[#227503] open-uril ECONNREFUSED problem — Cyrus Ghalambor <cyrusg@...>

I'm working on a simple scraping tool and the open() method has suddenly

12 messages 2006/12/01

[#227527] Gateway is malfunctioning — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Someone recently mentioned missing posts. I just did a comparsion of

31 messages 2006/12/01

[#227574] Turtle Graphics (#104) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

37 messages 2006/12/01
[#227598] Re: [QUIZ] Turtle Graphics (#104) — "Harold Hausman" <hhausman@...> 2006/12/01

On 12/1/06, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#227606] Re: [QUIZ] Turtle Graphics (#104) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/12/01

On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Harold Hausman wrote:

[#227620] Re: [QUIZ] Turtle Graphics (#104) — "Harold Hausman" <hhausman@...> 2006/12/01

On 12/2/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#227661] Re: [QUIZ] Turtle Graphics (#104) — Daniel Martin <martin@...> 2006/12/01

"Harold Hausman" <hhausman@gmail.com> writes:

[#227670] Re: [QUIZ] Turtle Graphics (#104) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/12/01

On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Martin wrote:

[#227682] Re: tk.rb warning in Turtle Graphics (#104) — Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@...> 2006/12/02

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/tk.rb:1187: warning: instance variable

[#227713] Re: tk.rb warning in Turtle Graphics (#104) — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2006/12/02

On Dec 1, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Edwin Fine wrote:

[#227630] Simple iteration in a function problem — Blake Miller <blakeage@...>

i'm trying to do this, and I'm stuck

34 messages 2006/12/01

[#227702] calculations on lists of numbers — ara.t.howard@...

38 messages 2006/12/02

[#227739] openssl error - ubuntu — "Chad" <carimura@...>

Help!

27 messages 2006/12/02
[#227741] Re: openssl error - ubuntu — Jose francisco Gonzalez carmona <pgonzalez@...> 2006/12/02

[#227787] Re: openssl error - ubuntu — "Chad" <carimura@...> 2006/12/02

Absolutely... I'm not a linux expert though, but I have a feeling

[#227822] Re: openssl error - ubuntu — "Chad" <carimura@...> 2006/12/02

I finally figured it out.

[#305614] Re: openssl error - ubuntu — James George <james@...> 2008/06/19

Thanks a lot pal, it worked perfectly for me too. I had the same openssl

[#305645] Re: openssl error - ubuntu — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...> 2008/06/19

So much for distribution's package managers making your life easier,

[#227801] comma separating output from array.to_s — "jansenh" <henning.jansen@...>

hi comp.lang.ruby

18 messages 2006/12/02

[#227819] Factory pattern, abstract base class — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2006/12/02

[#227839] Why does a test fail when I predicted it's exception class? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2006/12/03

[#227857] File.size() returning negative for large files ???? — "Greg Hauptmann" <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2006/12/03
[#227859] Re: File.size() returning negative for large files ???? — Damjan Rems <d_rems@...> 2006/12/03

Greg Hauptmann wrote:

[#227860] I'm a new member — "Quỳnh Trần" <quynh_khanh2002@...>

Hi evrybody!

16 messages 2006/12/03

[#227873] Simple and stuppid bug (can anyone find it?) — "paul" <pjvleeuwen@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2006/12/03

[#227979] method overloading like Java? — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>

In Java, you could write the following code:

12 messages 2006/12/04

[#228031] Question about Ruby philosophy — Zouplaz <user@...>

Hello, when I compare Ruby to Java there is something I don't understand .

