[#89088] More questions about =~ — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
irb(main):006:1* class String
[#89093] Good article on Open Source, GPL, copyright, etc. — Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
There is periodically some discussion on c.l.r. about Open Source
[#89115] Drb and observer pattern — Stephan K舂per <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Hi all and have a happy new year everybody!
[#89118] Confused abour 'ri' in 1.8.1? — Frank Mitchell <fmitchell@...>
Sorry if this has been asked before, but ...
[#89119] Loop/Iterator questions — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
1) Is there anything like Perl's continue block available? This is
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote in message news:<200401041500.i04F0jg04445@moulon.inra.fr>...
[#89141] mod_ruby and win2k — David Tillman <dtillman@...>
Hello all, I first sent this to the mod_ruby list - after
[#89159] Ruby general question — "Greg Brondo" <greg@...>
Ok. I'm sold on Ruby (it really is great). I have a question though: Why
[#89162] Dir.chdir '~' — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#89171] Execute code on descendant class init — Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
I've got the following code:
[#89174] DRb question — Jos Backus <jos@...>
I am trying to write a simple remote execution framework, and am running into a
[#89180] nuby question: f.rename(x,y) does not work — "Boris \"BXS\" Schulz" <bxs@...>
Hi,
[#89185] Ruby explained to Python programmers — "Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant-nospam@...>
Hi,
Gilles Lenfant wrote:
[#89189] Best way to send mail in ruby — Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Hi,
Bauduin Raphael (rb@raphinou.com) wrote:
Thanks :-)
A lot of these things are snippets on the RubyGarden Wiki, and there is also
[#89192] successive chroots thanks to continuations? — Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Hi again,
[#89193] Simple Ruby DB apps/programs ... — Useko Netsumi <usenets@...>
I was wondering if there are some example of small Ruby(1.8.1) Database
Thanks Ara.
Useko Netsumi wrote:
Carl Youngblood wrote:
[#89194] Rublog questions — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
I probably "just don't get it" yet. So feel free to say,
[#89206] How to disconnect a drb client? — Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
I have a drb client/server application, and I'd like the server to be
[#89222] webhosting with ruby? — "Chris Pine" <cpine@...>
Does anyone know of any webhosters offering Ruby (or mod_ruby)?
[#89261] class Time doesn't pass year 2038? — Jean-Baptiste <temuphaey0@...>
Hi!
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:06:24AM +0900, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:36:42AM +0900, Mark J. Reed wrote:
[#89271] name of current ruby iterpreter — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#89285] proc question and instance_methods — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Continuing with the sets of newbie questions...
[#89294] problems compiling ruby 1.8.1 on AIX 4.3.3 — biblia99@... (paul)
Hi,
[#89301] Re: Ruby.exe crashing with WIN32OLE WMI example? — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>
Yonatan of yonatan_avraham at hotmail.com humbly asked:
[#89312] rub 1.8.1 and $= — Patrick Gundlach <clr1.10.randomuser@...>
Hello out there,
[#89322] Ruby and QT/KDE — "Greg Brondo" <greg@...>
Is there any mature bindings (like Python has) for KDE/QT and Ruby?
Greg Brondo wrote:
[#89339] Compression (besides Huffman) and Ruby — "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@...>
Hi!
[#89353] ruby-1.8.1/ext/tk/sample/demos-en/ : none works! — Paul.Sue@... (Paul)
Hi,
[#89359] RDoc & other questions... — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
1) Is there any document describing the syntax and rules that rdoc
[#89367] Database applications and OOness — Tim Bates <tim@...>
People,
I've been watching this thread with a great deal of interest. I'm
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 04:33:15 +0900, Pete y wrote:
On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:46 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
In article <3FFE2A2E.5040604@po.cwru.edu>, Dan Doel wrote:
Quoting Joe Mason <joe@notcharles.ca>:
jason r tibbetts wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:29:24AM +0900, Jamis Buck wrote:
il Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:06:32 +0900, Tim Bates <tim@bates.id.au> ha
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:16:40PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
Tim Bates wrote:
Tim Bates <tim@bates.id.au> wrote in message news:<20040108230256.GB12826@bates.id.au>...
