[#118612] OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6 — Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>

I'm not sure who to talk to about this, but in my correspondence with

17 messages 2004/11/01

[#118651] symbol solver.. early experiments — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2004/11/01

[#118675] fastcgi performance problems and ruby — andrew.stuart@...

Hello

16 messages 2004/11/02

[#118679] US Presidential Election — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Election Day is upon us!

135 messages 2004/11/02
[#118681] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/02

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#118690] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Ara.T.Howard@... 2004/11/02

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#118696] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2004/11/02

I am neither a Kerry or Bush supporter. Idealy I would vote

[#118734] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2004/11/02

Bush, with conviction ;-)

[#118744] Re: [OT] US Presidential Election — Thomas Kirchner <lists@...> 2004/11/02

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:18:12PM +0900, Richard Kilmer wrote:

[#118836] From getoptlong to optparse — Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>

15 messages 2004/11/02

[#118863] Programmatically and dynamically catching exceptions — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>

Allright here was my idea which seems to have been shattered by the

13 messages 2004/11/03

[#118965] Ruby Package for MacOS X — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>

Hi all,

11 messages 2004/11/04

[#118970] Ruby and civil political discussion? (Re: [OT] US Presidential Election) — "Dave Burt" <burtdav@...>

"David Morton" <mortonda@gmail.com> wrote:

18 messages 2004/11/04

[#118988] rails: gem install rails is bombing — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2004/11/04
[#118994] Re: rails: gem install rails is bombing — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/04

> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix

[#118997] Ruby BitTorrent — (Curne) Simon Conrad-Armes <curne@...>

Has anybody started a Ruby BitTorrent transfer library? I wanted to

13 messages 2004/11/04

[#119059] Will ActiveRecord support Berkeley DB? — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/11/04

[#119111] FastCGI parameters (get and post) — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

21 messages 2004/11/04
[#119114] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/11/04

GET parameters you have to parse from ENV['QUERY_STRING'].

[#119117] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — "J. D." <jd@...> 2004/11/04

Kent Sibilev wrote:

[#119176] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/05

[#119208] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — MoonWolf <moonwolf@...> 2004/11/05

Patrick May wrote:

[#119275] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/05

Quoting MoonWolf <moonwolf@moonwolf.com>:

[#119289] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/11/05

Patrick May ha scritto:

[#119357] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Patrick May <patrick@...> 2004/11/06

[#119358] Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post) — Ara.T.Howard@... 2004/11/06

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Patrick May wrote:

[#119132] recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>

I wanted to learn Ruby, so I picked a small task of trying to write a

19 messages 2004/11/05
[#119149] Re: recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2004/11/05

Hi,

[#119161] Re: recursive brace matching with Ruby regexp — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/11/05

On Nov 4, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Mark Hubbart wrote:

[#119148] Ruby 1.4.6 - trouble with require path — primehalo@... (Ken Innes)

I inherited a project that uses Ruby 1.4.6 on a RedHat Linux 6.1J. I

12 messages 2004/11/05

[#119168] value provided for argument with default value - how to check inside method? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Is there an equivalent of block_given? to check if the caller provided a

16 messages 2004/11/05

[#119223] GEDCOM Parser (#6) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

40 messages 2004/11/05
[#119224] Re: [QUIZ] GEDCOM Parser (#6) — Jim Menard <jimm@...> 2004/11/05

> <gedcom>

[#119371] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>

I sometimes use the method definition shorthand 'attr_reader',

29 messages 2004/11/06
[#119373] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...> 2004/11/07

On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:23 PM, James Britt wrote:

[#119386] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/07

[#119406] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119417] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/07

[#119428] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119432] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2004/11/07

Quoteing jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com, on Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:26:26AM +0900:

[#119439] Re: [RDOC] Documenting accessor methods as methods — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2004/11/07

Sam Roberts wrote:

[#119535] rdoc and vim folding — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>

24 messages 2004/11/08
[#119540] Re: rdoc and vim folding — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/11/08

[#119543] Re: rdoc and vim folding — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/11/09

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#119545] Re: rdoc and vim folding — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...> 2004/11/09

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Hans Fugal wrote:

[#119597] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...>

This release candidate of the One-Click Installer for

22 messages 2004/11/09

[#119598] RedCloth 3.0.0 -- Textile and Markdown Elope! — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>

RedCloth 3 is out. You know? RedCloth? Perhaps you've heard of it.

