[#231977] General Programming Books — Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2007/01/01

[#232004] Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list) — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>

On 12/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

8 messages 2007/01/01

[#232143] Detecting holidays — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

22 messages 2007/01/02

[#232198] Any projects need rdoc documentation help? — Jay Bornhoft <jbornhoft@...>

As part of my effort to become increasingly more involved in the Ruby

13 messages 2007/01/02

[#232214] Calculating roman numerals — "Shiloh Madsen" <shiloh.madsen@...>

Ok, I'm having trouble with another exercise in this book. It has

13 messages 2007/01/02

[#232335] Problem in Unit Testing Methods that start new threads — Hemant Kumar <gethemant@...>

I have a bit of doubt, in Unit Testing Programs that start new threads.

13 messages 2007/01/03

[#232347] Memory Leak Madness — Brandon Casci <brandon@...>

I'm having one hell of a time trying to find and stop a memory leak in a

19 messages 2007/01/03

[#232374] Scriptable text editor with Ruby? — "Dolazy" <francis.rammeloo@...>

Hi all!

37 messages 2007/01/03

[#232694] How can I do this better? — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2007/01/05

[#232719] Word Blender (#108) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

57 messages 2007/01/05
[#233040] Re: [QUIZ] Word Blender (#108) — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...> 2007/01/07

I made two this time. One plays a game and one just picks the word.

[#233042] Re: [QUIZ] Word Blender (#108) — "Fedor Labounko" <fedor.labounko@...> 2007/01/07

On 1/7/07, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:

[#232806] removing Ruby success stories page from Ruby-lang.org — "Rahul" <vrahul@...>

38 messages 2007/01/05
[#232808] Re: removing Ruby success stories page from Ruby-lang.org — dblack@... 2007/01/05

Hi --

[#232821] Re: removing Ruby success stories page from Ruby-lang.org — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...> 2007/01/05

Notable stories that should be added that I'm aware of:

[#232839] Re: removing Ruby success stories page from Ruby-lang.org — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2007/01/05

Jeremy McAnally wrote:

[#232865] SparseFile — "Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@...>

I had to send huge files over a network to another machine.

13 messages 2007/01/06

[#233008] Sending SMS Messages With Ruby — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I'm going to need to send SMS messages from a Ruby server I am

11 messages 2007/01/07

[#233037] a most undangerous Hash#store! — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Hi--

32 messages 2007/01/07
[#233054] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — Florian Gross <florgro@...> 2007/01/08

On 2007-01-08 02:00:10 +0100, dblack@wobblini.net said:

[#233059] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — dblack@... 2007/01/08

Hi --

[#233095] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/01/08

On 08.01.2007 02:59, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#233096] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2007/01/08

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:20:05PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:

[#233098] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — dblack@... 2007/01/08

Hi --

[#233107] Re: a most undangerous Hash#store! — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2007/01/08

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:37:05PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#233133] Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Chad Fowler" <chad@...>

Greetings and Happy New Year, Rubyists!

118 messages 2007/01/08
[#233181] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Pit Capitain <pit@...> 2007/01/09

Chad Fowler schrieb:

[#233245] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2007/01/09

[#233253] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2007/01/09

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Ryan Davis wrote:

[#233261] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/09

On Jan 9, 2007, at 09:31, Ben Bleything wrote:

[#233265] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2007/01/09

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#233278] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/09

On Jan 9, 2007, at 10:42, Ben Bleything wrote:

[#233284] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2007/01/09

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#233393] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/10

On Jan 9, 2007, at 13:03, Ben Bleything wrote:

[#233333] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2007/01/10

[#233338] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2007/01/10

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Ryan Davis wrote:

[#233345] Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2007/01/10

[#233352] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — Evan Weaver <eweaver.spamtrap@...> 2007/01/10

Ryan Davis wrote:

[#233399] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/10

On Jan 10, 2007, at 02:02, Evan Weaver wrote:

[#233416] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — Evan Weaver <eweaver.spamtrap@...> 2007/01/10

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#233456] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/01/10

On 1/10/07, Evan Weaver <eweaver.spamtrap@gmail.com> wrote:

[#233586] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2007/01/11

[#233625] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/01/12

On 1/11/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

[#233633] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...> 2007/01/12

But the question is would the hoe developers use this? They seem

[#233665] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/01/12

On 1/12/07, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@gmail.com> wrote:

[#233769] Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census — "Chris Carter" <cdcarter@...> 2007/01/13

On 1/12/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#233158] Why is there a seperate Math class? — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>

Why does everything have to be Math.<func>(num)? Isn't num.func more

22 messages 2007/01/09

[#233180] Problems with Posting to comp.lang.ruby, due to gateway to Ruby-Talk — Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@...>

Hello

11 messages 2007/01/09

[#233189] inheritance concept in ruby — Kumar Tnj <senvenit2003@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2007/01/09

[#233209] sortung a structured array on more than one criteria — Josselin <josselin@...>

I can sort an array like that :

11 messages 2007/01/09

[#233238] Elements of Ruby Style — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>

Hello all,

14 messages 2007/01/09

[#233285] Re: String performance — "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kistner@...>

From: Vincent Fourmond

11 messages 2007/01/09

[#233386] return_on — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Sometimes i do this:

24 messages 2007/01/10

[#233424] building Ruby with dmalloc — Young Hyun <youngh@...>

Has anyone managed to build Ruby with dmalloc support? I'm having

11 messages 2007/01/10

[#233584] Finding path to ruby script argument — "Matthew Hailstone" <matthew.hailstone@...>

When I execute a ruby script by the following:

11 messages 2007/01/11

[#233640] Why doesn't Ruby allow for overloaded methods within a class — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>

(from a Java refugee)

12 messages 2007/01/12

[#233671] Number Spiral (#109) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

29 messages 2007/01/12

[#233676] DRY gsub... — Josselin <josselin@...>

I wrote the following ruby statements.. I get the result I need , I

33 messages 2007/01/12

[#233714] RCR again (Integer#succ!, Integer#pred!) — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>

I am definitely in an RCR mood ;)

13 messages 2007/01/12

[#233763] Running Webrick alongside IIS on port 80 — Prashant Deva <prashant.deva@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2007/01/12

[#233889] checking if a string matches a regexp - am I missing something? — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...>

I figure that I must be missing something really obvious with this

11 messages 2007/01/14

[#233914] Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

Somehow hoe-1.1.7 has become poisoned in the RubyGems index:

50 messages 2007/01/14
[#233958] Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge — "Chris Carter" <cdcarter@...> 2007/01/14

On 1/14/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#233961] Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge — SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...> 2007/01/14

So if I have a RubyForge account I can upload a modified gem, of, say,

[#233993] Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2007/01/14

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 00:56 +0900, SonOfLilit wrote:

[#233999] Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2007/01/14

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 13:20 -0500, Tom Copeland wrote:

[#233938] "soemthing".pluralize/at/from/... -> NoMethodError — David Krmpotic <david.krmpotic@...>

Hello,

11 messages 2007/01/14

[#233963] possible to un-warn? — "David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky@...>

Hi all,

12 messages 2007/01/14

[#233969] how to translate base 10 number into base 2 number — chen li <chen_li3@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2007/01/14

[#234052] keybox 1.0.0 Released — Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>

keybox version 1.0.0 has been released.

15 messages 2007/01/15

[#234063] Can anyone try to solve this problems? — Cyrus Gabilla <gabilla19992004@...>

Hi to everybody.

20 messages 2007/01/15
[#234160] Re: Can anyone try to solve this problems? — David Madden <moose56@...> 2007/01/15

[#234170] Q: How can a Rake task know the caller's directory? — James Britt <james.britt@...>

I'm increasingly using rake files for common system tasks. Since Rake

20 messages 2007/01/15

[#234183] Hi all! — Mustapha! <mail_gw_ruby@...>

Hi! I hate america!