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:41:44 +0900
A bit of background before I respond to the question of using Critera for
[#89407] Re: rexml and external entities — "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>
> -----Original Message-----
"Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@AGEDWARDS.com> wrote in
[#89418] ruby 1.8.1 crosscompiling for armv4l (iPAQ) — Kero <kero@...>
Hi all!
[#89434] convert a C/C++ array to a Ruby array — elathan@...
Hello!
[#89446] testunit and infinite loop — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
My searching abilities are failing me today...
[#89453] ruby 1.8.1 windows installer — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>
Hi!
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 12:37, KONTRA Gergely wrote:
>
> Since the first edition of the Pickaxe book didn't exactly fly off the
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:38PM +0900, Alan Davies wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:
[#89460] Re: block delimiting — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>
On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:24 pm, Mike Wilson wrote:
Pete Yadlowsky wrote:
In article <Law12-F38fDGCl9FopY000082ac@hotmail.com>, Mike Wilson wrote:
[#89494] ANN: First release of Perl's Getopt::Declare for ruby — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Okay, as a way of returning the favor for all my recent silly
GGarramuno wrote:
[#89545] Should a newbie learn 1.6 or 1.8? — stevec890@... (Steve Cooper)
I'm just starting to learn Ruby, and I've purchased Ruby in a Nutshell
[#89565] Ruby 1.8.0 bugs on Dir — ggarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Okay, two separate bugs. One probably on all platforms and one more serious
[#89589] Anonymous CVS access — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Hello.
[#89590] regex to NOT match? — Ruby Baby <ruby@...>
Sorry it seems like the smallest thing, but I'm stuck on this.
[#89605] How to reproduce the tk dialect? — shasckaw <shasckaw@...>
Hello,
[#89611] Converting a string to an array of tokens — "John W. Long" <ws@...>
Is there a fast way to convert a string into a list of tokens?
[#89630] RDoc/Ruby1.9 problems — Jim Menard <jimm@...>
I had previously installed RDoc. I checked out the latest Ruby via CVS,
[#89652] Game Programming with Python, Lua and Ruby — Carsten Eckelmann <careck@...42.com>
Just read this over at the Daily Python-URL!:
[#89664] efficient way to get the first found (or a random) key/value of a large hash — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
# a large hash
[#89672] faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
1. Is there a way in Ruby to speed up 32bit integer arithmetics (only
David Garamond wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, David Garamond wrote:
What abouts Rubys design would make integer arithmetic slower than integer
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Dave Thomas wrote:
David Garamond wrote:
Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
On Monday 12 of January 2004 16:59, David Garamond wrote:
On Monday 12 of January 2004 20:36, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
[#89699] Problem using https:// — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
For the first time I'm trying to connect to an https server. However,
[#89718] Getting the tail of a list? — Carsten Eckelmann <careck@...42.com>
Hi everybody,
Carsten Eckelmann wrote:
[#89737] Ruby binding for OpenDX? — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
I've googled and bladed, but to no avail...
In article <40036FDA.6080509@NASA.Gov>, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov> wrote:
[#89756] : how can I write a goto in ruby — "smayemba" <aidez.moi@...>
Hi all,
[#89796] Ruby OS mentioned on /. — intc_ctor@... (Phil Tomson)
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/01/13/0123250.shtml?tid=185&tid=190
./ normally does not have vaporware... are a bunch of ruby (a very high
Somehow i have this strange feeling that not all ruby peeps are strictly
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Zach Dennis wrote:
[#89797] HP-UX+mkmf.rb -- compilation problems with 1.8.1 — Kero <kero@...>
Hi,
[#89816] configuring openssl and ruby — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#89831] What object-configuration approach to use? — Mike Williams <mwilliams@...>
Consider a class that supports a number of configurable properties.
