[#241191] object_* and instance_* methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

A while back there was a proposal to use a standard naming scheme for

38 messages 2007/03/01
[#241206] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — dblack@... 2007/03/01

Hi --

[#241210] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/01

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#241255] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — dblack@... 2007/03/01

Hi --

[#241941] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/05

[#241949] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — dblack@... 2007/03/05

Hi --

[#241969] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/05

[#241971] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2007/03/05

On 3/5/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#242033] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/06

[#242085] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/06

Trans wrote:

[#242171] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/06

On 3/6/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

[#242194] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/07

Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#242226] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/03/07

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:01:17AM +0900, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

[#242234] Re: object_* and instance_* methods — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/03/07

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:40:20PM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:

[#241237] Why does String have to_str and Integer have to_int? — Nanostuff <nanostuff@...>

That's pretty much my question :) Thanks.

10 messages 2007/03/01

[#241251] default passed block for method — Niko <niko@...>

13 messages 2007/03/01

[#241262] Newbie Question — Dick <rwk@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2007/03/01
[#241312] Re: Newbie Question — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/01

On 3/1/07, Dick <rwk@americom.com> wrote:

[#241315] Re: Newbie Question — james.d.masters@... 2007/03/01

On Mar 1, 9:37 am, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#241322] Re: Newbie Question — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2007/03/01

[#241281] replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@...>

using gettimeofday in the scheduler is problematic, since it's possible that

24 messages 2007/03/01
[#241286] Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...> 2007/03/01

On 3/1/07, Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> wrote:

[#241331] Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/03/01

On Mar 1, 2007, at 07:12, Avdi Grimm wrote:

[#241346] Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — "Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists" <tpo2@...> 2007/03/01

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#241361] Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/03/01

On Mar 1, 2007, at 13:30, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:

[#241364] Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...> 2007/03/01

On 3/1/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#241359] Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>

I often find that when writing initialize (or alternate constructors)

34 messages 2007/03/01
[#241363] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/01

On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Gary Wright wrote:

[#241375] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2007/03/01

On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:30 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#241383] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/02

On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Gary Wright wrote:

[#241388] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2007/03/02

[#241389] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/02

On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Gary Wright wrote:

[#241391] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2007/03/02

[#241404] Re: Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects — dblack@... 2007/03/02

Hi --

[#241418] Ruby and MS WORD — Ww Ee <poxvuibr@...>

Hello!

19 messages 2007/03/02

[#241433] GOPS (#116) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

18 messages 2007/03/02

[#241461] Smallest FizzBuzz program — Brian Adkins <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@...>

This is really bugging me. Someone posted a golf challenge to write a

33 messages 2007/03/02
[#241497] Re: Smallest FizzBuzz program — "vsv" <gm.vlkv@...> 2007/03/02

On Mar 2, 11:06 am, Brian Adkins <lojicdotcomNOS...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#241477] RubyInline — Mark Volkmann <mark@...>

I'm using RubyInline-3.6.2 and am having trouble getting this simple

19 messages 2007/03/02
[#241502] Re: RubyInline — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2007/03/02

[#241482] Hash keys don't work as expected — "DK" <dankee@...>

Hello. I am new to Ruby. I am more familiar with Python, whose hash

11 messages 2007/03/02

[#241499] Erlang book is in beta... — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

I love Ruby--I've done all my serious (and most of my not-so-serious)

55 messages 2007/03/02
[#241602] Re: [ADV] Erlang book is in beta... — "Kevin Jackson" <foamdino@...> 2007/03/03

> > I love Ruby--I've done all my serious (and most of my not-so-serious)

[#241610] Boy I love the Ruby community — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2007/03/03

[#241655] Re: Boy I love the Ruby community — "Luciano Ramalho" <ramalho@...> 2007/03/03

On 3/3/07, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:

[#241607] File Question — "Yannick Grams" <yannick_grams@...>

Hello to all!

15 messages 2007/03/03
[#241613] Re: File Question — Harry <ruby.hardware@...> 2007/03/03

>

[#241619] Re: File Question — Yannick Grams <yannick_grams@...> 2007/03/03

Harry wrote:

[#241668] How to download file from web site — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>

Okay, it's easy to download a file from an FTP server with Net::FTP.

