[#45938] How to make a virtual 2nd column!!! — Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
All-
[#45942] win32ole and excel — Martin Stannard <martin@...>
Hi,
[#45948] "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only) — Matt Pattison <mfp@...>
The problem with my program is that (in Windows) gets seems to block the entire
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:31:15AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
Hi,
[#45998] vim indenteation for ruby — Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
[#46004] Checking whether a process exists (unix) — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
To check whether a process with a given ID is still running on unix, I would
[#46023] Style: where to require in libs? — <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.01.02@...>
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[#46030] IO.readlines is slow ? — "Shashank Date" <ADATE@...>
I really like the convenience of doing:
[#46048] RE: GetoptLong#to_hash — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
[#46072] How to Load Script from a C Extension? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
[#46091] JRuby changes breaking code? — adamon@... (Damon)
I am running the sample code straight out of Ruby Developer's Guide,
[#46105] Ruby on the Sharp Zaurus PDA — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Hi,
Hi,
On Sun 04 Aug 2002 at 06:26:20 +0900, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
[#46107] embed or swig? — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
I'm working a C++ project for a contract I'm doing. Originally, the
"Massimiliano Mirra" <list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com> wrote in message
i was just reading over a little of the swig docs and HOLY CODING! from
I'm working on a wxWindows port for Ruby (called, predictably, wxRuby),
[#46125] Deprecation and Unicode — Danny van Bruggen <danny@...>
Hello all,
[#46128] Assoc Class (Hash Pairs) — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
i've been thinking about posting this as an RCR.
> i've been thinking about posting this as an RCR.
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Hello --
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 06:40, David Alan Black wrote:
Hi --
[#46132] mini-ANN: Magnetic Poetry via TkCanvas — Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Rubies:
[#46136] Should this work? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Should multiple assignment work for the
[#46151] String -> Integer anomoly? — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...>
Why does "09".to_i return 9
[#46192] Detecting when an instance variable is created/set — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Imagine we have a class like ...
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 06:03, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> > Can I write a method (of class Object or Kernel, perhaps) that will be
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 10:32:44PM +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> Would it be enough for you to catch creation of instance variables in
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:59:40AM +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
[#46264] Dynamic creation of classes and methods — Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@...>
I want to create classes and methods on fly.
>>>>> "T" == Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:51:58PM +0900, ts wrote:
>>>>> "T" == Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 07:37:50PM +0900, ts wrote:
[#46270] Regex question — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...>
Folks,
Hello --
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:37:12AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:37:12AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
[#46296] ruby-dev summary 17714-17874 — Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@...>
[#46326] RE: EW is unable to deliver — "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@...>
[#46337] Super-iterator? (long) — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Here's an idea for you. I've worked on it a couple of days.
[#46341] More questions on automation from na誰ve Windows user. — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Hi all,
> I do have IE and it's supposedly scriptable. I just
[#46356] Coding challenge (on Ruby Garden) — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hello --
Hi --
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 18:58, David Alan Black wrote:
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.30.0208052056270.15880-100000@candle.superlink.net>...
[#46357] Compiling Ruby to Native Code? — web2ed@... (Edward Wilson)
Having looked at OCaml, after following a post to this group, one
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:19:54AM +0900, Edward Wilson wrote:
%% > Game over, if Java or Ruby provides native compilation; it won't make
"Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph> wrote in message news:<20020807033226.GB1745@imperium.ph>...
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:45:07AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
[#46393] Writing a method that's added to both Fixnum and Bignum — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
A mate of mine just asked me an interesting question. He had written a method
[#46426] Is There an Inverse of 'rb_define_method'? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
[#46427] performance about "..." and '...' — tran55555@... (Email55555)
Hi,
[#46442] COM on Unix? — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
As part of my crusade to make Ruby an automation language I read up a little
[#46443] Dup and Clone — "Justin Johnson" <justinj@...>
Could anyone kindly point out the difference between 'dup' and 'clone'?
