[#227496] What's the current standing of Rant vs. Rake? — "Chris Pearl" <chrispearl@...>
Rake seems to be used widely and extensively. Rails uses it pretty
[#227503] open-uril ECONNREFUSED problem — Cyrus Ghalambor <cyrusg@...>
I'm working on a simple scraping tool and the open() method has suddenly
WFM.
I've tried different URLs from different locations. Do you think setting
The following still has the same problem:
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Cyrus Ghalambor wrote:
Hi everyone,
On Dec 1, 2006, at 06:00 , Cyrus Ghalambor wrote:
[#227523] time = ["min", "sec"].collect {|i| {i=> Time.now.send(i).to_i}} — x1 <caldridge@...>
What's the best way to make the first item below yield a hash instead
[#227525] Ruby equivalent to "exec > $logfile 2>&1" in sh script? — Phil Rhoades <phil@...>
People,
[#227527] Gateway is malfunctioning — "Trans" <transfire@...>
Someone recently mentioned missing posts. I just did a comparsion of
On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Trans wrote:
Le 2 d馗embre 2006 11:16, F. Senault a 馗rit :
[#227535] how can someone see my webserver if I have a wireless router ? — wbsurfver@...
[#227536] Anomaly in first example of Needles, an Aspect-Oriented Programming tool — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Hi All,
[#227556] How to create object of class name of which is in text string? — "xTRiM" <rtokarev@...>
I know what this is about Abstract Factory pattern. But in example at
[#227567] why does openstruct not respond to [] and []=? — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Took me aback - there seems to be no reason for OpenStruct *not* to
On 01.12.2006 13:14, Martin DeMello wrote:
[#227574] Turtle Graphics (#104) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
On 12/1/06, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Harold Hausman wrote:
On 12/2/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
"Harold Hausman" <hhausman@gmail.com> writes:
On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Martin wrote:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/tk.rb:1187: warning: instance variable
On Dec 1, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Edwin Fine wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
From: Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net>
Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net>
[#227583] ruby-services 0.2.0 — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#227630] Simple iteration in a function problem — Blake Miller <blakeage@...>
i'm trying to do this, and I'm stuck
Blake Miller wrote:
> Please show us your code, and make it as simple as possible. Like this:
Hi --
unknown wrote:
Blake Miller wrote:
[#227679] Komodo issue — Cyrus Ghalambor <cyrusg@...>
I'm trying to make an http conenction (to scrape a website) from within
[#227698] aws/s3 0.1.2 (point release) — "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
A memory leak was discovered in the parsing code of aws/s3. The culprit was a
[#227702] calculations on lists of numbers — ara.t.howard@...
Le samedi 02 d馗embre 2006 05:02, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov a 馗rit
> cat list | mean
[#227739] openssl error - ubuntu — "Chad" <carimura@...>
Help!
Absolutely... I'm not a linux expert though, but I have a feeling
I finally figured it out.
On 12/3/06, Chad <carimura@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot pal, it worked perfectly for me too. I had the same openssl
So much for distribution's package managers making your life easier,
On 19/06/08 at 23:18 +0900, Marc Heiler wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>
This worked for me:
Nate Wiger wrote:
[#227744] PDF::Writer and unicode — Simon Kröger <SimonKroeger@...>
Hi!
[#227769] search and replace — "ishamid" <ishamid@...>
[total novice here]
[#227781] more search and replace — "ishamid" <ishamid@...>
[Total novice]
[#227784] convert binary array to floating point decimal — "Nebiru" <Nebiru@...>
new to ruby here, looking for a little help
[#227788] gem requires not working — Steve Ross <cwdinfo@...>
I feel stupid about this, but I just did a fresh install of 1.8.5 from
[#227801] comma separating output from array.to_s — "jansenh" <henning.jansen@...>
hi comp.lang.ruby
Gregory Brown wrote:
On 12/2/06, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#227813] LDAP library in Ruby — Michael Perle <michael_perle@...>
Hi,
[#227819] Factory pattern, abstract base class — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
On 12/3/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
Daniel Berger wrote:
On Dec 2, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
[#227835] Development hpricot breaks code — "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
I was using this simple script to parse some links from a web page
[#227839] Why does a test fail when I predicted it's exception class? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Hi,
Hi Robert & Louis,
On Dec 2, 2006, at 20:40 , Richard wrote:
Hi Eric,
[#227857] File.size() returning negative for large files ???? — "Greg Hauptmann" <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
Hi,
Greg Hauptmann wrote:
Is there a work around for this guys?
On Dec 3, 2006, at 24:30 , Greg Hauptmann wrote:
On 12/3/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
Pedro Fortuny Ayuso wrote:
[#227860] I'm a new member — "Quỳnh Trần" <quynh_khanh2002@...>
Hi evrybody!
Que1bbb3nh Tre1baa7n wrote:
Hi all,
On 12/3/06, chen li <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi --
Hi all,
[#227873] Simple and stuppid bug (can anyone find it?) — "paul" <pjvleeuwen@...>
Hi all,
On 12/3/06, paul <pjvleeuwen@gmail.com> wrote:
[#227878] Gtk::ProgressBar set_fraction doesn't work — Patrick Plattes <patrick@...>
Hello,
[#227894] Weird thing with sockets — Arie Hofland <arie_hofland@...>
First off - i'm a n00b at ruby. This doesn't mean i'm a noob at
[#227913] mailing list question? — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
On 03.12.2006 16:50, Li Chen wrote:
[#227930] Intermittant problem with Hpricot — Allison Newman <demallien@...>
I've run into a wierd problem with the Hpricot gem. I don't know if
You can change the code one of two ways to get it to work
[#227933] Can one use line addresses...to select a portion of file — "Jacob, Raymond A Jr" <raymond.jacob@...>
I would like to select a portion of a file to process like I did with
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:19:25AM +0900, Jacob, Raymond A Jr wrote:
[#227945] How to get operating system type info — Dao Shi <zhoubo61@...>
Hi Guys,
[#227970] number format — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#227979] method overloading like Java? — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
In Java, you could write the following code:
> Is there a way to do this in Ruby? I am aware of method(*args) and
On 12/3/06, Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@gmail.com> wrote:
[#227980] FastRI, handling identical class names and methods — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi,
[#227998] Why this script doesn't work? — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
[#228025] How to populate a 2D array data into Excel using WIN32OLE — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#228028] Getting the source code of a block — Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Hello,
On 04.12.2006 12:20, Peter Szinek wrote:
[#228030] problem with ActiveRecord and PDFWriter — hemant <gethemant@...>
Probably this has been discussed earlier elsewhere.
On 12/4/06, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:
[#228031] Question about Ruby philosophy — Zouplaz <user@...>
Hello, when I compare Ruby to Java there is something I don't understand .
It's a serious question concerning language philosophy and design.
Hi,
On 04.12.2006 13:04, Zouplaz wrote:
On 12/5/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 12/4/06, Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> wrote:
The bottom line seems to be that the current crop of Ruby programmers
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Edwin Fine wrote:
On 2006-12-05, Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net> wrote:
Jeremy Henty wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Edwin Fine wrote:
On 12/7/06, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
[#228047] replace delimiter in unicode encdoded file — "ciapecki" <ciapecki@...>
Is there a way in ruby to:
[#228055] MySQL and SQLite question — "nephish" <nephish@...>
Lo there all.
[#228075] help, my 'case/when' code doesn't work — cremes.devlist@...
I've been using ruby for several months now so imagine my surprise when I wrote something using the 'case' construct and I discovered that I didn't understand how to use it! What's worse is that even after looking through the Pickaxe and some code "in the wild" that uses 'case' I still don't see what I'm doing wrong.