17 messages 2007/03/03

[#241904] Re: Perl 6 (Was: Boy I love the Ruby community) — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...>

To me the most interesting thing about Perl 6, should it ever be

23 messages 2007/03/05
[#241916] Re: Perl 6 (Was: Boy I love the Ruby community) — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2007/03/05

On Mar 5, 8:33 am, "Avdi Grimm" <a...@avdi.org> wrote:

[#241929] Re: Perl 6 (Was: Boy I love the Ruby community) — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...> 2007/03/05

On 3/5/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

[#241991] silly(?) request — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...>

Does anyone know if it's possible to pipe the output of a command to a

12 messages 2007/03/05

[#242013] Regular expressions - Again — "J. mp" <joaomiguel.pereira@...>

I'm really bad with this things called regular expressions, so I'm

14 messages 2007/03/06

[#242058] New "Ruby for Windows" Installer — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2007/03/06

[#242115] remove duplicates of array of object based on a attribute — senthil <senthilkumar@...>

hi all,

11 messages 2007/03/06

[#242117] Attributing an old time stamp for a new file. — Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2007/03/06
[#242121] Re: Attributing an old time stamp for a new file. — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/06

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:

[#242195] Paul Graham explains Ruby symbols — "Luciano Ramalho" <ramalho@...>

Paul Graham offers this excellent explanation for the symbol type:

26 messages 2007/03/07
[#242344] Re: Paul Graham explains Ruby symbols — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/07

On 3/6/07, Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@gmail.com> wrote:

[#242199] High ActiveRecord CPU Utilization — Brian Adkins <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@...>

When running a test that primarily involves loading up a few MySQL

32 messages 2007/03/07

[#242214] elseif v. elsif ?? — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...>

What the?? I just spent two days trying to figure out why I couldn't

88 messages 2007/03/07
[#242222] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — "Hans Sjunnesson" <hans.sjunnesson@...> 2007/03/07

On Mar 7, 9:56 am, 7stud 7stud <dol...@excite.com> wrote:

[#242225] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/03/07

On 3/7/07, Hans Sjunnesson <hans.sjunnesson@gmail.com> wrote:

[#242230] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@...> 2007/03/07

> Maybe a chapter for that kind of pitfalls could be added somewhere -

[#242235] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/07

Chris Lowis wrote:

[#242238] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/07

My output is:

[#242243] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/07

> Perhaps at the "Ruby from other languages" page :

[#242265] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/07

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:08:35PM +0900, 7stud 7stud wrote:

[#242324] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — Brian Adkins <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@...> 2007/03/07

7stud 7stud wrote:

[#242330] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — Jenda Krynicky <jenda@...> 2007/03/07

Brian Adkins wrote:

[#242363] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/07

> Don't worry. They'll go away. The Wuby moto is break what works, rename

[#242364] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/07

On 3/7/07, 7stud 7stud <dolgun@excite.com> wrote:

[#242388] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — "Jacob Fugal" <lukfugl@...> 2007/03/07

On 3/7/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#242458] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/08

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:50:17AM +0900, 7stud 7stud wrote:

[#242538] Re: elseif v. elsif ?? — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2007/03/08

On Mar 7, 11:14 pm, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#242275] A better benchmarking syntax (was: Automatic Benchmark Iterations) — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>

Reading Phrogz' post about automatic benchmark iterations, and then

16 messages 2007/03/07

[#242347] Horizontal scaling - advice needed — "Greg Loriman" <do@...>

Hi folks,

16 messages 2007/03/07

[#242518] How To Find The Name Of A Variable — Andrew Stewart <boss@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2007/03/08
[#242521] Re: How To Find The Name Of A Variable — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/03/08

On 3/8/07, Andrew Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com> wrote:

[#242527] A couple of questions from a Ruby neophyte — "planetthoughtful" <planetthoughtful@...>

Hi All,

22 messages 2007/03/08

[#242714] SimFrost (#117) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

81 messages 2007/03/09
[#242717] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Jason Roelofs" <jameskilton@...> 2007/03/09

Quick clarification, I would assume you mean "turn 90 degrees", not 90%, as

[#242719] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/09

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Jason Roelofs wrote:

[#242721] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/03/09

On 3/9/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#242723] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/09

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Robert Dober wrote:

[#242728] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/03/09

On 3/9/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#242762] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss.coder@...> 2007/03/09

> Sorry if I was not clear, I meant the center where to put the initial freezer :)

[#242779] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...> 2007/03/09

* Matthew Moss, 09.03.2007 21:38:

[#243030] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — Christoffer Lern<lerno@...> 2007/03/11

It's interesting that it looks like everyone populated their grid

[#243039] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/11

On Mar 11, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Christoffer Lernwrote:

[#243119] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — Christoffer Lern<lerno@...> 2007/03/12

[#243164] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/12

On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Christoffer Lernwrote:

[#243180] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — "Albert Ng" <twinwing@...> 2007/03/12

Any suggestions for a complete beginner in generating graphics for a more

[#243185] Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/12

On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Albert Ng wrote:

[#242792] Find.find --- returns directories/files backwards — "Brad" <bradaskins@...>

New user question:

10 messages 2007/03/10

[#242800] GUI With Ruby — Yannick Grams <yannick_grams@...>

Just a quick question: I'm sick of using Command Prompt for my little

99 messages 2007/03/10
[#242903] Re: GUI With Ruby — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/03/10

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:21:23AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#242906] Re: GUI With Ruby — "Albert Ng" <twinwing@...> 2007/03/10

Um, how close is the BSD license to this "my code, don't need to quote me,

[#243058] Re: GUI With Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/11

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:53:05AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:

[#243270] Re: GUI With Ruby — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/11/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#243288] Re: GUI With Ruby — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/11/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#243329] Re: GUI With Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/13

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:31:23AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#243421] Re: GUI With Ruby — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/13

On 3/12/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#243481] Re: GUI With Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/13

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:03:19PM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#243524] Re: GUI With Ruby — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/13

On 3/13/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#243530] Re: GUI With Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/13

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:48:27AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#242836] OpenStruct,, know what keys are set — Aaron Smith <beingthexemplary@...>

I need to use an OpenStruct to mimic what an object acts like in another

14 messages 2007/03/10

[#242907] Ruby.on-page.net - Evolution began — "Des" <des7ign@...>

How many times have you ever needed to find just one argument of a

24 messages 2007/03/10
[#242909] Re: Ruby.on-page.net - Evolution began — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...> 2007/03/10

Des wrote the following on 10.03.2007 20:15 :

[#242912] Re: Ruby.on-page.net - Evolution began — "Des" <des7ign@...> 2007/03/10

On Mar 10, 9:24 pm, Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscript...@bouton.name>

[#242944] get object from its object-specific class? — Thomas Hafner <thomas@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2007/03/10
[#242986] Re: get object from its object-specific class? — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/11

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Thomas Hafner wrote:

[#243389] Re: get object from its object-specific class? — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/13

[#242971] #define alternative for Ruby — "Michael Strelnikov" <michaelst@...>

Hello all,

33 messages 2007/03/11
[#242990] Re: #define alternative for Ruby — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/03/11

Michael Strelnikov wrote:

[#243070] Re: #define alternative for Ruby — "Mike" <michaelst@...> 2007/03/12

On Mar 12, 1:52 am, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#243102] Re: #define alternative for Ruby — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/12

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Mike wrote:

[#243118] Re: #define alternative for Ruby — Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...> 2007/03/12

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#242991] Help with NET::SMTP — peter <ruby@...>

I'm trying to use Net::SMTP which appears to do most everything I need

14 messages 2007/03/11

[#243031] Trying to make Array#collect massively parallel with OpenMP — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

9 messages 2007/03/11

[#243082] I need to learn... — "Robert Hicks" <sigzero@...>

I would like to learn Ruby so I am looking at getting "Programming

38 messages 2007/03/12
[#243087] Re: I need to learn... — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...> 2007/03/12

I have both. My personal opinion, and I am biased, is that

[#243104] Re: I need to learn... — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/12

Marc Heiler wrote:

[#243131] Re: I need to learn... — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/12

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:35:08AM +0900, Robert Hicks wrote:

[#243169] Re: I need to learn... — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/12/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

[#243351] Re: I need to learn... — 7stud 7stud <dolgun@...> 2007/03/13

Rick Denatale wrote:

[#243242] Why SVN? — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Should I be using SVN rather than Darcs or Git?