[#46452] HT delete all files in a directory... — Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Rubites:
[#46468] sort problem — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Hi,
[#46475] Named paramters again — "Justin Johnson" <justinj@...>
Hi --
[#46520] Something that corresponds to Perl's -T and -B tests? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
I've searched the Ruby documentation, and I can't find descriptions of
>>>>> "L" == Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
[#46523] XHTML output — Francois GORET <fgoret@...1.loxinfo.co.th>
Hi,
[#46532] Class hierarchy... for data — Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Hey,
[#46539] A very small challenge — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
This is a very minor piece of code,
[#46550] GUI's and the Rouge, Part IV — Kero van Gelder <kero@...>
Funny, two savannah accounts for the same objective:
[#46558] Non trivial features changes in 1.7.2 via CVS — <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.07.02@...>
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[#46565] Re: Unicode in Ruby now? — "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@...>
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:41:18 +0900, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> pisze:
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.NEB.4.44.0208081139480.17422-100000@angelic.cynic.net>...
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Bret Jolly wrote:
[#46587] Bug in TkText — Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Ruby-1.6.7;Tcl/Tk-8.3.4
[#46615] The whole 'Spades' thing: GA and cardbots — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
OK, I have more useful things to be doing.
[#46646] RE: struct needs to be a constant? — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
>>>>> "B" == Berger, Daniel <djberge@qwest.com> writes:
Hi,
>>>>> "n" == nobu nokada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> writes:
Hi,
>>>>> "n" == nobu nokada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> writes:
[#46663] ruby sample code runtime problem — markgriffin@... (mark G)
Hello all,
[#46669] Testing for mod_ruby (was "how do i mock the presence / absence of a constant w/out getting warnings?") — patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Currently, the only reliable way to test for the mod_ruby enviroment
[#46672] Variable validation — "Chris Morris" <chrismo@...>
I've got a class that has a number of instance variables, some of which must
[#46681] Dr. Dobbs Ruby Article — " JamesBritt" <james@...>
The September issue of Dr Dobbs has an article by Phil Tomson on distributed
> The September issue of Dr Dobbs has an article by Phil Tomson on
[#46696] Ruby in EETimes — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
When it rains it pours, it seems:
[#46698] Ruby/LibGlade: multiple GladeXML objects — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
hi,
[#46715] Getting the file name from a File::Stat object? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Is there a way to get the file name from a File::Stat object?
At Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:46:32 +0900,
[#46730] nil || // — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Why does this not work in Ruby 1.6:
[#46732] ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
does anyone else find it annoying that local variable assignment is
Hi --
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 22:50, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
Hi --
> class A
Hi, Tom. I see a pattern to all of your expectations for Ruby. Are you a
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 17:44, Albert Wagner wrote:
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:07 pm, Tom Sawyer wrote:
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 03:00:28AM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote:
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 12:05, Paul Brannan wrote:
Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:
At Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:44:45 +0900,
GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:30, Dave Thomas wrote:
How about:
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:19, Rich Kilmer wrote:
Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:
[#46776] Unit testing is considered harmful — "MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
I'm sorry, I could help it. I just find this considered harmful thing
[#46780] The problem with using $1 in regexps — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
sub _num_quotes {
[#46827] Economics of E-books? ( was re: Dr. Dobbs Ruby Article) — " JamesBritt" <james@...>
Re: USD $5 for a single Dr. Dobbs article
[#46841] Ah, I'm finally back from Japan ... — Dossy <dossy@...>
Not like anyone cares (or noticed) but my two week stay in Japan
----- Original Message -----
[#46845] extend Html4? — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Suppose I have this code:
Hello --
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:16:01AM +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
[#46875] To be a Module, or not to be... — Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
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>>>>> "H" == Holden Glova <dsafari@paradise.net.nz> writes:
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 03:40, ts wrote:
>>>>> "T" == Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:
[#46892] empty file returns nil not empty string? — Thomas Sdergaard <thomass@...>
Hello,
[#46902] "ri test" tells me to see page 430? — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
$ ri test
[#46906] subclassing and @@variable — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
I have the following test code:
Philip Mak wrote:
[#46911] Choosing ruby? — Rhymes <raims@...>
[#46957] Handling forms on database driven websites — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Ever since I learned Perl, Ruby and MySQL, I've built several database
[#46965] replacing values in some files: line endings etc — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
[#47000] Primary Key Hash help — "Chris Morris" <chrismo@...>
I have a huge data file with rows like this:
> I have a huge data file with rows like this:
[#47053] ruby-dev summary 17875-17964 — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
There was a lot of discussions in ruby-dev this week.