46 messages 2006/12/04
[#228134] Re: Question about Ruby philosophy — "Max Muermann" <ruby@...> 2006/12/05

On 12/4/06, Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> wrote:

[#228047] replace delimiter in unicode encdoded file — "ciapecki" <ciapecki@...>

Is there a way in ruby to:

20 messages 2006/12/04

[#228127] How do I catch a missing method on a passed block? — "J2M" <james2mccarthy@...>

I would like to invoke method_missing on baz in this code;

34 messages 2006/12/04
[#228211] Re: How do I catch a missing method on a passed block? — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...> 2006/12/05

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:04 +0900, J2M wrote:

[#228213] Re: How do I catch a missing method on a passed block? — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2006/12/05

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:54:06PM +0900, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

[#228266] md5 function in Ruby — Denys Yakhnenko <dyakhnenko@...>

Hello all:

14 messages 2006/12/05

[#228273] Lisp comprehensions => SQL — "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>

Hi all.

24 messages 2006/12/05

[#228352] Newbie: working with a text file and converting to xml — Adam Teale <ateale@...>

hi Guys,

12 messages 2006/12/06

[#228379] Calling super in overwritten methods — Joerg Diekmann <joergd@...>

Hi - not sure if this is possible - but it feels like it could be with

12 messages 2006/12/06

[#228380] join_with — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>

While golfing with the hex_ip thread, I realised that map takes no

33 messages 2006/12/06
[#229469] map taking an argument (was: Re: join_with) — dblack@... 2006/12/13

Hi --

[#228422] invasive parameters as method mode variables — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Working on a method where I would like one part of it's operations to

15 messages 2006/12/06

[#228605] Show your support for Rubinius! — "Sam Smoot" <ssmoot@...>

(I hope you don't mind a bit of cross-posting, but seeing as how the

17 messages 2006/12/07
[#228613] Re: Show your support for Rubinius! — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...> 2006/12/07

On 12/7/06, Sam Smoot <ssmoot@gmail.com> wrote:

[#228618] Re: Show your support for Rubinius! — "Brian Mitchell" <binary42@...> 2006/12/07

On 12/7/06, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:

[#228620] Re: Show your support for Rubinius! — "Wilson Bilkovich" <wilsonb@...> 2006/12/07

On 12/7/06, Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote:

[#228622] Re: Show your support for Rubinius! — benjohn@... 2006/12/07

I'd like to know more about Rubinius, but all the info I've got on it

[#228628] Array changing after concat function — WKC CCC <wai-kee.chung@...>

Can someone shed some light on this problem. In the example, I am

17 messages 2006/12/07

[#228716] Am I missing something about BER-compressed integer? — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>

All:

12 messages 2006/12/08

[#228738] Tournament Matchups (#105) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

23 messages 2006/12/08

[#228875] Ruby Core + Php FrontEnd (open) — Flaab Mrlinux <flaab_mrlinux@...>

Good afternoon everyone.

13 messages 2006/12/09

[#228945] format problem — chen li <chen_li3@...>

Hi all,

23 messages 2006/12/10

[#229119] else inside rescue is useless? — "cap" <capitain@...>

http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0672328844&rl=1

20 messages 2006/12/11

[#229122] Newbie questions — Dav Jones <kakaze@...21.com>

Hello, I'm quite new to this whole Ruby malarky and I'm having some real

15 messages 2006/12/11

[#229244] Re: Ruby for Kids? — "Jeff_M" <JeffMcGrath@...>

18 messages 2006/12/12

[#229350] C => Ruby plus TCP serialization using Marshal.dump/load — "Nathan Baker" <nathanb@...>

Hey,

12 messages 2006/12/12

[#229351] - Bible 1.0.1 - A bible reference parsing and text retrieval tool — "Justin Bailey" <jgbailey@...>

All,

13 messages 2006/12/12

[#229397] Restricted capture in Regexp — benjohn@...

Is there a regexp feature that lets me require something to be present

16 messages 2006/12/13

[#229398] How to improve my Ruby skills ? — Zouplaz <user@...>

Hello there... Like many others I've discovered Ruby when I started

11 messages 2006/12/13

[#229467] Net::Ldap question — Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...>

Hello, I'm trying this plugin in a rails app and think I need some help.

