[#140645] Pimki 1.7 — "Assaph Mehr" <assaph@...>
Hi All,
[#140649] Ruby-GetText-Package-0.9.0 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>
Hi,
[#140653] Newbie Question About files — Jeff Singer <jsinger@...>
I am still fairly new to ruby, and have been working on a fairly small
[#140660] collections with values of fixed classes/lengths — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Anybody know of any collection (i.e. Array/Hash) classes where
[#140667] Thinking of creating a small mini-language-interpreter using Ruby — Glenn Smith <glenn.ruby@...>
Always something I've wanted to write - an interpreter of my own. Now
On 5/2/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
Sounds like I need to craft a "Richard Stallman" style beard then!!
[#140686] Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) — Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
[#140697] Re: Inverting a regular expression? — "Harry Ohlsen" <Harry_Ohlsen@...>
> From: Eric Mahurin [mailto:eric_mahurin@yahoo.com]
Well, if you want an academic answer... :)
[#140700] Consequences of not calling ruby_finalize()? — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Instead of embedding Ruby into a C program with a main() function I want
>>>>> "P" == Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> writes:
On Mon, 2 May 2005, ts wrote:
[#140714] Ruby, Rails and now og — "Andrew Ballantine" <andrew.ballantine@...>
Hi,
Andrew Ballantine wrote:
> What I like about this is I can write and evolve my application
David,
> During the development phase you can alter your
[#140735] Re: collections with values of fixed classes/lengths — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
> > I still think a more general extension would be nice. And
[#140750] enum in ruby ? — Andreas Habel <mail@...>
Hi,
[#140774] MMU-less systems and vfork. — Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
I have an upcoming project that will be on an MMU-less platform
On 5/3/05, Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote:
[#140775] "Bounty" approach for small pieces of code? — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
I seem to recall there was some discussion here of
[#140808] Re: "Bounty" approach for small pieces of code? — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Molitor, Stephen L wrote:
On 5/2/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
On 5/2/05, Richard Lyman <lymans@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/2/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
[#140814] KirbyBase 2.2 — Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
I would like to announce version 2.2 of KirbyBase, a simple, pure-Ruby
* Jamey Cribbs wrote:
[#140824] ruby executable — Derek Haskin <DHaskin@...>
Derek Haskin wrote:
[#140844] Has anyone used Ruby for validated FDA applications? — Simon Crase <simon_crase@...>
I'm considering using Ruby for a project for a medical application; the
[#140856] Bug Tracker — Andy Stone <xsltguru@...>
Hello all,
Andy Stone wrote:
In article <1115131538.406428.180220@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
[#140883] [Solution] Barrel of monkeys — Brian Schrer <ruby.brian@...>
Hello Group,
[#140886] Re: FXRuby 1.2.6 using rubygems — Daniel Sperl <redgeREM0VETHIS@...>
Thanks for your quick supply!!!
[#140888] I rock. — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Yup, rb_intern needs to be cached. Yup, the __self thing is wrong (it
In article <dd6604df17395617d9dd5740c057200a@segment7.net>,
On 03 May 2005, at 11:09, Phil Tomson wrote:
On 5/4/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
[#140890] un_metaclass — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
On 5/3/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Mark Hubbart wrote:
[#140910] Typo-checking instead of static typing — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Once again, static typing reared its head on the mailing list, and once
On 03 May 2005, at 12:27, Ben Giddings wrote:
Ben Giddings wrote:
On 5/4/05, Jon A. Lambert <jlsysinc@alltel.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 12:21, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:49:30AM +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
[#140915] Question about unit tests — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
Hello all,
[#140926] traits-0.0.0 — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#140928] Re: [ANN] traits-0.0.0 — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Berger, Daniel wrote:
Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
[#140943] mapping an array to a hash? — Nick Woolley <nickwoolley@...>
Hi,
[#140949] Any Rubyists in Oslo? — Chris Pine <glyconis@...>
Hello all,
[#140953] Re: Ruby, Rails and now og — "Molitor, Stephen L" <Stephen.L.Molitor@...>
>> You write a few methods, add a few columns, write some more methods,
[#140979] C Extensions using MingW (invalid address LoadError) — "Kian Wright" <kianw@...>
Hi
[#140987] Debian: coexistence of debs and gems? — Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
[#140997] Re: Inverting a regular expression? — "Harry Ohlsen" <Harry_Ohlsen@...>
> From: Dan Doel [mailto:dolio@case.edu]
[#141010] Ruby Weekly News delayed — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
The Ruby Weekly News for last week has been delayed. (The edition for
[#141015] writing to a file with gsub! — Ralf Mler <r_mueller@...>
Hi,
Ralf Mler wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005 22:30:07 +0900
On May 4, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Ralf Mler wrote:
[#141023] Object#inside_metaclass? — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Ara.T.Howard wrote:
On 5/4/05, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Martin DeMello wrote:
Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov schrieb:
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Christoph wrote:
[Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov, 2005-05-04 20.44 CEST]
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Carlos wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
David A. Black wrote:
Hi,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
In message "Re: [RCR] Object#inside_metaclass?"
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi --
[#141053] Bug or on purpose? — Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Hi,
On 5/4/05, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/4/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
[#141057] Fixnum's binary representation — camsight@...
Hi, people!
[#141117] traits (the other ones) vs. mixins — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Ara.T.Howard wrote:
[#141125] object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar) — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
In ruby, is there a way to get a handle of an object reference?
[#141143] Re: object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar) — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
> > In ruby, is there a way to get a handle of an object
[#141149] rails+ajax slowness in IE — "Sam Williams" <samuel.williams@...>
I'm trying out a very simple bit of Ajax using the Rails helper. While
[#141154] Class#singleton_of — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#141163] Float to Rational — Luke Galea <lgalea@...>
Hi All,
Luke Galea wrote:
Jannis Harder wrote:
[#141165] Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit 0.6 - method completion release — "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Version 0.6 of jEdit's Ruby Editor Plugin has been released and is
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Alexandru Popescu wrote:> Rob . said:> > Version 0.6 of jEdit's Ruby Editor Plugin has been released and is> > available for download!> >> > http://www.jedit.org/ruby/> > Great job Rob!Mulmesc!
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:38 +0900, Rob . wrote:
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Alex, I don't get an exception in this case, but I see what you mean.