> Consider a class that supports a number of configurable properties.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:07:43PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 7:15:58 PM, Mauricio wrote:
[#89864] Updated documentation — "Imobach =?iso-8859-15?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?=" <imobachgs@...>
Hi all,
[#89865] Array.delete — "E.-R. Bruecklmeier" <news01@...>
Hello
[#89869] Concatenating variable number of Arrays ? — Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
[#89872] collect! and Enumerable — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Hi
[#89897] ruby-dev summary 22435-22573 — Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Hi all,
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message
[#89900] Stack level too deep (SystemStackError) — "Jesper Olsen" <Jesper@...>
I have a program where I'm getting a Stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
[#89902] Nested scopes and the Singleton pattern — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Hello all,
Hi,
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
[#89951] NULL pointer given, Win32API — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Hi all,
[#89966] Quick Input -- Sockets vs. HTTP — "dhtapp" <dhtapp@...>
Hi,
[#89975] drb, firewall, ssh tunneling, and yield — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
On Jan 15, 2004, at 19:10, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
On Jan 15, 2004, at 19:49, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
On Friday, 16 January 2004 at 9:29:59 +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
On Jan 15, 2004, at 20:16, Jim Freeze wrote:
On Friday, 16 January 2004 at 11:21:40 +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
[#89990] HTML templating that works in more than one language? — Ruby Baby <ruby@...>
Has anyone seen an HTML templating system that would be
Hello Ruby,
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:46:14PM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
[#90013] Fighting Ruby's bad fame — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Hi gurus and nubys,
Hello gabriele,
In article <af53b0ba.0401171921.7cf9b9b7@posting.google.com>,
>can you elaborate? Ruby has namespaces defined by modules.
[#90023] Installing a program Unix-like — Malte Milatz <malteDELETETHIS@...>
Users of Linux, FreeBSD etc. are used to downloading an archive,
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:00:05AM +0900, Malte Milatz wrote:
I wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:05:00PM +0900, Malte Milatz wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:01:25PM +0900, Mauricio Fern?ndez wrote:
[#90058] SOAP4R and WSDL — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Hello,
[#90071] In which order are files looked for when loaded/requierd - and what's the order of suffixes? — Stephan K舂per <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Hi all,
[#90077] long expression syntax — rick.hu@... (Rick Hu)
why do I get a syntax error for
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:10:01AM +0900, Rick Hu wrote:
messju mohr wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:37:49AM +0900, Jamis Buck wrote:
[#90086] is Ruby the right language for these projects? — Ruby Baby <ruby@...>
Please forgive my self-centered question. I've been learning all about Ruby
[#90102] mod_ruby(.rbx) newbie — Ruby Tuesday <rubytuzdayz@...>
Hi, I was wondering why my .rbx script just print the out out of my ruby
> Hi, I was wondering why my .rbx script just print the out out of my
[#90103] C++ from Ruby ARRRGGHH!! — Asfand Yar Qazi <im_not_giving_it_here@..._hate_spam.com>
Yes, I know there's a wrapper available already that can wrap C++
[#90113] running external process? — Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Hi all,
[#90126] setting instance variable "dynamically" — Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
I saw in the pickaxe there's a way to call methods dynamically, with
[#90139] segfaults on mandrake... — Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Hello,
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
[#90140] mysql-ruby troubles — Armin Preis <preisa@...>
Hi!
[#90157] Ruby1.8.1 on FreeBSD — Carsten Eckelmann <careck@...42.com>
Hi,
[#90161] List of defined classes/modules — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
How can I programmatically determine what classes and modules
[#90183] Re: setting instance variable "dynamically" — "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
> > The following will work with arbitrary objects ...
[#90200] regex help — Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
I need a re such that:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:38:12 +0900, Chris Morris wrote:
Simon Strandgaard wrote:
[#90213] Help! cannot recursive call — "Greg Brondo" <greg@...>
Having a problem with following code. It will drop to the first directory
[#90214] detecting Win95/Win98/WinME — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#90228] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
In article <mailman.493.1074484056.12720.python-list@python.org>,
>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> writes:
Ville>Though "sending messages" to int literals is a syntax error.
"Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote in message news:<AKEKIKLMCFIHPEAHKAAICEOHHFAA.zdennis@mktec.com>...