14 messages 2004/11/09

[#119607] Iterating trough hash — Kevin =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6rgens?= <kevin@...>

Hi!

19 messages 2004/11/09

[#119685] new spam at the wiki — Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@...>

been checking my pages and it looks like we've got a new spammer on board.

41 messages 2004/11/10
[#119708] Re: new spam at the wiki — Jim Weirich <jim@...> 2004/11/10

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 02:00 am, Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote:

[#119748] Re: new spam at the wiki — Asfand Yar Qazi <see@...> 2004/11/10

Jim Weirich wrote:

[#119754] Re: new spam at the wiki — Henrik Horneber <ryco@...> 2004/11/10

Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:

[#119756] Re: new spam at the wiki — Charles Comstock <cc1@...> 2004/11/10

[#119796] A Wiki/Spam Report — "Jim Weirich" <jim@...> 2004/11/10

Hello all.

[#119895] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2004/11/11

Jim Weirich wrote:

[#119911] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/11/11

Ben Giddings ha scritto:

[#119935] Re: A Wiki/Spam Report — "Jim Weirich" <jim@...> 2004/11/11

[#119799] array.each restart when array is changed — Kevin =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6rgens?= <kevin@...>

Hi!

18 messages 2004/11/10

[#119825] Arachno users? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Any Arachno IDE users out there? Do you mind sharing your opinion of the

16 messages 2004/11/11
[#119908] Re: Arachno users? — Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@...> 2004/11/11

I've been programming in Ruby for 3 years, and using ArachnoRuby for

[#119826] ruby idiom for attribute definition? — "Corey" <corey_s@...>

19 messages 2004/11/11

[#119878] Thinking About Java Interfaces In Ruby — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I'm currently reading "Holub on Patterns", an excellent volume on

18 messages 2004/11/11

[#119974] warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop — Stu <ceaser@...>

12 messages 2004/11/12

[#120037] Copland to Needle article on RubyGarden — Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>

For those not subscribed to RubyGarden's rss feed[1], Jamis Buck has

35 messages 2004/11/12
[#120214] Re: [ANN] Copland to Needle article on RubyGarden (LONG) — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2004/11/13

Chad Fowler wrote:

[#120431] Starter question on Test::Unit — Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...> 2004/11/15

Hello,

[#120056] Countdown (#7) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

26 messages 2004/11/12

[#120061] why does rss/maker not raise errors? — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

There are lots of mandatory attributes (yes, which are mandatory is

26 messages 2004/11/12
[#120133] bug: rss/maker is requiring <image> for rss/0.9 — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2004/11/13

It says it is optional here:

[#120071] assert — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

I could not find a standard "assert" in Ruby. Is there one?

29 messages 2004/11/12

[#120248] Dynamic define_method on class creation per module namespace — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Here's a wee challenge for Rubyists at large. Consider:

12 messages 2004/11/14

[#120261] Countdown (#7) — Dennis Ranke <dennis.ranke@...>

Hi, here is my second solution for this very interesting quiz.