I am also getting an exception ...
Belorion a 馗rit :
[#141167] How to interface with an API written in C++? — Derek Haskin <DHaskin@...>
Derek Haskin, May 5:
Piers Harding, May 5:
[#141178] Tkmenubar and checkbuttons — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
I have this snippet as part of my Tk menu bar spec:
[#141180] Rails developmnet environment on Windows — Igor Anic <ianic@4dva.hr>
Just started my first Rails project.
[#141196] Whats so different about a Hash? — Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Consider:
On 05/05/05, Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:
Hi Brian,
Andrew Walrond wrote:
On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:54, Florian Growrote:
Andrew Walrond wrote:
On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:41, Florian Growrote:
[#141208] Re: Fwd: Re: Whats so different about a Hash? — Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:57, ts wrote:
[#141245] ruby/irb within texmacs — Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Hello all -
[#141249] Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit 0.6 installation question — Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@...>
Hi all,
[#141276] Transaction::Simple 1.3.0 — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
I am pleased to announce the release of Transaction::Simple 1.3.0.
[#141284] Re: object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar) — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
> > The original intent was to have a way to modify these
To me, this looks more Rubyish. Is there some benefit I'm missing in
[#141290] Re: [ANN] Transaction::Simple 1.3.0 — "John Lam" <jlam@...>
Yes - what you're saying does make sense.
[#141299] another Tk question — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
In Tk, what's the best way to show a large table of data that gets
From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
On 5/5/05, Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
On 5/8/05, Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
On 5/8/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/9/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
[#141304] .. and ... aren't operators, maybe they should be? — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
I was just wondering if maybe the range construction syntax could be
[#141307] String Manipulation Nuby Question — Chris Roos <chris@...>
I have a Person with title, forename and surname (all of which are
"#{title} #{forename} #{surname}".strip
[#141311] Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit 0.6.1 - method completion release II — "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Version 0.6.1 of jEdit's Ruby Editor Plugin has been released and is
Karl von Laudermann wrote:
[#141321] Ruby-tk question — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
What's the easiest way to rotate a Tk Canvas Polygon?
From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
On 5/5/05, Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp> wrote:
From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
[#141334] RCR 303: nil should accept missing methods and return nil — John Carter <john.carter@...>
A very simple and generic way of improving the reliability of Ruby
On 5/6/05, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
Luke Graham wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:
On 5/5/05, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2005 12:07 am, Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 5/6/05, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Luke Graham wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
Hi --
On Sat, 07 May 2005 02:28:18 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 5/6/05, Cyent <cyent@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
[#141349] What sound does no duck make? — John Carter <john.carter@...>
Imagine a flock of ducks in the sky. Listen.
[#141359] Help with installing gem in my home directory — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
Hi everyone,
On 5/6/05, Vincent Foley <vfoley@gmail.com> wrote:
[#141365] Array#squeeze — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
The recent mention of String#squeeze made me wonder if it would not be a
[#141368] Re: compiler error: argument of type "VALUE *" is incompatible with parameter of type "VALUE" — me2faster@...
On May 5, 2005, at 2:44 PM, me2faster@excite.com wrote:
[#141371] Can't build Ruby 1.8.2 on Sparc Solaris 10 — "Park Heesob" <phasis68@...>
Hi all,
[#141380] WxRuby or FxRuby — Jens Riedel <JensRie@...>
Hello,
[#141393] unit test — Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@...>
Hello all,=20
Brian Buckley wrote:
[#141402] Amazing Mazes (#31) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
[#141448] [OG] - 0.16.0 with automated table evolution — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
I've finished a non-intrusive extension to og (addition of one file,
[#141492] new to ruby - please help w/ code structure? — "Corey" <corey_s@...>
[#141529] [NITRO] - Mr. George Moschovitis applies Censorship on Public Project Forum — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
To understand further the _real_ difference between Nitro/Og and
Ilias,
Friday wrote:
Hi!
Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
Ilias Lazaridis, May 9:
[#141530] [NITRO] - Mr. Moschovitis Revolutionary Redefinition of an Open Source Project — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
George Moschovitis wrote
On 5/7/05, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
Bill Guindon wrote:
On Saturday 07 May 2005 20:34, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
Is there a way of moderating Mr. Lazardis' comments to the group so that
Shalev NessAiver, May 13:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
[#141558] FXRuby on OS X Tiger — "Hans Fugal" <fugalh@...>
I'm new to the OS X scene, and while I used Panther for a week or two
[#141576] HighLine 0.4.0 — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
HighLine 0.4.0 Released
Hello James,
On May 7, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Vincent Foley wrote:
Indeed, I read it just after I posted :) Sorry about that. However, I
On May 9, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Vincent Foley wrote:
How did you handle the noecho thing on different platforms? I looked
On May 9, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Vincent Foley wrote:
Vincent Foley wrote:
On May 7, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On May 7, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On May 7, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
[#141598] Vacation - email me when Ilias is gone or people FINALLY stop responding to him — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
The signal:noise ratio on this list is terrible. I'm taking a
Hi,
Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails usually
Francis Hwang, May 8:
[#141615] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Another suggestion for the "Ruby Singleton Classes" or "Exclusive Classes":
In message "Re: [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes"
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
[Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>, 2005-05-08 17.13 CEST]
Carlos wrote:
Hi,
Hi --
Hi,
Hi,
On May 9, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
ES <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org> writes:
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
On 05/08/2005 08:43 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#141620] Re: [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes — Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
[#141652] Problem with Math module in extension. — Ernest Ellingson <erne@...>
I'm trying to do something real simple find the sin of an angle in an
Charles Mills wrote:
[#141655] No Thing Here vs Uninitialized and RCR 303 — Cyent <cyent@...>
I'm observing a general trend in the responses to RCR 303.
Cyent a 馗rit :
This isn't about changing programming habits. Having nil return nil
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Bill Atkins wrote:
Bill Atkins wrote:
James Britt schrieb:
Pit Capitain wrote:
On 05/09/2005 04:21 AM, Bill Atkins wrote:
[#141662] RACC - one click installer/cygwin package — "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@...>
I have both the one-click installer and also the cygwin package. What
[#141672] Dir.glob and File.fnmatch — Thomas Leitner <thomas_leitner@...>
Hi,
[#141685] Re: [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes — Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
[#141693] Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please) — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Summary
[#141701] Re: Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please) — Nuralanur@...