[#47080] class === class often false? — "Bill Kelly" <billk@...>
Hi,
----- Original Message -----
[#47134] Data_Make_Struct Considered Dangerous? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
Hi,
>>>>> "W" == William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:
Two things:
[#47163] YAML.rb 0.38 -- Objects in plain text — why the lucky stiff <yaml4r@...>
Pleased to announce the latest YAML.rb product.
[#47199] Is this array operation correct? —
Hi,
[#47202] Minimum version of windows for ruby? — ian <spammapsglenizrainmapsspammaps@...>
Hi -
[#47212] Ruby Weekly News — Dave@...
----- Original Message -----
Please don't take this as a knock of the efforts required to produce the
----- Original Message -----
[#47218] Cannot input Thai character in TkEntry — "nongluk" <nonglukb@...>
Hi,
[#47228] Re: 1.7.2 v. the latest and 1.7.2 windows dist — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>> The front page of ruby-lang.org lists 1.7.2 as the current development
[#47240] RE: A few newbie questions... — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>
You're really going to like Ruby. :>
----- Original Message -----
[#47244] RE: How to use the safe_unlink method? — Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Guy-
[#47270] Legendary Chaos Computer Club goes Ruby — "MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
The Chaos Computer Club that spawned legendary hackers in the 80'ties
[#47292] Thought question: Where does "new" come from? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
I've been brooding again on the circularities
----- Original Message -----
Hi --
Hello --
Hi --
[#47306] adding method to existing class — Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@...>
I need to include some methods in class stored in some variable:
[#47344] eruby editor — "Kyle Wilson" <kyle.wilson@...>
Hello. I was wondering if anyone knows of a text editor which will
Here's what I have - 91 characters with everything you'd need for a Flash
[#47348] robust hardware to run ruby newtwork service — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
i know this is bit off topic, but since you all are my "computer family"
[#47360] Is it possible?---ruby xxx.rb arg1 arg2... — "Chai, Xinwei" <ChaiXV@...>
Hellow guys:
[#47375] How do I find the URL of the .rhtml that's being served? — sera@... (Francis Hwang)
I have a utility class that's being used inside a bunch of different
[#47440] Help with a segv in mod_ruby — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
> I'm getting a segv in mod_ruby:
[#47441] Narf cgi library alpha release — patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Information: http://narf-lib.sourceforge.net/
[#47461] How do I dup file descriptors in ruby? (diverting STDERR) — "Richard A. Ryan" <ryan@...>
Hello,
[#47464] IDE vs. editor — Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
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>>>>> "Holden" == Holden Glova <dsafari@paradise.net.nz> writes:
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:49:20AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:45:00AM +0900, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:57:22AM +0900, Alan Chen wrote:
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[#47504] FreeRide install problem — Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Hi,
[#47545] How can I avoid "Insecure operation - stat (SecurityError) " — " JamesBritt" <james@...>
I'm trying to get some ruby code, running under mod_ruby, to retrieve the
[#47547] Re: What Ruby needs. — "Shashank Date" <ADATE@...>
I do not have any problem with item 1) on your wish list as long as I don't
[#47559] Ruby Bot — Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Hello,
Well, with rbot 0.9.4 there was an error about SIGHUP not being a
[#47585] equivalent of python's __debug__ — David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
python can compile in two modes, normal and optimized. in optimized
[#47598] ruby-dev summary 17965-18021 — Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Hi all,
[#47618] drb -- distrib'd ruby and marshalling, question about methods — john@... (John van V.)
Hello, I have been moving perl objects around for years and I was very
[#47640] Perl -> Ruby: assistance wanted (offlist) — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Hello all...
