[#4341] DRY and embedded docs. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
If I have a here document in some ruby program:
[#4347] Re: DATA and rewind. — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#4350] Re: Thirty-seven Reasons [Hal Fulton] Love[s] Ruby — "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@...>
[#4396] Re: New Require (was: RAA development ideas (was: RE: Looking for inp ut on a 'links' page)) — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
On 9 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#4411] Re: RAA development ideas (was: RE: Lookin g for inp ut on a 'links' page) — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Me:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Aleksi Niemelwrote:
[#4465] More RubyUnit questions. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I am beginning to get a feel for this, but I still have a few more
[#4478] Re: RubyUnit. Warnings to be expected? — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#4481] Invoking an extension after compilation — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Hi,
[#4501] What's the biggest Ruby development? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#4502] methods w/ ! giving nil — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I have got used to the idea that methods that end in '!' return nil if
[#4503] RubyUnit and encapsulation. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
My_class's instance variables are not all "attr :<name>" type variables,
[#4537] Process.wait bug + fix — Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@...>
If your system uses the rb_waitpid() codepath of rb_f_wait(),
[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Dave said:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
[#4591] Can't get Tcl/Tk working — Stephen White <steve@...>
I can't get any of the samples in the ext/tk/sample directory working. All
I'm sure looking forwards to buying the book. :)
Stephen White <steve@deaf.org> writes:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Stephen White <steve@deaf.org> writes:
[#4608] Class methods — Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Reading the thread about regexp matches made me wonder about this:
[#4611] mod_ruby 0.1.19 — shreeve@...2s.org (Steve Shreeve)
Shugo (and others),
[#4633] Printing tables — DaVinci <bombadil@...>
Hi.
[#4647] Function argument lists in parentheses? — Toby Hutton <thutton@...>
Hello,
[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Hi,
[#4672] calling super from c — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
[#4699] Double parenthesis — Klaus Spreckelsen <ks@...1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Why is the first line ok, but the second line is not?
[ruby-talk:04422] Re: RAA development ideas (was: RE: Lookin g for inp ut on a 'links' page)
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Aleksi Niemelwrote:
> Me:
> > > - We need testing and supporting community.
> Hugh:
> > Testing needs to be done, how this is done is another matter.
> > Should there be peer review for submissions to the archive?
>
> Peer review would be really good of course. I think, however, that it's more
> part of the development and does not relate so much to the releases.
I suggested this because of you remarks about freshmeat.net filling up
with rubbish [ruby-talk:04390].
>
> > Should the author(s) provide evidence of testing?
>
> If they run the accompanied test suite, and attach it's output, that's
> probably enough. The report
A test suite they [the authors, originally] had supplied.
[...]
> is the evidence :).
Yes. This was also intended to improve quality of the software, and that
others may be able to spot things that should have been tested but were
not. Future test suites would then improve.
>
> meant. But I can't imagine why people would like to "cheat" or forge
I was thinking more of: "I threw this together and haven't bothered to
make any attempt to prove it works. Can it be put it the archive so
people can benefit from it?", to which the answer should be "No."
> results. And if they want forge there's probably nothing preventing them, or
> helping us to detect it.
The test suite. "You claim to have run this under Solaris7, but {x,y,z}
all agree it doesn't work under Solaris7."
>
> - Aleksi
>
Hugh