Dear Gavin,
[#141707] Singleton class terminology — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Just expressing my opinion here.
[#141718] Query about the top level object — Gavri Fernandez <gavri.fernandez@...>
Hi everyone,
[#141744] Analysis of IORCC Entries? — Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@...>
So, I was been browsing http://iorcc.dyndns.org/ and looking at the 2005
[#141764] OT: Small RCR 303 type Joke... — John Carter <john.carter@...>
I have just realized that I have, in all seriousness and in good faith,
[#141776] Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) — Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
[#141793] Strange segfault on Linux with test-unit — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#141843] An idiom I like... modifiable defaults — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Just thought I'd share a little concept that I find
Hal Fulton wrote:
[#141869] Re: RCR 304: reference/pointer concept — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Here are a couple of things this might be useful for (I just
[#141875] How to extract texts from html source? — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>
Hi, all!
Sam Kong wrote:
[#141879] Ruby Newbie !!! — "Kanthi Kiran Narisetti" <TechAlerts@...>
Hi ALL,
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/ has quite some pointers to documentation. If you
[#141896] fastcgi + lighttpd ? — oxman <no@...>
Hello,
[#141900] Still umlauts — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Hi,
[#141904] Re: Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please) — Nuralanur@...
Dear Jacob,
[#141921] HighLine 0.5.0 — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
HighLine 0.5.0 Released
[#141954] Testing a user application — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
Hi everyone,
[#141958] Redesign 2005, Round Two — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
I'm happy to say that our little redesign team has come to accord on a
why the lucky stiff ha scritto:
gabriele renzi wrote:
James Britt ha scritto:
why the lucky stiff wrote:
On 5/10/05, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
Mark Hubbart, May 11:
Nikolai Weibull ha scritto:
Hi --
David A. Black wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Hi --
David A. Black wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Which song?
On 5/11/05, John W. Long <ng@johnwlong.com> wrote:
> > Which song?
vruz, May 13:
On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:33, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
On 5/12/05, Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> wrote:
Mark Hubbart wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Alan Garrison, May 13:
I like this redesign alot. Very beautiful... like Ruby!
Thanks Jeff, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. I lot of what I
[#141959] sumbit form in rails — Igor Anic <ianic@4dva.hr>
Is there a way in rails to choose controller action to which form will
[#141967] NegaPosi Compiler — SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Hi,
[#141972] help with reading part of textfile into matrix — rgilaard@...
Dear all,
[#141995] Re: Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please) — Nuralanur@...
Dear Jacob,
On 5/10/05, Nuralanur@aol.com <Nuralanur@aol.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:57:48AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
[#142000] Fwd: Enumerating only months in a Date range? — John Lam <drjflam@...>
Is there a straight-forward way to list all of the months in a Date
On 5/10/05, John Lam <drjflam@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Mark!
[#142013] Problems with rubytalk.com — Wes Moxam <wildwildwes@...>
I was searching for some ruby info via google, and clicked a link to
[#142018] traits-0.1.0 — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#142023] http-proxy in Ruby? — Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
[#142039] Problems with Amrita2 and HTTP headers. — Wayne Pierce <shalofin@...>
I'm experimenting with different Ruby-based web development tools, but
[#142040] Does any Ruby parser exist ? — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Hello ruby-talk,
[#142045] Instiki/Redcloth Escaping — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I need to use * in my wiki, set to use Textile. How can I escape it,
[#142054] String Hashing Algorithms — "Phrogz" <gavin@...>
Summary
Phrogz wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
[#142129] options parsing: required and conflict — Kirill Shutemov <k.shutemov@...>
Can I define options dependencies using OptionParser?
Kirill Shutemov wrote:
Is that true, OptionParse has no support of it?
Kirill Shutemov wrote:
Hi,
> I'd had similar idea in the early days, but abandoned it soon.
On 5/24/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
[#142133] ruby vs. java? — "Franz Hartmann" <porschefranz@...>
Hello all,
Franz Hartmann wrote:
Hello Michael and all of you,
Franz Hartmann wrote:
On 5/11/05, Franz Hartmann <porschefranz@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello Logan,
Ralf,
> (physician = Arzt, physicist = Physiker) :-)))
let me explain honey :-) :
well now, i have to work my way thru quite a lot of very kind mails...
Franz Hartmann a 馗rit :
Hello Jaypee,
Franz Hartmann a 馗rit :
On Wed, 11 May 2005 17:57:10 +0900
[#142148] Re: ruby vs. java? — Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Franz,
[#142195] RubyForge downtime — Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Hello all -
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:38 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
On 12/05/05, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
[#142199] Standard Library patches - rational, delegate — "Dave Burt" <dave@...>
Hi,
[#142213] defining a custom to_yaml method to inline hashes — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#142224] alternatives to ? : contruct — "John-Mason P. Shackelford" <jpshack@...>
As an alternative to:
I don't believe one can use _else_ with an expression modifier. If we
On May 11, 2005, at 2:37 PM, John-Mason P. Shackelford wrote:
On 5/11/05, John-Mason P. Shackelford <jpshack@gmail.com> wrote:
[#142244] How to force a method redefinition ? — dm1 <dmertz@...>
Hello,
[#142258] Ruby Challenge — Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Hi Quizzers,
Ruby can get you through a few pages. But pretty soon you run into a
Indeed, you'll import that. pick hill. ;)
[#142260] Re: object loops and what they return — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
That sure looks ugly. I don't see any advantage of this over:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
Brian Schrer wrote:
On May 12, 2005, at 7:35 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
* Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> [2005-05-12 23:32:52 +0900]:
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:32, Jim Weirich wrote:
Hi --
On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:38, David A. Black wrote:
Ben Giddings wrote:
[#142268] Request for advice on applying a license — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Hi!
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:59, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> writes:
On May 12, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
James Edward Gray II, May 12:
Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
Christian Neukirchen, May 13:
Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:16, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
[#142287] Ruby: No such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) — "Brian Takita" <brian.takita@...>
Hello,
Mark, thank you for your response.
I tried performing the command "gem install rubygems"
On 5/12/05, Brian Takita <brian.takita@gmail.com> wrote:
I removed the RUBYOPT, but irb was still able to run.
