[#11815] problems with DBM module — Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@...>
[#11822] RCR: Input XML support in the base Ruby — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Hi,
TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@inac.co.jp> writes:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
[#11832] Re: RCR: Input XML support in the base Ruby — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Dave Thomas Wrote:
[#11868] Re: RCR: Input XML support in the base Ruby — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>
Ok, first off I feel I am at least semi-intelligent
[#11876] Option to allow Python style indenting? — "chris" <nospam@6666666.com>
Don't know whether this discussion would be better here or on the email
[#11884] Re: Seeking Ruby/Tk sensei... — Kevin Smith <sent@...>
>Hal 9000 Fulton wrote:
[#11893] Re: rewrite with Ruby — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "M" == Max Ischenko <max@malva.com.ua> writes:
>>>>> "M" == Max Ischenko <max@malva.com.ua> writes:
I have a class where the initializer takes a filename
[#11915] Why I bought a second copy of The Book. — jfn@... (Jeremy Nelson)
It was the book that exposed me to ruby and caused me to absolutely fall
[#11960] Not Ruby, for me, for the moment at least — "Michael Kreuzer" <mkreuzer@... (nospam)>
I wrote on this newsgroup last weekend about how I was considering using
"Michael Kreuzer" <mkreuzer(nospam)@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in
[#11986] possible memory leak in GDBM/gdbm — Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@...>
The following program suggests there is a small memory leak in
[#12000] Re: Seeking Ruby/Tk sensei... — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Kevin Smith wrote:
[#12003] Re: How do I reach members from a Proc? — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Dave Thomas wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
[#12014] ANN: Memoize 0.1.2 — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in
[#12019] hooking/wrapping all of a classes methods — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hello --
[#12023] French RUG ? — "Jerome" <jeromg@...>
Hi fellow rubyers,
Tammo Freese <tammo.freese@offis.de> writes:
[#12048] Windows Installer questions — andy@... (Andrew Hunt)
[#12052] Re: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> From: Ben Tilly [mailto:ben_tilly@hotmail.com]
"Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:
[#12061] Ruby & AOP — "Dennis Decker Jensen" <dennisdecker@...>
Hi !
[#12093] Another hook — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#12097] RCR: replacing 'caller' — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
[#12102] Re: Another hook — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Dave Thomas wrote:
[#12103] disassembling and reassembling a hash — raja@... (Raja S.)
Given a hash, h1, will the following always hold?
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
[#12116] String.gsub() — Mike Bowler <mbowler@...>
The method String.gsub() isn't working the way I expected (or the way
[#12124] Is Ruby japanese-centered? — "Henning VON ROSEN" <hvrosen@...>
[matz writes]
In article <MABBIFGPDKFFOJPHLCLIOEAKCBAA.hvrosen@world-online.no>,
[#12135] Re: hash.invert loses data if equal values exist - is this the right behaviour? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Tammo Freese <tammo.freese@offis.de> writes:
[#12144] New submissions to the Ruby Application Archive? — "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...>
OK, I promise I looked around for this answer before posting here ;)
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Lyle Johnson wrote:
[#12155] RCR: Block form of Dir.chdir — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
[#12174] Nonblocking Read — Alex McHale <lists@...>
Hi there,
[#12179] Re: (long) Re: hash.invert loses data if equal values exist - is this the right behaviour? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro) writes:
Hi,
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 22:36, you wrote:
> From: Charles Hixson [mailto:charleshixsn@earthhlink.net]
[#12182] Re: Nonblocking Read] — Alex McHale <lists@...>
> IO#sysread is what you are looking for.
[#12204] FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>
Ruby is, indeed, a very well designed language.
>>>>> "GK" == GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:
In message "[ruby-talk:12250] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"
Hi,
In message "[ruby-talk:12289] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"
Hi,
In message "[ruby-talk:12457] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"
On Monday 12 March 2001 00:39, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> From: Stephen White [mailto:spwhite@chariot.net.au]
[#12229] random chars — Urban Hafner <the-master-of-bass@...>
Hello everybody, I think/hope I have some simple questions.
At 22:35 07.03.01 +0900, you wrote:
Tammo Freese <tammo.freese@offis.de> wrote:
[#12237] [ANN] NQXML v2.0 adds DOM, DOCTYPE, and ENTITY — Jim Menard <jimm@...>
NQXML is a pure Ruby implementation of an XML tokenizer, a SAX parser, and
[#12244] [ANN] NQXML v0.2.2 — Jim Menard <jimm@...>
In the spirit of "release early, release often", version 0.2.2 of NQXML can
[#12308] GUI Toolkit for Ruby — jjthrash@...