Received: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:59:59 +0900
[#90233] eRuby on Mac OS X — kevin_mcconnell@... (Kevin M)
I'm trying to get eRuby and mod_ruby running on OS X (Panther).
[#90255] Re: recvfrom(2) error on OS X 10.3.2 — fukumoto@...
On Jan 20, 2004, at 09:06, fukumoto@nospam.imasy.or.jp wrote:
[#90291] question about blocks — Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Hello,
[#90309] Proposal for programming language of the year — Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Pragmatic Programmers wrote, that every year a new language should be
[#90317] Re: Proposal for programming language of the year — "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>
I think one of the main points of learning a new language each year is that
In article <89539780CB9BD51182270002A5897DF605ED006B@hqempn04.agedwards.com>, Volkmann, Mark wrote:
[#90319] Parsing periods of time: Code and questions — "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@...>
Hi!
[#90353] no timeslicing? — Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
[#90354] Modules as namespace — gm@... (George Moschovitis)
Hello everyone,
George Moschovitis wrote:
[#90375] gsub oddity? — Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
What am I missing here. I am trying to replace a single quote with the
[#90378] Boost Protein Expression by Codon Optimization — Sally Wang <service@...>
Dear Colleague,
[#90379] Trouble installing eRuby on MacOS X 10.3 — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
All day I have been trying to get mod_ruby and eRuby installed on MacOS
[#90405] Very basic Ruby docs/books/tutorial? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hello,
[#90420] BibTeX parser — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Hi all,
[#90422] Parse Date bug? — Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Parse Date returns illegal values in a date. Ex:
[#90437] how to broadcast UDP packets — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:38, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
[#90472] Ruby/Extensions v0.3 released — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
A new version of Ruby/Extensions, a suite of useful methods added to
On Friday 23 January 2004 02:06 pm, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
On Saturday, January 24, 2004, 5:07:40 AM, T. wrote:
[#90473] Usage of 'super' — Michael Weller <michael@...>
Hi!
[#90491] FXRuby: adding child widgets after #run has started — Yuri Leikind <y.leikind@...>
Hello all,
[#90495] Regular Expressions — Rove Monteux <rove.monteux@...>
Hi there,
Rove Monteux wrote:
[#90505] Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...>
I find it immensely useful when dealing with arrays to be able to
Patrick Bennett wrote:
Hmmm, thanks, but it's a bit 'non-obvious' to casual Ruby programmers
On Friday 23 January 2004 06:43 pm, Gennady wrote:
Hi,
Ah, thanks! I see that it returns the object as-is if it's already an
[#90513] detecting default parameters — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Hello,
[#90559] RubyGems news? — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
After RubyConf2002 some people decided that a package
[#90574] cgi.rb params initialize_query() — Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
I assert that initialize_query is broken. CGI::parse should _always_ be
[#90589] Re: determine method passed and determine the receiver that received the method — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...>
[#90598] perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature — xah@... (Xah Lee)
Just bumped into another irresponsibility in perl.
[#90602] Keyword arguments in Ruby — grom_3@... (grom)
Is it possbile for Ruby to have keyword arguments added in like in
[#90612] Constant inheritance — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Is there anyway to let a subclass overwrite a constant in the
[#90613] Running a specific test in a suite from the command-line — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
I remember being able to write "ruby my_test_suite.rb
[#90640] Regurgitating the contents of a file — Philip Mak <pmak@...>
What's the shortest way to regurgitate the contents of a file? I mean
Philip Mak wrote:
[#90655] Re: nuby: determine method passed and determine the receiver that rec eived the method — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:02:11PM +0900, "Pe, Botp" wrote:
[#90667] ruby-math and "why is ** not abelian?" — vanjac12@... (Van Jacques)
I was reading the 1st thread in the ruby-math discussion at
[#90693] rdoc and hyperlinks — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
For some reason, my rdoc installation isn't generating hyperlinks for
I thought "hyperlinks, rdoc can do that now? cool!" and updated to the latest
Ack, forget this.
