[#64] Assigning a block to a variable in Ruby — ajmayo@...

I am new to Ruby and curious as to how you emulate the following

30 messages 2005/12/15

[#110] challenge - regex which matches nothing — ara.t.howard@...

15 messages 2005/12/15

[#168211] require! — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...>

It (finally) clicked now, 'require' is just a method...

24 messages 2005/12/01

[#168265] What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line using Ruby? — "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...>

This sounds an easy task, but I'm certain that I'm yet to find the most

17 messages 2005/12/01
[#168269] Re: What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line using Ruby? — "William James" <w_a_x_man@...> 2005/12/01

Steve [RubyTalk] wrote:

[#168273] Re: What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line using Ruby? — "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...> 2005/12/01

William James wrote:

[#168275] Re: What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line — Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...> 2005/12/01

steve_rubytalk wrote:

[#168309] Re: What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line — "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...> 2005/12/01

Mike Fletcher wrote:

[#168271] Good Ruby Examples? — "Hampton" <hcatlin@...>

I'm planning on doing a tutorial about Ruby for Ryerson University's CS

19 messages 2005/12/01

[#168342] [ANN} Komodo 3.5.1 -- a professional Ruby IDE — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>

Yesterday, ActiveState released Komodo

73 messages 2005/12/01
[#168492] Re: [ANN} Komodo 3.5.1 -- a professional Ruby IDE — Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...> 2005/12/02

I've tried it on Win XP. It's terribly slow, one minute just to see my

[#169050] Re: [ANN} Komodo 3.5.1 -- a professional Ruby IDE — Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@...> 2005/12/06

Hi Christer,

[#169084] Re: [ANN} Komodo 3.5.1 -- a professional Ruby IDE — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...> 2005/12/06

On 12/5/05, Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@gmail.com> wrote:

[#169085] ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...> 2005/12/06

curt.hibbs wrote:

[#169185] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@...> 2005/12/06

Hi Christer,

[#170386] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — "soxinbox" <faker@...> 2005/12/13

I think it should be free or have documentation. I don't think I should have

[#170472] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2005/12/13

soxinbox wrote on 12/12/2005 8:07 PM:

[#170476] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...> 2005/12/13

tony summerfelt wrote:

[#170537] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2005/12/13

Christer Nilsson wrote on 12/13/2005 9:09 AM:

[#170552] Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE — "Gene Tani" <gene.tani@...> 2005/12/13

[#189067] Test post — Javaman49 <shosking@...> 2006/04/17

My first post. <b>testing html</b>

[#189068] Newbie's Ruby IDE Editor Roundup, April 2006 — Javaman49 <shosking@...> 2006/04/17

By a Newbie, for Newbies.

[#168344] need some Ruby magic — Hammed Malik <hammed@...>

I'd like to sort collections randomly. This is what I tried first:

47 messages 2005/12/01
[#168643] Re: need some Ruby magic — Reinder Verlinde <reinder@...> 2005/12/03

In article <dd3f270e4d20842e121bb970bc9a8386@ruby-forum.com>,

[#168675] Re: need some Ruby magic — Jim Weirich <jim@...> 2005/12/03

reinder wrote:

[#168687] Re: need some Ruby magic — Mauricio Fern疣dez <mfp@...> 2005/12/04

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:48:11AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:

[#168688] Re: need some Ruby magic — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/04

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Mauricio [iso-8859-1] Fern疣dez wrote:

[#168963] Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby magic) — Mauricio Fern疣dez <mfp@...> 2005/12/05

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:21:02AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#168977] Re: Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby magic) — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/05

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Mauricio [iso-8859-1] Fern疣dez wrote:

[#169082] Re: Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby — Uwe Schmitt <schmitt@...> 2005/12/06

||

[#169091] Re: Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby — Mauricio Fern疣dez <mfp@...> 2005/12/06

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:32:34PM +0900, Uwe Schmitt wrote:

[#169100] Re: Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby — Uwe Schmitt <schmitt@...> 2005/12/06

||

[#169108] Re: Shuffling an array, sort_by{rand}'s bias (was Re: need some Ruby — Michael Ulm <michael.ulm@...> 2005/12/06

Uwe Schmitt wrote:

[#168455] how can I install ruby-xslt ? — Daniel R <draens@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2005/12/02
[#168530] Re: how can I install ruby-xslt ? — Daniel R <draens@...> 2005/12/02

Please, could someone help me ?

[#168468] Problem with method that starts process, yields pid then yields return code — x1 <caldridge@...>

I'm trying to create a method that will kick off a new process, return

12 messages 2005/12/02
[#168545] Re: Problem with method that starts process, yields pid then yields return code — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/02

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, x1 wrote:

[#168599] Re: Problem with method that starts process, yields pid then yields return code — x1 <caldridge@...> 2005/12/03

it seems to work!!