Hi all,
jjthrash@pobox.com wrote in message
[#12329] Math package — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
In message "[ruby-talk:12329] Math package"
Hi,
[#12330] Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
Hi,
Hi,
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#12331] Re: Q re looping structures — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "M" == Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:
[#12332] ...and the challenge — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi again,
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:
[#12349] Can Ruby-GTK display Gif Png or Jpeg files? — Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Ruby-san:
Kent,
On Saturday 10 March 2001 15:30, Samantha Atkins wrote:
[#12369] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Kevin Smith <sent@...>
matz@zetabits.com wrote:
[#12443] Re: ...and the challenge — "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
>===== Original Message From Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> =====
[#12444] class variables — Max Ischenko <max@...>
[#12446] Locale support in Ruby — Ollivier Robert <roberto@...>
Hello,
[#12523] rb_ary_each and hash — User Tcovert <tcovert@...>
awesome! thanks all!
[#12524] C++ is like teenage sex. — Stephen White <spwhite@...>
Forwarded message from glen mccready <gkm@petting-zoo.net> -----
[#12529] Re: Sum of Squares — "rashworth" <rashworth@...>
Thank you for your note. The new coding worked just fine.
[#12540] Strange segmentation fault problem with C++ extension — "Paul C" <paul_c@...>
Hi,
[#12601] http page download question — "Ian Marsman" <imarsman@...>
I am writing a script to download webpages from a favourite radio program
[#12606] Order, chaos, and change requests :) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
>>>>> "DT" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
[#12635] email address regexp — "David Fung" <dfung@...>
i would like to locate probable email addresses in a bunch of text files,
In article <m18zm531s9.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>,
[#12646] police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>
I just read this story on Slashdot
On 14 Mar 2001 11:46:35 -0800, Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 15:40, Pete Kernan wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, W. Kent Starr wrote:
Amos wrote:
[#12655] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
>===== Original Message From Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> =====
[#12689] refactoring ruby code — Pat Eyler <pate@...>
To help myself learn more about Ruby, I'm starting to translate
[#12706] Library packaging — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>
I have a project that I'm working on that needs to live two different lives,
"Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com> writes:
Would it be possible to use some sort of jar style packaging - ie distribute
Hi,
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
[#12738] Parser? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Has anyone written a parser for Ruby in Ruby?
[#12754] assert_exception question — Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Okay, I'm reading along between several docs and now I'm confused ...
[#12768] Re: Tk Demo in Windows — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "R" == Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@acm.org> writes:
[#12803] Deja vu? — Roy Smith <roy@...>
After years of reading people on c.l.python interject comments about Ruby,
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:20:58 +0900, Hal E. Fulton
[#12821] units of measure — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
[#12825] Floating point performance & Garbage collection — Jean-Sebastien ROY <jean-sebastien.roy@...>
I recently came across a little performance problem I have difficulties
In article
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jean-Sebastien ROY wrote:
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010319225134.15108F-100000@relayer>,
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jean-Sebastien ROY wrote:
[#12829] converting a string to a class — "Doug Edmunds" <dae_alt3@...>
I want to concatenate strings which
[#12840] Looking for a decent compression scheme — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Dave Thomas wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Michael Neumann wrote:
Robert Feldt wrote:
[#12892] find.rb — Tyler Wardhaugh <tgw@...>
Hello, I'm new Ruby and I like it very much. The dynamic extensibility
Hi,
"Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:
> From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com]On Behalf Of Dave
[#12895] differences between range and array — "Doug Edmunds" <dae_alt3@...>
This code comes from the online code examples for
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hee-Sob Park wrote:
Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#12905] Native/pthreads in Ruby — Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@...>
I read everything I could find in the archives talking about
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:34:27PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#12906] RubyConf 2001 update — "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
RubyConf 2001 Update
[#12921] fork problem??? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Hello all,
[#12929] Re: animal is onion as show stopper — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Apparently sleep-deprived Hal wrote:
[#12935] How to add accessors dynamically? — Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Hello
[#12941] rubicon version? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
ISTR that Rubicon was going into the CVS base of Ruby. Now 1.6.3 is out
[#12960] TextBox ListBox — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Attached is a little Spike that Chet and I are doing. It is a
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:36:38 +0900, rise <rise@knavery.net> wrote:
[#12991] [ANN] Lapidary 0.2.0 — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>
Well, here's my first major contribution to the Ruby world: Lapidary. It's a
How is this different from RubyUnit?
>>>>> "Nathaniel" == Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com> writes:
jweirich@one.net [mailto:jweirich@one.net] wrote:
"Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com> writes:
[#13020] instrumenting system resources — Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@...>
[#13028] mkmf question — Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>
[#13033] How do I properly munge stdout and stderr when using IO.popen? — Donald Sharp <sharpd@...>
Or alternatively is there a better way to do this?
In [ruby-talk:13033], Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com> wrote:
I can't force the end user to choose a particular shell.
[#13039] extending existing classes. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I've run up against something I thought I knew how to solve, but...
[#13046] Philosophical question: extension v. pure ruby — Colin Steele <colin@...2.com>
[#13054] Questions about ruby — Roy Patrick Tan <rtan@...>
Hi, I am preparing a presentation about Ruby, for the programming
[#13064] Lapidary questions — Paul Pladijs <ppladijs@...>
[#13079] Thread Safe — Rogers Gene A Civ 96 CG/SCTOB <gene.rogers@...>
Here's a question (stupid, maybe):
[#13086] Amusing contrast — Bob Kline <bkline@...>
I was struck by the discrepancy between this quote from the Ruby man
[#13099] xmlparser installation woes — Phil Suh <phil@...>
[#13117] ZPT, a next-generation template technology (repost) — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
FYI. Thought some Rubies might be interested in this.
