[#321574] Regular Expressions — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

Hi everyone.

15 messages 2008/12/01

[#321655] Ruby cgi script — ZippySwish <fischer.jan@...>

I put "script.rb" into the cgi-bin folder of my webhost, but nothing's

12 messages 2008/12/02

[#321733] FFI 0.2.0 — "Wayne Meissner" <wmeissner@...>

Greetings Rubyists.

20 messages 2008/12/03

[#321920] Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>

Any idea how to do that?

25 messages 2008/12/04
[#321924] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...> 2008/12/04

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@

[#322011] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Ron Fox <fox@...> 2008/12/05

See http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Process.html#M003012

[#322016] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...> 2008/12/05

Everybody automatically assumes that rubyists are using Linux - sadly,

[#321969] Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Vito Fontaine <vito.matro@...>

I am a beginner with Ruby who was interested in writing some programs.

15 messages 2008/12/04
[#321975] Re: Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2008/12/04

On 04.12.2008 22:43, Vito Fontaine wrote:

[#321984] Re: Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Vito Fontaine <vito.matro@...> 2008/12/05

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#322014] Proximity searches in Ruby — Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>

Does Ruby have the ability to perform proximity searches on data. For

14 messages 2008/12/05
[#322056] Re: Proximity searches in Ruby — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2008/12/05

No proximity searches with 1.8.. you would need a full fledged text

[#322073] shoes 2 (raisins) is go. — _why <why@...>

Salutations and hi.

13 messages 2008/12/06

[#322260] Help on algorythm — Helder Oliveira <hrpoliveira@...>

Guys i have been trying to make this algorythm but with no sucess, can

13 messages 2008/12/09
[#322261] Re: Help on algorythm — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...> 2008/12/09

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Helder Oliveira <hrpoliveira@gmail.com>wrote:

[#322283] Completely new programmer lacks direction — Cameron Carroll <ubernoobs@...>

Hi. I recently picked up a beginning ruby book, having only lightly

17 messages 2008/12/09

[#322285] compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

Hi. I want to take two files that are supposed to be identical, then ook

12 messages 2008/12/09
[#322301] Re: compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2008/12/09

Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:

[#322306] Re: compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...> 2008/12/09

require 'diff/lcs/Array'

[#322417] why Hash corrupts 'key' object ? — Dmitry Perfilyev <dmitry1976@...>

Hi, I have next script:

13 messages 2008/12/10

[#322464] Q: FFI and C++? — Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>

If I want to wrap a C++ library using FFI, can it cope with the name

14 messages 2008/12/11

[#322516] Invoking Ruby code from a low-level language? — Alex Fulton <a.fulton@...>

Hi, my sincerest apologies if this question has already been answered

11 messages 2008/12/11

[#322529] parallel method return value — Louis-Philippe <default@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2008/12/12

[#322566] How to run background processes (more than 1 worker) parallely. — "Deepak Gole" <deepak.gole8@...>

Hi

10 messages 2008/12/12

[#322624] singleton methods vs. meta instance methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

If I understand the ruby object model correctly, then an object's

15 messages 2008/12/13

[#322705] ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String — Tom Link <micathom@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2008/12/14

[#322710] Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I'm getting crazy to get a theorically easy substitution:

16 messages 2008/12/14

[#322819] Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>

Hi,

53 messages 2008/12/15
[#324442] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2009/01/10

On Jan 9, 9:26m, "Charles L." <aquas...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#323877] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2009/01/03

[#323903] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/01/04

[#324011] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2009/01/05

[#322987] Using ruby hash on array — Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>

I would like to process some data from an array and using hash to

14 messages 2008/12/17

[#323085] Ruby and Rails supported on 10gen — "Jim Menard" <jim.menard@...>

http://www.10gen.com/blog/2008/12/ruby-support-on-10gen

11 messages 2008/12/18

[#323166] Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187) — Matthew Moss <matt@...>

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11 messages 2008/12/19

[#323204] get first and last line from txt file - how? — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

I have txt file with date/time stamps only. I want to grab the first

19 messages 2008/12/20
[#323205] Re: get first and last line from txt file - how? — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2008/12/20

Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:

[#323207] Re: get first and last line from txt file - how? — "Yaser Sulaiman" <yaserbuntu@...> 2008/12/20

I'm just wondering..

[#323273] how to make installing Ruby easier for amateurs — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>

Greetings!