90 messages 2007/03/12
[#243244] Re: Why SVN? — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...> 2007/03/12

Why not SVN?

[#243246] Re: Why SVN? — "Tanner Burson" <tanner.burson@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/12/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:

[#243299] Re: Why SVN? — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/12/07, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:

[#243300] Re: Why SVN? — Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...> 2007/03/12

On 12-Mar-07, at 7:07 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:

[#243309] Re: Why SVN? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/13

On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:

[#243316] Re: Why SVN? — Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...> 2007/03/13

On 12-Mar-07, at 8:05 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#243327] Re: Why SVN? — "Brian Mitchell" <binary42@...> 2007/03/13

On 3/12/07, Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@blurgle.ca> wrote:

[#246463] Re: Why SVN? — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2007/04/03

On Monday 12 March 2007 10:51 pm, Brian Mitchell wrote:

[#246468] Re: Why SVN? — Kevin Williams <kevwil@...> 2007/04/03

To comment on the original question, SVN has the following going for it:

[#246492] Re: Why SVN? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2007/04/03

[#243709] Re: Why SVN? — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/14

On 3/12/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#243720] Re: Why SVN? — "Brian Mitchell" <binary42@...> 2007/03/14

On 3/14/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#243264] Ruby 1.8.6 has been released — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2007/03/12
[#243268] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.8.6 has been released — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/03/12

Akinori MUSHA wrote:

[#243303] perl to ruby — Marcin Kulisz <marcin.kulisz@...>

hi all,

13 messages 2007/03/12
[#243308] Re: perl to ruby — "Jan Svitok" <jan.svitok@...> 2007/03/12

On 3/13/07, Marcin Kulisz <marcin.kulisz@gmail.com> wrote:> hi all,> today is my first day with ruby and I'm trying to rewrite a few of my> scripts from perl to ruby & it's not too easy. can anyone help me with> script below. I've done a few thinks but when one is working another> don't.

[#243338] CruiseControl.rb 1.0 — "Alexey Verkhovsky" <alexey.verkhovsky@...>

Hmmm. Another Continuous Integration tool? What is that, the millionth

18 messages 2007/03/13

[#243428] YAML and ruby classes — shiva.brahma@... (Matteo Cavalleri)

I need to create some objects of different (custom) classes, in

14 messages 2007/03/13

[#243588] IDEA: Ruby "offline" CD / DVD — Stian Haklev <shaklev@...>

Hi all. I hope this is the appropriate place to post my idea. I have

19 messages 2007/03/14

[#243605] A simple question regarding ruby method argument — Shin guey Wong <sgwong513@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2007/03/14

[#243643] Calculating the age given DOB — Deniz Dogan <kristnjov@...>

Hello, fellow rubyists.

27 messages 2007/03/14

[#243692] Anyone playing with higher order messaging in ruby? — Christoffer Lern<lerno@...>

For example, something that I often want to do is:

20 messages 2007/03/14
[#243698] Re: Anyone playing with higher order messaging in ruby? — Christoffer Lern<lerno@...> 2007/03/14

On Mar 14, 2007, at 20:04 , Christoffer Lernwrote:

[#243701] Re: Anyone playing with higher order messaging in ruby? — "Jason Roelofs" <jameskilton@...> 2007/03/14

I haven't personally messed with this kind of stuff but code like this just

[#243735] Re: Anyone playing with higher order messaging in ruby? — Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...> 2007/03/14

[#243746] Re: Anyone playing with higher order messaging in ruby? — "Brian Mitchell" <binary42@...> 2007/03/15

