI to RubyForge over the weekend,
[#201151] Scalablity question (Stand-alone server) — "dejavue82@..." <dejavue82@...>
[#201158] Real newbie question about methods — "simonh" <simonharrison@...>
Hi all. I'm trying to learn ruby using about 5 books(!) but keep
studlee2@gmail.com <studlee2@gmail.com> wrote:
simonh <simonharrison@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
Thanks Une b騅ue
[#201200] Best way to synchronize access to a method? — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
All,
[#201217] Ruby in Paris? — "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@...>
Hi,
[#201225] problems with mixins — Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...>
Hi Folks,
[#201259] ruby.h missing rb_cMethod? — "gga" <GGarramuno@...>
It seems to me ruby.h (1.8.4) is missing the exporting of rb_cMethod,
gga wrote:
Hi,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
Hi,
Hi --
[#201261] Platform Independence Programming — "Minkoo Seo" <minkoo.seo@...>
Hi list.
On 7/11/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Patrick.
On 7/11/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
[#201272] Kernel#p and output record separator. — "Minkoo Seo" <minkoo.seo@...>
Hi.
[#201274] Some questions about serious Ruby development... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
I like Ruby. I like it more than Python. It's my PERL replacement. I
Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
[#201276] Is possible to return after exec cmd? — Petr Spisek <ollin@...>
Hi folks,
[#201290] module private methods inheritance ? — "Jonas Pfenniger" <zimba.tm@...>
Hi list,
On 7/11/06, Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@gmail.com> wrote:
[#201305] Object IDs — Alex Young <alex@...>
A couple of quick questions:
[#201317] Merging two REXML element-lists. — Erling Jepsen <ejepsen@...>
Hello,
[#201323] Nuby Q: Daemonize (other materials have been read!) — Rogue Amateur <rogueamateur@...>
I've read the other references to daemonizing a process in ruby, but ...
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rogue Amateur wrote:
First, let me say thank you for the help.
Rogue Amateur wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rogue Amateur wrote:
unknown wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rogue Amateur wrote:
unknown wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Rogue Amateur wrote:
[#201329] Re: Scalablity question (Stand-alone server) — Stephen Waits <steve@...>
[#201333] Processes and Portability — Name Name <exl2@...>
I would like to run a process concurrently (thus if the process goes to
> I would like to run a process concurrently (thus if the process goes to
I know this sounds nieve, but is there a way to do what I want without
Name Name wrote:
Name Name <exl2@cornell.edu> writes:
[#201344] Good way to write a C extension to Ruby? — "vasudevram" <vasudevram@...>
[#201349] blocks and procs — "Dark Ambient" <sambient@...>
Just curious, I'm just learning about Procs, and have already looked at
On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Dark Ambient wrote:
Good example. Also because it's rails centric (something I'd eventually
[#201377] CGI with Ruby — "Harish TM" <harish.tmh@...>
Hi,
[#201388] Decent HTML Parser? — Kevin Weller <"http://www.itcrucible.com/contact"@...>
Anybody have experience with a decent HTML parser for a Ruby
[#201395] Running windows ruby, and watir under wine on linux? — Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Friends-
[#201414] killing off a process tree — "Erich Lin" <dmatrix00d@...>
Is there a command in ruby that when given the pid , it will terminate
> Is there a command in ruby that when given the pid , it will terminate
[#201433] Enterprise Ruby Studio — Mike Clark <mike@...>
ENTERPRISE RUBY STUDIO
[#201445] Gem install sqlite3-ruby — Joshua Wehner <joshua.wehner@...>
Hi --
[#201451] alias new??? — David Chelimsky <david@...>
I've seen this work before:
[#201467] Weird behavior of case/when — "Nicolas Despr鑚" <nicolas.despres@...>
I'm getting a very weird result using case/when.
[#201472] ruby and byte — Agnieszka Figiel <agnieszka.figiel@...>
Hello!
[#201479] Ruby's Logger vs ActiveRecord: no more Logger data output — Georges Ko <gko@...>
Hi,
> I'm writing an application that uses both Ruby's Logger and
>
[#201503] Help with a regexp — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
I'm trying to write a regular expression that matches bencoded strings,
Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> writes:
Daniel,
studlee2@gmail.com wrote:
Hi --
[#201506] qt4 qtruby on windows — "mir" <mirosul@...>
Hello,
[#201511] prototype design pattern — ara.t.howard@...
[#201513] Appending to a CSV file — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Just got a call from a telecommuting colleague
[#201515] Re: prototype design pattern — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
[#201517] Generating a random floating point number — "jamiethehutt" <jamie@...>
I'm a Ruby newbie and I'm wondering if there's a simple way to generate
[#201535] prototype-0.0.0 — ara.t.howard@...
[#201542] Class Help, undifined local var or meth — Ryan Edwards-Crewe <ryan.edwardscrewe@...>
I was using this class before and it was fine until I tried to put it
On 7/12/06, Ryan Edwards-Crewe <ryan.edwardscrewe@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
Oooo, I see, at least I think, is it because I haven't Initialized
[#201554] Determining a class's ancestor easily without instances — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Given two classes A and B, I know that I can loop through the
Wes Gamble wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Wes Gamble wrote:
[#201581] Newb: an explaination for this if statement.. — Dominic Son <dominicson@...>
Hi. I'm confused as to why this variable* is nessesary:
[#201615] multiple level hash assignment equivalence to perl — don mc <don.mcclean@...>
Is there a succinct way in ruby to do a multiple level hash assignement?
[#201636] prototype-0.1.0 — ara.t.howard@...
[#201653] re-define class method — David Chelimsky <david@...>
I've got the following:
On Jul 12, 2006, at 9:58 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
Well, I discovered the solution, thanks to our friend google, and got
[#201661] Recursion and Ruby — Glenn Cadman <glenn.cadman@...>
As a practice to learn ruby I tried to create a recursive program
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
You could use "case" as well (see version 2). It's faster.
"Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@gmail.com> writes:
Daniel Martin wrote:
Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> writes:
On 7/13/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
[#201671] Ruby on OpenVMS — ollin oli <ollin@...>
Hi all interested!
[#201699] cookbook example in InstantRails — "Ike" <rxv@...>
I'm trying to follow along with the code in the cookbook example provided in
[#201738] Negative Numbers — "Marston A." <marston@...>
Hey all,
[#201748] Checkbox TreeView availability ? — mike courtney <mikecourtney@...>
Does anyone know of a RoR implementation of a TreeView in which you can
[#201779] equivalent of attr_accessor for class variables? — "bwv549" <jtprince@...>
It is simple to set a class constant in ruby:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, bwv549 wrote:
[#201788] challenge — ara.t.howard@...
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
ara.t.howard@noaa.gov schrieb:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 transfire@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/14/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On 7/14/06, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/14/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
On 7/14/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Sean O'Halpin wrote:
On 7/14/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:33:09AM +0900, Sean O'Halpin wrote:
On 7/18/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
[#201793] ActiveRecord alternatives — "elriba" <edgard.riba@...>
Hi,
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:17 +0200, elriba <edgard.riba@gmail.com> wrote:
[#201799] Choosing among object/class/module/top-level methods... — Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Hi, Rubyists!