13 messages 2006/12/13
[#229486] Re: Net::Ldap question — Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...> 2006/12/13

Hehe, sorry again. I've reading documentation of this library and already know

[#229514] Re: Net::Ldap question — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2006/12/13

On 12/13/06, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@nospamgmail.com> wrote:

[#229511] Random idea - private, blocks, constants — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2006/12/13

[#229598] CTI Corporativo auto responses — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

All,

14 messages 2006/12/14

[#229600] Swap contents in two files — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>

I have two files, I want to swap the contents of the files in my

17 messages 2006/12/14

[#229763] Chess960 (#106) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

33 messages 2006/12/15

[#229883] ZenTest autotest problems — Zouplaz <user@...>

Hello, I have big troubles using the latest autotest version (3.4.2)

11 messages 2006/12/16
[#229985] Re: ZenTest autotest problems — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/12/17

On Dec 16, 2006, at 01:40, Zouplaz wrote:

[#229990] Re: ZenTest autotest problems — Zouplaz <user@...> 2006/12/17

le 17/12/2006 07:43, Eric Hodel nous a dit:

[#230118] Re: ZenTest autotest problems — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/12/18

On Dec 17, 2006, at 24:55, Zouplaz wrote:

[#229906] Just some Ruby language ideas, comments wanted. — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>

My first Ruby language idea is simple. Instead of having every method

13 messages 2006/12/16

[#229917] does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — "Ken Laninga" <personal@...>

I just heard about Ruby and it looks fascinating. I see lots of code being

60 messages 2006/12/16
[#229922] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/12/16

Ken Laninga wrote:

[#229939] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/12/16

David Vallner wrote:

[#229961] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...> 2006/12/17

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

[#229967] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...> 2006/12/17

[#229968] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/12/17

Richard wrote:

[#229973] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...> 2006/12/17

[#230007] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/12/17

Richard wrote:

[#230065] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...> 2006/12/17

> Odds are it Just Won't unless you only

[#230073] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/12/17

Richard wrote:

[#230127] Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...> 2006/12/18

Disclaimer: All my assertions about Ruby, Rails, WEBrick and MySQL are

[#230008] Grabbing data off a webpage — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

OK, so I haven't done this in years.

12 messages 2006/12/17

[#230011] Ruby IDE — <adaworks@...>

I am new to Ruby, but I have used a lot of other

24 messages 2006/12/17

[#230089] Question regarding threads and I/O — "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>

I am a veteran programmer but still am trying to learn Ruby. In the

14 messages 2006/12/17
[#230094] Re: Question regarding threads and I/O — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2006/12/18

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:55:10AM +0900, Michael W. Ryder wrote:

[#230147] Problem installing Ruby/Tk — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>

Installed Linux

14 messages 2006/12/18

[#230256] where have all the experienced users gone? — "Trans" <transfire@...>

seems like there's been a steady drop off in experienced ruby users on

63 messages 2006/12/19
[#230284] Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone? — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/12/19

On Dec 18, 2006, at 18:50, Trans wrote:

[#230327] Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone? — Jeremy Wells <jwells@...> 2006/12/19

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#230332] Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2006/12/19

On 12/19/06, Jeremy Wells <jwells@servalsystems.co.uk> wrote:

[#230350] Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone? — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...> 2006/12/19

I think it's also important that we all realize that we use mailing

[#230423] Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/12/19

On Dec 19, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:

[#230322] Re: where have all the experienced users gone? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2006/12/19

On 12/19/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#230507] Re: where have all the experienced users gone? — "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@...> 2006/12/20

On 12/19/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

[#230514] Re: where have all the experienced users gone? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2006/12/20

On 12/20/06, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:

[#230295] string of strings... — Josselin <josselin@...>

I got an array of id's :

13 messages 2006/12/19

[#230328] compare two objects without take its ID in consideration — Lobosque Lucas <floyd_u2@...>

Is there a way to compare two objects without take its ID in

17 messages 2006/12/19

[#230450] ruby gotchas — Mark Guzman <segfault@...>

I've written up some ruby gotchas that have come up while using ruby.