On 3/14/07, Christoffer Lern旦 <lerno@dragonascendant.com> wrote:> For example, something that I often want to do is:>> array.each { |entry| entry.do_something(1, "a") }>> If you know you're doing things like this a lot, there is an obvious> shortcut:>> class Array>> class Forwarder> def initialize(array)> @array = array> end> def method_missing(symbol, *args)> @array.each { |entry| entry.__send__(symbol, *args) }> end> end>> def each_do> Forwarder.new(self)> end>> end>> Now you can do:>> array.each_do.do_something(1, "a")>>> In a more generalized case, you want to use a block to act as a class.>> module Trampolines> class Trampoline> def initialize(block)> @block = block> end> def method_missing(symbol, *args, &block)> args << block if block> @block.call(symbol, *args)> end> end> end>> def trampoline(&block)> raise "Missing block" unless block> Trampolines::Trampoline.new(block)> end>>> Here we could define>>> class Array> def each_do2> trampoline { |symbol, *args| each { |o| o.__send__(symbol,> *args) } }> end> end>> Which would work the same way as the previous code.>>> But you could also do things like>> def wait(time)> trampoline do |method, *args|> # queue_event executes the block after time seconds> queue_event(time) { self.__send__(method, *args) }> end> end>> And write code like:>> wait(5).shutdown("Shutdown in seconds")> wait(10).shutdown("Shutdown in 5 seconds")> wait(15).shutdown_now>> Instead of wrapping it in blocks.>>> Other people must have played around with this.>> I'd like to learn more about using these methods, so are there any> links and sites people could share with me?

[#243774] General Ruby OOP Question - using inheritance or include for shared attributes — james.d.masters@...

I have a generic Ruby OOP question. Which is the more "correct" way

10 messages 2007/03/15

[#243861] Just for fun... — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss.coder@...>

I posted this to another forum as part of a challenge... thought to

40 messages 2007/03/15
[#244384] Re: Just for fun... — David Kastrup <dak@...> 2007/03/19

"Trans" <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

[#244458] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/20

[#244459] Re: Just for fun... — Clifford Heath <no.spam@...> 2007/03/20

Trans wrote:

[#244462] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/20

On Mar 19, 11:15 pm, Clifford Heath <no.s...@please.net> wrote:

[#244477] Re: Just for fun... — Clifford Heath <no.spam@...> 2007/03/20

Trans wrote:

[#244680] Re: Just for fun... — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/21

On 3/20/07, Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> wrote:

[#244688] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/21

[#244857] Re: Just for fun... — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2007/03/22

Trans wrote:

[#244878] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/22

[#244991] Re: Just for fun... — Clifford Heath <no.spam@...> 2007/03/23

Trans wrote:

[#245011] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/23

[#245018] Re: Just for fun... — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2007/03/23

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:20:36PM +0900, Trans wrote:

[#245021] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/23

[#245039] Re: Just for fun... — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2007/03/23

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:38:28PM +0900, Trans wrote:

[#245748] Re: Just for fun... — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2007/03/29

Sorry about the delayed response. I just have too much one my mind...

[#245751] Re: Just for fun... — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2007/03/29

Trans wrote:

[#245812] Re: Just for fun... — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/29

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:56:17AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:

[#245913] Re: Just for fun... — "Kristoffer Lundén" <kristoffer.lunden@...> 2007/03/30

On 3/29/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:> 2. Certain compression programs are very well known, and "everyone" has> them (for some definition of "everyone", depending on OS platform, et> cetera). Thus, "everyone" uses them. Short of producing a hugely> popular program that handles both old and new compression algorithms (or> both old and new file formats, in other examples of this phenomenon in> action), adoption of something new is going to be very slow and prone to> failure despite any technical advantages to the new algorithm/format.> This is illustrated by the demonstration of the commercial end-user> market failure of the Betamax -- VHS won that little skirmish simply> because it was more widely available, quickly became a household word,> and prevented migration to Betamax simply by way of market inertia.>

[#243899] Need help converting Perl to Ruby (detecting integers and decimals in strings) — "Paul" <tester.paul@...>

I am trying to convert a Perl script to Ruby and have been having some

9 messages 2007/03/15

[#243986] Splitting A String — Andrew Stewart <boss@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2007/03/16

[#244041] Issues using array.delete within a loop of the same array — james.d.masters@...

This is a simplified example for what I'm trying to do but gets the

14 messages 2007/03/16

[#244126] attr_accessor question — Corey Konrad <0011@...>

how come this doesnt worh though?