[#201821] Preferred monkeypatching technique — Tom Werner <tom@...>
Allow me to present a scenario:
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
Hal Fulton wrote:
fr hal:
Pe wrote:
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:41:17AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:07:19AM +0900, James Britt wrote:
Tom Werner <tom@helmetstohardhats.org> writes:
Tom Werner wrote:
Daniel Berger wrote:
On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Tom Werner wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Tom Werner wrote:
Tom Werner wrote:
[#201826] Initialize a variable in an extended class — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Interesting problem. There is undoubtedly much to
[#201840] Module Definition Idioms — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Looking at HTree, I see a few more things
[#201864] How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
Hi,
Write it C.
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:55:31 +0900, Reggie Mr wrote:
I agree with the people who think the questions surrounding performance
Profile your code, see where the bottlenecks are and refine the
On 7/13/06, Ben Johnson <bjohnson@contuitive.com> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, snacktime wrote:
On 7/14/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
[#201885] About MyClass#my_method — "Jonas Pfenniger" <zimba.tm@...>
Hi,
Hi --
On 14/07/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
[#201896] GOLF (and improve) #instance_interception — transfire@...
I have been working on this and was hoping maybe others would like to
[#201901] rubywebdialog — "rajib" <rajib.chakrabarti@...>
This is rajib a ruby nub...e .
[#201903] Negative Sleep (#87) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
On 7/14/06, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On 7/18/06, Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/18/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/18/06, Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> wrote:
As I was suffering from insomnia I had to try to solve this one ;)
i'd like to see more of these quizes :-)
"Let's suppose there existed a sleep which accepted negative
[#201910] Don't understand :: in ActionController::Base — "Pål Bergström" <pal@...>
I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the
[#201917] File::FNM_CASEFOLD doesn't work for Dir.glob? — transfire@...
It's no fun to have to do:
[#201929] Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
-----Original Message-----
[#201950] Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
In answer to the multiple messages recommending that I learn C or
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
Ola Bini wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Ola Bini wrote:
> > Teaching programming in C doesn't really have a place in the curriculum
[#201956] RubyCocoa problem on Mac OS X — "Human Dunnil" <h.dunnil@...>
Hello,
[#201985] Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Hi Justin,
[#201990] Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Certainly, Ruby performance is not always a problem. It may not even be
On 2006-07-14, Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
The speed issue has been discussed many times on this list.
Hi,
On 7/16/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
[#201992] Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
You are mistaken. Current, stable Perl and Python releases typically
[#202033] Handling cookies with Net::HTTP? — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
I am having a strange problem and it is partly due to my poor
[#202039] Help making a ruby module — Ryan McGovern <mcgoverp@...>
I am working on making a ruby module to wrapper the xsan quota fctl calls.
[#202042] Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question — "Steven R." <steverummel@...>
I recently installed Ruby 1.8.4 on my iMac, running OSX 10.4. Ruby,
On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Steven R. wrote:
[#202050] Alternate initializers or alternate class? — transfire@...
Jan Molic recently contacted me about a slighlty modified version of
transfire@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/15/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
[#202052] Configuring eruby with apache — "Eric DUMINIL" <eric.duminil@...>
Hi everybody!
[#202060] Hash.new(obj) of any signifficant value? — transfire@...
Is this form of Hash initialization really very useful?
[#202067] Some questions about Ruby and it's environment... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
I have two issues in Ruby which are bugging me.
[#202068] possible DIR["**"] anomaly — Mike Durham <mdurham@...>
Hi,
transfire@gmail.com wrote:
[#202088] Any ideas for candidates for HOPL-III? — James Britt <james.britt@...>
"In 1978, the first History of Programming Language Conference (HOPL)
[#202091] net/http performance — Luke Burton <luke@...>
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 23:37 +0900, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
Luke Burton wrote:
In article <44B9A127.3020801@nixe.ping.de>,
Tanaka Akira wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:17:35PM +0900, Florian Frank wrote:
[#202109] Who likes Sudoku? — "studlee2@..." <studlee2@...>
Here is the smallest Ruby Sudoku solver I could come up with. I've
Hi --
I'm not really sure about the whole "GOLF" vs. "golf". We'll say
This is a little smaller.
Smaller still. Thanks David/Daniel:
Again:
Sorry, mine doesnt work. would you mind giving us an input and an output to
On 7/15/06, Joey <rubytalk@eachmapinject.com> wrote:
[#202140] Devious or what? : hacking super : should this work? — Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
I've discovered that an unadorned call to "super" need *not* call the
[#202148] Displaying the load the server is under? — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
On my program I want to display the load the server is currently
[#202152] using a \ in gsub — brandon coleman <metrix1978@...>
In IRB if I type the following:
[#202178] salt = [Array.new(6){rand(256).chr}.join].pack("m").chomp — Alexandre Hudelot <alexandre.hudelot@...>
This is a line taken from the "authentification" recipe in the 'Rails
[#202183] Ruby for office database application — pedro alvarez <pedx78@...>
Hi,
[#202186] system() on windows — brad tilley <rtilley@...>
I want to capture the string that system("hostname") produces on windows
[#202195] Save me from the method_missing — transfire@...
I'm find the the whole method_missing, privative clashing methods,
On 7/15/06, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Trans wrote:
[#202209] Finding the size of a file on web server? — "CBlair1986" <CBlair1986@...>
I'm writing a little script to help automate downloading videos off of
[#202250] additional requirements for a Ruby env — "Alexandru Popescu" <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Hi!
Guys any hints for this? Sorry for pushing it to the top, but I am
Alexandru Popescu wrote:
By following the thread and considering the fact that my system relies
On 7/17/06, Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote:
[#202280] n00b Q: Obfuscation and locking the source — "Danno" <dh.evolutionnext@...>
I have been doing some Ruby on and off this year, so I am still a n00b.
Danno wrote:
From: "Danno" <dh.evolutionnext@gmail.com>
[#202292] Net::HTTP Performance.... — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
I know there was already another thread on this, but I didn't
[#202294] Printing Barcodes from Ruby — listrecv@...
I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
[#202301] Catch ^c/signals? blocks? — Elite Force <eliteforce@...>
Hello,
[#202310] How can I parse binary files? — Fabio Vitale <fabio@...>
I've the need to parse a binary file with the following structure:
Fabio Vitale <fabio@sferaconsulting.it> writes:
Daniel Martin wrote:
Fabio Vitale <fabio@sferaconsulting.it> writes:
Daniel Martin <martind@martinhouse.internal> writes:
Daniel Martin wrote:
Fabio Vitale wrote:
Fabio Vitale wrote:
"ChrisH" <chris.hulan@gmail.com> writes:
[#202351] mystery regexp — Steve Throckmorton <nntp.m.ttwelve@...>
I found this regexp in the docs for the OptionParser class, and I don't
[#202354] irb and readline — listrecv@...
I'm getting funny behavior when using irb (readline) on Windows. When
listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
[#202361] How to call system having trap("CHLD", "IGNORE")? — Pavel Smerk <smerk@...>
Hi all,
[#202368] Interactive mode — Rick Ashton <expiation@...>
Hi
If you just want to load some code before irb starts, you can use -r
On 7/17/06, Nicholas Seckar <nseckar@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks guys
Rick Ashton schrieb:
On 7/17/06, Thorben Mueller <dingsi@mistburg.de> wrote:
[#202375] — John Johnson <johnatl@...>
> On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Ryan Raaum wrote:
[#202400] Initializing a DateTime object the best way — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Wow - dates and times sure are all over the place in Ruby.