[#228085] Tool for Program Visualization ? — Gilbert Rebhan <mailforgilbert@...>
Hi,
[#228108] Swig, Ruby, C++ question — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#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;
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:04 +0900, J2M wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:54:06PM +0900, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Logan Capaldo wrote:
On 12/6/06, Tim Fletcher <twoggle@gmail.com> wrote:
Ah, see what you mean now :)
This is what I finally ended up with - which I think is quite elegant
Hi --
Hi --
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, J2M wrote:
I've some comments, on almost all code in this thread. Feel
[#228137] how do I "unrequire" a file ? — Tuka Opaleye <tuka@...>
Hi all,
[#228160] doubt with positive lookaround — hemant <gethemant@...>
I do not understand behavior of positive look arounds in Ruby:
[#228172] looping through & downloading web page - WATIR codes — "curious" <csamigroup@...>
What I am trying to realize through code below is to read a line by
[#228176] Integer#to_s(2) works on x86, fails on x86_64 — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Hello,
[#228193] Starting XMLRPC server on virtual host returns EADDRNOTAVAIL — Rene Tschirley <ruby@...>
Dear ruby experts,
[#228196] TDD/unit testing question — Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Hello,
[#228198] String#crypt first 8 characters — Patrick Plattes <patrick@...>
Hello,
[#228201] A true Ruby compiler (for Linux) — Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
People,
[#228215] Using Relax NG as a grammar — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Random thought of the day...
[#228216] Unexpected scope range — Andreas Warberg <andreas.warberg@...>
I am new to Ruby but have a strong java background.
[#228266] md5 function in Ruby — Denys Yakhnenko <dyakhnenko@...>
Hello all:
Denys Yakhnenko wrote:
[#228273] Lisp comprehensions => SQL — "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Hi all.
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:58:49AM +0900, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote:
From: Logan Capaldo [mailto:logancapaldo@gmail.com]
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
From: khaines@enigo.com [mailto:khaines@enigo.com]
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
From: khaines@enigo.com [mailto:khaines@enigo.com]
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
[#228275] ie.link(:text, "Next").click — "curious" <csamigroup@...>
I am navigating through web page using WATIR..
[#228306] Using Mkmf to Verify Libraries — Steven Hansen <runner@...>
[#228330] Apache and Ruby — "Phillip Neiswanger" <sigsegv@...>
Hi,
[#228352] Newbie: working with a text file and converting to xml — Adam Teale <ateale@...>
hi Guys,
Adam Teale wrote:
Hi Kev & Peter!
Adam Teale wrote:
Hi Peter,
[#228364] GOLF: hex string to dotted quad — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
irb(main):021:0> hex_ip = "c0a80167"
On 12/6/06, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
[#228379] Calling super in overwritten methods — Joerg Diekmann <joergd@...>
Hi - not sure if this is possible - but it feels like it could be with
[#228380] join_with — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
While golfing with the hex_ip thread, I realised that map takes no
Hi --
On 12/13/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
"Martin DeMello" <martindemello@gmail.com> writes:
On 06.12.2006 11:40, Martin DeMello wrote:
[#228414] Default values for method arguments — "paul" <pjvleeuwen@...>
Hi all,
[#228422] invasive parameters as method mode variables — "Trans" <transfire@...>
Working on a method where I would like one part of it's operations to
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Trans wrote:
On 06.12.2006 18:37, Trans wrote:
On 12/6/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#228437] Difference between nil? vs. (variable != nil)... — "Jason Vogel" <jasonvogel@...>
Source A :
[#228463] Installing shared object library into non-standard directory — "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@...>
Hi,
[#228464] Get Number of regex matches — Ingo Weiss <ingoweiss@...>
Hi,
[#228471] general question about ri and specific question about LookupAccountName — "Jason Mayer" <slamboy@...>
While looking through ri File, I found Windows::Security, and in there is a
[#228475] Ruby based SMTP server? — "Peter Smith [gjfc]" <goodjobfastcar@...>
People,
[#228490] Why is this regex invalid? — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
irb(main):002:0> regex = /([0-9]*)([^\+- ]+)(.*)/
[#228508] Problem with Marshaling WeakRefs? — umptious@...
I'm experimenting with Marshal, but I'm having problems making it work
[#228509] Using Ruby Web Service from a C# .NET Client — "ParappaYo" <parappayo@...>
I'm trying to set up a sample project of a Ruby web service consumed by
[#228533] : partitioning an array — "Max Muermann" <ruby@...>
Take an array of objects and partition it into subarrays, based on
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:46:37 -0000, Max Muermann <ruby@muermann.org> wrote:
[#228555] puts overwrite line — "Raymond O'connor" <nappin713@...>
Hi,
[#228571] How to unpack unusual binary structure? — Leo -- <leopardus.vulgaris@...>
Hello everyone
[#228574] NoMethodError in protocol.rb — Alex Young <alex@...>
Does this look familiar to anyone?
[#228580] REXML/RSS parse error — Patrick Plattes <patrick@...>
Hello,
[#228583] insert into erb binding — Jeremy Wells <jwells@...>
I have a class that takes a template, parses it through ERB, then takes
[#228586] rescue and continue on next statement ? — Zouplaz <user@...>
Hello, I've seen there is a retry statement that rerun the entire
[#228603] Odd result when attempting to use Mechanize in parallel with Threads — "Richard Conroy" <richard.conroy@...>
I wrote a simple tool to iterate a network to try and find web servers
[#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
On 12/7/06, Sam Smoot <ssmoot@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/7/06, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/7/06, Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to know more about Rubinius, but all the info I've got on it
On 12/7/06, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
AFAIK, Ruby does not have a formal language specification. The language
They are working on an official Ruby spec and testing suite.
Hi --
On Dec 10, 2006, at 9:12 AM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
[#228628] Array changing after concat function — WKC CCC <wai-kee.chung@...>
Can someone shed some light on this problem. In the example, I am
WKC CCC <wai-kee.chung@uk.bnpparibas.com> wrote:
unknown wrote:
[#228660] Re: openstruct oddity — "Andreas S" <andreas_s@...>
>This one does not:
[#228665] Colored error messages — Yu Co <djhackebeil@...>
Hi,
On Dec 7, 2006, at 14:48 , Yu Co wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#228668] Ruby enums in C — "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@...>
Each instance of Joe has a MOOD which can be HAPPY, SAD, or NEUTRAL.
[#228669] Help with rake — Jeremy Woertink <its_conebred_foo@...>
Can anyone tell me exactly how rake works? How does it know what to do?
[#228682] exit — "ao tianlong" <aotianlong@...>
how can i exit
[#228684] Need help with a regexp — "rpheath" <rpheath@...>
I'm trying to write a regular expression to replace a <pre>...</pre>
[#228702] Execute environment - rake aborted! - no such file to load -- openssl — "dave ." <vancouverhg@...>
On 12/8/06, dave . <vancouverhg@hotmail.com> wrote:
Env: Ruby 1.8.5, Linux RedHat 7.3
dave . wrote:
[#228716] Am I missing something about BER-compressed integer? — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>
All:
Need an advice please,
On 12/8/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
[#228723] pam_ruby and "require" statement — Vladimir Konrad <v.konrad@...>
[#228725] Exiting a DialogBox created with FoxGUIb — e aldaz <ardhazes@...>
Dear All
[#228738] Tournament Matchups (#105) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
I have some questions about this problem.
On 12/10/06, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:
Here's my solution. It assumes that the teams are ranked by skill. I
William James wrote:
[#228740] Using Ruby to change printer preferences in Win32 — "Anders" <anders.schneiderman@...>
Our Windows XP sys admins recently changed things so that every day,
[#228759] Re: Fwd: Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident — "Trans" <transfire@...>
[#228766] Module issue — "Jason Vogel" <jasonvogel@...>
Disclaimer: Ruby Nuby
[#228770] autotest, unit-diff, and color output? — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...>
I'm using autotest with all its test driven goodness, and I believe
On Dec 8, 2006, at 09:26 , Rob Sanheim wrote:
On 12/8/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
On 12/11/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
[#228782] Marshal::dump error on PowerBook G4 — "Emmett Shear" <emmett.shear@...>
I've written code for a Splay tree in Ruby, and I'm trying to
[#228783] Capitalization — "Jason Vogel" <jasonvogel@...>
Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
Jason Vogel wrote:
[#228791] Sourcing bash aliases with Ruby — Chris Kilmer <christopher.kilmer@...>
I'm trying to build a script that automates the sourcing of multiple
[#228797] replacing maven with rake + rjb + ant — "thebox" <piergiuliano.bossi.news@...>
Hi!