15 messages 2004/11/14

[#120271] Ruby in the enterprise... — "Wood, Jeff" <jeffwood@...>

Hello all,=20

14 messages 2004/11/14

[#120299] OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

How 'bout an OpenStruct#update for adding values after initialization. Or is

72 messages 2004/11/14
[#120306] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/14

On Sunday 14 November 2004 03:42 pm, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#120337] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/14

Hi,

[#120355] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/15

On Sunday 14 November 2004 06:16 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#120395] Re: OpenStruct#update ? — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/15

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#120401] Kernel#singleton_class (was: Re: OpenStruct#update ?) — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2004/11/15

Hi --

[#120405] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/15

David A. Black wrote:

[#120407] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2004/11/15

Hi --

[#120446] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/15

Hi,

[#120449] Re: Kernel#singleton_class — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/15

On Monday 15 November 2004 12:28 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#120380] Arachno Ruby 0.3 (patch 2) — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2004/11/15

[#120485] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...>

15 messages 2004/11/15
[#120516] Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Matt Armstrong <matt@...> 2004/11/16

[#120626] Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.3 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2004/11/17

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:08:23PM +0900, Matt Armstrong wrote:

[#120573] Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Kevin Hinners <kevin.hinners@...>

I've downloaded the stable 1.8.1 release of Ruby. When I attempt to run make

21 messages 2004/11/16
[#120574] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/16

Hi,

[#120577] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Kevin Hinners <kevin.hinners@...> 2004/11/16

Top segment of mkmk.log:

[#120582] Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/11/16

Hi,

[#120609] Ruby to C to another language (perhaps Java (I Don't Need JRuby)) — Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>

This posting is more for a learning thing then anything else at this

10 messages 2004/11/17

[#120727] About Regular Expressions — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>

Lately there have been a bunch of posts on this list about regular

31 messages 2004/11/18
[#120739] Re: About Regular Expressions — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/18

On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:34 am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#120745] Re: About Regular Expressions — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...> 2004/11/18

* trans. (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> [Nov 18, 2004 14:10]:

[#120764] Re: About Regular Expressions — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/11/18

On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:26 am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#120754] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>

Hi,

30 messages 2004/11/18
[#120772] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — David Ross <dross@...> 2004/11/18

Michael Neumann wrote:

[#120870] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com> 2004/11/19

David Ross wrote:

[#120877] Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL) — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2004/11/19

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:42:36PM +0900, David Garamond wrote:

[#120872] mission critical Ruby? — Mark VanOrman <mark@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2004/11/19

[#120890] Object Browser (#8) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

65 messages 2004/11/19
[#121006] Re: [SOLUTION] Object Browser (#8) — "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...> 2004/11/22

I'm new to using gems. Can you tell me the command I need to run to get

[#121093] Object Browser (#8) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/11/23

Hello Group,

[#121357] Re: [Solution] Object Browser (#8) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/11/25

So I took some time and refactored my solution. It now has a modular and extendible structure (at least I hope so). It should be possible to easily write non-gtk ui's and extend the reporting capabilities.

[#120940] Inner Class Relationship — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I have an inner class that needs to send it's parent object (outer

24 messages 2004/11/20
[#120946] Re: Inner Class Relationship — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/20

Since you haven't said much about how you're using this, maybe my

[#120947] Re: Inner Class Relationship — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/11/21

On Nov 20, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Francis Hwang wrote:

[#120952] Re: Inner Class Relationship — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/21

[#120961] Windows - calling system with multiple parms — colotechpro@... (John Reed)

I'm having a problem getting a system call to Windows XP to work. I

13 messages 2004/11/21

[#121015] Some progress but have hit a new error working through the Todo tutorial... Anyone recognize it? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

The error is below. Ugh. But at least it works up to this point. I don't

12 messages 2004/11/22
[#121016] Re: Some progress but have hit a new error working through the Todo tutorial... Anyone recognize it? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...> 2004/11/22

Oh, whups. The state of the todo_controller.rb file that evokes this error

[#121026] Instiki problems — Ryco@...

Hi!

19 messages 2004/11/22
[#121031] Re: Instiki problems — Ryco@... 2004/11/22

Update:

[#121129] Re: Instiki problems — Ryco@... 2004/11/23

Hi!

[#121126] rails is awesome — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>

46 messages 2004/11/23
[#121134] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/23

> Couldn't help sending a big 'thank you' to DHH for Rails.

