[#14464] who uses Python or Ruby, and for what? — ellard2@...01.fas.harvard.edu (-11,3-3562,3-3076)

A while ago I posted a request for people to share their experiences

12 messages 2001/05/01

[#14555] Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

10 messages 2001/05/02

[#14557] Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — Wayne Scott <wscott@...>

13 messages 2001/05/02

[#14598] Re: Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

# On Thu, 3 May 2001, Wayne Scott wrote:

9 messages 2001/05/03

[#14636] Yet another "About private methods" question — Eric Jacoboni <jacoboni@...2.fr>

I'm still trying to figure out the semantics of private methods in Ruby.

39 messages 2001/05/04
[#14656] Re: Yet another "About private methods" question — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/05/04

Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> writes:

[#14666] Ruby and Web Applications — "Chris Montgomery" <monty@...> 2001/05/04

Greetings from a newbie,

[#14772] Re: Ruby and Web Applications — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/05/07

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote:

[#14710] Why's Ruby so slow in this case? — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

Sure, Ruby, being interpreted, is slower than a compiled language.

12 messages 2001/05/05

[#14881] Class/Module Information — "John Kaurin" <jkaurin@...>

It is possible to modify the following code to produce

18 messages 2001/05/09

[#15034] Re: calling .inspect on array/hash causes core dump — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "A" == Andreas Riedl <viisi@chello.at> writes:

15 messages 2001/05/12

[#15198] Re: Q: GUI framework with direct drawing ca pabilities? — Steve Tuckner <SAT@...>

Would it be a good idea to develop a pure Ruby GUI framework built on top of

13 messages 2001/05/15

[#15234] Pluggable sorting - How would you do it? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hello all,

16 messages 2001/05/16

[#15549] ColdFusion for Ruby — "Michael Dinowitz" <mdinowit@...2000.com>

I don't currently use Ruby. To tell the truth, I have no real reason to. I'd

12 messages 2001/05/22

[#15569] I like ruby-chan ... — Rob Armstrong <rob@...>

Ruby is more human(e) than Python. We already have too many animals :-).

15 messages 2001/05/23

[#15601] How to avoid spelling mistakes of variable names — ndrochak@... (Nick Drochak)

Since Ruby does not require a variable to be declared, do people find

13 messages 2001/05/23

[#15734] java based interpreter and regexes — "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@...>

I have been thinking about the java based ruby interpreter project, and I

48 messages 2001/05/25

[#15804] is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — mirian@... (Mirian Crzig Lennox)

Greetings to all. I am a newcomer to Ruby and I am exploring the

13 messages 2001/05/27
[#15807] Re: is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/05/27

Hi,

[#15863] Experimental "in" operator for collections — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

There's one thing where I prefer Python over Ruby. Testing whether an

13 messages 2001/05/28

[#15925] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "M" == Mike <mike@lepton.fr> writes:

43 messages 2001/05/29
[#16070] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2001/05/31

----- Original Message -----

[#16081] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2001/05/31

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:17AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

[#16088] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Dan Moniz <dnm@...> 2001/05/31

At 11:01 PM 5/31/2001 +0900, Sean Russell wrote:

[#15954] new keyword idea: tryreturn, tryturn or done — Juha Pohjalainen <voidjump@...>

Hello everyone!

12 messages 2001/05/29

[ruby-talk:15838] Re: gnome, bonobo and corba.

From: Erik B虍fors <erik@...>
Date: 2001-05-28 08:26:24 UTC
List: ruby-talk #15838
On 28 May 2001 12:01:17 +0900, Dai.K. wrote:
> 
> Re the message of ``[ruby-talk:15718] Re: gnome, bonobo and corba.''...
> 
> Erik B虍fors <erik@bagfors.nu>:
> > On 25 May 2001 22:48:33 +0900, Pat Eyler wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Erik [ISO-8859-1] B虍fors wrote:
> 
> 
> > > This sounds like good research, but probably should/could be done a) after
> > > getting libbonobo-ruby to work with orbit, and b) be called something else
> > > (or used as an option in libbonobo-ruby).
> > 
> > I really like the option-thing.  That would be really cool but there is
> > a loooong way to go.
> 
>   I don't deeply know about how CORBA is used in the GNOME/bonobo framework.
> 
>   If libbonobo uses ORBit mainly via common CORBA layer, we could use 
> ``CORBA-Ruby language mapping interface'' we'll define.

libbonobo uses ORBit extensively.  Basically if we want a bonobo that's
not based on ORBit we have to write it ourselfs and not use libbonobo.

>   On this way, libbonobo-ruby need not take care of which CORBA implementation
> is used. You get and access to bonobo object(if it exists) as a CORBA::Object
> instance. Of cause, someone rewrite ruby-orbit to fit the mapping but it is
> more easy task than a task to make ruby-orbit more completion.

If we make a new bonobo-implementation this is possible.  Not it we wrap
libbonobo.

> 
>   BTW, testing Rinn is very easy if you are under GNOME.
> 
> $ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rinn/Rinn-Ridl-0.1.2.tar.gz
> $ tar zxvf Rinn-Ridl-0.1.2.tar.gz
> $ ruby -I Rinn Rinn/test/gnome-name-service.rb
> 

You need racc also.

: [bagfors@detrius]$ ; ruby -I Rinn Rinn/test/gnome-name-service.rb 
IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext:1.0
    0: GNOME(subcontext)
  IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext:1.0
      0: Servers(subcontext)
    IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext:1.0
        0: deskguide_applet(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
        0: gnomeicu(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
        0: gen_util_clock(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
        0: battery_applet(server)
      IDL:GNOME/GenericFactory:1.0
        0: tasklist_applet(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
        0: battstat_applet(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Applet:1.0
        0: gnome_panel(server)
      IDL:GNOME/Panel2:1.0
        0: control_center(server)
Rinn/rinn/giop/GIOPReplyMessage.rb:21:in `initialize': UserException occured! (RuntimeError)
	from Rinn/rinn/orbit/Protocol.rb:116:in `new'
	from Rinn/rinn/orbit/Protocol.rb:116:in `parse'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:65:in `receive'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:26:in `connect'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:26:in `start'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:26:in `connect'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:22:in `synchronize'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:22:in `connect'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:51:in `send'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:50:in `synchronize'
	from Rinn/rinn/orb/Connection.rb:50:in `send'
	from Rinn/rinn/orbit/Protocol.rb:72:in `invoke'
	from Rinn/rinn/orbit/Stub.rb:19:in `_invoke'
	from (eval):305:in `list'
	from Rinn/test/gnome-name-service.rb:32:in `dump_ncs'
	from Rinn/test/gnome-name-service.rb:55:in `dump'
	from Rinn/test/gnome-name-service.rb:60


Almost...

/Erik

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