[#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,

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[#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:

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

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[#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:15900] Re: embedded ruby

From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2001-05-29 00:21:39 UTC
List: ruby-talk #15900
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:10:04AM +0900, Tom Spilman wrote:
> > I don't think you need to even call ruby_run (). If your app
> > is using Ruby as an internal scripting language, then you need
> > to call Ruby objects/method, not have Ruby guide your app.
> > If that's what you want to do, then you should make a Ruby
> > extension instead.
> 
>     That would mean writing my own parser for ruby.... that seems a bit of a
> waste of effort since ruby does this itself just fine.  I'm currently
> experimenting with the possibilities of embedded ruby and have run into a
> similar situation.  Tom

Why do you have to write a parser?  Just load the Ruby code, and then use stuff like rb_funcall() to execute certain methods.

> 
> "Sean Middleditch" <elanthis@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:20010528123705.A18859@stargrazer.aweplay.net...
> > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:21:12AM +0900, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > > Hello list, =)
> > >
> > > Has anyone had success embedding a ruby interpreter?
> >
> > Yep!  Just last week I got one running beautifully in AweMUD.  ^,^
> >
> > >
> > > It seems straightforward enough, except for the fact that ruby_run()
> > > calls ruby_stop() when it finishes, which in turn calls exit() (which
> > > terminates the whole program!). This means that you can really only use
> > > ruby_run() *once* (and if you want to continue your program, you have
> > > to trap the exit...)
> >
> > I don't think you need to even call ruby_run (). If your app is using Ruby
> as an internal scripting language, then you need to call Ruby
> objects/method, not have Ruby guide your app.  If that's what you want to
> do, then you should make a Ruby extension instead.
> >
> > >
> > > Other than a quick hack on the source tree to make it NOT do that (what
> > > I'm using now) is there some other way to make ruby_run() not call
> > > exit(), or is this just a bug that no one has run in to?
> > >
> > > I'm using the latest version right out of CVS. It's possible that this
> > > used to work and got broken somewhere along the way.
> >
> > What exactly are you trying to do?
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@mindless.com
> > > http://www.landaker.net            PGP DSS/DH Key: 0x0F338E07
> > > PGPKey FP: 3AAA 424B B488 198E B68B  C0E5 390A BACA 0F33 8E07
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