[#403837] Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"? — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"?

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[#403870] Confusion with Enum#with_object block argument construct — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

C:\>irb

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[#403920] Character classes use in Ruby — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me by giving an explanatory example of each of the

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[#403935] How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver?

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[#403972] Ruby could recognize the values when putting into a webpage text filed. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

9 messages 2013/02/05

[#403986] old syntax? what's going on here — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

I have this in a _spec.rb file: (a gem I inherited at work)

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[#404005] Implementing DRY with a function call — Rob Marshall <lists@...>

Hi,

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[#404006] using an instance variable inside a method — FirstName Surname <lists@...>

Hello.

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[#404021] Not able get the label text incurred with <input> element — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I do have a below `HTML`:

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[#404025] Symbol.defined? — Student Jr <lists@...>

Symbol deserialization from external sources is now known to be

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[#404058] Ruby 1.9.3-p362 on Mac OSX — Peter Bailey <lists@...>

Hi,

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[#404082] Problem building Ruby 1.9.3 patchlevel 385 under AIX 7.1 — Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>

Hello World!

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[#404101] Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...>

Hey guys, great to be part of such a great community! I look forward to

19 messages 2013/02/07
[#404104] Re: Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...> 2013/02/07

Ahh, thank you Matthew! That was just the push I needed!

[#404208] elegant way to determine if something is defined — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

Something like:

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[#404218] Ruby Equivalent to VB's "With"? — Joel Pearson <lists@...>

I've looked around but I couldn't find anything helpful on this,

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[#404235] The "ruby way" to do desktop applications? — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

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[#404238] Best books for "advanced" programmers — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

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[#404245] Issue with Excel column values read. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

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[#404344] Ruby command line options s and S — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me to understand the difference between s and S with

15 messages 2013/02/13

[#404386] Re: Ruby command line options s and S — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...>

Dude!

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[#404397] Re: Ruby command line options s and S — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/14

Humm!

[#404387] Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...>

Hi,

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[#404896] Re: Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...> 2013/02/24

Bump!

[#404456] skip iteration in each loop — Saurav Chakraborty <lists@...>

I want to skip iteration for few values depending on dynamic condition.

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[#404491] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — "Stu P. D'naim" <lists@...>

I need to make few scripts for tasks I do often manually, but last time

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[#404492] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/15

Stu P. D'naim wrote in post #1097111:

[#404494] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Ryan Victory <ryan@...> 2013/02/15

Love U Ruby: I'm really not sure what you meant by that response, but

[#404570] What is Ruby's default constructor? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2013/02/17

[#404632] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Ok, understood what the guy wants ...

17 messages 2013/02/19
[#404640] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Marc Heiler wrote in post #1097736:

[#404645] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2013/02/19

[#404646] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Ryan Davis wrote in post #1097840:

[#404647] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...> 2013/02/19

On 19 February 2013 20:35, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#404648] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Peter Hickman wrote in post #1097848:

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Hi,

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Maybe you could provide more detail about what you are confused about. To

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Matt Mongeau wrote in post #1098058:

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It's not really a paradox. Take for example

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how can we get the experience years between two dates(ex:2012-01-11 to

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>> a = []

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[#404839] range is not assigning to the splat variable. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Why splat variable couldn't take in the below two code the "range" ->

10 messages 2013/02/23

[#404842] Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I was actually playing around with the class definition return values.

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[#404844] Re: Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/23

@Stefano Yes you are right. The below code is proved that.

[#404867] how to see the class creation time in Ruby? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

In Ruby any chance to see the last-modified time of a specific class?

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[#404901] Confusion with `nil` value being produced by IRB in case of Array#size manipulation. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

enum[int] = obj → obj

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[#404921] How should I print only the last combination when using Array#combination(n) ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

>> a = [1,2,3]

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Write a program to read two integers and show their greatest common

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Hi there,

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[#405079] Why `10` not returned without the `return` from the block ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

CODE - I

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[#405107] Object track llist for a particular class. — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

Say I have created more than one instances from a particular class as

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[#405145] Discussion on Ruby's `alias` — Tukai Patra <lists@...>

>> class Foo

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[#405175] telnet - how to loop through commands listed in a file — Bob Ford <lists@...>

Let me first explain what I'm trying to do. I have written a very

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Re: Easy way to handle positional and hashed parameters on a method?