On 12/8/06, thebox <piergiuliano.bossi.news@gmail.com> wrote:
Tanner Burson wrote:
On Dec 8, 4:32 pm, David Vallner <d...@vallner.net> wrote:
[#228798] Beginners question about Array#assoc — Chad Thatcher <chad@...>
Hi, I am new to Ruby and still finding it very strange even though I am
[#228818] beginner Q: Kernel#puts, STDOUT, $stdout relation — "Andreas S" <andreas_s@...>
Can anybody help me understanding the relation between Kernel#puts, STDOUT
[#228833] autotest broken on winxp? — "Jeff" <cohen.jeff@...>
I haven't tried autotest on windows for a long time, but I thought it
[#228842] YAML extension not honouring the options passed to .to_yaml — Chad Thatcher <chad@...>
[#228862] Need help on a program — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>
Stuck on this exercise from a book:
Christopher Latif wrote:
[#228869] Dynamically Create Singleton Method — "pachl" <clintpachl@...>
I'm not sure how to explain what I'm looking for so I will show you:
[#228875] Ruby Core + Php FrontEnd (open) — Flaab Mrlinux <flaab_mrlinux@...>
Good afternoon everyone.
Hi Flaab,
[#228885] TeX and ruby — pierodancona@...
Hi,
[#228891] File.yaml?(fname) — "Trans" <transfire@...>
what's the best way to determine if a file is yaml?
[#228914] bending ruby space — "Trans" <transfire@...>
i came upon this "pattern" working on a rather difficult problem. see
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Trans wrote:
[#228918] Help me with some nested Hashes. — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
What I want to do is have 2 nested hashes, the outer hash returning a
[#228945] format problem — chen li <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
Li Chen wrote:
chen li wrote:
[#228948] attr_reader, etc for class variables — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Is there such a thing?
[#228958] asynchronous select from queue — Boris Mojo-jojo <boris.ouretskey@...>
Please advise on how to implement multiple select from queues in Ruby. I
On Dec 10, 2006, at 24:50 , Boris Mojo-jojo wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#228962] rubyscript2exe problem (yes another) — "Anselm (anonymous)" <anselmthecrack@...>
hello!
[#228963] qtruby problems — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
I have both qtruby and qt4-qtruby installed (via the gentoo ebuilds),
[#229011] Ruby training? — "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@...>
I'd like to send a couple of my employees to a Ruby class, the ideal
[#229014] defining key equivalence in a hash — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Hello,
[#229024] Question on IO objects, initialize, and yaml — "Mark Noworolski" <jmarkn@...>
Say I have a class with pseudo code as follows:
On Dec 10, 2006, at 12:19 , Mark Noworolski wrote:
[#229025] Scope of block — "daniel" <daniel@...>
Hello i have a question about scopes of block
[#229035] Monkey Patching a method and back — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>
I need to temporarily mokey patch out a method in a certain class used
On Dec 10, 2006, at 3:35 PM, S. Robert James wrote:
Will this be OK even if patched and unpatched multiple times?
[#229062] Newbie question about pop3 access — "furby" <WookieTim@...>
I am rather new to Ruby and I want to write a program to play around
[#229094] TkCanvas on windows seems slow — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#229095] Regexp/scan question — Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Hello,
[#229119] else inside rescue is useless? — "cap" <capitain@...>
http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0672328844&rl=1
On 11.12.2006 13:17, cap wrote:
On 12.12.2006 00:15, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#229122] Newbie questions — Dav Jones <kakaze@...21.com>
Hello, I'm quite new to this whole Ruby malarky and I'm having some real
[#229139] Questions about DRb and security — "Jonas Pfenniger" <zimbatm@...>
Hello,
[#229144] Help recherche de package — "Dom" <vialadom@...>
Bonjour
[#229178] Win32 environment for ruby extension work — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...>
Hi,
[#229183] Is there something like Regexp#match_all — Andi Schacke <memberships.andi@...>
Hi,
[#229194] gtkhtml2 blank window — Patrick Plattes <patrick@...>
hi ho ml :-),
[#229195] Re: best way to dynamically create new instance methods — "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kistner@...>
From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@grayproductions.net]
[#229210] private methods in Ruby — hemant <gethemant@...>
##Won't work method #1
[#229230] Ruby, Windows XP, and CMD.exe — Clark Snowdall <clark.snowdall@...>
Hello all,
[#229238] Rassmalog 1.0.0 — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Version 1.0.0 (2006-12-11)
[#229240] UID/EUID subshell solutions — Luke Kanies <luke@...>
Hi,
[#229244] Re: Ruby for Kids? — "Jeff_M" <JeffMcGrath@...>
Jeff_M wrote:
what would be good is something like KPL
[#229251] Runtime Error Installing Ruby 1.8.5 — muraii@...
Hi there,
[#229257] Non-useless mode for YAML::Syck::Map.children_with_index? — "Phlip" <phlipcpp@...>
Rubistas:
Phlip wrote:
[#229276] Predefined variable to represent the ruby installation path? — Olivia Dou <dou_yifan@...>
Is there a Predefined variable that represent the ruby installation
[#229277] connect to MySQL Database — Jochen Kaechelin <fvgi242ss@...>
Hello list,
Hi,
Kashia Buch schrieb:
[#229280] Using the SaveAs in Excel not working with Ruby — anon1m0us@...
Hi;
[#229297] Directory Size and bolding Excel cells — anon1m0us@...
Does anyone know any commands that will tell me the size of a
anon1m0us@yahoo.com wrote:
I tried
Nope:
[#229304] Re: Ruby for Kids? — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Kerry Stevenson wrote:
[#229330] Assignment method strangeness — "Ryan Williams" <mr.cruft@...>
Assignment methods are weird, and I wish they acted more like regular
[#229350] C => Ruby plus TCP serialization using Marshal.dump/load — "Nathan Baker" <nathanb@...>
Hey,
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nathan Baker wrote:
On 12/12/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Tim Pease wrote:
[#229351] - Bible 1.0.1 - A bible reference parsing and text retrieval tool — "Justin Bailey" <jgbailey@...>
All,
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 07:36 +0900, Justin Bailey wrote:
Hi!
Wow this looks great! Thanks for building this.
On 12/23/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
[#229380] Storage binding — Can Ceran <ccermikli@...>
Hi,
[#229383] how to add a method_missing method into ActiveRecord — "ao tianlong" <aotianlong.com@...>
i want to write a plugin
[#229395] How to overload the operator !=? — ankyhe@...
I overload ==, >, <, >=, <=successfully, however I can't overload != .
On 12/13/06, ankyhe@gmail.com <ankyhe@gmail.com> wrote:
[#229397] Restricted capture in Regexp — benjohn@...
Is there a regexp feature that lets me require something to be present
benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
[#229398] How to improve my Ruby skills ? — Zouplaz <user@...>
Hello there... Like many others I've discovered Ruby when I started
On 12/13/06, Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> wrote:
What about a Nuby Quiz?
On 12/13/06, Jason Mayer <slamboy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 13, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Jan Svitok wrote:
[#229403] hpricot selective text modification — "Siddharth Karandikar" <siddharth.karandikar@...>
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/207625
[#229430] Hpricot html parsing — Dhanasekaran Vivekanandhan <mail2sek@...>
hi all,
Dhanasekaran Vivekanandhan wrote:
yes, I want the text of the first <p> because it
Dhanasekaran Vivekanandhan wrote:
[#229431] Saikuro v0.2 Released — "Zev Blut" <rubyzbibd@...>
Saikuro is a Ruby cyclomatic complexity analyzer.
[#229443] How do I run WEBrick as a daemon? — Ashley Moran <work@...>
Hi
On 12/13/06, Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> wrote:
[#229444] Kwala v0.1 Release — "Zev Blut" <rubyzbibd@...>
This is the first public release of Kwala.
[#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.
Hehe, sorry again. I've reading documentation of this library and already know
On 12/13/06, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using the latest version of Net::LDAP?
On 12/14/06, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
The LDAP server is from Netscape, don't know exactly which version is it.