[#202424] in place file editing and ! meaning — Xavier Hanin <xhanin@...>
Hi all,
Xavier Hanin <xhanin@yahoo.fr> writes:
[#202426] process xml in a page — Hunter Walker <walkerhunter@...>
Hi all,
Hunter Walker wrote:
Thank you, James. I got a step further, but still need help.
[#202433] How to learn ruby language? — Roopeman Zh <roopeman@...>
How to learn ruby language? where i can find some simple code to learn?
[#202439] Uh oh. In a corner. Need help. — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
My rakefile needs to abort when an html
[#202450] ri, rdoc, gems, and rails — listrecv@...
One great new feature of rubygems 0.9 is that we now have ri for
On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:40 PM, listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
[#202465] Strange behaviour - Instantiating an object and giving it a block to be used as a method body — "Chris Roos" <chrisjroos@...>
Hi,
Ok, so it seems to be with scoping and my choice of the proc variable name.
The following seem a more straight-forward approach to what I think
[#202467] Problems installing rubyzip gem on Debian...can someone help? — "subimage" <subimage@...>
I haven't had issues with it before, but now I am...I go to install
On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:00 AM, subimage wrote:
[#202472] Web bassed file manager using drb(optionally) and rails — Ryan McGovern <mcgoverp@...>
http://usor.leerao.com
[#202478] newbie demo 2 sceptics in my company.... — Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...>
...i have 1.8.2...and i want to do a http hello world program in a web
[#202484] program works in irb, but not in script... — "John Fink" <john.fink@...>
Hey folks,
[#202498] One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...>
The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is at a cross-roads. The C++
On 7/18/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
unknown wrote:
On 7/18/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/18/06, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:06:10AM +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
On 7/18/06, Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Lyle Johnson wrote:
On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
From: "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@gmail.com>
On 7/18/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:
On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:
On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:09:53AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
I have written a fair number of C extensions and for me it comes down
On 7/21/06, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:22:16AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
On 7/18/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
Sean O'Halpin wrote:
On 7/19/06, Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
Curt Hibbs wrote:
On 7/19/06, Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
On 7/19/06, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/06, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
Ryan Raaum wrote:
On 7/21/06, stu <yakumo9275@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/21/06, stu <yakumo9275@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 7/21/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:
Hello Christian,
Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:
On 7/18/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
gregarican wrote:
[#202514] more newbie help with classes and methods please — "simonh" <simonharrison@...>
I posted a question a week or so now which I got some great help with.
A couple of things:
Thanks for replies. Just to point out, this code is not meant for
decided to have a go at using the case statement. Why won't this work?
Hi --
Thanks David. Great book by the way. Easier for a beginner than
There are two forms of case block and you have sort of mixed them up.
Hi --
I view case without a target as a fancy, more compact, and (IMHO)
Hi --
fr david:
Hi --
fr david:
Very helpful reply Morton. Understand case a lot more now. One thing.
[#202535] super's not so super today — transfire@...
Can anyone help me get around this?
On 7/18/06, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/18/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#202543] Article: Ruby for the Java world — "Jamal Mazrui" <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Just passing along an article reference that was brought to my
On 7/18/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov> wrote:
[#202548] Ruby SOAP Client Question — "gregarican" <greg.kujawa@...>
I am attempting to write a small SOAP client script using Ruby 1.8.2
[#202576] How to preserve $~ when extending Regexp#match — Brendan Baldwin <ruby-forum@...>
Consider the following Regexp/MatchData extension, which pops a copy of
[#202602] Re: Rdoc with hyperlinks — Dave Howell <groups@...>
On Jul 18, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Dave Howell wrote:
[#202617] Integer encoding challenge — "David Balmain" <dbalmain.ml@...>
Hey all,
"David Balmain" <dbalmain.ml@gmail.com> writes:
On 7/19/06, Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@dessyku.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
[#202631] Finding methods of instance itself — listrecv@...
I use IRB to explore. Very often I type a.methods.sort, to see what an
[#202640] Objects within objects... ?? — Brandon Coleman <metrix1978@...>
I have a thought in my head, but I don't know how to implement it, or
[#202654] Rails: Saving an object into DB — Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...>
I asked this in the Rails mailing list but nobody answered me, I think it is a newbie (I am a newbie) error but
>
On 7/19/06, Kev Jackson <foamdino@gmail.com> wrote:
[#202674] RuntimeError: (-1753) OSACompileExecute — pere.noel@... (Une b騅ue)
[#202683] Net/HTTP is flaky? — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
Inexplicably, the following code fails:
[#202684] Time.parse has never visited Singapore? — "Harold Hausman" <hhausman@...>
I suspect that Time.parse is just not understanding the "Malay
On 7/19/06, Harold Hausman <hhausman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/06, Harold Hausman <hhausman@gmail.com> wrote:
[#202698] Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 in Windows — Tuka Opaleye <tuka@...>
Hi,
On 7/19/06, Tuka Opaleye <tuka@yorn.net> wrote:
[#202717] Mongoose 0.1.0 — Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Mongoose is a database management system written in Ruby. It has an
[#202723] sandbox 0.0.11 -- taking the i out of eval — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Oh rapture! Oh, delicious zesty snacks! Oh, steamed uncles in a cabbage
On 7/19/06, why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:18:05AM +0900, Justin Bailey wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:11:09AM +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:00:23PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:30:14AM +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:
[#202731] Beyond threads? Better concurrency methods? — anmus <anmus@...>
Hi All,
Hi,
Yukihiro Matsumoto schrieb:
anmus wrote:
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote on 20/07/2006 05:08:35:
[#202732] maybe I don't understand the .to_a method... — "John Fink" <john.fink@...>
Hey folks,
> I'm attempting to write a little program that uses the Net::HTTP library to
On 7/19/06, Philip Hallstrom <ruby@philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
[#202746] String Matching in an Array — Ryan Edwards-crewe <ryan.edwardscrewe@...>
I have an array set up that I want to match the user input to a property
Forgot to mention I'm trying to match an 8 digit number, but I pretty
[#202760] Markaby/Xmlbuilder error - XmlMarkup cannot mix a text argument with a block — "Farrel Lifson" <farrel.lifson@...>
Hi folks,
[#202762] rubynodes extension failed compilation — "Alexandru Popescu" <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Hi!
I got past this problem... it looks like the rubynode distro includes
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:46:46 +0200, Alexandru Popescu
[#202798] Passing the name of an argument and then its value — "anne001" <anne@...>
I have a soap4r created fx to search amazon which has too many
[#202817] Object#extend inner workings — Tom Werner <tom@...>
I've got a question regarding the inner workings of extend. Consider the
[#202843] problems using own class — Jonathan Heinen <Jonathan.Heinen@...>
Hi,
[#202855] Looking for a Ruby library to untar a file. — shalofin@...
Does anyone know of a library to untar a file? I use Zlib to gunzip,
[#202866] how to split an array in sub arrays of the same length — Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacchilega@...>
Hi,
[#202876] Re: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question — Dave Howell <groups@...>
On Jul 20, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Dave Howell wrote:
[#202882] return statement where it is usefull ? — pere.noel@... (Une b騅ue)
i've the habit (from java ;-)) to put a return statement in a method
Hi,
[#202924] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — Nuralanur@...