[#47643] thread control — "Shashank Date" <ADATE@...>
I am trying to write a ruby script (Ruby 1.7.2 mswin32) which does the
[#47669] Data_Make_Struct and ALLOC Considered Harmful? — billtj@... (Bill Tj)
Hi,
[#47680] quines (again) — "Bill Kelly" <billk@...>
Hi,
[#47688] the power of ruby — AW <sturmpanzer@...>
Hi,
[#47695] What makes a "good" Ruby extension? — Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
So I'm reading the "Comparing Gui Toolkits" wiki page
Tim Hunter wrote:
> I think this is a question that a lot of Ruby programmers struggle
[#47749] What New Language After Ruby? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
To Andrew Hunt and David Thomas:
Although activity seems to have died down, here are some links
Hi,
Hi,
Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@b13media.com> writes:
Thanks a lot, Marcin, for the valuable information. The description on
On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:18, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
[#47757] Puzzeled by Range object — Robert McGovern <duemoko@...>
I was just writing an example for the "power of ruby" thread, using ranges.
[#47767] RE: Some comments on the 167-1 installer — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>Rich says:
[#47802] ANN: scanf for Ruby — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
This is the product of the Austin Ruby Codefest 2002,
[#47817] A Repeat: New Language After Ruby? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> writes:
[#47826] RE: select on solaris — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
[#47842] Newbie question. How to install a new package? — Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Well, I installed URI by simply popping it into the \lib\ directory,
[#47864] nohup -g and ruby-1.6.7 on Solaris9 — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Given the following:
[#47867] RE: Newbie question. How to install a new package? — CRIBBSJ <CRIBBSJ@...>
[#47888] RE: Newbie question. How to install a new package? — CRIBBSJ <CRIBBSJ@...>
> -----Original Message-----
[#47918] Win32 Scripting — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Hi,
----- Original Message -----
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 02:36:48AM +0900, Sean Middleditch wrote:
[#47932] Can I write to DATA? — Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Hi:
[#47945] Paul Graham essay on language popularity — HotFusionMan@... (Albert Davidson Chou)
I don't read the list/group anymore, so I'm not sure whether this
[#47958] Tk and Gtk — Robert Warning <cleeker@...>
Okay this isn't exactly a ruby question, but in the near future I want
Sean Middleditch wrote:
[#47995] converting rows into structs — Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@...>
I have a methods that converts all DB rows into structs using Struct
On 2002.08.23, Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@itgrp.net> wrote:
Friday, August 23, 2002, 2:19:53 PM, you wrote:
On 2002.08.23, Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@itgrp.net> wrote:
[#48001] new ruby from cvs — Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@...>
I installed new ruby 1.7.2 (2002-08-21) from cvs and get warning in
[#48013] Perl Exegesis 5 — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>
You can find the Perl Exegesis 5 here:
In article <F249FbCUalRlUwViKaZ000117d8@hotmail.com>,
At 3:19 AM +0900 8/24/02, Phil Tomson wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 03:37:04AM +0900, Dan Sugalski wrote:
[#48035] Why Ruby Uses Mark-and-Sweep GC? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
[#48062] Ruby and Judy — Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Joseph McDonald wrote:
----- Original Message -----
[#48082] Distributed Object Container — junderdown@... (Jason Underdown)
Is anyone out there in the Ruby community working on an object
----- Original Message -----
> J2EE - more specifically, EJB - enables those nice things like pooling,
> > But how can you have Enterprise *Java(tm)* Beans without, well,
>
"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message news:<000201c24d03$2caa8ad0$0c6332d2@nosedog>...
> Yes, you are right, J2EE is just a standard implemented by several app
> > Yes, you are right, J2EE is just a standard implemented by
[#48114] CompareByValue — Ryan King <rking@...>
I put a challenge up at:
On 2002.08.25, Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com> wrote:
On 2002.08.25, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
On 2002.08.27, Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com> wrote:
On 2002.08.29, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
[#48165] RDoc: .png files are empty — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#48168] warning modifying constant & 'global constant' — David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
1. if someone attempts to modify a constant, why does ruby choose to
[#48217] Getting list of classes in a module? — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
How do I get the list of all classes that are defined in a module
[#48219] Tk scrollbar with elided text — Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
I am using a TkText as a base for an editor, with folding implemented by using
[#48223] Ruby Based App Server — junderdown@... (Jason Underdown)
I posted a similar question a few days ago, but didn't get any
> I've worked on web applications built on the J2EE platform as well as
[#48227] Bug report: $irbrc does not affect IRB — Brian Marick <marick@...>
In both the IRB from Ruby 1.6.4 and irb-0.9-02.07.03.tgz from RAA,
[#48233] Question about Ruby extension API — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>
I've looked all over but can't find the function call for doing a simple assignment (!)