[#168602] Re: Problem with method that starts process, yields pid then yields return code — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/03

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, x1 wrote:

[#168469] Weird Numbers (#57) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

25 messages 2005/12/02

[#168482] Re: [QUIZ] Weird Numbers (#57) — "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>

If I got I right, 70 would be such a number.

12 messages 2005/12/02

[#168557] Studying in the US — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>

Hi fellow Rubyists!

22 messages 2005/12/02

[#168699] injecting dynamic methods into a class — johanatan <zjll9@...>

hi All,

72 messages 2005/12/04
[#168702] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/04

If you don't mind while I'm at this I'm going to touch up the code to

[#168825] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "johanatan <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/05

transfire wrote:

[#169031] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...> 2005/12/06

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:10:51 -0000, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#169046] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/06

Ross Bamford wrote:

[#169047] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/06

> 'Ad hoc' has too many negative connotations and singleton has a fairly

[#169462] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — jonathan <zjll9@...> 2005/12/08

transfire wrote:

[#169468] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "jonathan <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/08

jonathan wrote:

[#169054] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/12/06

Hi --

[#169087] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/06

[#169098] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/12/06

Hi --

[#169160] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/06

Okay David, its obvious you're getting upset. Though you say the

[#169165] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/12/06

Hi --

[#169169] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/06

[#169170] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/12/06

Hi --

[#169184] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — MenTaLguY <mental@...> 2005/12/06

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 04:42 +0900, David A. Black wrote:

[#169187] Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/12/06

Hi --

[#168716] Weird Numbers (#57) Solution — "Hampton" <hcatlin@...>

Here is my solution. Its not the most beautiful thing in the world, but

39 messages 2005/12/04
[#168730] Re: [QUIZ] Weird Numbers (#57) Solution — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/04

On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Hampton wrote:

[#168750] Re: [QUIZ] Weird Numbers (#57) Solution — Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...> 2005/12/04

On 12/4/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#168772] Re: [QUIZ] Weird Numbers (#57) Solution — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/04

On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

[#168780] Re: [QUIZ] Weird Numbers (#57) Solution — Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...> 2005/12/04

On 12/4/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#168763] Getting Over Symbols — gwtmp01@...

When I was first learning Ruby, symbols were a bit of a mystery.

14 messages 2005/12/04

[#168861] lib for optional static typing — "robertj" <robert_kuzelj@...>

hi,

29 messages 2005/12/05

[#168871] increasing counter whithin loop? — Patrick Gundlach <clr9.10.randomuser@...>

Hi,

36 messages 2005/12/05

[#168920] Colorized Ruby Source Listings/Printing — Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>

I guess I am just old fashion, but sometimes when I am working on

11 messages 2005/12/05

[#168989] Subclassing Class. — John Carter <john.carter@...>

Ok. This is a wild idea.

25 messages 2005/12/06

[#168992] Speed Golf - Remove Early Dups — "Phrogz" <gavin@...>

SUMMARY

12 messages 2005/12/06

[#169057] getting around access control — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

17 messages 2005/12/06

[#169149] Screen scraping an html text contents into a file — "basi" <basi_lio@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2005/12/06
[#169181] Re: Screen scraping an html text contents into a file — "Gene Tani" <gene.tani@...> 2005/12/06

[#169183] Re: Screen scraping an html text contents into a file — Edward Faulkner <ef@...> 2005/12/06

> basi wrote:

[#169314] Syntax checker? — "William E. Rubin" <williamerubin@...>

Ruby doesn't seem to check for class names, function names, and so

22 messages 2005/12/07
[#169323] Re: Syntax checker? — Pit Capitain <pit@...> 2005/12/07

William E. Rubin schrieb:

[#169339] Re: Syntax checker? — "William E. Rubin" <williamerubin@...> 2005/12/07

Thanks for the explanation. But there certainly could at least be a

[#169400] What's your opinion? ArachnoRuby, Komodo, Eclipse/RDT, RadRails, etc. — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>

There's been a couple really good threads that are still ongoing about Ruby

10 messages 2005/12/07

[#169410] RubyScript — dpersik@...