Sam Roberts wrote:
[#90699] def foo[](x) — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
#Works
> ....without having to create a new class for bar and define the []
David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
[#90706] programming languages — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>
Hi!
[#90735] storing message in exception object — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
I found myself using exception object (instead of ) more and more. They
[#90750] choosing ruby? — Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>
We are on the way to start a new project, a web application with a bunch
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:29:56PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:21:37PM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:34, Mauricio Fern叩ndez wrote:
[#90756] Editor — Safran von Twesla <me@...>
Hi,
The windows installer comes with SciTE. I'm happy with it.
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:14:35 +0900, "Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com>
[#90763] fltk build and doc access problems — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Hi
[#90768] checksum with ruby, how? — shasckaw <shasckaw@...>
Hello there, I need help.
[#90770] newbee question about "missing" hash methods +, += and << — benny <linux@...>
Hi,
>>>>> "b" == benny <linux@marcrenearns.de> writes:
[#90774] ./configure problem — William Sundberg <william@...4trade.com>
uname -a
[#90793] Re: nuby: can't get an image via http — Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Hello,
In article <200401271823.35269.emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr>,
[#90803] MiniRubyWiki in action? — phlip_cpp@... (Phlip)
Rubies:
[#90845] float types — elathan@...
Hello!
[#90875] Ruby & gd — Safran von Twesla <me@...>
Hi,
[#90876] Why does DBI insist on using it's own date/time classes? — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
I can't seem to figure out why DBI uses its own set of date/time
[#90879] hostname -> www.codeforpeople.com — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#90913] vimrc for Ruby or rubytidy — Theodore Knab <tjk@...>
Does someone have a '.vimrc' file they will share
> Does someone have a '.vimrc' file they will share
Hi,
[#90934] Bignums and return — Andre Nathan <andre@...>
Hello
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:41:42 +0900, Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br>
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 05:20, Jason Hutchens wrote:
>>>>> "A" == Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br> writes:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:05:03PM +0900, ts wrote:
[#90948] why won't ruby chomp for me? — Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Hello,
[#90971] time comparison — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
i want to parse and trim a log file. the date format log file looks like:
t3 = t2 - 24 * 2600 * x # - for Time work on the seconds
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 at 18:51 GMT, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:
[#90976] Why is def foo? legal but @foo? illegal? — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Can someone tell me why you can define a method with a question mark in
[#90981] Checking the parameters "type" — "Imobach =?iso-8859-15?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?=" <imodev@...>
Hi all,
[#90988] fallbacks using contiuations — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
"Jim Weirich" <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote in message news:<33737.216.23.36.251.1075442652.squirrel@jimweirich.umlcoop.net>...
[#90992] rescue *[] — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Hi,
[#91005] Ruby and Perl Integration — "John W. Long" <ws@...>
All this talk about RJNI has gotten me thinking. Has anyone attempted to
--- "John W. Long" <ws@johnwlong.com> wrote:
In article <4019C0B9.6090207@qiqsolutions.com>,
[#91041] Windows 1.8.1 installer ready — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net now has the latest installer, built for
[#91053] Changes to "Programming Ruby" book for 1.8.x — intc_ctor@... (Phil Tomson)
Since the text to Dave & Andy's "Programming Ruby" book is freely
[#91056] principle of most suprise — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
gah, ruby is doing it to me again:
[#91071] Accesing to private attributes — "Imobach =?iso-8859-15?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?=" <imodev@...>
Hi all,
[#91088] flip flop operator and assignment — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
I'm working on the pattern matching section for
In article <200401311343.i0VDh2Z00793@moulon.inra.fr>,
Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote in message news:<401F1E82.1080008@email.byu.edu>...
Phil Tomson wrote:
[#91089] No difference between .. and ... flip/flop operators? — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
When constructing ranges of values (such as Fixnums), ... excludes the
Dan Doel wrote:
On Jan 31, 2004, at 09:38, Michael campbell wrote:
Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
On Jan 31, 2004, at 10:58, Michael campbell wrote:
In article <401B6792.10204@po.cwru.edu>, Dan Doel <djd15@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
In article <E15487A8-540F-11D8-83F8-000A95CD7A8E@talbott.ws>,
Phil Tomson wrote:
Hal Fulton wrote:
In article <401C50D5.601@yahoo.com>,
[#91099] Ruby 1.8.1 REXML performance — Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
I have a script that uses REXML to stream parse an XML file and load a
Open source == Learn it yourself by trying and get it right if you can,
Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@ieee.org> wrote in message news:<401C268F.80805@ieee.org>...