I would also like to support a two-part solution that has been suggested
[#202947] "insecure world writable" fix ? — Sean Harre <sharre@...>
Hello All,
>>>>> "S" == Sean Harre <sharre@transmeta.com> writes:
Ok, I understand the reason this works the way it does - Ruby wants the
[#202955] Using .each with constructors — "Ben Zealley" <transhumanist@...>
Is there a nice elegant way of creating several named objects of the
On 7/20/06, Ben Zealley <transhumanist@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi --
On 7/21/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
On 7/21/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
[#202958] "" vs '' — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
I know this is a very simply question, but I've seen many different
Use '' by default:
On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
[#202966] recursion in scripts -- global variables required? — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Is it me, or is it pretty much impossible
On Jul 20, 2006, at 20:03, Eric Armstrong wrote:
There is no inefficency here. Recursion isn't
On 7/20/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
[#202967] Re: [ANN] Mongoose 0.1.1 — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
Berger, Daniel wrote:
On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Jul 20, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:
Brilliant! Great direction for you to go in my opinion. Will Mongoose be
Simon Harrison wrote:
[#202984] Can't debug with Ruby in Steel... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
Two points...
[#202993] QtRuby 1.4.6 — "richard.j.dale@..." <richard.j.dale@...>
URIS
[#203003] Problem when 'loading' a file containing a class derived from a struct — "Chris Roos" <chrisjroos@...>
I actually spotted this in a rails app but traced it back to ruby. Is
[#203012] New to Ruby from CF — "Ben V." <comprug@...>
I'm new to Ruby and Rails from Coldfusion, and I am already finding how
[#203071] Ruby-doc.org down? — Alex Young <alex@...>
Hi all,
[#203081] GC in C extension.... — "jared.r.richardson@..." <jared.r.richardson@...>
Hi all,
In message <1153489176.647779.292870@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
[#203097] Cache Decorator — Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@...>
This isn't really anything that hasn't been done before, but I have
[#203114] An open letter to Rubyists - Naming things — Jeff Pritchard <jp@...>
Is it just me, or do other Rubyists find it difficult to remember what a
[#203124] Meta-Meta-Programming, revisited — "Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@...>
Do you remember the discussion about monitor-functions and
> I don't think the reciever of the wrap should be an argument.
[#203151] Mongoose 0.2.0 — Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
You can download it from: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongoose/
Jamey Cribbs wrote:
John W. Long wrote:
Jamey Cribbs wrote:
[#203157] Replacing ' with \' using gsub — Jani Soila <janisoila@...>
I tried to replace "'" characters with "\'" strings using gsub. What
[#203171] Newbie Question: delete all non alphanumeric characters — Theallnighter Theallnighter <theallnighter@...>
Hi all,
Logan Capaldo wrote:
for fun, I started irb, then typed
dominique.plante@gmail.com wrote:
[#203172] where to get required/recommended dll's on win32 — "simonh" <simonharrison@...>
Hi. I'm wanting to try out ruby 1.8.5 preview2 on microsoft windows.
On 7/21/06, simonh <simonharrison@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
thanks for reply Curt. I'm not wanting to compile ruby at the moment,
[#203203] contine after exception — junkone@...
How do i continue a loop after a exception? It actually captures the
[#203205] splitting a string separated by CRLF into array — "dominique.plante@..." <dominique.plante@...>
How can I get the array
[#203214] ri busted for some core classes — "Phrogz" <gavin@...>
After upgrading to 1.8.4 using one-click, ri isn't working for some
[#203216] XML2RB - Executing XML — "Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@...>
----------------------------------------------------------------
[#203261] Please help install DBI on a Windows systems... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>
I'm very frustrated because I've just spent the past few hours in the
> I'm very frustrated because I've just spent the past few hours in the
[#203285] when I say method_defined? I mean it! — transfire@...
I've been bitten by this way too many times now. And I'm just plain
[#203292] H- Undefined Method? — "Ben V." <comprug@...>
I know you can use the method h() to HTMLEdit varible, but ruby doesn't
[#203295] Showing part of an array.... — Rosina Bignall <lists@...>
[#203301] *_eval — "Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@...>
Can somebody explain me, in detail, the differences between
[#203319] Im a newb so please help! — Karla Chubb <krazyk_91@...>
Okay so i just got a book call 'Learn to Program' by Chris Pine.
[#203333] Infinity — "hadley wickham" <h.wickham@...>
irb(main):084:0> (-1.0/0.0)
Others have answered the main question here but it's worth noting for
Facets has Infinity (actaully it was deprecated for a while until I
> Others have answered the main question here but it's worth noting for
[#203338] Symbols vs. strings as hash_keys - interchangeable or not? — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
All,
[#203352] Set an instance variable before and after initialize — Martin Jansson <martialis@...>
If possible, I would like to set a instance variable in an object before
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Martin Jansson wrote:
[#203354] Function for integers to displayed with same number of digit — Adrian Fraiha <fraiha@...>
Is there or a function, or anyone know of a hack without using if else
[#203369] Showing similar values in a table — raffir@...
I'm working on a project in which Accounts belong to a User.
[#203372] strip tags? — Max Benjamin <moore.joseph@...>
Is there an easy way to strip html tags from strings?
Max Benjamin <moore.joseph@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/23/06, Stefan Scholl <stesch@no-spoon.de> wrote:
[#203384] converting a text file into an "insert into ..." file — kublaikhan55@...
Hi,
[#203394] Dividing inside iterations? — Dominic Son <dominicson@...>
Hi
[#203433] problem building ruby-audio-0.1.1 on OSX 10.4.7 — "Mike Spears" <samesimilar@...>
Hi,
Mike Spears wrote:
Hi Hans,
[#203438] Yadda yadda yadda operator — "Son SonOfLilit" <sonoflilit@...>
Hello.
Hi --
Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a theory that programming languages die with version 6.
Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
[#203448] get caller of method — thomas coopman <thomas.coopman@...>
Hi,
On 7/23/06, Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> wrote:
[#203471] rhtml can't find rubygems — Max Benjamin <moore.joseph@...>
I'm having some problems including rubygems in rhtml files. I'm on OSX
is rubygems a library? is so, giving the full unix path might solve
anne001 wrote:
Max Benjamin wrote:
[#203473] I'll have the duck! — transfire@...
I promised myself I'd shut-up for awhile, maybe I still should, but I
> Now anything that responded to #to_a could use #transform. I'm not
benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
Hi --
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:48:29AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
Hi --
Hi --
On 7/25/06, 7rans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Phil Tomson wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
Hi --
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:09:58 +0900, transfire@gmail.com wrote:
I much prefer its (less mature) derivative, Io. Everything is a
On 7/24/06, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
On 7/24/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
I'm not sure what the best place for this is; sorry. The following are
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:05:11PM +0900, Dumaiu wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:01:50AM +0900, Jgen Strobel wrote:
[#203475] rb-gnome and gtkglext — "anne001" <anne@...>
I ran the darwinports install instructions on rb-gnome
apparently, one of the problem was that what I needed was rb-gnome2
Hi,
I can run irb, then require "gtk2" in either terminal or xterm (X11)
Hi,
[#203479] irb on Mac OS X not displaying previous lines — Tom Robinson <robinson.t@...>
I just started using irb on my Mac. When I press the Up arrow I should
[#203488] RLisp - Lisp naturally embedded in Ruby — "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@...>
Hello :-)
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On 7/24/06, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@gmail.com> writes:
On 7/25/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@gmail.com> writes:
On 7/25/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@gmail.com> writes:
On 7/27/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@gmail.com> writes:
On 7/27/06, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
New version of RLisp is available. Now with lexical scoping,
[#203514] [ANN] Nitro/Og 0.31.0 — gabriele renzi <surrender_itRemove@...>
(forwarding from nitro's list)
Suggestion: If an announcement like this contained
From: "Jamey Cribbs" <jcribbs@netpromi.com>
Hi Bill,
From: "Dimitri Aivaliotis" <aglarond@gmail.com>
Let me present another more elegant example of Nitro:
On 7/29/06, George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@gmail.com> wrote:
[#203526] Autoloading objects — Ruby equivalent for PHP5 "__autoload — "Naum T." <naum@...>
Does there exist a Ruby equivalent to PHP5 "magic" __autoload method
Naum T. wrote:
[#203542] How to create standl alones applications with Ruby — Jose Pepe <jsnit@...>
Hi all
On 24/07/06, Jose Pepe <jsnit@jsnit.com> wrote:
And don't forget about the Qt Designer for Qt/KDE applications.