I have done some searching on the web and have found very little about

16 messages 2005/12/07
[#169414] Re: RubyScript — Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@...> 2005/12/07

>I have done some searching on the web and have found very little about

[#169419] Re: RubyScript — Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...> 2005/12/07

On 12/7/05, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#169423] Standard Library questions — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

I'm spending an hour or two today going through Ruby's standard

13 messages 2005/12/07

[#169466] They say I write Ruby like Perl — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

58 messages 2005/12/08
[#169570] Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl — Chris Game <chrisgame@...> 2005/12/08

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

[#169577] Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/08

On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Chris Game wrote:

[#169582] Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl — Rich <rjseagraves@...> 2005/12/08

I'd be interested to know *why* it is a language convention, and more

[#169516] About class methods — Hank Gong <hankgong@...>

Hi! When I read the Ruby manual, I noticed that for class Array, there are

56 messages 2005/12/08
[#169522] Re: About class methods — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/12/08

Hank Gong wrote:

[#169524] Re: About class methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/08

> They're not eigenmethods are they?

[#169587] Re: About class methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/08

Sorry Hank, if you are unware of what were talking about in these last

[#169658] Re: About class methods — Hank Gong <hankgong@...> 2005/12/08

I carefully read two articles about classmethods and singleton concept.

[#169669] Re: About class methods — dblack@... 2005/12/08

Hi --

[#169709] Re: About class methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/08

[#169721] Re: About class methods — "jonathan <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/08

transfire wrote:

[#169743] Re: About class methods — gwtmp01@... 2005/12/08

[#169806] Re: About class methods — jonathan <zjll9@...> 2005/12/09

>

[#169810] Re: About class methods — "jonathan <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/09

My understanding of 'singleton' methods or 'ad hoc' methods or

[#169861] Re: About class methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/09

J,

[#170016] Re: About class methods — jonathan leonard <zjll9@...> 2005/12/10

transfire wrote:

[#170019] Re: About class methods — "jonathan leonard <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/10

T,

[#170025] Re: About class methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2005/12/10

[#170035] Re: About class methods — "jonathan <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/10

transfire wrote:

[#170053] Re: About class methods — dblack@... 2005/12/10

Hi --

[#170106] Re: About class methods — "jonathan <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...> 2005/12/11

dblack wrote:

[#170201] Re: About class methods — Mark Ericson <mark.ericson@...> 2005/12/12

I'm curious why "class method" is being avoided? It certainly seems

[#169578] do/end vs braces — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

31 messages 2005/12/08

[#169642] ordered/sorted hash — "robertj" <robert_kuzelj@...>

hi,

21 messages 2005/12/08

[#169660] New guy... Intoduction and first question on some direction. — Oscar Gonzalez <rakxzo@...>

Hi everyone. I'm new to these forums. I am sysadmin in California and

16 messages 2005/12/08
[#169666] Re: New guy... Intoduction and first question on some direction. — "ako..." <akonsu@...> 2005/12/08

hello,

[#169680] Re: New guy... Intoduction and first question on some direct — Oscar Gonzalez <rakxzo@...> 2005/12/08

akonsu wrote:

[#169698] Subversion support on RubyForge — Tom Copeland <tom@...>

Hi all -

14 messages 2005/12/08

[#169854] Equation graphing software? — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2005/12/09
[#169904] Re: Equation graphing software? — "Eric Lavigne" <lavigne.eric@...> 2005/12/09

>Does Ruby have any modules useful in graphing equations like y=x**2+5,

[#169857] Kalah (#58) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

26 messages 2005/12/09
[#170216] [SOLUTION] Kalah (#58) — Rob Leslie <rob@...> 2005/12/12

Here's my solution. I'm still playing with it, but I'm posting it now

[#169913] new to Ruby - pls help in translating this — Sam Dela Cruz <sam.dela.cruz@...>

Hi,

45 messages 2005/12/09
[#169922] Re: new to Ruby - pls help in translating this — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...> 2005/12/09

On 12/9/05, Sam Dela Cruz <sam.dela.cruz@philips.com> wrote:

[#169927] Re: new to Ruby - pls help in translating this — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/12/09

On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:23 AM, pat eyler wrote:

[#170175] Calculating single-digit summands — "draq" <boyang.xia@...>

I have tried to make an algorithm that finds all possible combinations

12 messages 2005/12/11

[#170196] [SOLUTION] Kalah (#58) — David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>

Hey guys,

12 messages 2005/12/12

[#170244] A question about recursive programming — Hank Gong <hankgong@...>

I want to calculate all sum possibility of interger array. I know there are

24 messages 2005/12/12

[#170348] Idiom wanted: do-while — Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>

So I was working on the quiz solution, and

23 messages 2005/12/12
[#170349] Re: Idiom wanted: do-while — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/12

On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Adam Shelly wrote:

[#170371] Using Float For Currency — "Hunter's Lists" <lists@...>

Howdy,

20 messages 2005/12/13
[#170373] Re: Using Float For Currency — mental@... 2005/12/13

Quoting Hunter's Lists <lists@lastonepicked.com>:

[#170400] Accessing C structures in Ruby — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

(I've already looked at Swig, btw. I'd like to do this one by hand.)