[#48234] Hybrid hash and array? — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
When programming radio buttons on a website, I find myself using this
[#48264] Ruby developers: help push RPKG development and usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby) — itsnewsforme@... (M S)
A big complaint from people looking into Ruby is that they don't see
Intro: sorry for the long post, I wanted to speak, hope you won't mind
>>>>> "M" == M S <itsnewsforme@yahoo.ca> writes:
Actually, it would be nice to have them online, but not necessarily
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:39:32PM +0900, Rich Kilmer wrote:
http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp/~ttate/ruby/ruby-dl.html
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:32, Rich Kilmer wrote:
You can just install it in another directory and then go to that
uh, sorry, how do i get 1.7.2? i tried anonymous cvs but it said NO. did
Nightly CVS snapshot:
just complied and drew up an error:
From Tom Sawyer <1030511597.793.982.camel@silver>
Hi,
thanks matz,
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:47:30PM +0900, ts wrote:
[#48274] ANN: RJudy-0.1 - Judy Arrays for Ruby — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
All,
[#48320] compile time type checking — "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>
I think the main reason that languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl and TCL
[#48333] Temporary VALUE Needs to Be Protected? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
[#48352] c-api: rb_str_new — Matthias Veit <matthias_veit@...>
[#48420] Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe) — "Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@...>
Hi!
[#48434] RE: Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe) — christopher.j.meisenzahl@...
[#48446] How to read files in all subdirectories? — Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Ruby experts:
[#48467] Novice needs help with FX Ruby — lucidlife@... (ck)
Hi,
ck wrote:
[#48468] Compile error — "C. David Wilde" <cdw@...>
Hello,
[#48477] Newbie converting brain from perl — William Pietri <william-news-383910@...>
[#48494] next statement — "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@...>
I thought there was a way to use "next" (or similar) to escape an arbitrary number of loops. Akin to this:
[#48521] Ruby/DL with GTK gtk_signal_connect — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
hi all, i'm working with Ruby/DL, binding to GTK. it is very cool. but i
[#48544] Best GC for Ruby? — "Justin Johnson" <justinj@...>
Hi,
[#48556] RE: Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe) — christopher.j.meisenzahl@...
> > >Cool... but are there any english docs on exerb? How
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:14:20AM +0900, michael libby wrote:
[#48558] gethostbyname() requires reverse lookup to work? — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
We ran into a problem last night where we could ping a host, telnet to
[#48564] YAML.rb 0.40 -- Circular references, Emitter enhancements — yamlrb@...
Aha! A new YAML.rb is out at long last: >
[#48565] how to create a ruby object via the c-api? — Matthias Veit <matthias_veit@...>
[#48573] FXRuby Threading Problem Solved? — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
All,
[#48584] suggestions to the Ruby community — stibbs <stibbs@...>
Hi, first i would like to state that i absolutely love Ruby more than any
I've encountered the same complaints from my co-workers and
instead of everyone writing your own documentation, wouldnt a wiki
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[#48633] Can We Pass Block from Function to Function? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
[#48648] How to write scripts with plug-in support [long] — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Hi all,
[#48657] ICFP Programming Contest — Alan Chen <alan@...>
http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/task.html
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Alan Chen wrote:
[#48678] proper upgrade to 1.7.3 — Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
so i went ahead and started moving over to 1.7.
[#48703] RE: suggestions to the Ruby community — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>
> From: JamesBritt [mailto:james@jamesbritt.com]
> James, you've said it all (kindly and clearly, too).