On 12/14/06 10:18 AM, "Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda"
Thanks a lot to Francis and David, finally I got it. Since I don't have an administration account,
On 12/19/06, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
[#229473] #N/A bug segmentation — WKC CCC <wai-kee.chung@...>
I am using ruby with COM objects. On certain COM function calls the
[#229477] How to always write Windows style newlines to a file? — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
I need to write a CSV file and I know that I always want Windows style
On 13.12.2006 19:04, Daniel Berger wrote:
[#229481] SVG Canvas — "Steven Quinones-Colon" <stevenq1967@...>
I've been looking for a couple of days now and I can't find a library
[#229511] Random idea - private, blocks, constants — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#229527] FasterCSV - Writing to File Question — Drew Olson <olsonas@...>
Based on a previous thread, I gave FasterCSV a try and I've been very
[#229539] Re: gems cleverness? — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
On Dec 11, 2006, at 19:31, Giles Bowkett wrote:
[#229542] image_science 1.0.0 Released — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
image_science version 1.0.0 has been released!
Hi Ryan,
[#229550] DateTime.strptime() — "Matt G." <mattismyname@...>
Sorry for posting a beginner question here, but it seems like date/format.rb
[#229552] array and hash combine methods — glen <glen83@...>
Just thought I'd post a solution I came up with to finding
[#229575] FXRuby 1.6.4 redux — "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
OK, thanks to the timely help of Lyle Johnson (Thanks, Lyle!) I got
[#229579] What is the meaning of Dim — chen li <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#229598] CTI Corporativo auto responses — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>
All,
[Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com>, 2006-12-15 20.49 CET]
[#229600] Swap contents in two files — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>
I have two files, I want to swap the contents of the files in my
2006/12/14, Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net>:
Robert Klemme wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Christopher Latif wrote:
Hi --
[#229622] — "Maksim Bartenev" <bartenev@...>
Hi!
[#229647] FYI - Ruby related article/blog on Reddit front page — Drew Olson <olsonas@...>
It's not the most flattering blog post:
To be honest, I found the blog post pretty much right on. Ruby is a great
Hi --
[#229652] Hash/2-d array help! — Just Maz <josquius@...>
Would anyone happen to know how would I go about creating a hash where I
[#229663] Ruby File Copy SEG-FAULT on 64-bit System — Cynthia Jeness <cjeness@...>
I have a Ruby script which copies certain files from one subdirectory to
[#229675] ruby/ole excel delete row? — "eching" <bingopajama@...>
How do I delete a row in an excel spreadsheet with win32ole?
You could use:
[#229683] String#insert method is destructive... inconsistent? — Joe Peterson <joe@...>
Hi all,
I also started wondering...
[#229691] Variables and References — "Aytek Ysel" <aytekyuksel@...>
Hi,
[#229708] Why is define_method private? Plus, what's the point of private methods? — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Why is define_method a private method? I can't recall ever using
[#229714] IO output problem — "Kevin" <coscpp@...>
I run one of examples of Programming Ruby, code as follows:
[#229727] win 32 utils changenotify — "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
I just downloaded and installed the win32utils installer. When I try to
I downloaded the file and renamed it according to your instructions but
lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks,
[#229745] Dhaka 0.0.5 bugfix — "Mushfeq Khan" <mushfeq.khan@...>
This version of the Dhaka gem fixes two bugs in the handling of grammars
On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Mushfeq Khan wrote:
On 12/15/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
Yes, that is indeed correct. Thanks for the encouraging comments.
[#229753] method_missing question — Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Hello,
[#229760] What tracking software does Rubyforge use? — "Pat Maddox" <pergesu@...>
Does anyone know what software Ruby uses for the bug/requests/patches
On 12/15/06, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
[#229763] Chess960 (#106) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
D:\Docs\ruby>ruby chess960.rb
Is that the real starting position 432? Or was that just a made up number?
On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Daniel Finnie wrote:
Here is my solution. Run with no argument, it generates a random
[#229771] using Proc and yield — Alber Eric <alberthier@...>
hi !
Hi,
[#229782] REXML usage — Kevin Tambascio <kevin.tambascio@...>
I'm developing a project that allows my client to import an XML file.
[#229794] Thread and sleep — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...>
$ cat a.rb
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Tim Pease wrote:
On 12/15/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Tim Pease wrote:
[#229800] EXCEL Ruby not working — "anon1m0us" <anon1m0us@...>
I get a file name in the directory and modify the cells with making
[#229815] newb: Rails character encoding and validation — Mark <user@...>
I'm putting together a basic rails application, and writing my first
It is not really viable to validade a name field with a regex if youare willing to accept Unicode characters. The only reasonablevalidation is to check whether the field is empty.
[#229836] Popup Window Problem AJAX — Mark Dodwell <seo@...>
When I try to use Ajax in a window openened by 'window.open('<url>');'
[#229851] matching lines.... — Just Maz <josquius@...>
I'm really wracking my brain about this one though I bet there must be
[#229860] Dynamic Variable Names — "Chris Martin" <chriscodes@...>
Is it possible to create dynamic variable names in ruby?
[#229869] where is YAML::Syck's maling list? — "Phlip" <phlipcpp@...>
Ruboids:
[#229883] ZenTest autotest problems — Zouplaz <user@...>
Hello, I have big troubles using the latest autotest version (3.4.2)
On Dec 16, 2006, at 01:40, Zouplaz wrote:
le 17/12/2006 07:43, Eric Hodel nous a dit:
On Dec 17, 2006, at 24:55, Zouplaz wrote:
le 18/12/2006 06:50, Eric Hodel nous a dit:
[#229887] how to install ERb? — Malamute Jute <mutedev@...>
hi everyone. im reading and following the ruby for rails book and im on
On 12/16/06, Malamute Jute <mutedev@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[#229906] Just some Ruby language ideas, comments wanted. — Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
My first Ruby language idea is simple. Instead of having every method
Daniel Finnie wrote:
Devin Mullins wrote:
[#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
Richard wrote:
Richard wrote:
> Odds are it Just Won't unless you only
Richard wrote:
Disclaimer: All my assertions about Ruby, Rails, WEBrick and MySQL are
On Dec 17, 11:17 pm, "Richard"
John Wilger wrote:
Richard wrote:
Richard wrote:
Hi Suraj,
Ken Laninga wrote:
David Vallner wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Suraj Kurapati wrote:
On Sun, 2006-17-12 at 10:09 +0900, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
Michael T. Richter wrote:
[#229930] Using ruby in applescript studio — bluephonic@...
Hi -- I'm not a programmer by trade or inclination, so this might be a
bluephonic@gmail.com <bluephonic@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought about that, but (if I'm not mistaken) it would mean anyone
[#229935] RPA wiki down/gone? — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>
I just tried to get onto the Ruby Production Archive wiki, and it
[#229946] question about .gsub — Jochen Kaechelin <fvgi242ss@...>
line = `tree /Users/aragon/Documents -d`
[#229993] hpricot problem — Henry Maddocks <henryj@...>
Not sure where to send this, sorry if it's not the right place...
[#229994] hpricot problem — Henry Maddocks <henryj@...>
Sorry, try again...
[#230003] Why the resutls are different — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#230008] Grabbing data off a webpage — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
OK, so I haven't done this in years.
Bil Kleb wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 12/17/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
[#230011] Ruby IDE — <adaworks@...>
I am new to Ruby, but I have used a lot of other
[#230017] why private is not private — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
Li Chen wrote:
[#230025] Looping: break every x times — sshikari@...
I have a bunch of pictures to display on a page and I want to do 4 per
[#230055] DateTime — Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@...>
Hi,
[#230084] FXIrb 0.3.0 - the "it lives!" release — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Thanks to Markus Prinz for filing a bug report and getting me to take
[#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
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:55:10AM +0900, Michael W. Ryder wrote:
Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:40:05AM +0900, Michael W. Ryder wrote:
Logan Capaldo wrote:
On 18.12.2006 03:59, Michael W. Ryder wrote:
[#230105] Finding an object in a collection — Pieter Mans <tybriel@...>
How would I go about finding an object in a collection? Specifically:
[#230139] Ruby Cookbook, opinions? — "Richard Conroy" <richard.conroy@...>
Taking a break from Holiday shopping I found that my local bookstore
[#230147] Problem installing Ruby/Tk — Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>
Installed Linux
> Installed Linux
> Can you check whether you have Tk installed in your system, and in
> How can I determine if I have Tk installed?