11 messages 2005/12/13

[#170478] Iconv weirdness on Windows XP — Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>

Is anyone else having this problem?

14 messages 2005/12/13

[#170564] Java is so 90s - thought you'd all like this — Stephen Kellett <snail@...>

Doesn't mention Ruby directly but does talk about whats hip (LAMP which

18 messages 2005/12/13

[#170571] Puby 1.0 Release! — "Hampton" <hcatlin@...>

21 messages 2005/12/14

[#170594] Ruby as a MUD language — malcolm.ryan@...

I'm thinking about building a new MUD server (for those who are less

13 messages 2005/12/14

[#170634] English Ruby Home as a second class citizen — <slonik.az@...>

Hi Everyone,

18 messages 2005/12/14
[#170654] Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/12/14

slonik.az@gmail.com wrote:

[#170657] Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen — "cap" <capitain@...> 2005/12/14

I use

[#170661] Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/12/14

cap wrote:

[#170672] Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen — Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...> 2005/12/14

On 12/14/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

[#170676] ruby beats them all — "Peter Ertl" <pertl@...>

that why I love ruby (and functional languages in general)

15 messages 2005/12/14

[#170706] regular expressions question — "ako..." <akonsu@...>

hello,

58 messages 2005/12/14
[#170748] Re: regular expressions question — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...> 2005/12/14

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:59:27 -0000, ako... <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:

[#170751] Re: regular expressions question — Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...> 2005/12/15

You should be able to tell who this message is meant for:

[#170789] Re: regular expressions question — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/15

On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Jeff Wood wrote:

[#170803] Re: regular expressions question — Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...> 2005/12/15

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#170953] Re: regular expressions question — Neil Stevens <neil@...> 2005/12/15

Jeff Wood wrote:

[#170958] Re: regular expressions question — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/15

On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Neil Stevens wrote:

[#170974] Re: regular expressions question — Neil Stevens <neil@...> 2005/12/15

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#170978] Re: regular expressions question — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/15

On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Neil Stevens wrote:

[#170981] Re: regular expressions question — Neil Stevens <neil@...> 2005/12/15

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#170993] Re: regular expressions question — Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...> 2005/12/15

[#171034] Re: regular expressions question — "jeff.darklight@..." <jeff.darklight@...> 2005/12/16

I know I said I'd shut up, and I am, but I did feel that after some of

[#170708] can someone improve on this multiple inheritence methodology? — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

11 messages 2005/12/14

[#170735] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_ — rubyhacker@...

Hello, all.

33 messages 2005/12/14

[#171075] Ruby tail recursion — Mark Ericson <mark.ericson@...>

In another thread someone mentioned tail recursion doesn't work right

19 messages 2005/12/16

[#171099] How come I get two e-mails? — Francis Vidal <francisv.list@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2005/12/16

[#171112] nonblocking TCPSocket in multithread software. — Arto Pastinen <arto.pastinen@...>

Hi!

12 messages 2005/12/16

[#171134] RRobots (#59) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

13 messages 2005/12/16

[#171159] End matching — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2005/12/16

[#171246] New to coding, lost as hell — Stephen None <mikari@...>

I've been looking into coding for a while now and would really like to

16 messages 2005/12/17

[#171288] Ruby and Debian — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

I don't wish to open a can of worms here. I'm not even a Debian

24 messages 2005/12/17

[#171289] Recruitment translators for new Ruby-GetText-Package — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2005/12/17

[#171410] Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — "Jules" <Roseanna80@...>

Hello

43 messages 2005/12/18
[#171415] Re: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/12/18

Jules wrote:

[#171520] Re: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — "Jules" <Roseanna80@...> 2005/12/19

Hello

[#171527] Re: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/19

On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Jules wrote:

[#171529] Re: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — "Gary Allum" <shadarach@...> 2005/12/19

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:10:04 -0800, James Edward Gray II

[#171564] Re: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/19

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:21:59AM +0900, Gary Allum wrote:

[#171743] Unix is not an *I*DE (Was: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ?) — "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@...> 2005/12/20

Hi!

[#171419] Newbie: require 'filename' - undefined local variable or method... — "Grehom" <grehom@...>

I have one line of code in a file called 'stuff.rb':

14 messages 2005/12/18

[#171653] iterate chars in a string — shinya <piccionevolante@...>

Hi there!

