[#1649] Re: New Ruby projects — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
[#1672] Re: Ruby 1.4 stable manual bug? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
[#1673] Re: Possible problem with ext/socket in 1.5.2 — itojun@...
[#1694] Conventions for our Ruby book — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1715] Install postgresql support — Ikhlasul Amal <amal@...>
Hi all,
Hi,
[#1786] Is this a bug? — Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@...>
(mailed & posted)
[#1814] Objects nested sometimes. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I am attemptiong to write a package which consists of a workspace
[#1816] Ruby 1.5.3 under Tru64 (Alpha)? — Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@...>
Hi all,
Hi,
Yukihiro Matsumoto writes:
Hi,
Hi,
[#1834] enum examples? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Has anyone any examplse of using the Enumerable module? I've had a
[#1844] Minor irritation, can't figure out how to patch it though! — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I was considering how difficult it would be to patch Ruby to accept
[#1889] [ruby-1.5.3] require / SAFE — ts <decoux@...>
[#1896] Ruby Syntax similar to other languages? — "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@...>
From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>
[#1900] Enumerations and all that. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Thank you to the people who responded to my questions about Enumerated
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
On 16 Mar 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#1929] Re: Class Variables — "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@...>
| "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:
[#1942] no Fixnum#new ? — Quinn Dunkan <quinn@...>
Ok, I can add methods to a built-in class well enough (yes I know about succ,
[#1989] English Ruby/Gtk Tutorial? — schneik@...
Hi,
[#2022] rb_global_entry — ts <decoux@...>
[#2036] Anonymous and Singleton Classes — B_DAVISON <Bob.Davison@...>
I am a Ruby newbie and having some problems getting my mind around certain
[#2069] Ruby/GTK+ question about imlib --> gdk-pixbug — schneik@...
[#2073] Re: eval.rb fails — "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@...>
The doc is fine, this happens only if you try to execute 'until' block
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Dat Nguyen wrote:
[#2084] Scope violated by import via 'require'? — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Hi,
[#2104] ARGF or $< — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Has anyone any examples of how to use ARGF or $< as I cannot find much
Hi.
[#2165] Ruby strict mode and stand-alone executables. — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Some people want Ruby to have a strict compile mode.
[#2203] Re: parse bug in 1.5 — schneik@...
[#2212] Re: Ruby/Glade usage questions. — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "m" == mrilu <mrilu@ale.cx> writes:
[#2241] setter() for local variables — ts <decoux@...>
[#2256] Multiple assignment of pattern match results. — schneik@...
[#2267] Re: Ruby and Eiffel — h.fulton@...
[#2309] Question about attribute writers — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:
[ruby-talk:01858] Re: Another question from a newbie
>Why does this snippet fail?
>
> class String
> def String.comment (str)
> str =~ /^(#| *$)/
> end
> end
Why are you making comment a class method?
It seems to work fine as an instance method:
class String
def comment
self =~ /^(#| *$)/
end
end
File.open("xxx") { |conf|
conf.readlines.each { |line|
next if line.comment
Regards,
/\ndy
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