Is it possible to combine for example a SWT Eclipse form in java, and
[#203543] SQL Parser in Ruby — Dr Nic <drnicwilliams@...>
I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult, but what good would an SQL92 parser be?
[#203546] Export Data from Microsoft Access database — "Jatinder Singh" <jatinder.saundh@...>
How could I leverage Ruby to export mdb tables definations, data, forms,
On 7/24/06, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh@gmail.com> wrote:
[#203575] RubyGems or packages or both? — Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@...>
I am puzzled as to what the recommended way to install packages (from
[#203579] Dumb question about assigments — "Andrew Huh?" <genooma@...>
Hi, I feel kind of dumb for asking this, but I can't honestly find the
[#203594] File::Separator on win32 — "Michael Siebert" <info@...>
Hello Folks,
[#203595] Re: File::Separator on win32 — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
[#203609] htmltools incorrectly parsing HTML containing server-side tags — dsutch@...
I'm using HTML Tools 1.09 to parse HTML that contains tags that are to
[#203621] Slow regular expressions — S3 <stein@...>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
[#203656] Still looking for a Ruby MUD client? — "Sy Ali" <sy1234@...>
Look no further!
[#203660] Had Ruby interview, considering J2ME as well ... — surfunbear@...
[#203663] bit-struct and constructing ARP messages. — Kevin Waters <ooberyoozer@...>
Hello all.
[#203673] Most Compelling Ruby + 2D Web Graphics Combination — "David Worden" <dworden@...>
Hello,
[#203689] Escaping international characters — Alexander Lamb <Alexander.J.Lamb@...>
Hello,
[#203702] druby - How to close connection from client? — Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
I need to disconnect explicitly from a druby client.
[#203705] Proving Ruby's effectiveness — benjohn@...
[#203711] Defining a method with an argument with a default value — "Pedro Cte-Real" <pedro@...>
I have this line in a class method to define an initializer:
Pedro Cte-Real wrote:
You could do the following:
On 7/25/06, Dr Nic <drnicwilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
[#203751] How to verify cgi.params values? — "carl mcdade" <tesla.nicoli@...>
Hi I am running Ruby as CGI and have a form that returns a simple string.
[#203752] Hash order bug? — Javier Valencia <jvalencia@...01.org>
I have this piece of simple code:
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On 5/5/07, Haoqi Haoqi <axgle@126.com> wrote:
Hi --
On 5/5/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
On 5/5/07, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
Javier Valencia wrote:
[#203759] rmagick w/o -I — Ammon Christiansen <ammon.christiansen@...>
When I installed rmagick (on Debian Linux using the -dev imagemagick
[#203778] Mongoose 0.2.5 - The "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" release — Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
You can download it from: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongoose/
Jamey Cribbs wrote:
GFunk913@gmail.com wrote:
GFunk913@gmail.com wrote:
Jamey Cribbs wrote:
Mike Harris wrote:
Jamey Cribbs wrote:
Logan Capaldo wrote:
[#203802] Ruby and *NIX environment variables — "Ben Zealley" <transhumanist@...>
'allo,
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Logan Capaldo wrote:
[#203814] method self.a= and a= create different instance variables — yuesefa <yuesefa@...>
i try this in irb .
[#203823] gem install problem — Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...>
C:\RUBY182\BIN>gem environment
[#203828] Noob devision question — "jamiethehutt" <jamie@...>
I'm trying to make a percentage progress bar for an XMMS web interface,
[#203841] "Self" confusion — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
Can someone explain why the following produces different results? In
Leslie Viljoen wrote:
Justin Collins wrote:
[#203873] Automagic class prototyping — "Aleks Kissinger" <aleks0@...>
Anybody know any slick techniques for automatically prototyping
[#203878] YAML Broken? — "David Pollak" <pollak@...>
Folks,
[#203930] Learn to program (Chris Pine) array.sort — "Geoff" <samekh@...>
Hey,
You're very close to what is needed. The following variation on your
[#203953] connecting to sap in ruby — Jason Cruz <lacruz@...>
Hello guys,
I've been watching with interest to see if anyone replied to this, but it doesn't look as though they're going to :-(. I'm afraid I can't answer your question: I'm also working on Ruby to SAP, but have settled on the RFC route. I'm intruiged by your application,though: my interest is in providing a web interface to the R/3 system, but it sounds as though you're planning to replace the SAP screens entirely... Would be very interested to hear what you're doing and how you get on.
[#203958] For performance, write it in C — Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Whenever the question of performance comes up with scripting languages
Peter Hickman gave a very good article about prototyping in a scripting
On 7/26/06, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
I'll lob a couple of grenades and then duck for cover.
Charles O Nutter wrote:
On 7/26/06, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
On 7/26/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
On Jul 26, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Charles O Nutter wrote:
Writing code that runs as fast in Java as it does in C is real work,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:42:46AM +0900, David Pollak wrote:
On 7/26/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:26:45AM +0900, David Pollak wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:07:00AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:35:52AM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:50:32AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:17:44AM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:38:34AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:19:24PM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:59:37PM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:26:37PM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:37:24AM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On 7/26/06, David Pollak <pollak@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/26/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
Charles O Nutter wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:29:06PM +0900, Ryan McGovern wrote:
On 7/26/06, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:03:50AM +0900, Dean Wampler wrote:
Ashley Moran wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:59:13AM +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
Ashley Moran wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:27:57AM +0900, Ashley Moran wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:05:11AM +0900, John W. Kennedy wrote:
On 7/28/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:32:20PM +0900, Charles O Nutter wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:34:21PM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:53:09PM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:47:13 +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:47:13 +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
Jay Levitt wrote:
Peter Hickman schrieb:
Hi Peter!