18 messages 2007/03/17
[#244130] Re: attr_accessor question — "Michael Guterl" <mguterl@...> 2007/03/17

On 3/17/07, Corey Konrad <0011@hush.com> wrote:

[#244229] SciTE Alternatives — "PythonUsr" <pythonusr@...>

Are there any good SciTE alternatives that are mainly for Ruby editing

32 messages 2007/03/18

[#244337] Ideas about Smalltalk-like IDE for Ruby — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...>

On 3/18/07, richard.j.dale@gmail.com <richard.j.dale@gmail.com> wrote

10 messages 2007/03/19

[#244354] Sorting Dates and Times in an array — "Paul" <tester.paul@...>

Hi there. I am having a bit of trouble trying to solve a particular

20 messages 2007/03/19

[#244363] A sketch for a summer of code application. — "Pedro Del Gallego" <pedro.delgallego@...>

Hi

14 messages 2007/03/19
[#244369] Re: A sketch for a summer of code application. — SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...> 2007/03/19

Two things:

[#245386] Re: A sketch for a summer of code application. — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/03/26

On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:38 PM, SonOfLilit wrote:

[#244467] fastthread 1.0 — MenTaLguY <mental@...>

Well, just when I thought I was out of the fastthread business...

13 messages 2007/03/20

[#244480] Ruby and Cryptography — Amr Kamel <amrkamel@...>

Hello everyone,

13 messages 2007/03/20

[#244493] does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class??? — "Greg Hauptmann" <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>

Hi,

29 messages 2007/03/20
[#244497] Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class??? — hemant <gethemant@...> 2007/03/20

On 3/20/07, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244605] Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class??? — johan556@... 2007/03/20

On 3/20/07, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244614] Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class??? — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/21

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:32:37AM +0900, johan556@gmail.com wrote:

[#244524] Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — "Demetrius Gallitzin" <gallitzin@...>

I have searched around, but I very rarely find any mention of Ruby

176 messages 2007/03/20
[#244543] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2007/03/20

You could describe ORM as masking a problem or you could call it

[#244704] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/03/21

On 20.03.2007 17:55, John Joyce wrote:

[#244714] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2007/03/21

Ok, if you say so. Let's call it a describing language, but

[#244550] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/20

On 3/20/07, Demetrius Gallitzin <gallitzin@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244554] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...> 2007/03/20

has anybody used CACHE with ruby... it the best of both worlds and

[#244610] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/21

On 3/20/07, Dave Rose <bitdoger2@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#244769] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "James Moore" <jamesthepiper@...> 2007/03/21

On 3/20/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244555] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — brabuhr@... 2007/03/20

On 3/20/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244567] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2007/03/20

[#244699] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — "Eivind Eklund" <eeklund@...> 2007/03/21

On 3/20/07, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#244798] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science — "Sam Smoot" <ssmoot@...> 2007/03/21

Ok. I can stand the SQL love-in no longer. :)

[#244789] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Jimmy George <mail2jimmy@...> 2007/03/21

[#244794] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/21

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Jimmy George wrote:

[#244799] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/21

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:17:29AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#244813] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/21

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:

[#244815] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/21

On 3/21/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#245653] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@...> 2007/03/28

> Unfortunately this is true. Matz is nice so we are nice. Abusiveness

[#245706] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2007/03/28

On 28 Mar 2007, at 09:41, Edwin Fine wrote:

[#245712] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/28

On 3/28/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:

[#245747] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/29

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#245750] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/29

On 3/28/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

[#245757] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/29

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#245762] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/29

On 3/28/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

[#245766] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2007/03/29

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#245770] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/29

On 3/28/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

[#245806] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Sebastian Hanigk <hanigk@...> 2007/03/29

Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@uni.de> writes:

[#245825] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@...> 2007/03/29

Sebastian Hanigk schrieb:

[#245833] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/29

On 3/29/07, Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@uni.de> wrote:

[#245868] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@...> 2007/03/29

Austin Ziegler schrieb:

[#245879] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/29

On 3/29/07, Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@uni.de> wrote:

[#245889] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@...> 2007/03/29

Austin Ziegler schrieb:

[#245908] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/30

On 3/29/07, Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag@uni.de> wrote:

[#246028] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2007/03/30

"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

[#246116] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2007/03/31

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#246168] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/31

On 3/31/07, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#246187] Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/31

On 3/31/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

[#244525] Mountain West Ruby Conference slides, keynote? — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Will the Mountain West Ruby Conference talks be posted? Or Chad's

11 messages 2007/03/20

[#244694] About class methods visibility (public/private) — Ruby Admirer <ruby_admirer@...>

Hi all,

23 messages 2007/03/21
[#244854] Re: About class methods visibility (public/private) — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/03/22