[#121194] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/23

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:11:24 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121196] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/23

> I haven't seen this myself, but from something said by others, it

[#121217] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:01:17 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121243] Re: rails is awesome — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/11/24

> Essentially, David, this is a *problem* with ActiveRecord.

[#121247] Re: rails is awesome — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2004/11/24

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 9:23:09 PM, David wrote:

[#121260] Re: rails is awesome — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:48:18 +0900, Gavin Sinclair

[#121267] Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

[#121271] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — George Moschovitis <gm@...> 2004/11/24

> do, maybe it's worth considering that ActiveRecord is not not the only

[#121274] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:58:09 +0900, George Moschovitis <gm@navel.gr> wrote:

[#121275] Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome] — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

Austin, what DB are you using anyway? Dunno if I caught that in this

[#121173] Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Okay, okay, okay. Instiki does need a new maintainer. At least a

12 messages 2004/11/23
[#121195] Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/23

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:35:21 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson

[#121210] Marshal vs. YAML vs. something else (Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer) — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/11/24

More generally, let me ask: What formats are people using to persist

[#121205] How to avoid inheriting Object? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

How do I create a class that does not inherit from Object?

17 messages 2004/11/24
[#121218] Re: How to avoid inheriting Object? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/11/24

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:29:09 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:

[#121227] editors/IDEs — Jamie Orchard-Hays <jamie@...>

I'm curious what people are favoring for editors and IDEs for Ruby.

21 messages 2004/11/24

[#121318] Ruby/DL tutorial — bjsp123@... (Benjamin Peterson)

Hi,

15 messages 2004/11/24

[#121381] Re: Ruby GUIs and installation effort — "bin liu" <ruby@3cn.com.cn>

I think one GUI system dos not depends others except ruby will bee more flexible.

19 messages 2004/11/25

[#121455] Using unit-tests as examples for a documentation — benny <listen@...>

dear list,

13 messages 2004/11/25

[#121468] oneclick installer, freeride — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

anybody NOT developing the oneclick installer or freeride can skip

12 messages 2004/11/25

[#121506] Multiplexer - linear non-blocking I/O — Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>

Blocking I/O is really easy to use. But when you use it to write

32 messages 2004/11/26

[#121517] Banned Words (#9) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

29 messages 2004/11/26

[#121611] initialize always — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

It is rather a common occurrence that I find myself creating a mixin module

16 messages 2004/11/27

[#121647] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC10 — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...>

This release is mainly in upgrade the included FreeRIDE

13 messages 2004/11/28

[#121730] Seeking advice on some method names — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Hi all,

28 messages 2004/11/29

[#121847] to_s, inspect, etc. — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Where would I find a nice summary of to_s, inspect, p, etc. and the core

16 messages 2004/11/29

[#121903] PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python (vs. Rails) — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering about the differences in

15 messages 2004/11/30

[#121916] Python 2.4 released — Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>

A coworker of mine came and hollarred at me because on /. it mentioned

21 messages 2004/11/30

[#121936] Optional static typing (or, What can Ruby 2.0 borrow from Boo?) — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

23 messages 2004/11/30

[#121943] profile — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2004/11/30

[#121949] singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

irb(main):025:0> x = :any

20 messages 2004/11/30
[#121956] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/11/30

itsme213 wrote:

[#121970] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Francis Hwang <sera@...> 2004/12/01

[#121975] Re: singleton methods : when are they not permitted? — Christoph <chr_mail@...> 2004/12/01

Francis Hwang schrieb:

Ruby Weekly News 25-31st October 2004

From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-11-01 09:38:53 UTC
List: ruby-talk #118547
Here is the Ruby Weekly News for the past week.

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyNews/2004-10-25


                     Ruby Weekly News 25-31st October 2004

   A summary of the week's activity on the ruby-talk mailing list / the
   comp.lang.ruby newsgroup. There were [890 messages in 176 threads]. This
   summary is brought to you by Tim Sutherland.