23 messages 2007/01/15

[#234254] Ruby and E.V.E. Paradox — GD <garthy_lmkltybr@...>

I have been using Ruby for several years. Most importantly I have been using

30 messages 2007/01/16
[#234269] Re: Ruby and E.V.E. Paradox — "gga" <GGarramuno@...> 2007/01/16

[#234434] RubyGems 0.9.1 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.9.1

19 messages 2007/01/16

[#234529] Intensive computing: Ruby? Ruby/C? Pure C++? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

Hello, ruby-talk. I have a question about choosing between Ruby, Ruby

20 messages 2007/01/17

[#234646] Struggling With RubyGems — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I can't seen to query or install gems over here. Is anyone else

18 messages 2007/01/17
[#234649] RubyGems 0.9.1 problem (was Re: Struggling With RubyGems) — Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...> 2007/01/17

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:29:09AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#234655] Re: RubyGems 0.9.1 problem (was Re: Struggling With RubyGems) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/01/17

On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote:

[#234659] Re: RubyGems 0.9.1 problem (was Re: Struggling With RubyGems) — "David Goodlad" <dgoodlad@...> 2007/01/17

On 1/17/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#234667] Re: RubyGems 0.9.1 problem (was Re: Struggling With RubyGems) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/01/17

On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:17 PM, David Goodlad wrote:

[#234668] Re: RubyGems 0.9.1 problem (was Re: Struggling With RubyGems) — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...> 2007/01/17

On 1/17/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#234732] Ruby text editor for beginner — "Shawn Wa..." <shawnw@...>

I'm looking for a simple text editor for Ruby to work under WinXP SP2.

29 messages 2007/01/18

[#234744] Ruby and Python, questions (not a flamewar!) — Drew Olson <olsonas@...>

I've been using ruby for the past 6 months and I must say I am extremely

19 messages 2007/01/18

[#234800] auto assign arguments? — "David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky@...>

I see where to put bugs and patches, but this is a feature request. Is

35 messages 2007/01/18
[#234826] Re: auto assign arguments? — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2007/01/18

[#234830] Re: auto assign arguments? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/01/18

On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#234832] Re: auto assign arguments? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/01/18

On 1/18/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#234839] Re: auto assign arguments? — gwtmp01@... 2007/01/18

[#234842] Re: auto assign arguments? — "David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky@...> 2007/01/18

Wow. You guys are all coming up w/ great alternatives, but would

[#234919] Re: auto assign arguments? — dblack@... 2007/01/19

Hi --

[#234922] Re: auto assign arguments? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/01/19

On 1/19/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#234925] Re: auto assign arguments? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/19

Hi,

[#234889] rubyforge.org questions — Peter Szinek <peter@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2007/01/19
[#234901] Re: rubyforge.org questions — "Jan Svitok" <jan.svitok@...> 2007/01/19

On 1/19/07, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:

[#234908] Re: rubyforge.org questions — Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> 2007/01/19

Jan Svitok wrote:

[#234902] OFFTOPIC: How to pronounce Ruby? — Peter Szinek <peter@...>

Is it more similar to 'dummy' or 'dubi(ous)'? (or neither :-)

13 messages 2007/01/19

[#234949] Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Wolfgang_N=E1dasi-Donner?= <wonado@...>

Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'

98 messages 2007/01/19
[#234953] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/19

Hi,

[#234972] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/19

Hi,

[#235124] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/01/20

On 19.01.2007 19:33, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#235126] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — "Phrogz" <gavin@...> 2007/01/20

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#235137] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/01/20

On 20.01.2007 18:54, Phrogz wrote:

[#235144] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/20

Hi --

[#235148] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Wolfgang N疆asi-Donner <wonado@...> 2007/01/20

dblack@wobblini.net schrieb:

[#235150] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/20

Hi --

[#235153] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — gwtmp01@... 2007/01/20

[#235155] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/20

Hi --

[#235166] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/20

Hi --

[#235192] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — gwtmp01@... 2007/01/21

[#235238] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/21

Hi --

[#235254] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Wolfgang N疆asi-Donner <wonado@...> 2007/01/21

dblack@wobblini.net schrieb:

[#235262] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/21

Hi --

[#235274] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Wolfgang_N=E1dasi-Donner?= <wonado@...> 2007/01/21

dblack@wobblini.net schrieb:

[#235280] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/21

Hi --

[#235347] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/22

Hi,

[#235352] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/22

Hi --

[#235354] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/22

Hi,

[#235361] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/22

Hi --

[#235388] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/22

Hi,

[#235443] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/22

Hi --

[#235448] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/22

Hi,

[#235567] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — dblack@... 2007/01/23

Hi --

[#235575] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/01/23

Hi,

[#235578] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/23

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#235653] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/01/23

On 1/23/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#235680] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — Pit Capitain <pit@...> 2007/01/23

Robert Dober schrieb:

[#235684] Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method' — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/23

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Pit Capitain wrote:

[#235013] I don't get rspec — "nicknameoptional" <dorrenchen@...>

I just discovered rspec today, reading the example and tutorials,

45 messages 2007/01/19
[#235021] Re: I don't get rspec — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2007/01/19

nicknameoptional wrote:

[#235035] Re: I don't get rspec — "nicknameoptional" <dorrenchen@...> 2007/01/20

> There is a good Google video about rspec and Behavior Driven

[#235492] Re: I don't get rspec — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2007/01/22

"nicknameoptional" <dorrenchen@gmail.com> writes:

[#235539] test/spec -- was Re: I don't get rspec — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2007/01/22

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#235747] Re: test/spec -- was Re: I don't get rspec — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2007/01/23

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

[#235770] Re: test/spec -- was Re: I don't get rspec — "David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky@...> 2007/01/23

On 1/23/07, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:

[#235031] Learning Japanese — "Gerardo Santana Gez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>

Thanks to Ruby I've learned a lot recently about programming languages

11 messages 2007/01/20

[#235046] "postgres" module needs work, author gone, patch included — Jeff Davis <ruby@...>

The "postgres" module is old and it's been a long time since there's

12 messages 2007/01/20

[#235141] FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — Ab Cd <grauenwolf@...>

Whenever I start FreeRIDE I get a ton of warnings. It takes a long time

29 messages 2007/01/20
[#235145] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — matt <matt@...> 2007/01/20

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 03:32 +0900, Ab Cd wrote:

[#235172] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — Jonathan Allen <grauenwolf@...> 2007/01/20

matt wrote:

[#235173] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — matt <matt@...> 2007/01/20

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 08:43 +0900, Jonathan Allen wrote:

[#235181] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — Jonathan Allen <grauenwolf@...> 2007/01/21

[#235184] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/01/21

Jonathan Allen wrote:

[#235191] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — matt <matt@...> 2007/01/21

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 10:41 +0900, Timothy Hunter wrote:

[#235198] Re: FreeRIDE - Way too many warnings — Jonathan Allen <grauenwolf@...> 2007/01/21

matt wrote:

[#235180] Hash pairs at? — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Seesm like there should be a mehtod for this:

32 messages 2007/01/21

[#235197] Getting the version number for rubygems? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2007/01/21
[#235202] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/21

On Jan 20, 2007, at 20:11, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#235203] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/01/21

On 1/20/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#235204] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...> 2007/01/21

require 'rubygems'

[#235205] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/01/21

On 1/21/07, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@gmail.com> wrote:

[#235206] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2007/01/21

Gregory Brown wrote:

[#235208] Re: Getting the version number for rubygems? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/01/21

On 1/21/07, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:

[#235248] uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — "libsfan01" <mcyi2mr3@...>

hi all

20 messages 2007/01/21
[#235251] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — "libsfan01" <mcyi2mr3@...> 2007/01/21

My reason for wanting to uninstall is that ive tried to install the

[#235258] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/01/21

libsfan01 wrote:

[#235287] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — "libsfan01" <mcyi2mr3@...> 2007/01/21

[#235294] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/01/21

libsfan01 wrote:

[#270097] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — Aaron Massey <amassey@...> 2007/09/20

I have a similar problem. I installed a manually compiled version of

[#270098] Re: uninstalling the mac tiger version of ruby — "Peter Cooper" <peter@...> 2007/09/20

On 9/20/07, Aaron Massey <amassey@csoft.net> wrote:

[#235283] module global variables — Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@...>

Is there a way to define per-module global variables? My best

14 messages 2007/01/21
[#235289] Re: module global variables — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/21

[#235290] Re: module global variables — Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@...> 2007/01/21

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:52:58AM +0900, Trans wrote:

[#235384] Can't install rubygems — lijie <cpunion@...>

The rubygems installer can't finish, and CPU is 100% used in several hours.