[#13138] How would Ruby say this? — "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...>
One group of C++ functions I'm wrapping for FXRuby have signatures like
"Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@resgen.com> writes:
[#13163] Re: Amusing contrast — Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Dave Thomas wrote:
[#13182] Re: email address regexp (fwd) — Paul Pladijs <paul.pladijs@...>
[#13185] Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
> Hi Dan,
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Daniel Berger wrote:
"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Daniel Berger wrote:
Ernest Ellingson <erne@powernav.com> writes:
[#13225] Installation Woes — "John Kaurin" <jkaurin@...>
System: alphaev6-osf4.0f
[#13226] Re: Randal in Ruby-land? (was: email address regexp) — "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
>===== Original Message From claird@starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) =====
[#13236] drb and "recycled objects" errors — Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@...>
[#13240] hash problem — Urban Hafner <the-master-of-bass@...>
Hello everybody,
[#13246] Re: Randal in Ruby-land? (was: email address regexp) — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@zetabits.com]
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:11:03 +0900, Christoph Rippel pontificated:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Pete Kernan wrote:
[#13255] This is going to sound crazy, but... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#13294] ruby slowww socket handling — Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
[#13303] Reloading files — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>
First of all, a confession: Lapidary's GTK::TestRunner had a show stopper
[#13318] hash slice implementaion — "Hee-Sob Park" <phasis@...>
[#13369] Buffered and non-buffered IO — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Could anyone point me to some documentation that describes how I could
[#13374] Passing an array to `exec'? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
I'd like to do the following:
[#13388] Using Antlr for Ruby? (was RE: Re: why won't "( a) = 1" parse?) — Christophe Broult <cbroult@...>
Hi,
Hi,
[#13397] Multidimensional arrays and hashes? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Is it possible in ruby to make use of constructs that correspond to
masa@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
> From: nosuzuki@e-mail.ne.jp [mailto:nosuzuki@e-mail.ne.jp]On Behalf Of
"Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:
[ruby-talk:12879] Re: GUI Toolkit for Ruby
> -----Original Message----- > From: claird@starbase.neosoft.com [SMTP:claird@starbase.neosoft.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 6:40 AM > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp > Subject: [ruby-talk:12770] Re: GUI Toolkit for Ruby > > In article <61AC3AD3E884D411836F0050BA8FE9F33550C6@franklin.jenkon.com>, > <brk@jenkon.com> wrote: > . > . > . > >Ben's got a great suggestion, which aside from helping with system > >administration would also enable accessibility. Writing a cross-platform, > >cross-windowing-toolkit GUI is far from easy. The difficulty goes way up > if > >you want to support internationalization, accessibility, or even drawing. > > > > ><rambling> > > > >Dylan's DUIM > >(http://www.functional-objects.com/products/doc/dguide/index.htm) is one > >interesting attempt (interesting because Dylan idioms are often > reminiscent > >of Ruby idioms, and because people have said nice things about it), > >wxWindows and Qt are two others. I've written one myself in Python that > >currently runs on Qt or Java Swing. All have their weaknesses. > > > >Starting with a strong MVC bias is probably a good way to do it, and if > you > >work really, really hard, the payoff could be handsome - if Ruby had a > >single, convincing answer to the question 'What GUI toolkit do I use?', > it > >might help improve the user base significantly. > > > >However, this is not a project that should be started lightly. If you > want > >to do this right, pick a cross-platform GUI toolkit which supports > Unicode > >(and other encodings, possibly) and is free on all platforms as one > >implementation (wxWindows or gtk might be acceptable compromises, since > >they're both moving toward I18N support, and Ben's text-only > implementation. > >Develop them simultaneously to keep yourself from cheating and making > some > >things inaccessible from the text version. > > > >Don't forget to look elsewhere for ideas. Consider UIML (www.uiml.org), > XUL > >(www.mozilla.org/xpfe), Swing, and the SmallTalk GUIs. Read some books on > >user interface design. > > > >If people think this all the way through and still decide to do it, and > do > >it well, Ruby could benefit greatly. > . > . > . > I like your recommendations for sources of good ideas. > > I think you wrote truest, though, right at the beginning: > Writing a cross-platform, cross-windowing-toolkit > GUI is far from easy. The difficulty goes way up > if you want to support internationalization, > accessibility, or even drawing. > I'm not sanguine about the prospects for the grand ambition > you describe. Java wants all that, and Swing is, frankly, > unusable in several regards. > -- > > Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com> > Business: http://www.Phaseit.net > Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html [Bryn Keller] I couldn't agree more. It's very, very hard to get this right, and Swing certainly didn't, IMHO. I'm not sure I've *ever* seen a GUI toolkit that really got these things right. Certainly not one that got them all and was still usable. Bryn