25 messages 2005/12/20

[#171671] Nitro Screencasts — George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>

Dear devs,

18 messages 2005/12/20

[#171708] Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — "cyberco" <cyberco@...>

Bruce Eckel (author of amongst other popular books 'Thinking in Java')

34 messages 2005/12/20
[#171744] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — "rcoder" <rcoder@...> 2005/12/20

Eckel's article is getting pretty long in the tooth at this point -- I

[#171793] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...> 2005/12/20

rcoder ha scritto:

[#171802] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — "Doug H" <doug00@...> 2005/12/20

[#172100] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2005/12/22

Doug H wrote on 12/20/2005 6:42 PM:

[#172150] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...> 2005/12/22

tony summerfelt ha scritto:

[#172159] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/22

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:42:50AM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#172227] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...> 2005/12/23

Chad Perrin ha scritto:

[#172229] Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/23

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:17:50PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#171758] Bruce Eckel and Ruby — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

<sigh>

64 messages 2005/12/20
[#171760] Re: Bruce Eckel and Ruby — Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...> 2005/12/20

On 12/20/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

[#171830] The "ruby way" to break apart a name? — Jeff Cohen <cohen.jeff@...>

Switching from C# to Ruby, and learning to write "the Ruby way"... is

26 messages 2005/12/21
[#172006] Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name? — mathew <meta@...> 2005/12/21

Jeff Cohen wrote:

[#173538] Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name? — Gerardo Santana Gez Garrido <gerardo.santana@...> 2006/01/02

We had a similar problem at work.

[#171851] Merging two Word documents with Ruby? — Denver Mike <denvermike@...>

I've got a bugger of a problem and I thought I'd toss it out there to

15 messages 2005/12/21

[#171908] ruby videos — olczyk <doctlo-usenet@...>

Aside from the Rails demo, are there any ruby videos online?

16 messages 2005/12/21

[#171926] Looking for better Ruby/Tk references... — Chris Dagnon <chris.dagnon@...>

... or better GUI APIs for Ruby.

12 messages 2005/12/21

[#171943] Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy) — "Tolga" <tolgacavdar@...>

First of all and very first of all, I must state that I am not an enemy

44 messages 2005/12/21
[#172131] Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy) — "Gene Tani" <gene.tani@...> 2005/12/22

[#172144] Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy) — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/22

On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:07 am, Gene Tani wrote:

[#172146] Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy) — Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...> 2005/12/22

Actually, the one comparison that gets touched on a bit too lightly ... is

[#171976] move to front of array — Payton Swick <payton@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2005/12/21

[#172010] String > Integer Conversion Problem — Matthew Feadler <matthew@...>

Retro thanks to all who helped me with my last post. I'm certainly more

34 messages 2005/12/21
[#172116] Re: String > Integer Conversion Problem — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...> 2005/12/22

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:07:03 -0000, jwesley <justin.w.smith@gmail.com>

[#172024] unit tests == ugly code? — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

I've found that when I write the tests first, and then write the code,

14 messages 2005/12/21

[#172089] Strange StringScanner behaviour — Neowulf <neowulf@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2005/12/22

[#172151] Ruby version of UMENU — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2005/12/22
[#172156] Re: Ruby version of UMENU — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2005/12/22

On 12/22/05, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:

[#172163] Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff — "Drew Mills" <drewmills@...>

Let me preface this post by saying that I'm no Ruby expert. I like it.

38 messages 2005/12/22
[#172172] Re: Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/12/22

Hi,

[#172176] Re: Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2005/12/22

[#172179] Re: Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff — Patrick Hurley <phurley@...> 2005/12/22