[#142295] Continued Strings — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Here's an interesting code fragment from a Ruby Quiz solution this week:
[#142301] Unresolved symbols dlclose, dlopen, dlerror, dlsym — me2faster@...
I'm getting unresolved symbols from the linker related to the dl
[#142342] Go through directories recursively — Jens Riedel <JensRie@...>
Hello,
Jens Riedel wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:
[#142378] Amazing Mazes (#31) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Wow, these solutions are great fun to play with. I think next week's quiz needs
Ruby Quiz wrote:
Hi Clifford!
Glenn M. Lewis wrote:
Clifford Heath wrote:
[#142388] ruby-dev summary 26090-26127 — Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@...>
Here is a ruby-dev summaries:
[#142399] sqlite-ruby gem not building extension — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Hi all
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Jim Freeze wrote:
* Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> [2005-05-13 01:35:28 +0900]:
[#142404] We need a comprehensive test suite — Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
All,
[#142440] More informative return value for Regexp — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Is there a way to get a Regexp to tell you if it didn't match because
[#142462] Get back data from a child (with exec) — Lawrence Oluyede <raims@...>
[#142469] Nuby: 'importing shell script variables' eval/proc/binding — Dany Cayouette <danyc@...>
Greetings,
[#142473] rubycocoa - uninitalized constant NSObject — Kevin Lanik <kevinl@...>
I'm new to ruby and trying to embed it in some objective-c using
[#142493] ruby smtp and gmail — ruby talk <rubytalk@...>
[code]
[#142515] Earn money searching the Web. It really works. — alandavis91310@...
Hey, any of you checked this out? Basically, you register & each time
[#142533] Cows and Bulls (#32) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
[#142546] strange error from soap server — jm <jeffm@...>
I came across this with a larger program to expose the functionality of
[#142554] Ruby Central, Inc. Donation and Pledge Site (including RubyConf sponsorship) — "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Dear Rubyists,
Can we have at least partial control over how our donation is spent?
Hi --
David A. Black ha scritto:
[#142593] Customing the Exception class — Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Hi all,
[#142613] RoR on WinXP/Apache — "gander" <ganderso@...>
I'm trying to get typo up on my local box (WinXP).
[#142620] ruby in WinXP as an automation tool — "kevin.gc@..." <kevin.gc@...>
Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:
Martin DeMello schrieb:
On 5/17/05, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:
[#142623] Ruby indenting in jEdit — Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
For some reason, jEdit 4.3pre2 (JRE5, Windows XP SP2) wants to indent
[#142629] Possible bug in Date/ParseDate — Matthew Keene <dfg778@...>
I have found what appears to be a bug in either the Date or the
[#142650] how to keep hash sort from YAML — dave <dave.m@...>
[#142654] Net::NNTP Client Library 0.0.2 (beta) is released — Dr Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
URLS
[#142655] re-opening STDIN after it's been closed? — David Vincelli <micologist@...>
here's a summary of a script I just wrote:
[#142657] RAA down? — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#142668] Rant 0.3.8 — Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby,
Stefan Lang wrote:
[#142671] infinite number of singleton_classes — Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Hello!
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Lionel Thiry wrote:
Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov a 馗rit :
Lionel Thiry wrote:
Hal Fulton a 馗rit :
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Lionel Thiry wrote:
Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov schrieb:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Christoph wrote:
Hi --
David A. Black schrieb:
Hi --
David A. Black schrieb:
Hi --
David A. Black schrieb:
David A. Black a 馗rit :
[#142688] Formatting date without leading zeros — "Tom Reinhart" <alltom@...>
I've tried to do the best research I can into this before posting here,
Tom,
Hi,
Hi --
[#142689] compiling opengl — altern <enrike@...>
hi
[#142697] Strange behaviour of class Fixnum in exponentation —
The german Ruby forum recognized a strange behaviour of the Fixnum class.
[#142704] Why is this DRb code so slow? — Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Ok, I'm stumped. I have a simple drb example, and it is
[#142705] I can't establish network connections with Ruby. — meaneyedcat@...
For some reason, I am unable to establish network connections anymore
[#142735] Precedence 0.6 — Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
I've made the initial release of Precedence which is a small API to
[#142737] Ruby/Odeum vs. Lucene Performance — "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Hi All,
[#142764] Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) — Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
[#142765] Class.forName ? — baalbek <rcs@...>
In Java there is a construct like this:
[#142794] determining common characters from start of two strings? — "Bill Kelly" <billk@...>
Hi,
[#142806] IRB, Mac OS X, command-line require via "-r" and Bus Errors — "James Adam" <james.adam@...>
Hey All,
James Adam <james.adam@gmail.com> wrote:
[#142808] Ruby Weekly News 2nd - 15th May 2005 — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20050515.html
I've got some rails code that is failing in a very strange way. It is
Markus,
On May 23, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Markus wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:46, Jamis Buck wrote:
On May 23, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Markus wrote:
[#142811] Newbie: pinpoint my mistake please.. — "dobest03" <dobest03@...>
Hello.
[#142834] Doubt about GC — "Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr." <eustaquiorangel@...>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
[#142850] rb_gc_mark question — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
[#142858] Alternatives to Meetup.com? — "James G. Britt " <ruby.talk.list@...>
I've received E-mail from Meetup.com that the Phoenix Ruby Group is
> I've received E-mail from Meetup.com that the Phoenix Ruby Group is
[#142863] Rails on Altix ia64 — "Adam P. Jenkins" <ajenkins@...>
Has anyone successfully run a Rails application on an Altix, or other
In article <SpednduBRbQs3jrfRVn-qA@rcn.net>,
[#142870] Extending an Instance only Once — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
I have a method that requires that the arguments passed to it have
> I have a method that requires that the arguments passed to it have been
[#142871] freenode call for coders — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Just passing this along
[#142879] Ruby/TK on Mac OS X Tiger? — "Tom Nakamura" <imifumei@...>
Can anyone do a quick test to see if "require 'tk'" work by default on
Hi,
Mark Hubbart wrote:
Hi --
On 5/18/05, Dave Baldwin <dave.baldwin@3dlabs.com> wrote:
[#142901] Help regarding def wrapper — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
I窶囘 like to have a def that I can scope in one go, i.e.,
On May 17, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Hello Nikolai,
[#142910] ruby postgresql library: time out error — rgilaard@...