[#230152] JRake — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Fowler points to some folks replacing Ant with Rake:
[#230162] item order in Object#methods — Andrea Fazzi <andrea.fazzi@...>
Hi all,
[#230166] parseexcel — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#230196] Ruby, Debian, and Media Temple — "Trevor Turk" <trevorturk@...>
I recently tried to run some Rails plugins (techno-weenie's White
[#230206] Rassmalog 2.1.1 — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Rassmalog is a static blog engine based on RSS 2.0, YAML,
[#230225] Simple copy of attributes — Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
[#230251] Using gems on Windows without dependencies — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>
gem install GEMNAME -f seems to fail on Windows. That is, if you say
[#230256] where have all the experienced users gone? — "Trans" <transfire@...>
seems like there's been a steady drop off in experienced ruby users on
On 2006-12-19, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
On Dec 18, 2006, at 18:50, Trans wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On 12/19/06, Jeremy Wells <jwells@servalsystems.co.uk> wrote:
I think it's also important that we all realize that we use mailing
On Dec 19, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Wed, 2006-20-12 at 02:31 +0900, James Britt wrote:
On 12/19/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/19/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/20/06, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/20/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On 23.12.2006 15:16, Trans wrote:
On further reflection, perhaps something at the gateway/server level
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Dec 19, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Paul Lutus wrote:
On 12/20/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
[#230263] find all possible container nodes of a given text — Sylvain Tenier <sylvain.tenier@...>
hi,
[#230271] Re: where have all the experienced users gone? — "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kistner@...>
From: Trans [mailto:transfire@gmail.com]
[#230279] Strategies for writing Ruby applications to be easily distributed with RubyGems — "Zev Blut" <rubyzbibd@...>
Hello,
On Dec 18, 2006, at 22:34, Zev Blut wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:31:48 +0900, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
[#230287] Re: Please help fixing gems on OSX — Dan Uznanski <vorn@...>
Over the past few months, several people have posted on various mailing
[#230295] string of strings... — Josselin <josselin@...>
I got an array of id's :
On 2006-12-19 09:29:38 +0100, "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@gmail.com> said:
On 19.12.2006 10:23, Josselin wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
On 21.12.2006 01:14, David Vallner wrote:
[#230304] Discovering the number of return arguments requested. — Brad Phelan <phelan@...>
Is it possible ( and I think not ) that you can discover if any return
[#230317] Ruby Tidy — Mark Dodwell <seo@...>
Hi All,
[#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
Lobosque Lucas wrote:
On 12/19/06, Jeremy Wells <jwells@servalsystems.co.uk> wrote:
On 12/19/06, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not particularly nice but you could just do:
[#230329] TkCanvas — Patrick Lynch <lynchnco@...>
Good morning,
[#230349] Division hangs irb — Ashley Moran <work@...>
Anyone know why the first three of these calculations works on my irb
Ashley Moran wrote:
[#230353] ruby-shout installation issue — "Vivek" <krishna.vivek@...>
Hi,
[#230357] help with rdoc stdlib on windows 2000 — tesla <tesla.nicoli@...>
Hi,
[#230378] ruby puzzle: Group candies by unique record fields — Woga Swoga <wogaswoga@...>
I have an list of objects (Candy) and each object has two fields
[#230388] Re: Simple copy of attributes — "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kistner@...>
From: Trans [mailto:transfire@gmail.com]
[#230420] what exactly does obj.is_a? do? — Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists@...>
I've got a theory that I hope someone familiar with the deep recesses of
[#230434] class_eval and using a block instead of a String? — Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Hi,
[#230450] ruby gotchas — Mark Guzman <segfault@...>
I've written up some ruby gotchas that have come up while using ruby.
Mark Guzman wrote:
On 12/19/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
[#230456] Audio conversion in Windows, FLAC to MP3, etc — "djlewis" <djlewis2@...>
Any thoughts on how to do this in Ruby? I've tried hooking to the
[#230476] routine sometimes not returning what i expect — James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@...>
As part of my first-ever submission to the ruby quiz, I wrote
[#230484] run perl script and capture the output — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#230522] how to expect eof with expect+pty — "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@...>
using gnupg to encrypt a file with only a passphrase.
[#230535] Ruby Language —
Hi,
[#230548] tricky sort for happy visitors of Paris — Josselin <josselin@...>
all happy visitors of Paris know about the 'arrondissement', an
[#230567] iterator behaviour — Max Russell <thedossone@...>
I have a harness I'm using for testing with Watir. It has become
[#230577] Grabbing quoted substrings — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
OK, I give up, what's the elegant method to
[#230586] Regex question: this should be easy but doesn't work as I expect. — "Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@...>
Hi all,
[#230588] openssl on Red Hat not installed — Hueen Hueen <hueen@...>
So I'm one of the unlucky ones that don't have openssl properly
Hueen Hueen 叝ta:
Look at the thread form Dec 3
[#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
Why are you doing /[\s\d\w]+?/? Just use /.+?/.
Joe Peck wrote:
The problem is I don't want it to accept things like:
[#230636] mechanize 0.6.4 Released — Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
mechanize version 0.6.4 has been released!
[#230638] reflecting on objects without creating one — "_Kevin" <kevin.olbrich@...>
Let's say I have two constants
[#230639] Kernel#system bug? — "Charlton" <charlton.wang@...>
Running Ruby 1.8.4 on Linux
[#230647] fxirb-0.3.1: now with .gem and setup.rb — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Get it at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxirb/
[#230648] Who's maintaining log4r? — jeffz_2002@...
Does anyone know who's maintaining the log4r project? The website at
Hello again folks (if anyone read the last post - busy time of year),
On 12/27/06, jeffz_2002@yahoo.com <jeffz_2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for all, folks.
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:49 +0900, pat eyler wrote:
[#230650] Searching Stings with Arrays? — Phil Cooperking <phil@...>
Hi, I've been having a little problem with this. most of my ruby is from
[#230694] ruby-prof doesn't work with ruby/tk? — "fkc_email-news @ yahoo dot com" <fkchang2000@...>
I've tried on several platforms and get the follow error with any tk
[#230697] Common point puzzle — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Warning: the following really needs a sketch.
[#230720] Symbols vs Strings — matt <matt@...>
Two quick questions:
[#230730] Creating New Objects from REXML::Elements — "eddieroger" <eddieroger@...>
Hello group,
eddieroger wrote:
[#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.
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
David Vallner wrote:
On 12/21/06, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
On 12/21/06, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
[#230760] Matrix class for ruby? -example — seepee <see@...>
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:12:47 +0200, seepee wrote:
[#230769] Chess960 (#106) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
There are a surprising number of ways to think about this problem, each leading
[#230773] Tree view hierarchy — "Patrick Spence" <djmj12@...>
[#230777] extend weirdness? — "Ian White" <ian.w.white@...>
Hi Group,
[#230792] Method named ***(other) — Julien Gaugaz <gaugaz@...3s.de>
Hi!
On 12/21/06, Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hokstad@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/21/06, Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[#230826] Just starting out, where do I go from here? — Alexander York <s.disparu@...>
This is my first experience with any kind of programming language.
On 12/21/06, Alexander York <s.disparu@gmail.com> wrote:
[#230829] Ruby's Trac Alternative — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
So I'm trying to use Trac for our FUN3D development,
evanwebb@gmail.com wrote:
Trans wrote:
[#230853] External Ruby Script in HTML — Naked Sushi <runfaster@...>
This probably has a simple answer, but I don't know it.
From: list-bounce@example.com:
On 12/22/06, Pe, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
For someone that likes Ruby, Javascript does not matter.
Naked Sushi wrote:
[#230855] Class Variable Confusion — gwtmp01@...
I generally avoid class variables but at the last meeting of the New
Hi --
[#230862] prob with each_with_index — "shawn bright" <nephish@...>
lo there all,
[#230869] Ruby replacement for ab? — Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
So I've been hunting for a way to stress test a web application and
On 12/22/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, hemant wrote:
It seems like it would be fairly easy to set up something with
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Fred Wulff wrote:
On 12/21/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
[#230896] |song| Not documented in Pickaxe Book — "Sam'l B" <samlb@...>
Pickaxe Book (2nd Ed.), P. 49, 2nd example, line 3:
Sam'l B wrote:
[#230901] Weird error while reading binary files — Mauricio Kishi <maukishi@...>
Hello everyone!