From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-04 08:18:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #403911
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Marc Heiler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Yes, I just tested in IRB:

All my examples were first run through IRB.


>
>
> When I input:
>
>   foo({first: 'a', second: 'b', third: 'c'})
>
> It will return the CHANGED version:
>
>   [{:first=>"a", :second=>"b", :third=>"c"}]
>
> I believe this is a design decision.

I'd say it's a backwards-compatibility decision, to make sure both
ways still work and not needlessly breaking old code.

> Internally, ruby will ALWAYS treat the new
> hash syntax as the old hash syntax! So I
> recommend to use the old hash syntax, your
> brain will be happier in the long run. ;)

Not a chance. I much prefer the new way. My brain is quite happy TYVM. :)

What you answered was none of what I was actually asking for.

 ...And I really think I demonstrated I knew how splat works...

What I'd like is a DRY and functional  way to do this.

The question is really, how can I convert an array that may contain
['a', 'b', {:third => 'c'}] to {:first => 'a', :second => 'b', :third
=> 'c'}, plus all *other* variants of that first form, to the *same*
final form, as an arguments hash, in an elegant, functional fashion. I
can do it, but it doesn't feel elegant this way.

And there *is* a way to convert the last form as well:

foo(({z: 1, x: 2}), 'bazinga!', third: 17) comes into *args as:

 => [{:z=>1, :x=>2}, "bazinga!", {:third=>17}]

# brute force conversion:

def splatargdeflate(args,argnames)
  return args unless args.is_a?(Array)
  return args if args.length < 1

  if args.last.is_a?(Hash)
    last_arg = args.pop
  else
    last_arg = {}
  end

  arg_hash={}

  argnames.each_index do |i|
    arg_hash[argnames[i]] = args.shift
  end

  arg_hash.merge!(last_arg)
  args.unshift arg_hash
end

def foo(*args)
  args = splatargdeflate(args,[:first, :second, :third])
  puts args.inspect
end

Here's the output for the example foo call from above:

puts foo(({z: 1, x: 2}), 'bazinga!', third: 17)
 => [{:first=>{:z=>1, :x=>2}, :second=>"bazinga!", :third=>17}]


And here's some more, to compare:


puts foo
 => []
puts foo(1)
 => [{:first=>1, :second=>nil, :third=>nil}]
puts foo(1,2)
 => [{:first=>1, :second=>2, :third=>nil}]
puts foo('a', 'b', 'c')
 => [{:first=>"a", :second=>"b", :third=>"c"}]
puts foo('a', 'b', third: 'blah')
 => [{:first=>"a", :second=>"b", :third=>"blah"}]
puts foo('a', 'b', first: 'butno')
 => [{:first=>"butno", :second=>"b", :third=>nil}]
puts foo(nil, nil, nil)
 => [{:first=>nil, :second=>nil, :third=>nil}]
puts foo(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
 => [{:first=>1, :second=>2, :third=>3}, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

And, for more amusement:

foo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, first: 'zip', bazinga: 'owie'
 => [{:first=>"zip", :second=>2, :third=>3, :bazinga=>"owie"}, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]


The thing I *really* dislike about splatargsdeflate, and why I was
asking in the first place,  is that it seems so *procedural* and as I
said above, brute force. I really wanted something much more
functional.

I'm just wondering if there's is some cool ruby method that does
something akin to this already that I haven't discovered, or if it is
something that can be map/reduced somehow. The only place I can see
doing that is in the loop through the argnames:

  arg_hash = argnames.reduce(h={}){|h,n| h[n]=args.shift;h}

produces the same arg_hash, at some cost of readability, perhaps.

Anyway, thanks for your time and looking.

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