Dear all,
[#142932] "Verbose" backtracing — Imobach Gonz疝ez Sosa <imobachgs@...>
Hi all,
[#142971] OSX Mail.app performance — tsuraan <tsuraan@...>
Sorry about the OT, but this is the only high-volume list I'm on that
[#142976] Noobie ... Simple Inheriting from Hash Question .. — "Neville Burnell" <Neville.Burnell@...>
Hi,
[#143002] RMagick on MacOS X (can't read a JPG) — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
I am trying to automate a bunch of thumbnail creations, and thought
[#143021] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, Chapter Six: Downtown — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Ruby-Talk, I have a new hunk of pages for you.
[#143041] Compiling MySQL-Ruby on Tiger — "pat allan" <pat.allan@...>
Hi all
Possibly avoiding the issue, one workaround might be building your own
ToddG wrote:
> ToddG wrote:
Hi Jonathon
[#143062] syntax sugar: treating an object like a method — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
I'm thinking of yet another RCR and would like to see if
On 5/18/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#143076] Re: howto make something like Errno::##, for my C ext, or do I need to? — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
[#143080] Re: syntax sugar: treating an object like a method — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
--- "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
[#143087] (newbie Q) opposite of inspect for strings — "Basile Starynkevitch [news]" <basile-news@...>
[#143107] Building Ruby in IRIX64 — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Hi,
[#143112] accessing each character of a string — Boris Glawe <boris@...>
Hi,
[#143125] Re: accessing each character of a string — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>
[#143167] Idiomatic way for collecting elements using REXML? — John Lam <drjflam@...>
I'm writing some REST-ian code to talk to the Amazon Web Services
[#143182] Re: syntax sugar: treating an object like a method — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
--- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
[#143193] Win32API question - pathstriptoroot — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
On 5/19/05, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
On 19/05/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
The api call is just taking the char buffer you're sending it, dropping a null after the path to terminate it just like a normal Windows application would expect. I would have thought that the Win32API module would take care of this sort of thing for you, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
[#143208] Tiling Turmoil (#33) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
[#143209] Re: [QUIZ] Tiling Turmoil (#33) — Jason Bailey <azrael@...>
Is there an assumption that this is a square or can it be a rectangle?
[#143211] Multiple return and parallel assignement — "jean" <g.castaldi@...>
Hi,
[#143225] Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Michael Ulm wrote:
[#143229] Web services and Ruby — Luke Kanies <luke@...>
Hi all,
[#143251] Anonymous module undefined method error — "johng" <jgoalby@...>
Hi all
Hi,
[#143252] HighLine 0.6.0 -- Now with menus! — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
HighLine 0.6.0 Released
Wow, I go away for about a week and BAM, all the work's done! I guess
I get an install error on termios. Highline does not install (regardless of
You do not need termios for Windows, so you might try:
On 5/22/05, Greg Brown <greg7224@gmail.com> wrote:
[#143263] Ruby smile — baalbek <rcs@...>
Mostly for the newbies who stumbles into this NG, wondering what Ruby is
[#143297] Determining what file contains a module/class — Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@...>
Hi *,
[#143302] Ruby and CGI error 500 — "greyfade@..." <greyfade@...>
this is a problem that's been driving me nuts ever since i first tried
[#143305] join not in Enumerable — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Just a few minutes ago I was playing with irb as I am wont to do, and
[#143312] Ruby Debugger. Remove catchpoint? — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Is there someway to remove a catchpoint while in the debugger? Better yet, is
[#143325] Ruby/Tk and BWidget — nornagon <nornagon@...>
Hi. I'm scratching my head over how to get BWidget working
[#143328] Vim's Ruby indenting — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
Hi to all the vim users,
> method(foo,
Yes, I do. And I have this version installed.
Ah no, I did not. Thought I did. I used the new version and it fixed
Vincent Foley wrote:
On 23/05/05, Nikolai Weibull
[#143337] Uniform vector class, inheriting from Array: How to make sure that methods return a Vector and not an Array? — Thomas <sanobast-2005a@...>
Hi folks,
On 22/05/05, Thomas <sanobast-2005a@yahoo.de> wrote:
> I'm quite shure you don't need to do what you are doing, because this
On 5/23/05, Thomas <sanobast-2005a@yahoo.de> wrote:
[#143345] Gem Dependancies — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
With HighLine, we've recently moved over to using termios... on Unix
On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:27 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:
[#143366] Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) — Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
On 5/22/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
Hi --
[#143375] sciTe editor IRB window getting double characters — "soxinbox" <faker@...>
Has any one had a problem with the latest release of Ruby and the included
Here's some solutions for scite configuration mistakes from another list:
David Boyd:
[#143411] HighLine 0.6.1 — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
HighLine 0.6.1 Released
[#143431] Endian packing errors. — Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
I have a number I must convert to a network long. I have been using
* Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> [2005-05-24 02:53:52 +0900]:
On 5/23/05, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
[#143433] RDoc and SWIG — Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...>
Hi, rubyists
[#143448] UDP select()/recvfrom() delay under Windows? — David Holroyd <ruby-talk@...>
I have the following snippet of code in a UDP client I'm knocking
David Holroyd <ruby-talk@badgers-in-foil.co.uk> writes:
[#143457] Re: loop over array with indices — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
> -----Original Message-----
[#143460] Tk read-only text box — nornagon <nornagon@...>
Another Tk question.
From: nornagon <nornagon@gmail.com>
[#143479] Making a scripting tutorial — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>
Hello everyone,
Vincent Foley wrote:
[#143515] if __FILE_ == $0 executed twice — Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Hello,
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Han Holl wrote:
Hi,
On 5/25/05, nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@ge.com> wrote:
[#143519] Tk::BWidget::NoteBook: retrieve current page — nornagon <nornagon@...>
Yet Another Tk Question.