16 messages 2006/12/19

[#230548] tricky sort for happy visitors of Paris — Josselin <josselin@...>

all happy visitors of Paris know about the 'arrondissement', an

20 messages 2006/12/20

[#230588] openssl on Red Hat not installed — Hueen Hueen <hueen@...>

So I'm one of the unlucky ones that don't have openssl properly

17 messages 2006/12/20

[#230602] Regexp Question: Checking for [joe][/joe] pairs — Joe Peck <joe@...>

Hey, I've got some text in @x and want there to be at least 1 and at

21 messages 2006/12/20

[#230648] Who's maintaining log4r? — jeffz_2002@...

Does anyone know who's maintaining the log4r project? The website at

29 messages 2006/12/20

[#230650] Searching Stings with Arrays? — Phil Cooperking <phil@...>

Hi, I've been having a little problem with this. most of my ruby is from

14 messages 2006/12/20

[#230755] Remove Ruby 1.8.5? — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>

How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.

20 messages 2006/12/21
[#230874] Re: Remove Ruby 1.8.5? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/12/21

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#230879] Re: Remove Ruby 1.8.5? — Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> 2006/12/21

David Vallner wrote:

[#230792] Method named ***(other) — Julien Gaugaz <gaugaz@...3s.de>

Hi!

15 messages 2006/12/21
[#230799] Re: Method named ***(other) — "Vidar Hokstad" <vidar.hokstad@...> 2006/12/21

[#230829] Ruby's Trac Alternative — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

So I'm trying to use Trac for our FUN3D development,

27 messages 2006/12/21

[#230853] External Ruby Script in HTML — Naked Sushi <runfaster@...>

This probably has a simple answer, but I don't know it.

17 messages 2006/12/21

[#230869] Ruby replacement for ab? — Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>

So I've been hunting for a way to stress test a web application and

17 messages 2006/12/21

[#230983] Merry (slightly early) Christmas! Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is free! — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>

Hello all,

15 messages 2006/12/22

[#231056] Question: Downloading files with open(-uri)? — Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2006/12/23

[#231072] Help with a ruby idiom — Tim Waters <timgwaters@...>

From the O'Reilly Cookbook there is code that keeps call functions in a

16 messages 2006/12/23

[#231181] Hpricot ri and rdoc documentation — "bbiker" <renard@...>

I have gem installed Hpricot-0.4 (mswin32) but no ri documentation or

15 messages 2006/12/24

[#231198] A problem about replacing a string in a template. — Kuang Dong <kuangdong@...>

File 1: test.tpl

13 messages 2006/12/25

[#231277] Newby - how to round up floating point number? — Dermot Moynihan <der_moyn@...>

Hi guys

14 messages 2006/12/26

[#231303] Hash with two identical keys? — "Trans" <transfire@...>

>From Facets' multiton.rb (which is primarily Floran Franks' work), I'm

15 messages 2006/12/26

[#231341] Peculiar Behavior for a Newby to Undertstand — Charles A Gray <smgspices@...>

I created a class for prime numbers as so:

14 messages 2006/12/27

[#231377] How to do TDD in Ruby? — mekondelta <Chris.Melikian@...>

15 messages 2006/12/27

[#231385] newbie with a weird technical problem (@ least I think it's weird) — "will" <will.graduate@...>

Yep, as the post title implies, I'm a newbie. Being a pragmatic newbie

10 messages 2006/12/27

[#231436] Handling of arbitrary length arrays in arguments to printf builtin — Nick Pavey <nick@...>

Hi Folks,

13 messages 2006/12/27
[#231437] Re: Handling of arbitrary length arrays in arguments to printf builtin — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2006/12/27

Nick Pavey wrote:

[#231462] Higher-Order Procedures Tutorial (long) — "Nate Murray" <jashmenn@...>

Hey Guys,

16 messages 2006/12/28

[#231494] Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace — Taylor Strait <taylorstrait@...>

I have files with city names which have one or two trailing whitespaces:

14 messages 2006/12/28

[#231595] What we have here is a retard pretending to be a computer scientist — atbusbook@...