Daniel Berger wrote:
I've repeated all the tests with Ruby 1.8.0 and it sure looks like
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:18:50 -0600, Charles Comstock wrote:
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Re: Simple Ruby DB apps/programs ...
Thanks Ara.
What web scripting language do you use to build the apps with pstore? Thanks
"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Useko Netsumi wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:18:42 -0500
> > From: Useko Netsumi <usenets@yahoo.com>
> > Reply-To: usenets_remove_this@yahoo.com
> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> > Subject: Re: Simple Ruby DB apps/programs ...
> >
> > Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Useko Netsumi wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:25:27 -0500
> > >>From: Useko Netsumi <usenets@yahoo.com>
> > >>Reply-To: usenets_remove_this@yahoo.com
> > >>Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> > >>Subject: Re: Simple Ruby DB apps/programs ...
> > >>
> > >>Carl Youngblood wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Useko Netsumi wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>I was wondering if there are some example of small Ruby(1.8.1)
> > >>>>Database Apps/Programs. Preferably using Relational Database such as
> > >>>>MySQL(4 or 5) or Oracle.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I'd love to see some example of storing name(first,last),
> > >>>>address(addr1,addr2,city,zip),phone(home,work,mobile), and a photo
image.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>It took me a while to write it in PHP but perhaps I can do it in
Ruby
> > >>>>more cleanly while learning this great language.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Thanks
> > >>>>
> > >>>>/useko
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>My favorite DBMS for small client apps is sqlite. No other DB comes
> > >>>close to it in terms of convenience and speed, as long as you're not
> > >>>running a distributed type of an application with hundreds of clients
> > >>>accessing the database at once. There is no need for a database
server
> > >>>at all. All necessary code for accessing the database is compiled
in,
> > >>>and databases are just plain old files. And it is ACID-compliant.
Check
> > >>>out this ruby extension for it here:
> > >>>
> > >>>http://sqlite-ruby.sourceforge.net/
> > >>>
> > >>>Carl
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>Thanks to all.
> > >>
> > >>Perhaps y'all can give me some advice. My apps are running a web photo
> > >>apps with mutiple tables in the database. I do not store the image in
> > >>the DB but just the /image/file/path and other textual information
such
> > >>as location, date, time, who took the pictures, and comment fields.
> > >>User(s) can only browse, search, and list the information for now.
And,
> > >>I do not expect more than 20 users accessing it at any given time.
Will
> > >>it work with SQLITE? Or do I need MySQL or more advanced(more
expensive)
> > >>RDBMS to handle those tasks.
