[#329967] Ruby beginner Problem — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

I get the following error message when running the code below:

18 messages 2009/03/01
[#329972] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga@...> 2009/03/01

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Zayd Connor <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:

[#329973] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@...> 2009/03/01

Thanks Lasitha that worked perfect. I'm slowly getting more comfortable with

[#329975] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — Justin Collins <justincollins@...> 2009/03/01

Zayd Abdullah wrote:

[#330022] Delegating class methods — abc <arcadiorubiogarcia@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2009/03/01

[#330038] Rub 1.9: "inline rescue" doesn't work? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, is there any explanation for the folowing big difference between the same

11 messages 2009/03/01

[#330067] passing a method as a paramter — Sarah Allen <sarah@...>

I'm probably missing some basic Ruby syntax, but I'm relatively new to

13 messages 2009/03/02

[#330097] Compiling a Ruby app — Sharagoz -- <blashyrkh1@...>

Hi

22 messages 2009/03/02
[#330193] Re: Compiling a Ruby app — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/03/03

Sharagoz -- wrote:

[#330209] expanding environment variable — Daniel Schoch <trash@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2009/03/03
[#330212] Re: expanding environment variable — Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...> 2009/03/03

On [Tue, 03.03.2009 23:28], Daniel Schoch wrote:

[#330246] fixnum problem plz help — Guy Dols <guy_dols@...>

hy

14 messages 2009/03/03

[#330287] Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...>

Ruby has definite positives over Java and even other scripting

29 messages 2009/03/04
[#330292] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...> 2009/03/04

On Mar 4, 10:02m, "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyfo...@dagnon.net> wrote:

[#330322] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...> 2009/03/04

Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

[#330388] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...> 2009/03/05

On Mar 4, 3:32m, "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyfo...@dagnon.net> wrote:

[#330401] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...> 2009/03/05

Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

[#330363] Ruby -Question about Framewroks — jazzez ravi <jazzezravi@...>

Hi All,

12 messages 2009/03/05

[#330383] add a new line after, w/txtfile thats comma delimited — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

How do you add a new line after you have split a text file with

16 messages 2009/03/05

[#330387] Ruby - Imperative Language Features? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

The Wikipedia entry for Ruby says:

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[#330601] how to un-ragged a 2D array? — Phlip <phlip2005@...>

Rubies:

12 messages 2009/03/07

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Hello.

14 messages 2009/03/08

[#330638] OO style tutorials? — Paul Archer <paul@...>

I'm pretty new to Ruby, and while I've read (and mostly get) several books

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[#330665] What are the 5 most innovative ruby projects/libraries? — Camille Roux <roux.camille@...>

Hi,

27 messages 2009/03/08

[#330701] Ruby OpenGL Gears example that uses shiny and velvet GLSL shaders — Michael Brooks <michael.brooks@...>

Hello:

11 messages 2009/03/09
[#330722] Re: Ruby OpenGL Gears example that uses shiny and velvet GLSL shaders — Matthias Reitinger <reitinge@...> 2009/03/09

Michael Brooks wrote:

[#330718] MacRuby 0.4 — Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2009/03/09

[#330954] How Many hours in A day — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

I have a very simple ? How many hours in a day should someone who is new

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[#330990] How to read a charecters from and image? — rails and rails only <mjayakumar2k6@...>

16 messages 2009/03/12
[#330993] Re: How to read a charecters from and image? — pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) 2009/03/12

rails and rails only <mjayakumar2k6@yahoo.com> writes:

[#330994] Re: How to read a charecters from and image? — Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@...> 2009/03/12

Stop that! He's probably looking to crack CAPTCHAs.

[#331216] does IO.read block? — Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>

Hi All,

16 messages 2009/03/15
[#331218] Re: does IO.read block? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2009/03/15

On 15.03.2009 23:02, Michael Malone wrote:

[#331307] Trying to install Fox, FXRuby, and IFMapper on Mac OS X — kpkilburn@...

I can't seem to find a specific answer on this...

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[#331326] Dynamically extending modules once they have been included — pete@...373.net

It doesn't seem possible to dynamically extend modules once they have

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[#331371] free RAM problem — Edouard Dantes <edrd.dantes@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2009/03/17

[#331411] hpricot 0.7 — _why <why@...>

Please enjoy a succulent, new Hpricot. A bit faster, some Ruby 1.9

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[#331476] Complex sort of matrix possible, e.g. like Excel? — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

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15 messages 2009/03/18

[#331568] Modulo ? — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

Maybe i need to get some sleep, but can someone explain how modulos

16 messages 2009/03/19

[#331628] Passing a named function instead of a code block? — Paul Jungwirth <once@9stmaryrd.com>

Hello,

13 messages 2009/03/20
[#331630] Re: Passing a named function instead of a code block? — Matthias Reitinger <reitinge@...> 2009/03/20

Paul Jungwirth wrote:

[#331760] Ruby GUI Libs — ntwrkd <ntwrkd@...>

Is there a nicer GUI framework for Ruby other than RubyGoo?

12 messages 2009/03/21

[#331793] Newbie needs help with first project — Daniel Dale <dochappy@...>

I was told about Ruby several weeks ago and started my journey lol. I've

15 messages 2009/03/22
[#331796] Re: Newbie needs help with first project — Stefan Codrescu <fixxie.wits@...> 2009/03/22

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[#331899] Test::Unit - same test, different "args" — "Luke St.Clair" <secureboot@...>

I need to run the same unit test case more than 10 times (around 150

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[#331924] Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...>

Hello there!