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Scha04bOOEncapsulation.pdf

14 messages 2006/12/29
[#231602] Paper on strong Object Oriented Encapsulation (Was: some subject with needless insults) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/12/29

On Dec 28, 2006, at 16:05, atbusbook@aol.com wrote:

[#231610] Re: Paper on strong Object Oriented Encapsulation (Was: some subject with needless insults) — "Jeff" <cohen.jeff@...> 2006/12/29

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#231686] how to properly format data when using TCPSocket.send() — Nathan Taylor <onebitcipher@...>

It would be greatly appreciated if someone would clue me in to what I am

12 messages 2006/12/29

[#231726] Methods validating their arguments: good or bad? — Michael Judge <mjudge@...>

15 messages 2006/12/29

[#231763] how to lex javascript for an assert_js system? — Phlip <phlip2005@...>

Ruboids:

14 messages 2006/12/30

[#231785] Proposal to create a new mailing list — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>

Hello fellow Rubyphilics!

31 messages 2006/12/30

[#231801] Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...>

I was a bit surprised about Matz mention of the little things in his

164 messages 2006/12/30
[#231848] Re: Little Things — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...> 2006/12/30

I mostly agree, with some of the additions of course being more

[#231882] Re: Little Things — dblack@... 2006/12/31

Hi --

[#231888] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2006/12/31

[#231893] Re: Little Things — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2006/12/31

Trans wrote:

[#231898] Re: Little Things — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...> 2006/12/31

On 12/31/06, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:

[#232438] Re: Little Things — Paulo Kh <paulo.koch@...> 2007/01/03

On 2006/12/31, at 07:38, Rob Sanheim wrote:

[#232439] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/03

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Paulo Kh wrote:

[#232449] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/03

[#232451] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/03

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

[#232496] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232501] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

[#232502] Re: Little Things — dblack@... 2007/01/04

Hi --

[#232503] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#232544] Re: Little Things — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2007/01/04

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#232547] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232571] Re: Little Things — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2007/01/04

Trans wrote:

[#232587] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232602] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

[#232615] Re: Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232616] Re: Little Things — dblack@... 2007/01/04

Hi --

[#232619] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#232626] Re: Little Things — dblack@... 2007/01/04

Hi --

[#232631] Re: Little Things — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#232638] Re: Little Things — "Chris Carter" <cdcarter@...> 2007/01/04

On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#232650] Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232652] Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

[#232653] Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...> 2007/01/04

On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#232656] Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tim Pease wrote:

[#232657] Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/01/04

[#232659] Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things] — ara.t.howard@... 2007/01/04

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

[#231932] Re: Little Things — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/12/31

Hi,

[#231821] Newbie: It works, how can I make it better? — Jay Bornhoft <jbornhoft@...>

I wrote this little prog giving the user two choices.

13 messages 2006/12/30

[#231938] Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list) — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>

I'm not jumping back into this in a big way, since it's obvious

11 messages 2006/12/31

[#231941] Mini-RCR: Extra Argument for Array#join — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I've been looking at the to_sentence() method in Rails. It's

17 messages 2006/12/31

[#231946] Open source credit card processing in ruby — snacktime <snacktime@...>

Just recently I have the option to open source a credit card

12 messages 2006/12/31
[#231956] Re: Open source credit card processing in ruby — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2006/12/31

On 12/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#231951] Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list) — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>

Robert Dober wrote:

9 messages 2006/12/31

Re: calculations on lists of numbers (back OT apparently)