[#230913] storing values in variables — Vikash Kumar <vikashkumar051@...>
I am using the following code:
[#230941] How to run the new jirb console — Robert Sheehan <r.sheehan@...>
Can someone tell me how to run the new JRuby irb console.
[#230950] class method — Spitfire <timid.gentoo@...>
One thing that I don't understand is the following code.
[#230983] Merry (slightly early) Christmas! Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is free! — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>
Hello all,
This book is really great! I'm familiar with most of the material already,
Really nice! I'm reading it right now.
[#231011] Randomizing an Array? — "jwcooper" <jwcooper@...>
I'm trying to randomize an array, and this is what I have:
jwcooper wrote:
[#231015] Ruby-full debian package — Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
[#231040] Ruby and Cygwin — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#231046] Subversion stats on RubyForge — Tom Copeland <tom@...>
They work now!
[#231056] Question: Downloading files with open(-uri)? — Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Hi,
Mariano Kamp wrote:
William James wrote:
[#231072] Help with a ruby idiom — Tim Waters <timgwaters@...>
From the O'Reilly Cookbook there is code that keeps call functions in a
[#231074] A Ruby IDE with GUI capabilities — "JaredAngell@..." <JaredAngell@...>
So far, as far as I can tell, there is no Ruby IDE with GUI
[#231095] ruby-misc (was Re: where have all the experienced users gone?) — "Gerardo Santana Gez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
2006/12/23, Tom Pollard <tomp@earthlink.net>:
[#231108] … unencoding troubles with FeedTools — Robert Jones <jonesieboy@...>
I've hunted around for a solution to this one, but it's really hard to
[#231122] Ruby and SDL? — Wim Vander Schelden <wim.vanderschelden@...>
Hi,
[#231138] Reverting module changes — "Michal Kwiatkowski" <constant.beta@...>
Hi,
[#231160] "su user -c 'command'" from within ruby — Moritz Reiter <mo@...>
Hi,
[#231168] Cropmail 0.9 mail filter — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Hi Rubyists,
Bertram Scharpf wrote:
On 12/24/06, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
[#231181] Hpricot ri and rdoc documentation — "bbiker" <renard@...>
I have gem installed Hpricot-0.4 (mswin32) but no ri documentation or
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Dec 24, 2006, at 17:28, bbiker wrote:
[#231198] A problem about replacing a string in a template. — Kuang Dong <kuangdong@...>
File 1: test.tpl
Kuang Dong wrote:
Andrea Fazzi wrote:
Phrogz wrote:
Andrea Fazzi wrote:
Phrogz wrote:
Phrogz wrote:
[#231216] value returned from code block — Spitfire <timid.gentoo@...>
I've read that in Ruby the value returned from a code block is the
[#231217] including a namespace for just one class — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>
I would like to reference constants and classes defined in module
On Dec 25, 2006, at 12:20 PM, S. Robert James wrote:
[#231224] dynamic changes! — Spitfire <timid.gentoo@...>
These are the sequence of actions I performed in irb.
[#231225] Strange about Array#each_index — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#231255] RubyGems Beta 0.9.0.8 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Beta version 0.9.0.8 is now available with:
[#231258] windows bat file help needed for rubygems — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
How do I get a windows .bat file to return a proper exit code?
On 12/25/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
[#231265] extending Rake with a method rshell — hemant <gethemant@...>
I want to extend Rake with a method rshell, which would enable anyone
On 12/26/06, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:
[#231271] Parsing a CSV file having multiple records in RUBYp — Krishna Mundra <krishna_mundra82@...>
Hi everyone,
Hi,
[#231277] Newby - how to round up floating point number? — Dermot Moynihan <der_moyn@...>
Hi guys
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Thanks Jeroen.
Dermot Moynihan wrote:
hi,
[#231303] Hash with two identical keys? — "Trans" <transfire@...>
>From Facets' multiton.rb (which is primarily Floran Franks' work), I'm
Looks to me that your keys are arrays.
thanks Ara and Jon,
[#231332] Modified Single Table Inheritance — Ryan Glover <prionscientific@...>
Hello,
[#231336] Object creation with a "variable classname" — "cedric.ch" <cedric.hernalsteens@...>
Hi,
cedric.ch wrote:
[#231341] Peculiar Behavior for a Newby to Undertstand — Charles A Gray <smgspices@...>
I created a class for prime numbers as so:
[#231342] The Programmer Hierarchy — "Trans" <transfire@...>
I hope they know that Ruby isn't a web language...
Jeremy McAnally wrote:
[#231365] reg exp comparison hanging irb — "gaurav bagga" <gaurav.v.bagga@...>
hi,
On 12/27/06, gaurav bagga <gaurav.v.bagga@gmail.com> wrote:
hi simon,
[#231377] How to do TDD in Ruby? — mekondelta <Chris.Melikian@...>
[#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
[#231394] Nuby: VisualuRuby, menutest.rb example with check boxes in submenus — "Jason Mayer" <slamboy@...>
I'm back to looking at visualuRuby, have two quick questions about this
[#231406] Problem with win32 change notify, dbi and sql server — "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
I have created a script to monitor a directory and update a database
On 12/27/06, lrlebron@gmail.com <lrlebron@gmail.com> wrote:
[#231407] Re: Using an UnboundMethod instead of an alias to redefine a method — Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Daniel Berger schrieb:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Pit Capitain wrote:
ara.t.howard@noaa.gov schrieb:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Pit Capitain wrote:
[#231410] Re: Using an UnboundMethod instead of an alias to redefine a method — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:30:05PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
[#231417] Contest: fastet way to redefine a method — Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Hi,
On Dec 27, 2006, at 08:59, Pit Capitain wrote:
[#231418] Newbie problem: String can't be coerced into Fixnum — Ja Bo <jbornhoft@...>
I am brand new to Ruby and I would greatly appreciate any help you guys
[#231436] Handling of arbitrary length arrays in arguments to printf builtin — Nick Pavey <nick@...>
Hi Folks,
Nick Pavey wrote:
On 12/27/06, Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
On 27.12.2006 21:03, Timothy Hunter wrote:
[#231462] Higher-Order Procedures Tutorial (long) — "Nate Murray" <jashmenn@...>
Hey Guys,
On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote:
On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Jon Egil Strand wrote:
[#231469] override.rb — ara.t.howard@...
[#231494] Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace — Taylor Strait <taylorstrait@...>
I have files with city names which have one or two trailing whitespaces:
Taylor Strait wrote:
[#231522] Syntax for db count query needed — Ruby Quest <kjawaharbabu@...>
can any one tell me the controller syntax for db record count?
[#231551] telling gems where to install... — dc <lister@...>
hi -
[#231552] Re: Last reminder: MountainWest RubyConf Call For Presenters — James Britt <james.britt@...>
pat eyler wrote:
[#231556] Developpers on rails — "Strong Cypher" <cypherstrong@...>
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[#231563] unsafe readline(), anything better? — Rob Muhlestein <rmuhlestein@...>
Looking for a combination of readpartial() and readline() in order to
[#231585] Re: Ruby extension issue — Wim Vander Schelden <wim.vanderschelden@...>
I was able to fix the problem by changing my extconf.rb to:
On Dec 28, 2006, at 13:45, Wim Vander Schelden wrote:
[#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
On Dec 28, 2006, at 16:05, atbusbook@aol.com wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
It's a throwback to the C line of languages.