Peter Hickman wrote:
On 2006-07-26, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:25:11AM +0900, Csaba Henk wrote:
Ok, I need to preface this by saying that I'm in no way either a C or
[#203974] gsub — Tomas Fischer <tomas_fischer99@...>
Hi,
[#203989] Driving Oracle sqlplus with open3 — "Daniel Berger" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
Daniel Berger wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:
ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
[#203993] eRuby: A tutorial on using Ruby on the web — tesla <tesla.nicoli@...>
A group (three) of us wanted to learn Ruby but we decided that Rails was no
On 7/26/06, tesla <tesla.nicoli@gmail.com> wrote:
[#204057] open - uri question — "akanksha" <akanksha.baid@...>
I am using open-uri for the first time. I need to visit a bunch of urls
[#204089] oracle stored procs — AndrewMcDonagh <newsamd@...>
Hi,
[#204107] Embedded socket error — Nathan Whitney <laserwhit@...>
I am running the following code in a C++ app:
[#204108] OO Paradigm and Ruby Exercises for a Beginner — Picklegnome <picklegnome@...>
I am at a loss for where to begin here, so I'll jump in.
Picklegnome wrote:
[#204149] Generate a tone using ruby? — Jeremiah Dodds <apatheticagnostic@...>
Hey everyone, I'm looking for a simple way to generate a tone in ruby .
[#204155] how to get an IO object for the response from an HTTP get? — "Tim Olsen" <tolsen718@...>
Hi,
On 7/27/06, Tim Olsen <tolsen718@gmail.com> wrote:
[#204181] Issue extending a delegated class — "rak rok" <rakrok@...>
Hi,
[#204183] rand(-10..10) — Sche Daniel <uval@...>
Hi all,
one solution could be
> irb(main):215:0> (-10..10).rand
"the first is by far more obvious."
[#204218] Net::LDAP 0.0.3 released, adds TLS encryption — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>
We're pleased to announce version 0.0.3 of Net::LDAP, the first
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:16 +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
Thanks Andre, still haven't thought that all the way through. Is that
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 22:52 +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
[#204229] ||= in an expression — rejoc <rejoc@...>
Hello,
[#204237] Blocks question — Jon Leighton <turnip@...>
Hi,
[#204238] How to solve Windows PATH in Ruby?? — "zdk" <nx2zdk@...>
require 'pathname'
[#204247] Ruby and Visual Basic — "Ike" <rxv@...>
Some years ago I wrote a magazine review regarding Visual Basic. At the time
[#204253] Symbols are your friends — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Yes, it's time for another Symbol trick!
On 7/27/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
Caleb Clausen wrote:
On 7/27/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
Caleb Clausen wrote:
[#204256] Ruby GUI and VisualBasic — "Victor Reyes" <victor.reyes@...>
Is there a Ruby GUI environment like the one with VisualBasic, where one can
[#204283] Wrapped method causing infinite recursion in rcov — "Pedro Cte-Real" <pedro@...>
I added this to my rails test helper to check for valid HTML automatically:
On 7/27/06, Pedro Cte-Real <pedro@pedrocr.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:57:56AM +0900, Caleb Clausen wrote:
[#204292] String#chop slow? REALLY slow? — Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
I just did a quick benchmark to prove something to myself. But I'd
[#204296] Learn to Program - Solutions? — pixelnate <pixelnate@...>
Is there some place that I can solutions to the exercises in the Learn
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:22 AM, pixelnate wrote:
[#204307] Slow regular expressions :( — Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@...>
I am disappointed to learn that Ruby obviously implements yet another
On 7/27/06, Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> sender: "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" date: "Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:55:05PM +0900" <<<EOQ
[#204334] How would I store data to a server? — Ryan Macy <gwazy@...>
What would be the best way to store data to a remote database like
[#204344] Prevent class instantiation from the initialize method? — Dave Mihalik <dmihalik@...>
[#204354] FeedTools — Ray Chen <ray.c.chen@...>
Can someone verify for me that feedtools is incorrectly parsing
[#204365] converting some autogenerated ruby code to C — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
One of the next things I want to do in my grammar package is to give
On Jul 27, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
On 7/28/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
Hi Eric,
On 7/31/06, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:24:08 +0200, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com>
On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Dominik Bathon wrote:
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:19:57 +0200, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
[#204368] Re: converting some autogenerated ruby code to C — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
[#204369] GDK#create_cairo_context not found — "Farrel Lifson" <farrel.lifson@...>
What version of rcairo, and ruby-gnome2 do I need to have
do you get the same error in irb when you type
On 28/07/06, anne001 <anne@wjh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi,
With a little help, I managed to compile cairo on my OS X such that irb
Hi,
[#204373] OT: Wish I were coding in Ruby... — "gregarican" <greg.kujawa@...>
instead of wearing my other hat. As network admin I am forced to
[#204379] RSS Guid Field — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Can anyone give me a hint on the syntax for adding a guid field while
[#204389] What to use binding for? — "Daniel N" <has.sox@...>
Hi everyone,
[#204391] Equivalent of perl's \Q in regexps? — "Simon Baird" <simon.baird@...>
marker = '***'
[#204412] About last night ... — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Now that I have your attention :) ... last night was FOSCON II -- Ruby
On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
Hi --
Based on what I am hearing, I am going to put together a follow-on
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
[#204459] For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java — Peter Hickman <peter@...>
This is the follow up to my "Write it in C post" and is intended to
Isak Hansen wrote:
Peter Hickman wrote:
On 7/28/06, Roland Schmitt <Roland.Schmitt@web.de> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:47:34PM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
William James wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:22:05PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:18:25PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:47:38AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:47:57AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Man, I needed a good laugh today. Where to begin...
Charles O Nutter wrote:
[#204471] Signaling Ruby from C/C++ — Asterix Gallier <asterixgallier@...>
Hello,
Ok, Asterix, this was driving me crazy because I know I've done it
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
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Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
now I've tried another solution. I'm sending a signal to the Rubyprocess
Does this actually work??? Windows doesn't have signals, so maybe
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
Asterix Gallier wrote:
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
Asterix, try this:
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
[#204481] Weird problem with case expressions — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
I have no problem doing this:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:45, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
[#204484] keystroke logger — "derek" <derekhaskin@...>
Hi,
[#204492] Ruby::Tk on OS X event binding hint — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
On Macintosh OS X, one can use 'Command' and 'Option' as Tk event
On Jul 28, 2006, at 13:42, Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Matthew Smillie wrote:
From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@ameritech.net>
Thank you for your comments. However, I'm pretty new to Ruby Tk, and
[#204516] RubyConf 2006 registration pre-info — dblack@...
Hi --
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
[#204517] Better profiling for ruby? — Daniel Martin <martin@...>
So the recent performance threads have all repeated the wisdom
[#204522] Ruby LDAP --- Hooray!! — "gregarican" <greg.kujawa@...>
After unsuccessfully trying to compile a Ruby LDAP implementation a
Thanks. Let us know here if you hit any problems with the library or
[#204544] state of unicode support — Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
I've heard rumors that "oniguruma fixes everything", and the like. I'm
Oh man, I really don't have the energy for this thread again :) Chad: if you
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:08:06AM +0900, Charles O Nutter wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:13 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:
On 31/07/06, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@julik.nl> wrote:
On 31/07/06, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@julik.nl> wrote:
[#204554] Using a '-' in a Key name in a Hash — Andrew Knott <aknott@...>
Hi,
On 7/28/06, Andrew Knott <aknott@mac.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot!
