[#335632] SOAP - issue with openssl verification failure — Venkat Alla <spinhoo2000@...>

I have the following code in a script that I am trying to use at work -

10 messages 2009/05/01

[#335755] Should I upgrade Ruby from 1.8.5 to 1.8.7? — Cali Wildman <caliwildman2004-info@...>

I just upgraded to Rails 2.3.2 but my Ruby is still 1.8.5. Rails 2.3.2

23 messages 2009/05/04

[#335777] my logroll code, please critique — Derek Smith <derekbellnersmith@...>

My goal is to keep 10 files each at 100Mb. Please critique and suggest

12 messages 2009/05/05

[#335842] '=||' — James Byrne <byrnejb@...>

Can someone point out to me where exactly in the API I find a discussion

18 messages 2009/05/05
[#335843] Re: '=||' — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/05/05

On 5 May 2009, at 20:51, James Byrne wrote:

[#336031] Superclass of eigenclass — Danny O cuiv <danny.ocuiv@...>

On page 261 of The Ruby Programming Language, they state:

30 messages 2009/05/07
[#336052] Re: Superclass of eigenclass — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2009/05/07

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Danny O cuiv <danny.ocuiv@gmail.com> wrote:

[#336056] Re: Superclass of eigenclass — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2009/05/07

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

[#336061] Ruby memory usage — Pete Hodgson <ruby-forum@...>

Hi Folks,

23 messages 2009/05/07

[#336087] File over tcp? with out using net/ftp — Bigmac Turdsplash <i8igmac@...>

Im trying to send a file back and forth between a client.rb and

12 messages 2009/05/07

[#336160] CGI help — Jeff Leggett <hikerguy@...>

So, I am trying ot read the contents of a file and format the contents

19 messages 2009/05/08

[#336168] ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior — Gary Yngve <gary.yngve@...>

First the docs:

17 messages 2009/05/08
[#336169] Re: ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/05/08

On 9 May 2009, at 00:26, Gary Yngve wrote:

[#336205] converting UTF-8 to entities like &#x525B; — Jian Lin <winterheat@...>

15 messages 2009/05/09

[#336385] Any current preprocessor/Ruby language add-ons? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...>

This is kind of a wide-ranging question but for some fairly specific

16 messages 2009/05/12

[#336411] Whaaaaat? — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>

p [0..5].include? 0

26 messages 2009/05/12

[#336458] what could be improved in Ruby for Science? — Diego Virasoro <Diego.Virasoro@...>

Hello,

20 messages 2009/05/13

[#336505] Syntactic sugar idea — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

It seems that often an object will be passed into a block only to invoke

26 messages 2009/05/14
[#336508] Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea — Jan <jan.h.xie@...> 2009/05/14

* Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> [2009-05-14 11:42:31 +0900]:

[#336766] Berkeley DB or Store equivalent? — Mk 27 <halfcountplus@...>

I have never used mySQL because perl's Storable or BerkeleyDB modules

16 messages 2009/05/17

[#336783] permute each element of a ragged array? — Phlip <phlip2005@...>

Rubies:

19 messages 2009/05/17

[#336821] Sorting numbers as strings — Jack Bauer <realmadrid2727@...>

I'm trying to sort some strings containing numbers. The strings

14 messages 2009/05/18

[#336850] Introducing RubyScience on GitHub! — Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>

In the tradition of actions vs. words, I present to you:

14 messages 2009/05/18

[#336930] Create an exe with Ruby 1.9.1 — Marc-antoine Kruzik <kadelfek@...>

Hello !

23 messages 2009/05/19

[#336939] Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...>

Greetings, folks. First time poster, so if I breach

235 messages 2009/05/19
[#337023] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...> 2009/05/20

On May 20, 8:51m, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#337025] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2009/05/20

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM, J Haas <Myrdred@gmail.com> wrote:

[#337045] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...> 2009/05/20

On May 20, 12:25m, Tony Arcieri <t...@medioh.com> wrote:

[#337016] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/05/20

> ...maybe something like this:

[#337699] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...> 2009/05/28

On May 27, 10:21m, James Britt <james.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#337734] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2009/05/28

J Haas wrote:

[#337740] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...> 2009/05/28

On May 28, 2009, at 2:33 PM, James Britt wrote:

[#337745] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...> 2009/05/28

On May 28, 11:15m, Eleanor McHugh <elea...@games-with-brains.com>

[#337954] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Steven Arnold <stevena@...> 2009/05/30

After listening to this debate for some time, the position of allowing

[#338133] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Andy F <andchafow-ruby@...> 2009/06/02

[#338172] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/06/02

On 2 Jun 2009, at 06:20, Andy F wrote:

[#337581] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — J Haas <Myrdred@...> 2009/05/27

On May 22, 9:01m, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#337673] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...> 2009/05/28

[#337686] Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse) — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/05/28

On 28 May 2009, at 15:06, Juan Zanos wrote:

[#337002] Ruby 1.8 vs. Ruby 1.9 — Calvin <cstephens4@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2009/05/20

[#337094] snailgun-1.0.2 — Brian Candler <b.candler@...>

New experimental project:

18 messages 2009/05/21

[#337115] w00t! Party for Gregory! — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>

> On May 20, 2009, Gregory Brown wrote:

12 messages 2009/05/21

[#337221] Cryptogram II (#206) — Daniel Moore <yahivin@...>

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17 messages 2009/05/22

[#337323] String concatenation in Ruby — Jagadeesh <mnjagadeesh@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2009/05/25

[#337340] Do you nest classes inside classes? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

Object Orientation is conceptually about a sea of objects interacting

11 messages 2009/05/25

[#337366] Runnin code at a certain time? — Tom Ricks <carrottop123@...>

Hello all,

20 messages 2009/05/25
[#337392] Re: Runnin code at a certain time? — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2009/05/25

On 5/25/09, Tom Ricks <carrottop123@gmail.com> wrote:

[#337413] Other languages to try? — Adam Gardner <adam.oddfellow@...>

So, I've been programming in Ruby for a good while now. Not an expert,

20 messages 2009/05/26

[#337421] Newbie on Threads — Nabs Kahn <nabusman@...>

I'm creating a screen scraping software and I want to have X (let's say

13 messages 2009/05/26
[#337424] Re: Newbie on Threads — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2009/05/26

2009/5/26 Nabs Kahn <nabusman@gmail.com>:

[#337507] Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>

I have the following working with cleartext LDAP:

20 messages 2009/05/26
[#337539] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2009/05/27

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

[#338073] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...> 2009/06/01

Brian Candler wrote:

[#338082] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2009/06/01

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

[#338084] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...> 2009/06/01

Brian Candler wrote:

[#338094] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2009/06/01

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

[#338095] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...> 2009/06/01

Brian Candler wrote:

[#338096] Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...> 2009/06/01

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

[#337574] Installing Ruby 1.9.1 Binary on Windows Vista — Joel Dezenzio <jdezenzio@...>

I've searched and only found one topic which did not have an answer or

27 messages 2009/05/27

[#337671] death toll — deka <rocha.deka@...>

Hi, I am a Brazilian girl and I have a doubt abour numbers in English.

13 messages 2009/05/28

[#337823] Endless Ruby 0.0.2 — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>

endless.rb is a pre-processor for ruby which allows you to use python-ish

22 messages 2009/05/29

[#337841] Regular expression — Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>

I want to write a regular expression to do the following.

13 messages 2009/05/29

[#337869] Quine (#207) — Daniel Moore <yahivin@...>

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46 messages 2009/05/29
[#338000] Re: [QUIZ] Quine (#207) — pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) 2009/05/31

Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:

[#338018] Re: [QUIZ] Quine (#207) — Aureliano Calvo <aurelianocalvo@...> 2009/06/01

I did something like that, but with parenthesis.

[#337899] Requesting Japanese Translation — James Gray <james@...>

I'm adding a little Japanese to a Ruby presentation I am giving. I

13 messages 2009/05/30

[#337961] nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>

nokogiri version 1.3.0 has been released!

32 messages 2009/05/30
[#337962] Re: nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/05/30

Aaron Patterson wrote:

[#337966] Re: nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Aaron Patterson <aaron@...> 2009/05/30

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:43:05AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:

[#337968] Re: nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Iii Iii <bqotatjyujepur@...> 2009/05/30

> gem install nokogiri

[#337985] Re: nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Aaron Patterson <aaron@...> 2009/05/31

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:37:54AM +0900, Iii Iii wrote:

[#338049] Re: nokogiri 1.3.0 Released — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/06/01

Re: what could be improved in Ruby for Science?

From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-05-13 19:52:54 UTC
List: ruby-talk #336483
On May 13, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Diego Virasoro wrote:

> Hello,
> I've noticed that languages such as Python are becoming more and more
> fashionable with the Scientific communities, along side more hard core
> classics like Fortran and Java.
>
> Do you think  Ruby is missing some piece of technology to be useful in
> science? Or poor libraries?
> In the end what do you think that could be done to make Ruby more used
> in Science?

I have a sneaky suspicion that Ruby is being much more widely used in  
Science than you might guess based just on forum posts and Google  
searches. I think the biggest difference between science in Python and  
science in Ruby is the sharing. For example, I'm using Ruby for some  
evolutionary modeling for my Ph.D. thesis. I've thought about library- 
izing some of the code, but that's extra effort. In other words, it  
seems like Ruby is almost "too good" in that it lets you do really  
rapid development of experimental code without the need to first write  
entire libraries. The first step in building a better science-ruby  
community is remembering to share.

In that respect, let me be the first to post a link to http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/ 
, although it seems to be down (paging Dr. Howard?). Now, there's  
another problem in that, as has been mentioned, Python and Perl are  
technically no better than Ruby for this sort of work. Of course, the  
flip side of that is that Ruby is no better than they are, and they  
already have communities with critical mass. So, maybe what Ruby  
really needs is to be *better* than Perl and Python.

On that topic, one idea I've been batting around in my head is  
extending Ruby's prototyping capabilities and making Ruby methods  
first class objects. This would have to either be a Ruby 2.0/2.1 goal,  
or a fork of Ruby proper. However, what I imagine is that adding these  
two pieces would make Ruby simply unbeatable for all classes of Object  
composition patterns of programming (not just scientific programming).

...in my head there's also a graphical representation of Ruby objects  
as blocks and methods as slots in the blocks with lots of wires making  
logical connections and it's all equally code-able graphically and  
textually...

Cheers,

Josh

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