From: nornagon <nornagon@gmail.com>
[#143542] Re: Killing a Process started with Kernel.system — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
[#143550] new article — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Sorry for posting about my own article, but I'm interested in feedback,
On 24/05/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/24/05, Brian Schrer <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
[#143584] Re: Tk read-only text box — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>
Hidetoshi NAGAI [mailto:nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp] wrote:
From: "Pe, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com>
[#143611] Browsing with Cookies — Jim Van Fleet <jim@...>
I am writing an app that takes in some basic data and then scours some
[#143630] Zerofy — "aartist" <aartist@...>
How I can zerofy the day and month. I like to add 0 in the beginning.
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:25, aartist wrote:
[#143655] A different perspective on Ruby. — ES <ruby-ml@...>
ES wrote:
On 26/05/05, gsinclair@gmail.com <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
Brian Schrer wrote:
On Thursday 26 May 2005 04:11 pm, Glenn Parker wrote:
Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:
> First, an OT question: Is there a Firefox extension that lets me
[#143688] Tiling Turmoil (#33) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The quiz mentioned a mathematical proof (by Solomon Golomb), that could be used
I am a bit late with my solution, but it's my first Ruby Quiz, and my
>1) Style in general. What have I done that is 'unrubyish'? Are there
[#143694] Re: [ANN] cursor-0.6 — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
--- Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
--- Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#143699] Language corrections — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Every so often, I see a post that either starts or ends with
[#143702] metaclass in python, role in perl and AOP in ruby — Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Hello!
Lionel Thiry ha scritto:
[#143705] Intellisense and the psychology of typing — andrew.queisser@...
Yesterday I typed in some C++ code that called a function with two
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:35:19AM +0900, andrew.queisser@hp.com wrote:
Hello Thomas,
Lothar Scholz wrote:
On 5/30/05, Richard Cole <rcole@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
Hello Austin,
On 5/31/05, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 5/31/05, Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:
--- Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/31/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have rapidly skimmed over the few responses here. Auto completion is
[#143714] MySQL-Ruby — Marcelo Paniagua <paniagua@...>
Hi there!
[#143735] Broken IRB in Windows? — Robert Mannl <ro@...>
Hello!
[#143737] Licensing Question — Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
I wrote a suite of tools, webstar-tools,
[#143741] hash of hash and complex data structure — ngoc <ngoc@...>
Hi
[#143755] ADV: Rail Beta Book now available — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Folks:
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#143776] Methods with lots of arguments — Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Just went through a bit of refactoring on a bit of Ruby code that I've
[#143778] ruby-termios: Patch to make it work under both 1.8 and 1.9 — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
[#143799] Plz comment — Dr Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Dear Rubiest!
* On May 27 23:45, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
[#143804] Difference between 'def self.…' and module_function … — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
I thought I new the difference between writing
[#143812] Ruby on Rails interest in comp.lang.python — Stephen Kellett <snail@...>
A heads up to the Rails folks.
"Stephen Kellett" <snail@objmedia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Which makes me think of... is there a ruby equivalent of Twisted ?
[#143820] RI Conceptional Showstopper Bug. — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Hello ,
Hello ,
[#143825] How to build an index of phrases in a phrase/sentence? — Dan Fitzpatrick <dan@...>
I am trying to build an indexing structure on some phrases. Most phrases
On May 27, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Dan Fitzpatrick wrote:
[#143842] Coercion and ranges — Philipp Kern <trash@...>
Dear Ruby fellows,
[#143869] Useless hack of the saturday morning — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Hi gurus and nubys,
gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> writes:
Christian Neukirchen ha scritto:
gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> writes:
what about a more Ruby-like extension:
[#143884] preventing Object#send from dispatching to a global method? — Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Is there a way to prevent Object#send from dispatching to a global
Okay, thanks for the tip, that's definitely giving me some ideas.
On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:05 pm, Francis Hwang wrote:
Francis Hwang wrote:
On May 30, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Glenn Parker wrote:
[#143900] IO with external program — "Danny Beaudoin" <beaudoin_danny@...>
Hi!
[#143962] How to find ruby? — Mark Probert <probertm@...>
[#143975] Ruby-VTK-0.2.0 was released — Seiya Nishizawa <seiya@...>
Hi everyone,
Hi!
On 5/31/05, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
[#143976] Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) — Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:
On 5/31/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
pat eyler wrote:
On 05/31/2005 11:44 PM, James Britt wrote:
On May 31, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
On May 31, 2005, at 6:26 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 23:31 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On 6/1/05, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
[#143978] RubyGems HackFest Weekend #1 is complete! — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2005/05/rubygems_hackfe.html
Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
[#143998] WIN32API — Wolfgang <wollez@...>
Hello,
[#144004] creating variable with eval — "Geert Fannes" <Geert.Fannes@...>
Hello, what is the scope of a variable created inside an eval()
Robert Klemme wrote:
[#144042] RubyGems and the FreeBSD ports tree — Jonathan Weiss <jw@...>
Cheers
[#144043] Local variables and functions — Robert Mannl <ro@...>
Hi!
[#144050] rb_f_lambda vs. rb_block_proc : what are the issues? — Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Now that I'm maintaining Ruby/FLTK, I'm seeing lots of "rb_f_lambda()
[#144058] Ruby in C# — "PD" <dragoonEX@...>
Hi.
[#144077] Ruby Weekly News 23rd - 29th May 2005 — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20050529.html
[#144082] Where to get the RubyGems documentation — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Hello ruby-talk,
[#144096] parseargs-0.0.0 — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Ara.T.Howard wrote:
Hal Fulton wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Zev Blut wrote:
Hello,
Zev Blut wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Zev Blut wrote:
Ara.T.Howard schrieb:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Pit Capitain wrote:
[#144111] Gnome's Guide to WEBrick — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I can't seem to find Gnome's Guide to WEBrick. I know if moved
[#144123] mswin32-ruby17.dll, which distribution contains it — jcb@...
I just downloaded SOAP4r. I get an error stating that
comp.lang.ruby FAQ
Sorry-- I have a technical problem I forgot to fix.
The preceding email, without a subject line, was the
c.l.r FAQ, quoted again below.
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
> RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2005-4-14)
>
> This FAQ contains information for those who want to:
>
> 1) learn more about Ruby, and want to
> 2) post to comp.lang.ruby or to the ruby-lang mail list, or want to
> 3) provide anonymous feedback to help us improve Ruby.