On 12/22/05, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:>> On Dec 22, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Drew Mills wrote:>> > Let me preface this post by saying that I'm no Ruby expert. I like> > it.> > It's fun. But I won't claim extensive knowledge on it.> >> > So when this guy blogs about a Python quality that he feel is better> > than a Ruby quality:> >> > It's the second generation that's going to be less enthused,> > that's going to stare in bafflement at these classes that> > mysteriously spawn methods, and trying to figure out what's> > going when there's an exception in dynamically generated> > code. You can monkeypatch code in Python pretty easily, but we> > look down on it enough that we call it "monkeypatching". In> > Ruby they call it "opening a class" and think it's a cool> > feature. I will assert: we are right, they are wrong.> >> > -- http://blog.ianbicking.org/theres-so-much-more-than-rails.html> >> > I am curious what this means. Is Python against dynamic stuff? And> > Ruby for it? And so we just agree to disagree? Or do I> > misunderstand?>> Well, Python is plenty dynamic. I think he is complaining about> Ruby's ability to re-open a class. This can make it difficult to find> the complete definition of a class (imagine doing this in a> completely random way in multiple files). So while it can be abused,> it can also be an incredible simplification of the code you write.> One thing it does is flattens inheritance hierarchies, you don't> need to introduce specialising classes just to add a few methods.> Using xampl as an illustration: the Ruby version of xampl generates 1> class for every 3 generated by the Java version of xampl, one of> those classes is eliminated because I can re-open classes (the other> is eliminated due to duck typing). Another thing reopening classes> does is, obviously, to allow you to extend the built in Ruby classes> (they are just classes after all). I suppose Ian would think things> even worse because in Ruby you can do this to objects as well as> classes.>> This 'monkeypatching' is very similar to concepts in Smalltalk and> CLOS (Common Lisp's object system). Nobody in those communities> complains too much (though Smalltalk's browser reassembles classes> for you, and new CLOS programmers are sometimes at a bit of a loss> because in CLOS methods may belong to two or more classes and it> doesn't seem that the obvious thing to do is the right thing). Ruby> just makes thing a lot easier.>> Just be careful where you aim that thing.>> Cheers,> Bob>> >> > Just curious.> >> > Drew> >> >>> ----> Bob Hutchison -- blogs at <http://www.recursive.ca/hutch/>> Recursive Design Inc. -- <http://www.recursive.ca/>> Raconteur -- <http://www.raconteur.info/>>>>>

[#172320] multithreaded file access — Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@...>

Hi...

15 messages 2005/12/23
[#172329] Re: multithreaded file access — "Jellen" <jellenchan@...> 2005/12/23

Well, I think it's OK to do that.

[#172334] Re: multithreaded file access — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2005/12/23

On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Jellen wrote:

[#172371] Re: multithreaded file access — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...> 2005/12/23

On 12/23/05, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:> Correct me if I'm wrong, but your examples only prove that the thread> on the CPU will be able to append the file. I *think* Matias wants> to know if the statement ( File.new('filename','a').puts("this is the> string") ) is atomic. Or in other words, do you need to enforce> mutual exclusive access to the file with a mutex? Unfortunately, I> don't have an answer to that question.

[#172428] Merry Christmas! — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>

14 messages 2005/12/24

[#172435] ruby 1.8.4 released — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

Merry Christmas!

14 messages 2005/12/24

[#172462] Ruby 1.8.4 Mac OS X readline problems — Daniel Harple <dharple@...>

Is anyone else having this problem?

11 messages 2005/12/24
[#172492] Re: Ruby 1.8.4 Mac OS X readline problems — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2005/12/25

[#172515] Re: Ruby 1.8.4 Mac OS X readline problems — Jim Menard <jim.menard@...> 2005/12/25

On 12/24/05, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:

[#172553] Re: Ruby 1.8.4 Mac OS X readline problems — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...> 2005/12/26

On 12/25/05, Jim Menard <jim.menard@gmail.com> wrote:> On 12/24/05, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:> >> > On Dec 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Daniel Harple wrote:> >> > > Is anyone else having this problem?>> Yes, I am. I don't want to install Fink or Darwin ports. I got> readline working with 1.8.2, and am now struggling to get it to work> with 1.8.4. readline.bundle is in ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.3.0.>> I used "./configure --with-readline --enable-shared" to configure> Ruby, then make, then make install. When I tried running "rake test"> on a random Rails 1.0 project, the unit tests fail with>> /usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test> "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb"> "test/unit/bookmark_test.rb" "test/unit/group_test.rb"> "test/unit/inbox_test.rb" "test/unit/user_test.rb"> dyld: NSLinkModule() error> dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function> Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.3.0/readline.bundle> Expected in: flat namespace>> rake aborted!> Command failed with status (): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test "/usr/local...]>Hello

[#172494] why there's no ruby 1.8.4 for win-one-click-installer? — "Arie Kusuma Atmaja" <ariekusumaatmaja@...>

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

12 messages 2005/12/25

[#172611] Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners — Gary Watson <pfharlock@...>

This is probably something everyone in here already knows about, but I

23 messages 2005/12/27

[#172638] (Real) Primitive Ruby Generics support — Isaac Devine <isaac.devine@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2005/12/27
[#172772] Re: [ANN] (Real) Primitive Ruby Generics support — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/12/28

Isaac Devine wrote:

[#172649] Re: The Expert Ruby Programmer — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...>

basi <basi_lio@hotmail.com> wrote:

22 messages 2005/12/27

[#172653] Blunyx game library for Ruby — Alexander Jakopin <setrodox@...>

I'm very new at Ruby, and I like it very much. :)

12 messages 2005/12/27

[#172721] Command-line option parsing — "Eric J. Roode" <sdn.girths00869@...>

Greetings,

18 messages 2005/12/27

[#172779] Ruby Curriculum for coworkers — ssmoot@...