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[#235464] Method notation question — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...>

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[#235574] Placing tabs in strings in irb — "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>

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[#235624] I need a more efficient algorithm for this problem. — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>

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[#235633] Ruby for massively multi-core chips? — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

How to best evolve Ruby to accommodate 80-core

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[#235880] Trickery in the ancestors chain — "Paolo Nusco Perrotta" <paolo.nusco.perrotta@...>

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[#235938] Ruby IDE for Windows 98? — Bart Braem <bart.braem@...>

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[#235973] Re: Ruby IDE for Windows 98? — Olivier <o.renaud@...> 2007/01/24

> With Ruby. (We have good reasons, I'll explain them

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[#236217] cartesian product of arrays — Thomas Hafner <thomas@...>

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[#236240] Counting Toothpicks (#111) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

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[#236243] Rubygem install "Invalid argument - sources-0.0.1.gem" — Jeremy Lecour <jeremy.lecour@...>

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[#236475] Re: Rubygem install "Invalid argument - sources-0.0.1.gem" — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/01/27

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[#236530] Re: Rubygem install "Invalid argument - sources-0.0.1.gem" — Jeremy Lecour <jeremy.lecour@...> 2007/01/28

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[#236687] FastRI 0.3.0: standalone mode (qri, DRb not needed), additional search methods, extended class info — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>

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[#237012] Ruby and an efficiency — "Miroslaw Maziarz" <miroslaw.maziarz@...>

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[#237036] proper usr/bin/env ruby shebang — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...>

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[#237040] Re: proper usr/bin/env ruby shebang — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...> 2007/01/31

Hi,

[SUMMARY] Word Search (#107)

From: Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-04 14:14:53 UTC
List: ruby-talk #232589
I had a few moments this weekend and sat down to work this problem.  I was quite
surprised to find it tougher than I had expected.  I fiddled around for about an
hour trying to find a solution I felt was elegant, but never really got there. 
Luckily, we have many submitters smarter than me.

Almost all of the solutions this week took different approaches and they are all
quite interesting.  This doesn't seem to be one of those problems we have a
standard approach for.  Some solutions did a boring search using X and Y
coordinates; others started by building a map of points in the puzzle to letters
or even letters to points; one even works by performing board transformations. 
I'm going to show the basic X and Y search in this summary, but the other method
were equally interesting and well worth a look.

Let's talk about the solution from Bob Showalter, which begins like this:

	class WordSearch
	
	 class Board < Array
	
	   def to_s
	     collect {|s| s.split(//).join(' ')}.join("\n")
	   end
	
	 end
	 
	 # ...

Here we see an Array subclass with a trivial modification.  Board objects are
just two-dimensional Arrays that know how to draw themselves in the quiz output
format.

Let's move on to the setup code:

	 # ...
	 
	 attr_reader :board, :solution
	
	 # creates a new, empty solver
	 def initialize
	   @board = Board.new
	   @solution = Board.new
	 end
	
	 # resets the solution
	 def reset
	   @solution.clear
	   @board.each {|row| @solution << row.gsub(/./, '+')}
	 end
	 
	 # ...

Here we have the initialization for two Board objects.  One will hold the actual
board, or puzzle object, and the other the solution-in-progress.  reset() gives
us hints at the solution object structure, which is cleared to a board full of
plus characters.