Announcements

     * [Nitro Web Engine 0.2.0]

           George Moschovitis announced a new version of his web application
           framework. The rdoc documentation has been greatly improved and a
           test suite has been added. In the thread following the
           announcement, he explains how [Nitro] differs from [Rails] - Nitro
           focuses more on scalability and allowing the web developer to
           choose the application design.

     * [Ruvi 0.4.12]

           Alexander Kellett released version 0.4.12 of [ruvi], the VIM-clone
           written in Ruby, having distributed the pre-release last week. The
           code has been refactored for improved stability and
           scrolling/highlighting is faster.

     * [New RCRchive is open]

           David A. Black announced the opening of the new [RCRchive]. It has
           been re-written in [Rails]. This follows last week's revelation of
           a new [RubyGarden FAQ], also re-written in Rails by David. RCR
           stands for "Ruby Change Request" and is the process by which users
           can suggest changes to the Ruby language and standard libraries.

     * [New RubyGarden article: "Reflections on Rails"]

           Chad Fowler pointed out an [article on RubyGarden] by David A.
           Black which discusses his experiences with developing sites in
           [Rails]. Chad writes "I hope this to be the first in a long stream
           of articles, tutorials, and interviews to grace the pages of
           RubyGarden.org." Please contact him if you wish to contribute.

     * [Earlybird entries are about to close for OSDC]

           Graeme Cross noted that registrations for the Australian Open
           Source Developers' Conference are now open. This conference will
           run 1st - 3rd of December 2004 at Monash University.

     * [SQLite/Ruby 2.2.0]

           Jamis Buck released a new version of [SQLite/Ruby], a Ruby
           interface for the [SQLite] database engine. Statement#execute now
           accepts bind values as arguments. The thread also discussed
           supporting version 3 of SQLite (currently beta). Jamis intends to
           write a binding for it when the API settles down.

     * [Needle 0.9.0]

           Jamis Buck updated [Needle] a dependency injection (and service
           locator) container for Ruby. It has some small API changes and the
           log output is more readable. He has scheduled version 1.0 for
           November 4th, so contact him before then to report bugs or missing
           features.

     * [Matz's baby!]

           Jamis Buck was reading [Matz' blog] and saw that Matz now has a
           baby girl. Matz reports that both the mother and child are
           healthy. Congratulations!

     * [Wee goes public]

           Michael Neumann announced the first public release of [Wee]. It is
           a web application framework incorporating features from Seaside2,
           Iowa and Borges.

     * [Design by Contract for C]

           Charles Mills released [Design by Contract for C], a C
           pre-processor that generates contract testing code and
           documentation from DBC tags embedded in C comments.

     * [RubyGarden: GCAndExtensions]

           Tim Sutherland wrote a replacement for the GCAndExtensions page on
           RubyGarden. This page is for people who write C extensions for
           Ruby, or embed Ruby in other programs. It tells you what you need
           to know about Ruby's garbage collector in these situations. For
           example, it explains when volatile may be necessary.

     * [win32-eventlog 0.3.0], [win32-ipc 0.3.0]

           On behalf of the [Win32Utils] Team, Daniel Berger announced a new
           version of win32-eventlog, a Ruby interface for the Windows Event
           Log. You can now put a "watch" on the log to have a block called
           whenever a new record is added. There were some other API
           improvements and a bug was fixed. He also announced win32-ipc
           0.3.0. This is a base class for Win32 synchronization objects. The
           constructor and wait methods now take blocks and the library
           raises an exception rather than returning nil when errors occur.

Threads

   Interesting threads this week include ...

  [Compiling Extensions on Windows], [How to build Ruby on Windows]

   Jim Weirich asked about building C extensions on Windows. Various people
   pointed out that Microsoft now provide the command-line tools for Visual
   Studio .NET 2003 for no cost ([FreeVisualStudio]). [MinGW] (Minimalist GNU
   For Windows) was also listed as a solution (this uses the GNU C compiler
   and is link-compatible with Visual Studio).