I've been tasked with coming up with a curriculum for Rails coworkers.

14 messages 2005/12/28

[#172818] What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — "Surgeon" <biyokuantum@...>

Hi,

152 messages 2005/12/28
[#172819] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Alex Knaub <aknaub@...> 2005/12/28

2005/12/28, Surgeon <biyokuantum@gmail.com>:

[#172822] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/28

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 02:32 pm, Alex Knaub wrote:

[#172841] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...> 2005/12/28

attr_reader :fname, :lname (attr_reader "fname", "lname" works too)

[#172848] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/28

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Johannes Friestad wrote:

[#172916] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...> 2005/12/29

On 12/28/05, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#172921] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...> 2005/12/29

BTW: Ruby version 1.8.2, Win XP Pro, Pentium M 2.0 GHz

[#172924] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/29

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Johannes Friestad wrote:

[#172939] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Jim Weirich <jim@...> 2005/12/29

ara wrote:

[#172954] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — "Surgeon" <biyokuantum@...> 2005/12/29

[#172976] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/29

On Thursday 29 December 2005 03:03 am, Surgeon wrote:

[#172986] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — dblack@... 2005/12/29

Hi --

[#172994] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/29

On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:16 am, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#172996] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — dblack@... 2005/12/29

Hi --

[#173000] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Kirk Haines <khaines@...> 2005/12/29

On Thursday 29 December 2005 8:45 am, Steve Litt wrote:

[#173008] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/29

On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:20 am, Kirk Haines wrote:

[#173020] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/29

On 29/12/05, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:

[#173069] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2005/12/30

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173003] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/29

On 29/12/05, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:

[#173012] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/29

On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:30 am, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173108] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/12/30

Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> writes:

[#173124] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/30

On Friday 30 December 2005 08:06 am, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#173178] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2005/12/30

On Friday 30 December 2005 10:35 am, Steve Litt wrote:

[#173180] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/30

On 30/12/05, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:

[#173211] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/30

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:03:20AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173223] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/31

On 30/12/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#173225] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/31

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 09:37:00AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173226] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/31

On 30/12/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#173238] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/31

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 09:43:54AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173242] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/31

On 30/12/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#173243] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/31

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:50:27AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#173245] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/12/31

On 30/12/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#172832] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...> 2005/12/28

Alex Knaub <aknaub@gmail.com> writes:

[#172854] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/12/28

Yohanes Santoso wrote:

[#172909] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Eero Saynatkari <ruby-forum-reg@...> 2005/12/29

Yohanes Santoso wrote:

[#172983] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...> 2005/12/29

Eero Saynatkari <ruby-forum-reg@mailinator.com> writes:

[#173005] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/29

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:37:59PM +0900, Yohanes Santoso wrote:

[#173025] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...> 2005/12/29

Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> writes:

[#173056] Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2005/12/30

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:07:35AM +0900, Yohanes Santoso wrote:

[#172820] new project: Ruby Message System (RMS) — "Mark Watson" <mark.watson@...>

I have relied on guarenteed delivery asynchronous messaging to build

13 messages 2005/12/28

[#172861] Directory and file listing — adam beazley <abeazley@...>

Hello,

18 messages 2005/12/28
[#172871] Re: Directory and file listing — Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl@...> 2005/12/28

Am Donnerstag, den 29.12.2005, 07:07 +0900 schrieb adam beazley:

[#172881] Re: Directory and file listing — adam beazley <abeazley@...> 2005/12/28

[#172887] Re: Directory and file listing — Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...> 2005/12/28

> thanks for your reply, I believe i understand, however I dont know how

[#172888] Re: Directory and file listing — Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...> 2005/12/28

> > But on the string answer of your question:

[#172885] Real-time image processing in Ruby — John Koschwanez <ishkaprog@...>

I'm a Ruby newbie - "Programming Ruby" was great Xmas break reading!

10 messages 2005/12/28

[#173032] Path Separator and Windows — Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@...>

Using ruby 1.8.2 on Windows XP, the path separator used for things like

21 messages 2005/12/29
[#173035] Re: Path Separator and Windows — Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...> 2005/12/29

Justin Johnson wrote:

[#173039] Re: Path Separator and Windows — Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@...> 2005/12/29

Bob Showalter wrote:

[#173063] Using Ruby to Invest in the Market? — Michael Gorsuch <michael.gorsuch@...>

An idea popped in my head today. Has anyone ever used a stock

14 messages 2005/12/30

[#173083] Fixnums can have instance variables? Cool. — gwtmp01@...

