[#368826] ANN: home_run 0.9.1 Released — Jeremy Evans <code@...>

= home_run

14 messages 2010/09/01

[#368894] uninitialized constant NArray (Name Error) — Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>

Following section (2) here:

12 messages 2010/09/02

[#368914] p vs. print — Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>

I wrote the following scripts from section (2) here:

24 messages 2010/09/02
[#368915] Re: p vs. print — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com> 2010/09/02

Ruby uses "puts", not "print". "p" is short for "puts".

[#368977] Read cookie — Pål Bergström <pal@...>

How can I get the value of a browser cookie with Ruby?

29 messages 2010/09/03
[#368978] Re: Read cookie — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2010/09/03

P奪l Bergstr旦m wrote:

[#368984] Re: Read cookie — Pål Bergström <pal@...> 2010/09/03

Brian Candler wrote:

[#369036] ruby_archive 0.1.0 released — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...>

After a summer of working on various ways to implement it, I'm happy to

10 messages 2010/09/03

[#369106] A better idiomatic way of doing this?! — Tim Romberg <tim.jakobsson@...>

Hi Im new at Ruby and been struggling with this lab I have for a course

12 messages 2010/09/05

[#369113] unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>

I have written a Ruby script "dicom_info.rb", and when I try running

16 messages 2010/09/06
[#369119] Re: unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2010/09/06

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 12:42:11PM +0900, Abder-Rahman Ali wrote:

[#369132] Re: unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...> 2010/09/06

Thanks a lot Brian.

[#369139] Re: unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2010/09/06

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:55:32PM +0900, Abder-Rahman Ali wrote:

[#369140] Re: unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...> 2010/09/06

So, do you suggest installing "cygwin"?

[#369159] Re: unable to open X server `' (Magick::ImageMagickError) — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/09/06

> you suggest installing "cygwin"?

[#369124] Odd functional programming question — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>

Ok this is probably not really functional programming but I was just

10 messages 2010/09/06

[#369169] How do I request a HTTPS page? — Samuel Sternhagen <samatoms@...>

I would like to access a https page from irb

14 messages 2010/09/06

[#369226] What OS do you use for Ruby development? — Nick Hird <nrhird@...>

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS

67 messages 2010/09/07

[#369301] Nokogiri and LibXML — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

Each time i launch a script using Nokogiri i get :

12 messages 2010/09/08

[#369302] Receiving array naturally? — Terry Michaels <spare@...>

As I learn Ruby, I find a lot of flexibility in the syntax. I was

14 messages 2010/09/08

[#369389] Key Associated w/ Maximum Value in Hash — Timothy Baron <timothy.baron@...>

Simple question: what's the cleanest way to retrieve a key associated

11 messages 2010/09/09

[#369477] How to do foo.chomp!.rstrip!.downcase! ? — Geometric Patterns <geometric.patterns@...>

15 messages 2010/09/10

[#369623] Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2010/09/12

[#369638] Declarative relations between object attributes — Knut Franke <knut.franke@...>

Some time ago I stumbled over Cells[1], a Common Lisp extension allowing

16 messages 2010/09/12

[#369710] Encoding error while installing rails on ruby 1.9.2 — Bek Bek <bekis3@...>

Hello everybody,

11 messages 2010/09/14

[#369796] Ruby Multi-threading? — Terry Michaels <spare@...>

I read a Ruby e-book recently that indicated that although Ruby has

12 messages 2010/09/15

[#369952] Developing for Ruby on Windows? — Tom Wardrop <tom@...>

I've heard a lot of criticism about developing for Ruby on Windows, but

11 messages 2010/09/17

[#370039] Ruby-based data language — Intransition <transfire@...>

Has anyone ever endeavored to create a data/configuration file format

14 messages 2010/09/19

[#370053] Getting GUI for ruby for Linux running (QT or wxWidget)? — Markus Fischer <markus@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2010/09/19
[#370054] Re: Getting GUI for ruby for Linux running (QT or wxWidget)? — Markus Fischer <markus@...> 2010/09/19

On 20.09.2010 01:14, Markus Fischer wrote:

[#370116] Re: Getting GUI for ruby for Linux running (QT or wxWidget)? — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2010/09/20

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[#370164] Re: Getting GUI for ruby for Linux running (QT or wxWidget)? — Ryan Melton <ryanmelt@...> 2010/09/21

qt does have a new gem I put together:

[#370205] QT works! (was: Re: Getting GUI for ruby for Linux running (QT or wxWidget)) — Markus Fischer <markus@...> 2010/09/21

Hi,

[#370127] An elegant way... — "F. Senault" <fred@...>

Hello everybody.