From: "William James" <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-12-03 17:55:08 UTC
List: ruby-talk #227931
ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Paul Lutus wrote:
>
> > Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >
> >> Paul Lutus wrote:
> >>> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> for years i've felt that i should be able to pipe numerical output into
> >>>> some unix command like so
> >>>>
> >>>>    cat list | mean
> >>>>    cat list | sum
> >>>>    cat list | minmax
> >>>>
> >>>> etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> and have never found one.  right now i'm building a ruby version -
> >>>> before i continue, does anyone know a standard unix or ruby version of
> >>>> this?
> >>>
> >>> It is so easy to create in Ruby, a matter of minutes, that it is not
> >>> terribly important to do the search you are suggesting.
> >>
> >> Disagree.
> >
> > It's a bit too late to disagree, in the face of the evidence that I said it,
> > then I did it.
>
> i agree that it's easy to emulate awk, but shouldn't we do something better in
> ruby?  i'm personally always inspired by ruby's elegance to write something
> better and more exstensible than something i could easily do in the
> shell/awk/perl/c/etc and find that, over the long run (say more than 3 days)
> i've found that my productivity increases in an exponential way if i simply
> embrace ruby's power to write clear and re-usable code and code it right 'the
> first time.'  imho it's a shame to write throw-away scripts in ruby.
>
> here's what i've got so far:  the concept is that each line may contain 'n'
> columns of numbers, which is to say the input is not a simple list of numbers,
> but a list of __rows__ of numbers: a table.  any non-numeric data is ignored,
> eliminating the need to grep out crud.  also, integer arithmitic is attempted
> where possible but the code falls back to floats when needed.  all numeric
> input must be valid - no use of #to_i or #to_f, preferring Integer() and
> Float().  the code abstracts all of the input, computation, and output
> functions and is user-extensible via the use of duck-typed filters.  it's also
> usable both as a library or from the command-line
>
>
> first some examples of usage:
>
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > cat input.a
>    1
>    2
>    3
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc sum < input.a
>    6
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc mean < input.a
>    2.0
>
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > cat input.b
>    1 2
>    3 4
>    5 6
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc median < input.b
>    3.0 4.0
>
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > cat input.c
>    foo 1 bar 2
>    a 3 b 4
>    x 5 y 6
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc minmax < input.c
>    1:5 2:6
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc min < input.c
>    1 2
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc max < input.c
>    5 6
>
>
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > cat input.d
>    ---
>    -
>      elapsed : 770.1453289
>    -
>      elapsed : 620.9993257
>    -
>      elapsed : 1440.629573
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > ./listc mean < input.d
>    943.924742533333
>
>
>
> now the code (i'm not golfing, for you non-vim users strange markers are
> 'folds': those lines appear as one single line to me):
>
>
>    mussel:~/eg/ruby/listc > cat ./listc
>    #! /usr/bin/env ruby
>
>    class Main
>    #--{{{
>      OPS = %w( sum add mean avg median max min minmax )
>
>      def main
>        op = ARGV.shift.to_s.strip.downcase
>
>        klass =
>          case op
>            when 'sum', 'add'
>              SumFilter
>            when 'mean', 'avg'
>              MeanFilter
>            when 'median'
>              MedianFilter
>            when 'minmax'
>              MinMaxFilter
>            when 'max'
>              MaxFilter
>            when 'min'
>              MinFilter
>            else
>              abort "bad op <#{ op }> not in <#{ OPS.join ',' }>"
>          end
>
>        filter = klass.new
>
>        $stdin.each{|line| filter << line}
>
>        filter.result >> $stdout
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    def Main(*a, &b) Main.new(*a, &b).main end