On 29.12.2006 10:36, Neil Wilson wrote:
[#231596] Newbie: Looking for help rounding numbers — Ja Bo <jbornhoft@...>
I can't figure out how to round my answer from this short code that I
[#231599] rubygems install problems (the old ubygems (LoadError) problem. Sigh). — Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDelst@...>
Hello,
On Dec 28, 2006, at 16:30, Paul van Delst wrote:
[#231600] Re: What we have here is a retard pretending to be a computer scientist — "Gennady Bystritsky" <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
atbusbook@aol.com wrote:
[#231622] Re: newbie: what is ruby's var_dump()? — "Phrogz" <gavin@...>
r wrote:
[#231659] newbie: where is File documented? — "r" <johnsyntax@...>
Hello,
[#231665] XML - converting from one feed to another (beginner) — rb <rb@...>
I'm trying to read an XML feed of products and convert them to a
[#231671] Word Search (#107) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
[#231672] Another Q: find behavior — "Krekna Mektek" <krekna@...>
Hi,
[#231674] Rails install question — "Robert Hicks" <sigzero@...>
I get this and I am wondering if it "hurts" anything:
[#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
On 29.12.2006 18:44, Nathan Taylor wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
[#231702] rcodetools 0.4.0: TDD++, automagic assertions, 100% accurate completion, doc/code browsing... — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:42:45AM +0900, Hemant Kumar wrote:
[#231713] Does eql? do a deep comparison of objects? — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
If I have two objects A and B where each is of the same type but have
[#231726] Methods validating their arguments: good or bad? — Michael Judge <mjudge@...>
Michael Judge wrote:
[#231751] how to make a curly... — Jernej Grecki <nejcslo@...>
Well I just started with ruby and in irb, i just cant fint the right
Jernej Grecki wrote:
[#231763] how to lex javascript for an assert_js system? — Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Ruboids:
On 12/30/06, Phlip <phlip2005@nogmailspam.com> wrote:
spooq wrote:
[#231785] Proposal to create a new mailing list — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Hello fellow Rubyphilics!
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:07:38AM +0900, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
I think Daniel Schierbeck really wanted is to take n00b-caring off
On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
[#231801] Little Things — "Trans" <transfire@...>
I was a bit surprised about Matz mention of the little things in his
I mostly agree, with some of the additions of course being more
Hi --
Trans wrote:
On 12/31/06, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
On 12/31/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2006/12/31, at 07:38, Rob Sanheim wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Paulo Kh wrote:
On 1/3/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
Hi --
On 1/3/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
Hi --
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
Trans wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
Hi --
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
Hi --
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
Chris Carter wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tim Pease wrote:
On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Gregory Brown wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
Hi,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#231818] how to use a variable reference another variable? — Haofei Wang <yuesefa@...>
since variable names are not objects, is there any possible ways to do
[#231821] Newbie: It works, how can I make it better? — Jay Bornhoft <jbornhoft@...>
I wrote this little prog giving the user two choices.
[#231859] odd 'include' behaviour? — "has" <has.temp3@...>
Wondering if the following behaviour is a bug or a feature:
[#231876] Stupid Ruby Tricks — "Chris Carter" <cdcarter@...>
Hey guys,
Firstly, I appologize if this question has already been answered but I could not figure out the
[#231886] ERb Request — matt <matt@...>
Could someone point me to the ERb Homepage, or whom I need to email to
[#231907] Ruby Profiler and ruby-prof Issues break working code? — "Tyler Prete" <psyonic@...>
I wrote some Ruby code to solve a little puzzle (
[#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
On 12/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
On 12/31/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
[#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
On 1/3/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#231946] Open source credit card processing in ruby — snacktime <snacktime@...>
Just recently I have the option to open source a credit card
On 12/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
On 12/31/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/31/06, cremes.devlist@mac.com <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
[#231951] Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list) — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Robert Dober wrote:
On 12/31/06, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
On 1/2/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
[#231965] Introducing Xaggly, a C-based XML Parser for Ruby — "Tony Perrie" <xaggly@...>
I have written a C-based XML parser as a ruby plugin. I managed to
Tony Perrie wrote:
Comments on ObjectiveView issue 9 (no, I'm not a spambot)
Hi there,
My name is Mark Collins-Cope, I'm editor of ObjectiveView. I'm writing
this message as I'm concerned at some of the comments I've read in the
"New! ObjectiveView #9" message thread in September. Personal integrity
demands that I respond.
(thread -
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/8956d15996b8493c/03b7993c60022529?lnk=st&q=objectiveview&rnum=1&hl=en#03b7993c60022529
)
Summary - (written after I replied below) - see the original message
thread afterwards - which I have commented on the points raised!
* zoat (the original poster) is not connected to ObjectiveView - so
don't slag off the mag because of
him.
* zoat may be a spambot, but seems unlikely given limited posting
history and message contents
(see below)
* I (Mark Collins-Cope) produce ObjectiveView basically on my own. In
spare time. For no money.
* ObjectiveView is meant to be a vehicle for discussing issues relevent
to software development.
* I try to cover all issues from different angles (pro and anti) e.g.
issue 10 of OV contains a anti-ruby opinion piece. Issue 9 contained
two pro-ruby articles.
* In 8 years I have never made a penny from OV directly. It's a
"community venture/collaboration."
* I'm a software engineer, and am personally interested in the topics
covered. Oh, and I sometimes develop in Ruby.
---
All 9 messages in topic are listed below. My comments are bracketed
[*** like this ***]. I'm happy to discuss this further with anyone if
they want to.
From: zoat - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 07:57
Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal has
a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and Ruby on
Rails.
http://www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html
http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf
[*** I don't know who Zoat is, but I'm obviously happy that someone
thought OV9 was worthy of putting on a newsgroup. So thanks Zoat! ***]
From: William Crawford - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 12:27
Email: William Crawford <wccrawf...@gmail.com>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
zoat wrote:
> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal has
I'm not trying to troll, but calling something 'highly respected' while
advertising it has exactly the opposite effect of what you intend.
[*** I agree this is not a good technique, however I didn't post the
message. Perhaps that's Zoat's opinion - presumably he's allowed to
express that? NOTE: Zoat is not connected to ObjectiveView directly,
and he has nothing to gain by his comments - qed we must consider them
his genuine opinion??? ***]
As for the issue... Yellow and orange? I think my eyes are bleeding.
The orange quotes with small bold type are hard to read (until you get
to 200% magnification), and the yellow borders constantly draw my eyes
away from the text into their staring yellow-ness.
[*** Thanks for that feedback William. I've taken it on board. I won't
be using those colours any more. What I would say, however, is that if
the colours are the only thing you can complain about, we're not doing
too bad.***]
The mass of advertisements taking up most of the cover page also scream
'I'm in it for the money!'
[*** Ha, ha. Okay, let me explain about ObjectiveView. I produce
ObjectiveView on my own basically. It's a big job I do mostly in my
"spare" time. In the 8 years I've been doing it I've never recieved a
penny directly from it. The "advertisments" are for web distribution
partners. The deal there is simple, they distibute the magazine from
their web-site, and we put their logo on front/inner cover. They're not
going to distribute it for nothing, and given the work I put in, I'm
keen to get people reading it. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me -
perhaps you (all) disagree? I'm open to discussion. ***]
It also seems to be heavily biased towards Extreme Programming. While
I
love the idea of XP and some of its techniques are a lifesaver for me,
I
have a hard time believing that 'the one true way' exists and is
'extreme.' As with everything else, moderation is the key to success.
[*** No it's not heavily biased towards extreme. I cover topics that
are part of the software development zeitgeist. I have my own opinions,
but editing a magazine requires I keep those at bay to some degree at
least, and try to cover different angles on the same topic. I have
interviewed various people about XP, and if you read the interviews,
you'll see I give them some degree of a hard time about the claims for
XP (or any other topic). I also have regular contributions from Doug
Rosenberg - perhaps the most vociferous high profile critic of XP. See
issue 7 for an interview with him about his book "XP Refactored - the
case against XP." I gave him something of a hard time too.
ObjectiveView is not about promoting one approach or another, it's
about discussing / raising the pros and cons of different approaches. ]
In short: They're scaring off a lot of people before the magazine even
gets read.
[*** I'm not sure which particular issue you've raised is scaring
people off. Perhaps you could clarify. I'm very interested in honest
feedback. ***]
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Thomas Adam - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 12:46
Email: Thomas Adam <thomas.ada...@gmail.com>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
"zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
> Ruby on Rails.
> http://www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html
> http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf
I won't reiterate the comments posted by William Crawford, but what I
will say is definitely *heed* them. I agree with everything he has
said.
[Thomas - please see my answers to William's points. I believe he is
wrong, and have given reasons why I think so... but please let me know
if you still disagree.]