> > >>
> > >>Thanks
> > >>
> > >>/useko
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > i use pstore for alot of web stuff - it works fine:
> > >
> > > ~/eg/ruby > cat photo.rb
> > > require 'pstore'
> > >
> > > class DB
> > > def initialize path = 'photo.db'
> > > @pstore = PStore.new path
> > > end
> > > def []= name, record
> > > address, phone = record
> > >
> > > @pstore.transaction do
> > > @pstore[name] = [address, phone]
> > > end
> > > end
> > > def [] name
> > > @pstore.transaction(read_only = true){ @pstore[name] }
> > > end
> > > def each(&block)
> > > @pstore.transaction do
> > > @pstore.roots.each{|name| block.call(name, @pstore[name])}
> > > end
> > > end
> > > def << record
> > > first,last,addr1,addr2,city,zip,home,work,mobile = record
> > > name = Name[first, last]
> > > address = Address[addr1,addr2,city,zip]
> > > phone = Phone[home,work,mobile]
> > > self[name] = [address, phone]
> > > end
> > >
> > > Name = Struct.new "Name", :first, :last
> > > Address = Struct.new "Address", :addr1, :addr2, :city, :zip
> > > Phone = Struct.new "Phone", :home, :work, :mobile
> > >
> > > [Name, Address, Phone].each{|c| class << c; alias [] new; end}
> > > end
> > >
> > > if $0 == __FILE__
> > > db = DB.new
> > >
> > > records = [
> > > %w(john doe foo bar boulder 80304 1 2 3),
> > > %w(jane doe bar foo boulder 80305 3 2 1),
> > > ]
> > >
> > > records.each{|record| db << record}
> > >
> > > john = DB::Name['john', 'doe']
> > > jane = DB::Name['jane', 'doe']
> > >
> > > db.each do |name, address, phone|
> > > printf "name: %s\naddress: %s\nphone: %s\n\n",
> > > name.inspect, address.inspect, phone.inspect
> > > end
> > >
> > > p db[john]
> > > p db[jane]
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > > ~/eg/ruby > ruby photo.rb
> > >
> > > name: #<struct Struct::Name first="john", last="doe">
> > > address: [#<struct Struct::Address addr1="foo", addr2="bar",
city="boulder", zip="80304">, #<struct Struct::Phone home="1", work="2",
mobile="3">]
> > > phone: nil
> > >
> > > name: #<struct Struct::Name first="jane", last="doe">
> > > address: [#<struct Struct::Address addr1="bar", addr2="foo",
city="boulder", zip="80305">, #<struct Struct::Phone home="3", work="2",
mobile="1">]
> > > phone: nil
> > >
> > > [#<struct Struct::Address addr1="foo", addr2="bar", city="boulder",
zip="80304">, #<struct Struct::Phone home="1", work="2", mobile="3">]
> > > [#<struct Struct::Address addr1="bar", addr2="foo", city="boulder",
zip="80305">, #<struct Struct::Phone home="3", work="2", mobile="1">]
> > >
> > >
> > > you can obviously just store the path to the photo this way... the
thing with
> > > pstore is that you can tailor the object to meet your needs: perhaps a
hash
> > > would be better: it's up to you. also check out madeleine (on RAA)
for this
> > > purpose.
> > >
> > >
> > > -a
> >
> > Thanks Ara, I'll definitely will try your example above. And check out
> > madeline as well.
> >
>
> > One question though, have you tried the pstore for multi-user or this is
> > mainly for single user only?
>
> i have used it for multi-user in house applications. i seem to remember
you
> saying this was for a round 20 users or so - in which case it would be
fine.
> if you want more you really need to go with postgresql and 'set isolation
> level serializable' or deal with transaction conflicts yourself. pstore
uses
> flock so it supports single writer many reader semantics. note that this
is
> the same as sqlite - it too uses flock and coarse grained locking
internally.
>
> > What happen if 2 or more user accessing the same db at the same time?
Thanks
>
> one will block. this is generally pretty easy to deal with by simply
> minimizing the amount of time you are writing to the database, for example
> use:
>
> value = cgi['value']
>
> pstore.transaction do
> pstore[:key] = value
> end
>
> vs.
>
> pstore.transaction do
> value = cgi['value']
> pstore[:key] = value
> end
>
> unless you db/updates are _very_ big the time blocked will probably be
about
> what the connection time would be been if using a rdbms server.
>
> and use read_only = true when possible. note that, if you really want
true
> concurency your cgi script will become pretty compilcated - especially for
> multi page apps which can span several minutes... simply using mysql or
> postgresql won't solve think for you.
>
> i would reccomend this:
>
> * abstract the database layer as a class which get records by key, adds
> records, deletes records, etc.
>
> * develop your app using pstore or other embedded db
>
> move to a db server iff throughput becomes a problem. the ability to
develop
> quickly, back up your db using 'tar', move to a new server using 'scp',
etc.
> are real benefits - plus you do not move outside the ruby installation and
> need to involve sysads (eek). rdbms are great but sometimes a little
> overkill.
>
> you also might want to check out 'bdb' which is very good and has
transaction
> support.
>
> -a
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