>
> This FAQ will be posted monthly. If you are reading this material
> via the mailing list or the newsgroup, note that you can find it on
> the web at: http://rubyhacker.com/clrFAQ.html
>
> A German version of this FAQ is maintained by Josef "Jupp" Schugt. It can be
> found at: http://oss.erdfunkstelle.de/ruby/
>
> Note that this is *not* the Ruby language FAQ! This can be found at:
> http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum/
>
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
> 1 About Ruby
> 1.1 What is Ruby?
> 1.2 Where can I find out more about Ruby?
> 2 About comp.lang.ruby.
> 2.1 Tell me about comp.lang.ruby.
> 2.2 Tell me the posting guidelines for comp.lang.ruby.
> 2.3 Tell me about the prolific Matz poster.
> 2.4 How do the mailing list and newsgroup interrelate?
> 2.5 What are these 6-digit message numbers?
> 2.6 What is "POLS"?
> 3 Anything else?
>
> 1 About Ruby
>
> 1.1 What is Ruby?
>
> Ruby is a very high level, fully OO programming language. Indeed,
> Ruby is one of the relatively few pure OO languages. Yet despite
> its conceptual simplicity, Ruby is still a powerful and practical
> "industrial strength" development language.
>
> Ruby selectively integrates many good ideas taken from Perl,
> Python, Smalltalk, Eiffel, ADA, CLU, and LISP. Ruby combines
> these ideas in a natural, well-coordinated system that embodies
> the principles of least effort and least surprise to a
> substantially greater extent than most comparable languages --
> i.e., you get more bang for your buck, and what you write is more
> likely to give you what you expected to get. Ruby is thus a
> relatively easy to learn, easy to read, and easy to maintain
> language; yet it is very powerful and sophisticated.
>
> In addition to common OO features, Ruby also has threads,
> singleton methods, mixins, fully integrated closures and
> iterators, plus proper meta-classes. Ruby has a true
> mark-and-sweep garbage collector, which makes code more reliable
> and simplifies writing extensions. In summary, Ruby provides a
> very powerful and very easy to deploy "standing on the shoulders
> of giants" OO scaffolding/framework so that you can more quickly
> and easily build what you want to build, to do what you want to
> do.
>
> You will find many former (and current) Perl, Python, Java, and
> C++ users on comp.lang.ruby that can help you get up to speed in
> Ruby.
>
> Finally, Ruby is an "open source" development programming
> language.
>
> 1.2 Where can I find out more about Ruby?
>
> If you're into IRC, check out #ruby-lang on FreeNode. There are
> also other channels -- see http://rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnIRC.
>
> There are also many web and print resources listed below:
>
>
> Ruby's home web site:
>
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ (Ruby home page)
>
> Follow the links to documentation, downloads, the Ruby
> Application Archive, the Ruby mail list archives, and
> lots of other interesting information.
>
> RubyForge (A major repository with hundreds of Ruby projects)
>
> http://rubyforge.org
>
> Ruby-Doc.org (A large source of Ruby documentation)
>
> RubyCentral.COM (Ruby's other major on-line docs and links site):
>
> http://www.rubycentral.com/
>
> RubyCentral.ORG (Home of RubyCentral, Inc.)
>
> http://www.rubycentral.org/
>
> RubyGarden (An important wiki site, very content-rich)
>
> http://rubygarden.org/
>
> Ruby FAQ:
>
> http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum/
>
> Ruby User's Guide (introductory tutorial):
>
> http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/index.html
>
> _Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby (A Ruby tutorial on acid, featuring
> cartoon foxes)
>
> http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
>
> Note: The list of books below is now frozen. I don't
> want to maintain this forever. We all hope the number
> of Ruby books increases, of course.
>
> English language Ruby books (recent publication order):
>
> Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmers Guide
> 2nd edition. See below.
>
> Making Use of Ruby
> by Suresh Mahadevan
> Wiley; ISBN 0-471-21972-X (2002)
>
> Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days
> by Mark Slagell
> Sams; ISBN: 0672322528 (March, 2002)
>
> Ruby Developer's Guide
> by Michael Neumann, Robert Feldt, Lyle Johnson
> Publishers Group West; ISBN: 1928994644 (February, 2002)
>
> The Ruby Way
> by Hal Fulton
> Sams; ISBN: 0672320835 (December, 2001)
>
> Ruby In A Nutshell
> by Yukihiro Matsumoto
> O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 0596002149 (November, 2001)
>
> Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmers Guide
> by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt
> Addison Wesley; ISBN: 0201710897 (2000)
> (As of Sept 2004, there is a second edition also. It is
> not open-sourced at this time.)
> Online version: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/
> (Note that this is a *legal* first edition.)
> Download:
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/downloads/book.html
> Errata:
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/errata/errata.html
>
> German language Ruby books (author alpha order):
>
> Das Einsteigerseminar Ruby. Der methodische und
> ausf端hrliche Einstieg.
> by Dirk Engel and Klaus Spreckelsen
> ISBN: 3826672429
>
> Programmieren mit Ruby
> by Armin Roehrl, Stefan Schmiedl, Clemens Wyss, et al.
> dpunkt.de; ISBN 3898641511 (February, 2002)
> Online: http://www.approximity.com/rubybuch2/node1_main.html
>
> Programmieren mit Ruby. Handbuch f端r den pragmatischen
> Programmierer.
> Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
> Addison-Wesley, 2002; ISBN: 382731965X.
> A German translation of the "Pickaxe" (Programming Ruby).
>
> Pickaxe translation by Juergen Katins:
> http://home.vr-web.de/juergen.katins/ruby/buch/
>
> Search past postings to comp.lang.ruby or the ruby-lang mail list
> (which have been mirrored to each other since mid-2000):
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.ruby
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
>
> Local Ruby users and groups in your area:
>
> http://www.pragprog.com/ruby?RubyUserGroups
>
> 2 About comp.lang.ruby
>
> 2.1 Tell me about comp.lang.ruby
>
> comp.lang.ruby was officially approved in early May, 2000.
> (Conrad Schneiker, the former maintainer of this FAQ, was
> responsible for the "net paperwork" of creating this group.)
> Here is the official charter:
>
> CHARTER: comp.lang.ruby
>
> The comp.lang.ruby newsgroup is devoted to discussions of the
> Ruby programming language and related issues.