>
>    module FilterUtils
>    #--{{{
>      def extract_numbers line
>        fields = line.strip.split(%r/\s+/)
>        fields.map{|f| Integer(f) rescue Float(f) rescue nil}.compact
>      end
>
>      class List < Array
>        def >> port = STDOUT
>          port << join(' ')
>          port << "\n"
>        end
>        def self.from other
>          new.instance_eval{ replace other; self }
>        end
>      end
>      def new_list l = nil
>        l ? (List === l ? l : List.from(l)) : List.new
>      end
>
>      class MultiList < Array
>        def >> port = STDOUT
>          port << map{|elem| elem.join(':')}.join(' ')
>          port << "\n"
>        end
>        def self.from other
>          new.instance_eval{ replace other; self }
>        end
>      end
>      def new_multilist ml = nil
>        ml ? (MultiList === ml ? ml : MultiList.from(ml)) : MultiList.new
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class SumFilter
>    #--{{{
>      include FilterUtils
>      attr 'sum'
>      def initialize
>        @sum = new_list
>      end
>      def << line
>        numbers = extract_numbers line
>        numbers.each_with_index do |n,i|
>          @sum[i] ||= 0
>          @sum[i] += n
>        end
>      end
>      def result
>        @sum
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class MeanFilter
>    #--{{{
>      include FilterUtils
>      attr 'sum'
>      attr 'count'
>      def initialize
>        @sum = new_list
>        @count = new_list
>      end
>      def << line
>        numbers = extract_numbers line
>        numbers.each_with_index do |n,i|
>          @sum[i] ||= 0
>          @count[i] ||= 0
>          @sum[i] += n
>          @count[i] += 1
>        end
>      end
>      def result
>        mean = new_list
>        @sum.zip(@count){|s,c| mean << (s.to_f/c.to_f)}
>        mean
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class MedianFilter
>    #--{{{
>      include FilterUtils
>      attr 'min'
>      attr 'max'
>      def initialize
>        @min = new_list
>        @max = new_list
>      end
>      def << line
>        numbers = extract_numbers line
>        numbers.each_with_index do |n,i|
>          @min[i] ||= n
>          @min[i] = [ @min[i], n ].min
>          @max[i] ||= n
>          @max[i] = [ @max[i], n ].max
>        end
>      end
>      def result
>        median = new_list
>        @min.zip(@max){|mi,ma| median << (mi + ((ma - mi)/2.0))}
>        median
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class MinMaxFilter
>    #--{{{
>      include FilterUtils
>      attr 'min'
>      attr 'max'
>      def initialize
>        @minmax = new_multilist
>      end
>      def << line
>        numbers = extract_numbers line
>        numbers.each_with_index do |n,i|
>          @minmax[i] ||= [n,n]
>          @minmax[i][0] = [ @minmax[i][0], n ].min
>          @minmax[i][1] = [ @minmax[i][1], n ].max
>        end
>      end
>      def result
>        @minmax
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class MinFilter < MinMaxFilter
>    #--{{{
>      def result
>        new_list @minmax.map{|minmax| [minmax.first]}
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end
>
>    class MaxFilter < MinMaxFilter
>    #--{{{
>      def result
>        new_list @minmax.map{|minmax| [minmax.last]}
>      end
>    #--}}}
>    end

Here's another short version.  This can handle very large files.


ops = {
  :sum,    proc{|cum,cur| (cum||0) + cur},
  :mean,   [ proc{|cum,cur| (cum||0) + cur},
             proc{|cum,count| Float(cum)/count} ],
  :min,    proc{|cum,cur| cum ? [cum,cur].min : cur},
  :max,    proc{|cum,cur| cum ? [cum,cur].max : cur},
  :minmax, proc{|cum,cur|
             cum ? [[cum[0],cur].min, [cum[1],cur].max] : [cur,cur] }
}
ops[:add] = ops[:sum]
ops[:avg] = ops[:mean]

op = ops[ ARGV.shift.to_sym ] or
  abort "op not in #{ops.map{|k,v| k}.join(',')}"

count = 0; cumulative = nil; values = []
ARGF.each_line{|line|   count += 1
  values = line.split.map{|s|
    Integer(s) rescue Float(s) rescue nil}.compact
  cumulative ||= [nil] * values.size
  values.each_with_index{|val,i|
    cumulative[i] = Array(op)[0].call( cumulative[i], val ) }
}
puts cumulative.map{|x| op.class==Array ? op[1].call(x,count) : x}.
  map{|x| Array(x).join(":")}.join(" ")


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