23 messages 2010/09/20

[#370210] The Great Ruby GUI Toolkit Roundup — Ed Howland <ed.howland@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2010/09/21

[#370257] having problems with open4 and stuck forked processes — Tim Uckun <timuckun@...>

I am running a batch process which uses the wkhtmltoimage-i386 binary

13 messages 2010/09/22
[#370268] Re: having problems with open4 and stuck forked processes — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/09/22

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:

[#370294] Re: having problems with open4 and stuck forked processes — Tim Uckun <timuckun@...> 2010/09/22

> What do you mean by that?  Goes the timeout undetected?  Can't you

[#370309] Re: having problems with open4 and stuck forked processes — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/09/23

On 23.09.2010 01:59, Tim Uckun wrote:

[#370289] Sorting problem with an Array of Arrays — Paul <tester.paul@...>

Hi there, I have an array of arrays that looks like the following:

15 messages 2010/09/22

[#370296] Ruby Installation Error — Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@...>

I am trying this command to build the ruby interpreter

20 messages 2010/09/23
[#370689] Re: Ruby Installation Error — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2010/09/29

Tridib Bandopadhyay wrote:

[#370319] to make dot method dot method work? — Pen Ttt <myocean135@...>

here is the class

14 messages 2010/09/23

[#370373] how do i force ruby to release memory — Amit Tomar <amittomer25@...>

Hi all,

19 messages 2010/09/24
[#370374] Re: how do i force ruby to release memory — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/09/24

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Amit Tomar <amittomer25@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#370379] Re: how do i force ruby to release memory — Amit Tomar <amittomer25@...> 2010/09/24

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#370380] Re: how do i force ruby to release memory — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/09/24

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Amit Tomar <amittomer25@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#370383] Re: how do i force ruby to release memory — Amit Tomar <amittomer25@...> 2010/09/24

Jes炭s Gabriel y Gal叩n wrote:

[#370388] How to delete the browser cache through ruby — Arihan Sinha <arihan_sinha@...>

Hi All,

11 messages 2010/09/24

[#370590] Point me to help w/ multithreading in 1.9.2-p0 — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com>

Hi Folks - A week or two ago, I pinged this list for recommendations on

11 messages 2010/09/28
[#370593] Re: Point me to help w/ multithreading in 1.9.2-p0 — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com> 2010/09/28

Nevermind... figured it out.

[#370640] puts and return — Jim Haungs <jhaungs@...>

10.times do |i|

14 messages 2010/09/28

[#370661] Color sequences in ri on Windows — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>

After installing some gems, the system recommended that I refresh ri

11 messages 2010/09/28

[#370721] The beauty of Ruby through examples — Adriano Ferreira <adrfer@...>

Hey all,

33 messages 2010/09/29

[#370740] Can't upgrade ruby on Snow Leopard — Ast Jay <azzzz@...>

I've followed the instructions here:

13 messages 2010/09/29

[#370796] How to prevent overwriting methods by accident? — Stefan Salewski <mail@...>

In Ruby we can add new methods to existing classes.

13 messages 2010/09/30
[#370797] Re: How to prevent overwriting methods by accident? — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...> 2010/09/30

On 9/30/2010 2:15 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:

[#370800] Re: How to prevent overwriting methods by accident? — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com> 2010/09/30

But is there a way to call the original method instead of just quitting

Re: Get hours, seconds and time from Date.day_fraction_to_time

From: Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...>
Date: 2010-09-19 18:20:10 UTC
List: ruby-talk #370045
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Emanuele Ianni <dierre@gmail.com> wrote:

> Colin Bartlett wrote:
> > puts "Date.day_fraction_to_time using wrapper"
> > class Date
> >     class << self
> >       def wrap_day_fraction_to_time( day_frac )
> >         day_fraction_to_time( day_frac )
> >       end
> >    end
> > end
> > hours, minutes, seconds, frac =
> >     Date.wrap_day_fraction_to_time( stop - start )
> > p hours, minutes, seconds, frac
>
> Thanks for the answer. Could you explain me the wrapper in detail,
> please? I'm assuming you're extending the Date class with an anonymous
>  class but it's really not clear to me the class << self declaration.

I'm not surprised that "class << self" isn't clear to you. It wasn't clear
to me when I first saw it, and I'm not sure I'm 100% there yet! I hope the
following is right and helps. (Corrections are welcome.)

Here's a link to the online first edition of Programming Ruby
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/classes.html
... Object-Specific Classes ...

Basically you can extend any object with methods which won't be available to
any other object unless you also extend that other object.

In the version of Date with Ruby 1.9 one way used is to set up an
(anonymous?) module and then use "extend", as shown in the extract from
(1.9) Date in my first post in this thread.

Another way is to use the "class << object" notation, which (I think) says
evaluate the code in "class<<...end" in the context of the specified object,
extending that object (as singleton methods of that object) with any methods
defined in "class<<...end". For example:
obj = Array.new
(r = obj.new_singleton_method) rescue p $! #=> undefined method error
class << obj
    def new_singleton_method(); "Karel Capek"; end
end
r = obj.new_singleton_method #=> "Karel Capek"

So in:
class Date
    class << self
      def wrap_day_fraction_to_time( day_frac )
        day_fraction_to_time( day_frac )
      end
    end
end
the object being extended in "class<<self...end" is whatever "self" is, and
in the context of the "class Date" self is the Date class. And the private
method "day_fraction_to_time" is accessible from "within" the object, so we
can write a public method (callable as Date.wrap_day_fraction_to_time) which
calls the private method "day_fraction_to_time".

Also, instead of writing a wrapper method, the following (simpler) way also
seems to work:
hours = mins = secs = nil
hours, mins, secs = Date.day_fraction_to_time( 0.03125 ) rescue p $!
p hours, mins, secs #=> nil, nil, nil
class Date
    class << self
      public :day_fraction_to_time
    end
end
hours, mins, secs = Date.day_fraction_to_time( 0.03125 ) rescue p $!
p hours, mins, secs #=> 0, 45, 0

In the context of a private method, I'm not at all sure that putting a
public wrapper method which calls it is better than simply making the
private method public: I think that any downsides/problems with making the
private method public will also apply to wrapping it. Does anyone know (or
think) differently?

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