>
> Examples of relevant postings include, but are not limited
> to, the following subjects:
>
> - Bug reports
> - Announcements of software written with Ruby
> - Examples of Ruby code
> - Suggestions for Ruby developers
> - Requests for help from new Ruby programmers
>
> The newsgroup is not moderated. Binaries are prohibited
> (except the small PGP type). Advertising is prohibited (except
> for announcements of new Ruby-related products).
>
> END CHARTER.
>
> 2.2 Tell me the posting guidelines for comp.lang.ruby.
>
> (You should also follow these guidelines for the ruby-list mail
> list, since it is mirrored to comp.lang.ruby.)
>
> (1) ALWAYS be friendly, considerate, tactful, and tasteful. We
> want to keep this forum hospitable to the growing ranks of
> newbies, very young people, and their teachers, as well as
> cater to fire breathing wizards.
>
> (2) Keep your content relevant and easy to follow. Try to keep
> your content brief and to the point, but also try to include
> all relevant information.
>
> (a) The general format guidelines (aka USENET Netiquette) are
> matters of common sense and common courtesy that make life
> easier for 3rd parties to follow along (in real time or
> when perusing archives):
>
> - PLEASE NOTE! Include quoted text from previous posts
> *BEFORE* your responses. And *selectively* quote as much
> as is relevant.
> - Use *plain* text; don't use HTML, RTF, or Word. Most
> mail or newsreader programs have an option for this; if
> yours doesn't, get a (freeware) program or use a
> web-based service that does.
> - Include examples from files as *in-line* text; don't
> use attachments.
>
> (b) If reporting a problem, give *all* the relevant
> information the first time; this isn't the psychic friends
> newsgroup. When appropriate, include:
>
> - The version of Ruby. ("ruby -v")
> - The compiler name and version used to build Ruby.
> - The OS type and level. ("uname -a")
> - The actual error messages.
> - An example (preferably simple) that produces the
> problem.
>
> (3) Make the subject line maximally informative, so that people
> who should be interested will read your post and so that people
> who wouldn't be interested can easily avoid it.
>
> *Usefully* describe the contents of your post:
>
> This is OK:
>
> "How can I do x with y on z?"
> "Problem: did x, expected y, got z."
> "BUG: doing x with module y crashed z."
>
> This is *NOT* OK:
>
> "Please help!!!"
> "Newbie question"
> "Need Ruby guru to tell me what's wrong"
>
> These prefixes have become common for subject lines:
>
> ANN: (for announcements)
> BUG: (for bug reports)
> OT: (for off-topic, if you must post off-topic)
>
> (4) Finally, be considerate: don't be too lazy. If you are
> seeking information, first make a reasonable effort to look it
> up. As appropriate, check the Ruby home page, check the Ruby
> FAQ and other documentation, use google.com to search past
> comp.lang.ruby postings, and so on.
>
> 2.3 Tell me about the prolific Matz poster.
>
> Matz (aka Yukihiro Matsumoto) is the wizard who created Ruby for
> us, so be nice to him. He is very busy, so be patient when asking
> questions. See the Ruby home page to find out more about him and
> his work. I (Conrad Schneiker) founded comp.lang.ruby at his
> suggestion. Contrary to lots of skepticism, it was approved on
> the first attempt, with 200 yes votes.
>
> 2.4 How do the mailing list and newsgroup interrelate?
>
> The mailing list is older. When the newsgroup was created, they
> diverged. In mid-2001, Dave Thomas created a two-way gateway
> that would "mirror" the newsgroup to the list and vice versa.
> (This was accomplished in 200 lines of Ruby code.) It is not
> perfect; because of variability in the news feed, sometimes
> messages are dropped or duplicated.
>
> The online archive of the mailing list therefore includes most
> of the traffic on the newsgroup, excluding the posts that were
> made before the creation of the gateway.
>
> Note: Spam or other inappropriate messages are NOT the
> responsibility of Dave Thomas, who maintains the gateway. He
> does everything in his power to deal with this issue. Do NOT
> report spam to his ISP merely because the messages come from
> his server.
>
> 2.5 What are these 6-digit message numbers?
>
> Historically, every item on the mailing list had a subject
> starting with a string like: [ruby-talk:99999]
>
> The message numbers were convenient since they were strictly
> serial and formed a good way to refer to a past message. But
> they interfered with threading; Matz removed them after the
> matter was put to a vote in early 2002.
>
> The news header still refers to this number, should anyone
> wish to retrieve it. On the mailing list this number can
> now be found in the X-Mail-Count: header.
>
> You can point to a specific message by appending it onto the
> ruby-talk.com URL; i.e. http://ruby-talk.com/12345 will refer
> to message 12345. (NOTE: The above was true, but is not
> currently working.)
>
> 2.6 What is "POLS"?
>
> POLS is an abbreviation for "Principle of Least Surprise" (also
> called the Law of Least Astonishment).
>
> This term certainly did not originate in the Ruby community, but
> it has been frequently used there -- even overused or abused at
> times. After all, *every* language or software system seeks at
> some level to adhere to this principle. Is any system designed
> to be unintuitive?
>
> It is inappropriate to invoke POLS as a "magic word" when one's
> individual expectations are not met. Ruby continues to evolve,
> and Matz often makes changes based on people wishes, needs, or
> suggestions. But he cannot be bribed or threatened. Make
> suggestions if you wish, but think twice before mentioning POLS.
>
>
> 3. Anything else?
>
> If you are new to Ruby (or haven't previously taken the Ruby User
> Survey), please take a moment to anonymously tell us about your
> programming background and about your Ruby-related interests. The
> results will be reported back to the Ruby community from time to
> time. This helps us do a better job of helping each other, and to
> more effectively expand the Ruby community for our mutual benefit.
> The survey is at:
>
> http://dev.rubycentral.com/survey.html
>
> This FAQ was originally produced by Conrad Schneiker.
> It is now maintained by Hal Fulton (hal9000@hypermetrics.com).
> I'm interested in corrections and suggestions, but remember that
> the purpose of this FAQ is to be a brief and simple introduction
> for new comp.lang.ruby readers.
>
> In closing, one of the reasons that Ruby was designed to be
> relatively simple, uniform, yet very powerful was to make serious
> programming (among other kinds) fun. We hope you will help us
> keep comp.lang.ruby fun as well. Enjoy.
>
>