As for the issue, it was the first time I had read it, and I quite
liked it. I have often been interested in extreme/pair programming, so
it was nice to see some applications of its use.
[*** thanks for that ***]
As for the Ruby side of things, note that the article by Amy Hoy
contains on or two deprecated uses within Ruby that ought not to have
been allowed to propagate through. (c.f. ''foo.type'' should be
''foo.class''). Was she writing that article based on Ruby 1.6.X?
Still, that aside, it ought to give your readership a little bit of an
idea about Ruby.
[*** If you'd like to send me full details (to markcollinscope AT
gmail.com) I will update issue 9 with corrections. It's still getting
about 2k downloads a month. ***]
Was that the sort of feedback you were after, if any, I might add?
[*** not sure who this comment is aimed at ***]
-- Thomas Adam
From: Jan Svitok - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 13:03
Email: "Jan Svitok" <jan.svi...@gmail.com>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
On 9/25/06, Thomas Adam <thomas.ada...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
> > has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
> > Ruby on Rails.
> > http://www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html
> > http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf
> I won't reiterate the comments posted by William Crawford, but what I
> will say is definitely *heed* them. I agree with everything he has
> said.
> As for the issue, it was the first time I had read it, and I quite
> liked it. I have often been interested in extreme/pair programming, so
> it was nice to see some applications of its use.
> As for the Ruby side of things, note that the article by Amy Hoy
> contains on or two deprecated uses within Ruby that ought not to have
> been allowed to propagate through. (c.f. ''foo.type'' should be
> ''foo.class''). Was she writing that article based on Ruby 1.6.X?
> Still, that aside, it ought to give your readership a little bit of an
> idea about Ruby.
> Was that the sort of feedback you were after, if any, I might add?
None. It seems to be a bot.
[*** If Zoat is a Bot, it's nothing to do with me/ObjectiveView. Zoat -
are you there? ***]
From: Paul Lynch - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 13:06
Email: Paul Lynch <p...@plsys.co.uk>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
On 25 Sep 2006, at 13:46, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
> "zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
>> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
>> Ruby on Rails.
> Was that the sort of feedback you were after, if any, I might add?
I am wondering - why are people talking to a spambot? (Check the
posting history for zoat for confirmation).
[*** Hmmm.... I'm reading this and answering sequentially, I will check
the posting history now! Okay, it seems that Zoat posts messages about
Ruby/Rails. Note that most of the messages are completely unrelated to
ObjectiveView. I believe that Zoat must be a Ruby/Rails evangelist
type, and he's only posted about ObjectiveView because issue 9
contained two articles on Ruby and Rails. Perhaps he is a spambot -
could be, but seems unlikely as the number of posting is quite small.
***]
Paul
From: James Edward Gray II - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 13:30
Email: James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
On Sep 25, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
> "zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
>> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
>> Ruby on Rails.
>> http://www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html
>> http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf
This is very old news. I'm not sure when the issue was released but
the "Welcome to Issue 9" page has a February 2006 date at the bottom.
[*** James is factually correct. However OV is currently produced about
twice a year (if I had more time I would do it more often, maybe I
will...) so issue 9 was still the latest issue at time of posting.
The implication of saying something is very 'old news' is that it is no
longer relevent, as elapsed time has made it redundant. All I can say
is even now (December) it would seem to me that topics such as Ruby,
Rails, Aspect/J and Ajax are as relevent as ever - so I don't think the
'old news' label is appropriate. But hey, I'm not that bothered about
this :-)! ***]
> As for the Ruby side of things, note that the article by Amy Hoy
> contains on or two deprecated uses within Ruby that ought not to have
> been allowed to propagate through. (c.f. ''foo.type'' should be
> ''foo.class''). Was she writing that article based on Ruby 1.6.X?
> Still, that aside, it ought to give your readership a little bit of an
> idea about Ruby.
Yes, I sent Amy a list of suggested improvements when the article was
originally published. I'm pretty sure she intended to post
corrections on her blog, but I don't believe she ever got around to it:
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2006/3/2/a-not-so-objective-view-of-ruby
[*** Thanks for helping Amy! ***]
James Edward Gray II
On Sep 25, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Paul Lynch wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2006, at 13:46, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
>> "zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
>>> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
>>> Ruby on Rails.
>> Was that the sort of feedback you were after, if any, I might add?
> I am wondering - why are people talking to a spambot? (Check the
> posting history for zoat for confirmation).
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/17a068913ce02cef
[*** For the record, here's the content of that URL:
"I starting a Knowlege Manament project and would like to have as
reference the best "Wiki" system implemented using Ruby.
This project is intended to use a non linear Wiki system like
TiddlyWiki (see http://www.tiddlywiki.com) and also a full cosmology
implementation of the Personal Brain functionality (see
http://www.thebrain.com).
I have looked around about some, but it semeed to me not be able to
know its current status e.g. instiki. So can anybody help me on that?
Roberto Nogueira
http://holoflux.wordpress.com"
I think the implication here is that zoat is a real person! :-)! ***]
James Edward Gray II
From: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 13:34
Email: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <z...@cesmail.net>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
Paul Lynch wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2006, at 13:46, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
>> "zoat" <enog...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
>>> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
>>> Ruby on Rails.
>> Was that the sort of feedback you were after, if any, I might add?
> I am wondering - why are people talking to a spambot? (Check the
> posting history for zoat for confirmation).
> Paul
And *I* am wondering how a spambot got to be a "member" of our "club".
[*** Well, about that I no idea. I don't think it's a spambot actually
- see above, but I could be wrong... ***]
From: William Crawford - view profile
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 14:08
Email: William Crawford <wccrawf...@gmail.com>
Groups: comp.lang.ruby
Paul Lynch wrote:
> I am wondering - why are people talking to a spambot? (Check the
> posting history for zoat for confirmation).
> Paul
Because... I... Um...
Okay, it fooled me. -sigh-
100.times { puts "I will not talk to spambots." }
[***
100.times { puts "I will not talk to spambots." } if
haveVerifiedThatItReallyIsASpamBot
***]
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A few final comments that I hope you'll be interested in discussing
with me.
1. What is Spam?
I hate bloody spam. I get a ton in my email box every day, and it
pisses me off. However, I have also been using internet news groups for
20-odd years, and in that time I have read literally hundreds of
announcements that are directly relevent to the newsgroup topic -
*without* everyone on the group having a hernia about the message ;-)
If someone sent "buy your viagra here" to this newsgroup, I'd be with
you 100% in banning the person who posted it. But an OnTopic message
about a Free Magazine that is of value (in this instance) to the Ruby
community - come on - chill out a bit! :-)!
I *do* - personally - sometimes post message to relevent newsgroups
about OV - usually without any negative feedback - and checking with
moderators first (but I didn't post anything connected to the thread
above).
2. Commercial Gain (put your sense of humour hat on please ... switch
to non hernia chill out mode... :-)
There seems to be a theme in the above thread that implies "commercial
gain" is bad. (Note here, as I said above, OV is not for direct
commercial gain).
Well, some people on this group are definately interacting to help them
do their job. For which they are paid. Of course, the content is
on-topic, so that's okay. But aren't they getting commercial gain from
their postings - well I'd say they are ;-)! And say someone wrote a
really cool (but paid for) product that really helped Ruby developers.
Wouldn't it be of benefit to the Ruby community to know about it?
And if it turned out the product was really a pile of shite, well that
would become apparent from the messages - and the Ruby community would
still benefit (by not buying the crap product)... So to me it would
seem okay to have on-topic announcements even if they are for
commercial gain....
Call me a sophist :)!
3. Assuming the worst...
A general life point, that applies to this message thread as well. When
dealing with a situation with many unknowns (like not actually what the
deal was for the logos on the front page) you have two choices: assume
the best, or assume the worst. By assuming the best - you may be wrong
- but until you actually know that, it is the best option - because
assuming the worst will often lead to dissing people who don't deserve
to be dissed. This will seriously piss of the people being dissed, and
in turn will create conflict - and we don't need that unnecessarily...
???
btw: I'm not a saint, I've made that mistake many times... but have
eventually learned a lesson from it... :-)!
Ciao and thanks.
Mark.