20 messages 2009/03/24
[#331931] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — gcristelli <giovanni.cristelli@...> 2009/03/24

On 24 Mar, 04:21, Felipe Coury <felipe.co...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#331938] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Giovanni / Rob,

[#331940] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Some more discoveries...

[#331941] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Just as a FYI, it works!!!

[#331948] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/03/24

On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Felipe Coury wrote:

[#365126] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Joshua Mckinney <joshmckin@...> 2010/07/01

Having no luck with this. Getting the following error when generating

[#331930] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

44 messages 2009/03/24
[#332078] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "Andrew S. Townley" <ast@...> 2009/03/25

Hi Ara,

[#332095] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2009/03/25

[#332141] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "Andrew S. Townley" <ast@...> 2009/03/25

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:23 +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:

[#332160] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2009/03/26

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I wanted to have irb start its session on an object other than the

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[#332023] ruby and 2D graphics — Philip Müller <me@...>

Hi everybody,

22 messages 2009/03/24
[#332029] Re: ruby and 2D graphics — Philip Müller <me@...> 2009/03/24

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:08:34 +0100, Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.ru>

[#332112] Parsing xml — Arun Kumar <arunkumar@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2009/03/25
[#332115] Re: Parsing xml — "Peter Zotov" <whitequark@...> 2009/03/25

Quoting "Arun Kumar" <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>:

[#332116] Re: Parsing xml — Arun Kumar <arunkumar@...> 2009/03/25

Peter Zotov wrote:

[#332118] Re: Parsing xml — "Peter Zotov" <whitequark@...> 2009/03/25

Quoting "Arun Kumar" <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>:

[#332206] Update latest Ruby Version 1.9 on Mac OSX — Thomas Khaipi <sayakyi@...>

Dear All,

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[#332357] testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

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Ara Howard wrote:

[#332405] Ruby 1.9, OS X, command line: negative string size (ArgumentError) — Bartlomiej Owczarek <bartlomiej@...>

Hello,

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[#332474] Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

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27 messages 2009/03/30

[#332520] When to use instance variables @ — Steve Dogers <stevedogers@...>

Hi, I have a couple questions about instance variables in Ruby.

20 messages 2009/03/30

[#332547] Localmemcache-0.2.0: The beauty of memcached. For local data. Blazingly fast. — "Sven C. Koehler" <schween@...>

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13 messages 2009/03/30

[#332624] Move over, Phusion, here comes the *real* Enterprise Edition! — Jg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>

Hi!

20 messages 2009/03/31

Re: Can I access or find a object from it's instance variable?

From: Aki Wakabayashi <zzyzx2001@...>
Date: 2009-03-08 16:32:28 UTC
List: ruby-talk #330662
Thank you everyone. I would like thank every one one by one, but I think 
that will make this place look like a blog and I'm not sure if that's 
proper to this forum. But I really appreciate everyone's support.

Creating a class variable, or using weak references (though still 
complicated to me) made very much sense. The code at 
http://pastie.org/410782 was clear to the point where a @name instance 
variable is added to the class.

After cramming all this code into by head, I started to wonder if I was 
able to do what I wanted to by using the #object_id? I'm not sure at 
this point. Below is an example of what I wanted to achieve.

> What exactly do you mean by "actual identifier"?  If you mean #object_id
> then there is method ObjectSpace._id2ref.

I meant the variable that I used to point to the object, when they are 
created like:

var = Foo.new(77)

I wanted to get access to 'var' by using it's @some_id which is 77.

> The question is: what are you trying to achieve?

Thank you for asking. I was wondering how to update relations(imagine a 
social networking site) between objects of a single Class. I hope this 
will clarify why I want to access the variable of the object with its 
instance variable. This how far I got last night:

class Foo

  attr_accessor :name, :some_id, :relations

  def self.update_relationship(foo1, foo2)
    # code that adds @relations for foo1, and foo2 and updates it with
    # it's own MINUS its own :some_id, and updates other @some_id's 
included
    # in foo1.relations + foo2.relations.
  end

  def self.find_by_some_id(some_id)
    found = nil
    ObjectSpace.each_object(Foo) { |o| found = o if o.oid == oid}
    found
  end

  def to_s
    @name
  end

end


(create two objects):

John = Foo.new('John', 1,[])
Dave = Foo.new('Dave', 2,[])

(create a relationship between the two):

Foo.update_relationship(John, Dave)

John.relations -> [2]
Dave.relations -> [1]


Let's assume that along the line more objects are created and a new 
relationship is created with John.(I'm just going to create a new object 
and populate it's @relations instance variable, so the variables are 
visible)

Steve = Foo.new('Steve', 104, [55, 77])

Foo.update_relationship(Steve, John)

John.relations -> [2, 55, 77, 104]
Steve.relations -> [1,2,55,77]

...well, that's good, but all the other objects (with @some_id 2, 55 and 
77) would have to be updated right? For starters, Dave, the second 
object (with @some_id = 2) is currently still:

Dave.relations -> [1]

Where it has to be updated to [1, 55, 77, 104]

So in order to access the Dave object, I only had 2, it's @some_id 
instance variable to access it. Now, since I included the variable name 
in the instance variable I can access the Dave object with the 
find_by_some_id class method, and
get the @name instance variable which is the same as the variable (THIS 
IS WHERE I THOUGHT IT WAS NOT A RUBYIST SOLUTION)

I'm going to read a little more and see if I can use the object's 
#object_id to do all of this.

Thank you.

Aki


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