The board is loaded with the following code:

	 # ...
	 
	 # checks that the board contains only letters and that it has a uniform
	 # rectangular shape
	 def validate
	   @board.size > 0 or raise "Board has no rows"
	   @board.grep(/[^A-Z]/).empty? or raise "Board contains non-letters"
	   w = @board.collect {|row| row.size}.uniq
	   w.size == 1 or raise "Board rows are not all the same length"
	   w.first > 0 or raise "Board has no columns"
	 end
	
	 # parses the board by reading lines from io until a blank line (or EOF)
	 # is read.
	 def parse(io = ARGV)
	   @board.clear
	   while line = io.gets
	     line = line.strip.upcase
	     break if line == ''
	     @board << line
	   end
	   validate
	   reset
	 end
	 
	 # ...

validate() is just a reality check for the board.  It verifies that we have some
rows, those rows contain letters, there are columns in each row, and in fact the
same number of columns.  That check is run towards the end of parse(), which
just reads line by line filling the board object.  Note that reset() is also
called to prepare the solution object.

The real work comes in the methods that search for words:

	 # ...
	
	 # search for word. returns number of times found.  solution is updated
	 # with all occurences.
	 def search(word)
	   found = 0
	   0.upto(board.size-1) do |y|
	     0.upto(board[y].size-1) do |x|
	       [-1, 0, 1].each do |dy|
	         [-1, 0, 1].each do |dx|
	           next if dx == 0 and dy == 0
	           found += 1 if search_for(word.strip.upcase, x, y, dx, dy)
	         end
	       end
	     end
	   end
	   found
	 end
	
	 # search for word in board starting at position (x,y) and moving in
	 # direction (dx,dy). returns true if found, false if not found.
	 def search_for(word, x, y, dx, dy)
	   return false if x < 0                 or
	                   x >= board.first.size or
	                   y < 0                 or
	                   y >= board.size
	   return false if board[y][x] != word[0]
	   prev = solution[y][x]
	   solution[y][x] = board[y][x]
	   return true if word.length <= 1
	   found = search_for(word[1,word.length-1], x + dx, y + dy, dx, dy)
	   solution[y][x] = prev unless found
	   found
	 end
	 
	 # ...

The search() method manages the hunt for a single term.  It's a trivial
brute-force find from every starting square in all eight directions.  The method
maintains and returns a count, for all occurrences found during the search.  The
actual letter match is handed off to search_for() though.

In search_for() a recursive search is used to find letter by letter.  The tricky
part here is that the solution object is modified as we search, assuming we will
find the word.  This means that an extra walk isn't needed to update the
solution later, but it also means the code must revert the changes to the
solution object if the word isn't found.  Those are the gymnastics you see in
the second half of the method.

The next two methods wrap an interface around these calls:

	 # ...
	 
	 # creates a new puzzle by parsing the board from io. see
	 # WordSearch#parse
	 def self.parse(io = ARGF)
	   obj = new
	   obj.parse(io)
	   obj
	 end
	
	 def to_s
	   solution.to_s
	 end
	
	end
	
	# ...

The class method parse() constructs an object and parses the board from the
passed IO object.  The instance method to_s() can then be used to show final
results, after one or more calls to search().

The solution ends with code to kick-off the process:

	# ...
	
	# parse the board first
	p = WordSearch.parse
	
	# parse the words until a blank line is read
	words = []
	while line = ARGF.gets
	 line = line.strip.upcase
	 break if line == ''
	 words += line.gsub(',', ' ').split
	end
	
	# submit each word and show how many times it was found
	for word in words.sort.uniq
	 n = p.search(word)
	 puts word + ' was ' + (n == 0 ? 'not found'  :
	                        n == 1 ? 'found once' :
	                                 "found #{n} times")
	end
	
	# show the solution
	puts p

Here we see the WordSearch object constructed and the board parsed out of the
input.  The remainder of the input is divided into words and search() is called
for each one.  A found count is printed for each word as the search is made,
then the final solution is displayed.

	+ + + M + + + + + +
	+ + + + Y + + + + +
	T H A N K S + + + +
	O + + + + + + + + +
	+ L L A + T H E + +
	+ + + + C + + + + +
	+ + S O L V E R S +
	+ + + + e + + + + +
	+ + + + V + + + + +
	+ + + + E + + + + +
	+ + + + R + + + + +

Tomorrow we have a new word game, so stay tuned...

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