21 messages 2008/12/22

[#323312] Name that data structure! — Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@...>

I'm using a data structure that I'm sure has been implemented and

18 messages 2008/12/22
[#323314] Re: Name that data structure! — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2008/12/22

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com> wrote:

[#323342] Are all Ruby built-in objects thread safe? — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>

Are all built-in objects thread safe? For example, if I have an array

23 messages 2008/12/23
[#323346] Re: Are all Ruby built-in objects thread safe? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/12/23

Hi,

[#323519] What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — "Yaser Sulaiman" <yaserbuntu@...>

According to Wikipedia, a monkey patch[1] is:

36 messages 2008/12/27
[#323813] Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — Jg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...> 2009/01/02

Phlip wrote:

[#323832] Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/01/02

Hi --

[#323644] Why Ruby? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

I have never seen or heard of Ruby in a corporate context. The single

35 messages 2008/12/30

[#323668] Ruby 1.9.1 RC1 is released — "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui@...>

Hi, folks

21 messages 2008/12/30

Re: Why Ruby?

From: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas.wieland@...>
Date: 2008-12-30 14:12:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #323660
Il giorno 30/dic/08, alle ore 12:35, Robert Dober ha scritto:

>> It is indeed the ignorance that rules today. This ignorance however  
>> is
> nothing a single person has to be ashamed of. It is imposed by
> ridiculously short decision times, extreme budget pressure and an
> overall stressful environment.
> I am not capable of quoting any studies on this and would welcome any
> pointers. It is however quite obvious (my favourite prove method ;),
> that the pressure which exists in our professional lives discourages
> reflexion, deep understanding of what we are doing and innovative
> decisions. It is my believe that the winning business model will be
> one that breaks this vicious circle.

I disagree, I know a bit of how "pointy haired bosses" think (they  
tried to turn me into something like that several times, unfortunately  
for them there's a small Zed Shaw in me and they can't destroy my  
"your shit sucks and now you die" attitude :p) and I think the biggest  
problem is availability and cost of resources.
At the end they are something very close to end-users, they care about  
the final result, and of course they're not enough educated to make  
decisions that actually make sense on the tech side. What they see is  
that they can choose between a bunch of developers with medium/high  
salaries and a million of developers with medium/low salaries. What  
they normally think is: let's take 20 junior developers and hire a  
senior that acts_as_babysitter. That's the reason under the  
outsourcing madness too, developers are exchangeable.
I think that the problem here is not companies or management, but  
pretty much developers. If the only reason you choose a technology is  
the market:

a) In my opinion your skills are poor. In general, if "joy" isn't part  
of your choice you're a poor developer
b) They put themselves in the position of being exchangeable, they all  
have the same skillset, the same mindset, the same level of  
disinterest about their job.

Corporations especially are particularly good in this, they behave  
with every project as it already failed, that's why they always try to  
keep development costs as low as possible. The reason is simple, they  
often fail.

> My personal experience is that when I am talking to a decision taker
> about Ruby and she asks me why, my first sentence is already
> completely misunderstood - I am well aware of my responsibility in
> this kind of misunderstanding. But I never get a chance to discuss
> matters during say an hour. The cherry on top of the cream was one
> internal encounter with the decision maker, where I suggested to stop
> developpement in Java and start with Ruby using JRuby for an easy
> transition. This was considered to much risk taking and too much time
> consuming (sic). After presenting my case (1800s) the aforementioned
> response was made in less than 300s. Immediately after that they
> stalled the project for two months (yes that is 5184000s, you got that
> right) in which they discussed a migration from Java to C#(1). I have
> not stayed along to experience the outcome of this.... one has only
> one stomach you know :(

Yes, we all have this kind of stories :)
Mine is from my pre-Ruby days, where I used to be a Python developer.
One of the biggest banks in Italy hired me to develop an internal  
project in Python, they gave me 3 months (without asking me a damn).  
After less than 2 month I was over, wrote the test suite (I remember  
doing a no-no after the other, testing libraries, frameworks, just  
because I was bored). The project, after 3 years, is still in  
production. They switched to PHP of course, they weren't able to find  
enough Python developers, they didn't think at me whining because I  
was bored, finishing my project a lot before, releasing it with an  
uptime of years and without a single problem in all this time. They  
wanted numbers.
This is idiotic I know.
At least, after a few days of doing nothing, I rewrote the whole  
project in RubyOnRails (and finished it !!!), and actually felt in  
love :)

> -- 
> Il computer non una macchina intelligente che aiuta le persone
> stupide, anzi, una macchina stupida che funziona solo nelle mani
> delle persone intelligenti.
> Computers are not smart to help stupid people, rather they are stupid
> and will work only if taken care of by smart people.
>
> Umberto Eco

I see that Abulafia is well known outside Italy as well :)
I love "Il pendolo di Focault" as well, one of my favourites.

   ngw

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