Ok, that's worked perfectly for the call... Unfortunately on the server
Andrew Knott wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
[#204572] Re: state of unicode support — Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:46:25AM +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:39:34AM +0900, Cliff Cyphers wrote:
[#204582] ruby-talk lag? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...>
Has anyone been seeing high lag in getting ruby-talk mail? Today it's taking
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Charles O Nutter wrote:
khaines@enigo.com wrote:
[#204589] ruby threads? the point? — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Saw an archived message yesterday that
Eric Armstrong wrote:
Justin Collins wrote:
Eric Armstrong wrote:
Tested it with cygwin under Windows XP, and it worked fine. Again,
N Okia wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Eric Armstrong wrote:
khaines@enigo.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:07:10AM +0900, Eric Armstrong wrote:
[#204596] Ruby on WRT54G(L) — "Jim Freeze" <jim@...>
Hi
I would definitely be intrested in your results. Out of curiousity,
[#204610] Chip-8 (#88) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
I implemented pretty much all the opcodes and used Tk to display the
Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
[#204623] does ":" have an anolog in another language? — "Ike" <rxv@...>
does the colon operator have an anolog in say, Java or C++ ? It seems to be
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:40:11AM +0900, Ike wrote:
A simple way to describe it may be to look at it as a singleton object
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:18:28AM +0900, Matt Todd wrote:
Hi --
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:11:35AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
In my example, using a symbol would be the same as creating a symbol
Hi --
On 7/28/06, Ike <rxv@hotmail.com> wrote:
[#204644] Bug in ruby printf/sprintf — "paul.dlug@..." <paul.dlug@...>
I have encountered what appears to be a bug in ruby's printf/sprintf
[#204657] Re: does ":" have an anolog in another language? — nothinghappens@...
Sorry if anyone's beat me to this, I find it hard to keep up with such a busy list...
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:53:25AM +0900, nothinghappens@mchsi.com wrote:
On 8/9/06, Jgen Strobel <strobel@secure.at> wrote:
[#204665] Finding "\" in a string — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
I'm going crazy, right? Surely it is possible
On 7/28/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
On 28/07/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
Paul Battley wrote:
On 28/07/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
[#204686] Custom Exception classes — Clark Snowdall <clark.snowdall@...>
Hello,
The following works for me. If you have code that doesn't work, then
On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Caleb Clausen wrote:
[#204691] Calling a dynamically generated Ruby script from a .rb — Robert La ferla <robertlaferla@...>
I have a Ruby script that dynamically generates a Ruby script. I would
Shouldn't it just be as simple as picking a specific name, and then:
Or, maybe, in the generated file, have the main bit of code you want
Also, another option could be to call...
[#204720] ZenTest 3.3.0 — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
ZenTest version 3.3.0 has been released!
Hi Ryan!
[#204726] Puts bypasses access restrictions on to_s? — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
I read somewhere that "puts" calls "to_s" on an object to get a string
[#204788] Wild ideas: Finding a missing 'end' — Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
I was just reading a nuby question from the rails list and I had this
Yes, it has been considered. Unfortunately allowing the
[#204835] What method should a class provide for printf's %c format string ? — Gerald <gerr41@...>
[#204838] How to md5 a file? — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
Basically I want to generate an md5 hash from considerably large files
Ben Johnson wrote:
[#204853] cgi vs. fcgi question — Tom Allison <tallison@...>
Under CGI I can create a cgi object like:
Or you could use another library, such as Builder or Markaby.
Matt Todd wrote:
[#204864] build error on cygwin — Sche Daniel <uval@...>
I am trying to install ruby1.8.4
Sche Daniel wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
hi,
On 7/29/06, Sche Daniel <uval@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
[#204890] to_i vs. to_int — Ico <usenet@...>
Hello,
Ico ha scritto:
Hi --
[#204906] Loop Timing and Constant Input — Picklegnome <picklegnome@...>
A few quick questions:
Picklegnome wrote:
[#204912] Does WideStudio require a special ruby build? — seannakasone@...
I installed the latest version of Ruby and WideStudio (Ruby 1.8.4 and
Hi,
Hi,
[#204939] gems install - sans docs? — Tom Allison <tallison@...>
Something can't be right....
[#204960] How to Create a New File — "Skeets" <skillet3232@...>
let's say I want to create a new file named new_file.txt. how do i do
[#204975] TCPSocket and RFC 821 — "Satish Talim" <satish.talim@...>
I wanted to send an email from my desktop using a simple Ruby program.
Satish Talim wrote:
I tried the various suggestions given by Francis and Yohanes, but still it
"Satish Talim" <satish.talim@gmail.com> writes:
Satish Talim wrote:
I used Telnet and it got stuck when I typed . to stop the DATA. What change
Satish Talim wrote:
[#204988] eval bind — Karel Michek <KMichek@...>
How should I call eval from member function that binds to global context?
[#205000] mimic File.open pattern — Sche Daniel <uval@...>
Hello all,
[#205006] what is the scope of this object — Sche Daniel <uval@...>
Hi all,
Sche Daniel wrote:
[#205011] rubygems configuration — David Askew <dhaskew@...>
[#205041] #88 Chip-8 — Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@...>
[#205051] [ANN] Ruby Reports 0.4.19 Released — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...>
Hi folks, I'm happy to announce the 7th Summer of Code release of Ruport.
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On 7/31/06, Suraj N. Kurapati <skurapat@ucsc.edu> wrote:
[#205071] Help for reader for NETGEAR DG834GT — Enzo Crasi <rateo.mensile@...>
Hi.
[#205075] Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters — "Skeets" <skillet3232@...>
i'm sure this is easy, but i've gone through Pickaxe's string methods,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:30:13AM +0900, Skeets wrote:
Esteban Manchado Vel痙quez wrote:
[#205102] Array#permutate — Sche Daniel <uval@...>
Hello,
[#205112] Unable to install Gems with RubyGems on Intel OSX with DarwinPorts — "Douglas Tan" <bianster@...>
I followed Duncan Davidson's Sandboxing Rails with Darwin Ports guide and
[#205116] Question regarding postings in comp.lang.ruby — "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Why do I sometimes see replies to posts in this group but not the
Le 31 juillet 2006 22:56, James Edward Gray II a 馗rit :
On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:30 PM, F. Senault wrote:
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
Christian Neukirchen wrote:
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:40, Dave Rose wrote:
On 8/1/06, A. S. Bradbury <asbradbury@tekcentral.org> wrote:
Rob Sanheim wrote:
On Jul 30, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Michael W. Ryder wrote:
[#205118] using the current method name within current method — "Matthew Heidemann" <matthew.heidemann@...>
Is there a way to get the current method name within the current method?
On Jul 30, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Matthew Heidemann wrote:
This is kindof a hack, but it seems to work:
If you wanted to modularize it just for the sake of it, you could do
Matt Todd wrote:
Logan Capaldo wrote:
Depending on how you feel about mucking with core ruby types, a method
Aleks Kissinger wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
2010/3/10 Ace Suares <ace@suares.an>:
[#205123] Environment variables with empty value missing from ENV? — Clifford Heath <no.spam@...>
Under Windows XP (using cygwin's bash, but native Ruby), I
Clifford Heath wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Clifford Heath wrote:
Hi,
[#205139] CHM files? — Clifford Heath <no.spam@...>
In Debian Linux, there's a group of "libchm" packages that
[#205174] humanized Xml tree navigation — "chiaro scuro" <kiaroskuro@...>
Does anybody know of a library that allows to go through an xml tree as if
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[#205185] cp * except .svn directories — Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>
Hi all,
[#205203] Weird elusive bug using Comparable — "Pedro Cte-Real" <pedro@...>
I have this class:
Pedro Cte-Real wrote:
[#205207] Does Ruby need a "line separator" class? — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
I've run into a problem where Ruby can't handle newlines on Windows
On Jul 31, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Wes Gamble wrote:
Xavier,
On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Wes Gamble wrote:
On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Xavier Noria wrote:
[#205256] I thought this was the one that worked? — Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:23:27AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:57:48AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:05:31AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:50:23AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
Hi -
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:05:50PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
Hi --
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:03:50PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On 8/1/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:56:53AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
On 8/1/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:19:38AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
Hi --
On 8/1/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:43:30AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
On 8/1/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:28:45AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
On 8/1/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:07:33AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
Chad Perrin schrieb:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:59:15PM +0900, Pit Capitain wrote:
On 7/31/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:54:33AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:15:10PM +0900, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:15:09AM +0900, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:39:29AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
Hi --
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:34:35PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:12:02AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:28:40AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:42:59AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:40:05PM +0900, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:07:41AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:22:05AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:41:46AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
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Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week's activity on the ruby-talk
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by Tim Sutherland.