   A couple of days later Matt Mower published a guide HowToBuildOnWindows
   for building Ruby with MinGW on Windows.

  [Re: eRuby for Windows], [Questions About Documenting erb.rb]

   The first thread started a couple of weeks ago and has turned into a
   discussion on writing documentation for those standard Ruby libraries
   which are still lacking in that area. Gavin Sinclair gave some advice for
   people interested helping out, mentioning the ruby-doc mailing list and
   listing himself as a person to send patches to.

  [Garden Spam], [RubyGarden wiki patch], [Flea vs RubyGarden]

   The problem of how to reduce the problem of scripts spamming the
   RubyGarden Wiki was discussed, with many people throwing in their 2 cents.
   [CAPTCHA] tests were a popular idea, these are tests that humans can pass
   but computer programs can't (easily). An example given by Gabriele Renzi
   is the question "what colour is a white horse?"

   Chad Fowler implemented a simple change to RubyGarden that only allows
   URLs with a capitalised protocol://. It is hoped this will have an effect
   for a while since it appears the spammers are not specifically targeting
   RubyGarden but spamming sites automatically.

  [Name Dropping], [Ruby on Rails presentation added to the WhyRuby repository]

   Curt Hibbs was preparing a presentation on [Ruby on Rails] for Java
   developers and wanted to "mention the names of a few well known (in our
   industry) people who are also Ruby enthusiasts." Ron Jeffries and Martin
   Fowler from the agile software development community were among the names
   mentioned.

   He later put the [presentation slides] on the web and reported that the
   talk was very well received.

  [Ruby & Oracle 10g]

   Anders Engstro:m asked about connecting to an Oracle 10g database with
   Ruby. Ollivier Robert reported that the dbd_oci8 distributed with DBI has
   no problem using version 10g.

  [[QUIZ] Sokoban (#5)], [Re: [QUIZ] Sokoban (#5) -- Games in Ruby]

   [Ruby Quiz] number 5 was posted by James Edward Gray II.

  "Ruby isn't the only good thing to come out of Japan. The computer game
  Sokoban, invented by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, was introduced by Thinking Rabbit
  of Takarazuka, Japan in 1982.  This simple game of logic puzzles was an
  instant success. It won awards and spawned sequels. Over the years, Sokoban
  has been ported to a huge number of platforms. Fan support remains strong
  and many of those fans even produce new levels for the game.
   
  This week's quiz is to implement the game of Sokoban with the interface of
  your choosing and any extra features you would like to have."

  [Auto-completion editor/IDE]

   Eli Tucker asked if there are any IDEs that support auto-completion for
   Ruby. He'd used [RDE] but found the auto-completion limited. The inherent
   difficulties of doing this in Ruby were pointed out and "Rob" mentioned
   his jEdit macro which is based on the idea "if it quacks like a duck, it
   probably waddles like a duck too".

  "The jEdit beanshell macro executes a Ruby script that does the following:
   1) determines methods that have already been called on the variable
   2) uses a slightly modified version of ri to find classes that have all
   those methods
   3) uses ri again to find all the methods available on those classes
   
  The jEdit macro then displays a popup list of the methods for the user to
  select from. In the case of a variable being declared like this:
      variable = Duck.new
  we know we have a duck so the script can immediately jump to step 3."

  [ruby-dev summary 24487-24627]

   Minero Aoki posted the summary of the (Japanese) ruby-dev mailing list.
   He reports that it looks like 1.8.2 preview 3 will be out soon.

  [Lint for Ruby]

   Matt Mower asked if there was a "Lint" program for Ruby to check for
   errors in code. One of Robert Feldt's students, Philippa Olofsson, wrote a
   thesis on the topic of static checking in Ruby: [CheckR] and there was
   some discussion of the ideas therein.

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