This really surprises me:

15 messages 2005/12/30

[#173110] Numeric Maze (#60) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

126 messages 2005/12/30
[#173201] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2005/12/30

On Dec 30, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:

[#173204] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/30

On Dec 30, 2005, at 4:17 PM, J. Ryan Sobol wrote:

[#173356] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — Stephen Waits <steve@...> 2005/12/31

[#173413] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — Peter Burns <rictic@...> 2006/01/01

On 12/31/05, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:

[#173416] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — Stephen Waits <steve@...> 2006/01/01

[#173429] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...> 2006/01/01

On 12/31/05, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:

[#173438] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — "Dominik Bathon" <dbatml@...> 2006/01/01

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:59:32 +0100, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>

[#173443] Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60) — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...> 2006/01/01

On 1/1/06, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:>> $ time ruby num_maze.rb 22222 99999> [22222, 22224, 11112, 5556, 2778, 2780, 1390, 1392, 696, 348, 174, 87, 89,> 91, 93, 95, 97, 194, 388, 390, 780, 1560, 1562, 3124, 6248, 12496, 12498,> 24996, 24998, 49996, 49998, 99996, 199992, 199994, 99997, 99999]>> real 0m1.768s> user 0m1.725s> sys 0m0.022s>> ;-)

[#173463] Numeric Maze (#60) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/01

On Dec 30, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:

[#173468] Re: [SOLUTION] Numeric Maze (#60) — Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...> 2006/01/01

On Jan 1, 2006, at 15:47, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#173470] Re: [SOLUTION] Numeric Maze (#60) — Stephen Waits <steve@...> 2006/01/01

[#173478] Re: [SOLUTION] Numeric Maze (#60) — Maurice Codik <maurice.codik@...> 2006/01/01

I guess we're allowed to submit solutions now... here's my first ever ruby

[#173477] Numeric Maze (#60) — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...> 2006/01/01

On 12/30/05, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=>> by Christer Nilsson>> You have a starting point and a target, say 2 and 9.>> You have a set of three operations:>> double> halve (Odd numbers cannot be halved.)> add_two>> Problem: Move from the starting point to the target, minimizing the number of> operations.>> Examples:>> solve(2,9) # => [2,4,8,16,18,9]> solve(9,2) # => [9,18,20,10,12,6,8,4,2]>>

[#173111] On Symbols — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>

Hey, all you lurkers:

34 messages 2005/12/30

[#173116] Fwd: [SOLUTION] Sudoku — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Begin forwarded message:

12 messages 2005/12/30

[#173125] Method for turning strings into code — Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Hi all,

12 messages 2005/12/30

[#173149] About Steve Yegge's 'Opinions considered harmful' post — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>

Excuse me, but where in this post does anything about Ruby arise?

11 messages 2005/12/30

[#173179] Another Newb asks questions. — Joseph Divelbiss <joseph@...>

Ok, recently started "trying" to learn this wonderful language, but am

13 messages 2005/12/30

[#173279] A few questions of function and style from a newbie — "Sven Johansson" <sven_u_johansson@...>

Hi, good people of clr,

12 messages 2005/12/31

Re: multithreaded file access

From: "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...>
Date: 2005-12-23 22:45:30 UTC
List: ruby-talk #172385
On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:

> On 12/23/05, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
>>> [kig@jugend:~] ruby fw_test.rb
>>> puts in different threads seems to be atomic
>>
>> Crafty test program.  Coincidentally, my results differ from yours.
>>
>> $ ruby fw_test.rb
>> puts in different threads isn't atomic
>> $ ruby -v
>> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
>
> Good! I thought it was odd that they seemed to be atomic..
>
> And now we know to mutex disk writes (or use flock.)
>
>> I'm getting 8 unique lines in File.readlines(fn).uniq, as opposed to
>> the 3 thread objects in ts.  Assuming I understand the program, that
>> means threads are not waiting their turn like they should.  FYI, I've
>> compiled my own ruby executable from DarwinPorts instead of using the
>> 'broken' one shipped in OS X Tiger.
>>
>> However, if I change the multiplication factor in line 3 to 655, then
>>
>> $ ruby fw_test.rb
>> puts in different threads seems to be atomic
>
> I don't know the reason (can guess, but too unsure)
> Explanation anyone?
>
>> ~ ryan ~
>>
>> PS - I love the 205+ MB of text this app generates! :-D
>
> Ilmari

Regardless, the important thing is to know that it seems file IO via  
puts is not thread safe, which I kind of assumed from the beginning.   
This begs the question: which methods, especially concerning file IO,  
are thread safe? (if any)

~ ryan ~

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