A short newsletter this week, which is unfortunate because there were so
many great threads :-(
[ Contribute to the next newsletter ]
Articles and Announcements
==========================
* 19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know
----------------------------------------------
A fascinating article by Peter Cooper, posted to his most excellent
blog rubyinside.com. It hit the front-page of Digg (although there
were only a few comments). Even if you're not a Rails user, there is
plenty in the article that applies to Ruby in general, or you can just
check out one of the other thirteen articles he wrote last week.
* ICFP Programming Contest: Interest in Ruby team?
--------------------------------------------------
The ICFP Programming Contest is on July 21-24, and registration is
open, reports Maurice Codik. This is the International Conference on
Functional Programming's annual programming contest, and had 161 teams
last year.
> The contest will be held the weekend of July 21-24: Teams will be
> given a task to complete in whatever language they choose. The
> winners will get bragging rights, and a subsidized trip to the ICFP
> conference in Portland this September. This year's theme will be
> "computational archaeolinguistics."
Maurice would like to know of people that are interested in working in
a Ruby team.
* RailsConf Europe, Sept. 14-15: don't put it off!
--------------------------------------------------
David A. Black reminded all about RailsConf Europe on September 14-15,
2006, in London. It has a very respectable list of speakers already.
Registrations and presentations proposals are open.
> I repeat: this is a BIG Rails event, and you should be there!
> Judging from registration numbers, there's a healthy interest in the
> event... BUT WE WANT AN UNHEALTHY INTEREST!! Go ahead-put our
> seating capacity to the test!
"RailsConf Europe is brought to you by Ruby Central, Inc. (the
RailsConf people), and Skills Matter, Ltd., our London-based
conference partners."
* Gateway Restored
------------------
Thanks to James Edward Gray II's efforts, we once again have a gateway
between the ruby-talk mailing list and comp.lang.ruby newsgroup, after
more than a month of downtime.
He thanked Dave Thomas (wrote the original gateway code and used to
maintain the gateway), Dennis Oelkers ("who was keeper of the gateway
for so long"), Fred Senault (donated the newsgroup account for the new
gateway), HighGroove Studios (hosting the new gateway script) and
their employee Charles Brian Quinn.
"Without all of the above, there would be no gateway.
My thanks to you all!"
Threads
=======
Retired Ruby Mascott?
---------------------
Pawel Szymczykowski vaguely recalled Ruby having an "anime-girl type"
mascot a few years ago, and indeed found a page of pictures of Ruby-chan,
drawn by Yoshida Masato.
Wilson Bilkovich said it was always unofficial, and a couple of posters
pointed out an old thread discussing Ruby mascots where many people
thought this was an unsuitable choice.
David A. Black:
> There was no such "mascot." The ruby-chan image came up at a time when
> the notion of having a Ruby mascot was being bandied about. Mercifully,
> and correctly, the idea of having a kind of "pet" woman/girl as a mascot
> was not taken particularly seriously by very many people (except,
> perhaps, by those of us who felt somewhat affronted by it).
Pawel: "So the only official Ruby mascott is the gem? Isn't that flying in
the face of the tradition of having a cute, user friendly mascott that can
be found at your local zoo?"
For example, the Perl camel [img] or Python snake [img].
Brad Tilley, not immediately realising the image links were a camel trying
to swallow some poor person's head, and a scary razor-toothed snake, said:
> You're kidding right? I love Python as much as I love Ruby, but their
> snake mascot is not a good mascot (IMO). It's cold-blooded. It eats
> small furry cute mammals. It's slimly, it smells, etc. Look at the
> problems Pyhton has with naming projects. Eggs... what kind of name is
> that? A lot of people think eggs are gross. And snake eggs are even more
> gross!
>
> Ruby's gem is much better (IMO). A Ruby is something of value. If I
> found a ruby, I would pick it up, dust it of and put it in my pocket.
> Rubys are something to be held, admired and passed onto or sold to
> others. If I came across a snake, I'd either run from it or kill it
> somehow... isn't it human nature to fear snakes? Why have a mascot so
> naturally repulsive to 90% of humankind?
(Poor snakes, they get such a bad rap. They're actually soft and dry,
not slimy. I'd also expect Ruby users to be fans of eggs, since they go
so well with chunky bacon.)
Brian Mitchell said that the real unofficial community mascots must be the
chunky-bacon foxes from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. Don't forget
"Chip, the Talking Code Block", added Pawel.
text to speech?
---------------
Arun, who teaches blind people in New Delhi to program, asked how to do
text-to-speech in Ruby.
"Now, of course, for a blind person, audio is as important as the screen
is for the sighted, and even to do your first "Hello World" program, you
need text to speech to be working."
Dale Martenson said that on Windows you can use the SAPI interface, which
is wrapped through the Win32 Util library, and gave a simple example of
its use.
John Gabriele thought that Ruby-GNOME supports GNOME's accessibility
interface, so that might be an option for *nix users. Axel suggested the
MBROLA multi-lingual text-synthesis library.
Jamal Mazrui announced that he has written a text editor called TextPal
(in Ruby using wxWidgets) that is "fully keyboard accessible and offers
almost every feature I've found in a text editor (I compared many), and
does so in a manner intended to maximize usability by blind persons." It
is free and open-source.
instance_exec
-------------
Implementations of instance_exec for Ruby 1.8 were discussed. (This, a
feature of Ruby 1.9, is a version of instance_eval that takes arguments.
It can be useful when evaluating a block that was passed from somewhere
else, preventing us from using lexical scoping to pass in an argument.)
This topic was previously covered in February.
New Releases
============
Ruby In Steel 0.7 available - Now On Rails
------------------------------------------
Huw Collingbourn announced that the Steel IDE (a Ruby IDE that is built on
Visual Studio 2005) now has Rails integration.
One-Click Ruby Installer 184-19 Final is available!
---------------------------------------------------
Curt Hibbs said that the final version of the 1.8.4 release of the
One-Click Ruby Installed for Windows is out. Great news for Windows users!
Others
------
There were many new releases not covered in this newsletter, including
Mongrel 0.3.13.3, JRuby 0.9.0, RubySlim, MarkaBoo 0.7.3, RFuzz 0.4,
Equipment (for Camping) v0.1.0, ruby-debug 0.1, Hpricot 0.1 and 0.2, Ruby
Reports 0.4.13, and Facets 1.4.