[#48705] Ruby aesthetics — vegai@...
Hello. I've been checking into python lately quite a lot, and I
My two reasons for disliking Python's aesthetics:
Yukihiro Matsumoto graced us by uttering:
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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 02:56, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 02:56, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
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I am really amazed if Ruby is really compared against Java, especially in
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
Paul Prescod wrote:
Hi,
On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:08 pm, Christian Szegedy wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
I think we have communicated very well; I agree with all you said. May I
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
Hi Matz,
Hi,
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hello --
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Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair@soyabean.com.au) wrote:
Hi,
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Re: The whole 'Spades' thing: GA and cardbots
I have a reasonable amount of experience with GA's (PhD + some industrial experience). This sounds interesting, but unfortunately I don't have time to get involved at this point. However, I am more than willing to give you a few pointers... In this sort of case you might wish to consider a system known as a genetic algorithm classifier. These are detailed quite well in David Goldberg's book (he was the originator of the technique, or at least the first implementor if IIRC). There are 4 components to the system. The first is a set of rules, expressed as a set of trinary strings or arrays (true, false, widcard). Each element refers to one particular condition (and these conditions are hard-coded). Each rule is of the form condition -response, i.e. if the condition holds , then perform response. The second component is a blackboard, from which messages can be read and responses posted. Usually messages are eith inputs from the outside world (e.g. what cards have been played in this round), or responses from rules. Generally, rules check the conditions on the blackboard, and then post a response, although you may wish to have rules which read the blackboard and cause actions (e.g. play K spades). The third component is a credit assignment algorithm (usually known as the bucket brigade algorithm). Usually this is the hardest bit to get to work. The idea here is to try and rank the ruleset in order of their utility. This is usually done as follows: Each rule has a strength (initially assigned). Each cycle (after any card is played?) each rule is checked against the blackboard. Any rule whose conditions are met is offered a chance to operate. Each of these rules bids a portion of its utility for the right to operate. One or more rules are then chosen to operate using a roulette wheel algorithm based on their bid utility (so the rule "Elvis is alive and playing in the Ring'O Bells tonight" is occasionally taken out for a test drive! - and we end up in the pub!). These rules then pay their bid to operate (their responses are activated). Note that generally, we apply the tax in a progressive manner, so we tax rules based on their specificity - the more specific they are (fewer wildcards), the harder they are taxed, so we both prefer specific rules to general ones, and we make the cost of them getting things wrong higher. What do we do with the tax. Well, it gets split between the rules that were applied in the previous cycle (possibly minus a decay constant). But we also introduce extra credit into the system every time a positive result happens (e.g. we win a trick). This means that the rules that lead to good results tend to increase in utility over time, and the the bad ones decrease in utility; with the result that a natural hierarchy or rules develops from any given initial ruleset (e.g. randomly chosen). Over time, this algorithm will reward the rules which are intermediate steps to good outcomes, because the rewards get passed back up the "bucket brigade" by the taxation system. However, this algorithm can have problems in that it can be difficult to reward the earlier events inlong chains of events. The fourth and final component is the genetic algorithm. Every once in a while (at a slower rate than the bucket brigade algorithm runs at), we use a GA to update the ruleset, replacing a couple of the weakest rules using a GA (maybe 5% of the ruleset each GA epoch). Hope this helps (I have to go and catch a train home now!) Steve > OK, I have more useful things to be doing. > > But sometimes I like to code just for fun. > I can admit that here, right? :) > > What I had in mind for the Spades project > was originally a genetic algorithm type > of thing. > > That is, you define a genome based on some > options for bidding and playing, and you > play the members of the population against > each other as they evolve. > > I think it's interesting from a GA standpoint > (disclaimer: I've never written a GA program). > For one thing, it's not clear that a simple > tournament would suffice to find optimal > strategies. You might just find a "local > maximum" where the surviving members can beat > the previous generation, but couldn't > necessarily have beaten some earlier > generation. .... > > If someone wants to work on it, let me know (the > GA or the cardbots). Otherwise, I'll probably just > implement 40% of each one and quit. :) > > Cheers, > Hal