Hi,

[#244908] Re: About class methods visibility (public/private) — "Phrogz" <gavin@...> 2007/03/22

On Mar 22, 2:53 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

[#244910] Re: About class methods visibility (public/private) — "Phrogz" <gavin@...> 2007/03/22

On Mar 22, 10:21 am, "Phrogz" <g...@refinery.com> wrote:

[#244883] Knocking Lines Out Of A Multiline String — Andrew Stewart <boss@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2007/03/22
[#244888] Re: Knocking Lines Out Of A Multiline String — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/03/22

On 22.03.2007 15:43, Andrew Stewart wrote:

[#244897] free pdf ebook — hazal <niyazi.ates@...>

Hello everybody,

64 messages 2007/03/22
[#244901] Re: free pdf ebook — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...> 2007/03/22

Umm. No.

[#244911] Re: free pdf ebook — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...> 2007/03/22

* Kyle Schmitt, 22.03.2007 16:56:

[#244915] Re: free pdf ebook — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...> 2007/03/22

Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's interesting.

[#244926] Re: free pdf ebook — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2007/03/22

Kyle Schmitt wrote:

[#244936] Re: free pdf ebook — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/22

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:07:59AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:

[#244939] Re: free pdf ebook — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...> 2007/03/22

OK guys, stop jumping down my throat for using the common term for something.

[#244943] Re: free pdf ebook — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2007/03/22

Kyle Schmitt wrote:

[#244947] Re: free pdf ebook — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/03/22

On 3/22/07, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:

[#245002] Re: free pdf ebook — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/23

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:36:35AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#245017] Newbie templating question: how to combine multiple files — Frank Reiff <reiff@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2007/03/23

[#245029] Question about if in Ruby — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>

I've seen this in Rails, but it is just ERb, so it is Ruby...

16 messages 2007/03/23
[#245032] Re: Question about if in Ruby — Vince H&K <vince.hetk@...> 2007/03/23

John Joyce wrote:

[#245122] How to Convert String to Array — Shengzhi Li <shengzhi1@...>

Hey everyone,

14 messages 2007/03/23

[#245163] Suggestion: swap name of "puts" and "print" and rename "puts" to "put_s" — Michael Brooks <michael.brooks@...>

Hello:

24 messages 2007/03/24
[#245199] Re: Suggestion: swap name of "puts" and "print" and rename "puts" to "put_s" — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/03/24

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:40:05PM +0900, Michael Brooks wrote:

[#245205] Re: Suggestion: swap name of "puts" and "print" and rename "puts" to "put_s" — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/03/24

> > At a minimum I think the "put_c", "put_s", etc... should be implemented

[#245207] class methods and instance variables in ActiveRecord::Base — "zig" <ziggurism@...>

I'm still learning my way around ruby and I seem to be confused about

12 messages 2007/03/24

[#245240] adding anotehr each method to String — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

f it doesn't exist allready, i'd like to add another each method to

17 messages 2007/03/25

[#245314] how to tranlsate number to binary? — Ak 756 <macro.peng@...>

Hi, I am a ruby newbie. I want to write a program which will scan a

15 messages 2007/03/26
[#245315] Re: how to tranlsate number to binary? — "Harold Hausman" <hhausman@...> 2007/03/26

On 3/26/07, Ak 756 <macro.peng@gmail.com> wrote:

[#245437] How do I implement the Unix 'tee' function for $stdout? — Larry Fast <lfast@...>

I already discovered that I can redirect $stdout just by pointing it at

14 messages 2007/03/26

[#245458] On Enterprise Ruby — "Alexey Verkhovsky" <alexey.verkhovsky@...>

Q: What the hell is "Enterprise Ruby" anyway?

60 messages 2007/03/27
[#245494] Re: On Enterprise Ruby — Alex Young <alex@...> 2007/03/27

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:

[#245612] Re: On Enterprise Ruby — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...> 2007/03/28

Image and market share aside (although those are important

[#245714] Re: On Enterprise Ruby — "Kent Sibilev" <ksruby@...> 2007/03/28

On 3/27/07, S. Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:

[#245754] Re: On Enterprise Ruby — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...> 2007/03/29

Wow, some excellent discussion has been generated. I'd like to

[#245786] Re: On Enterprise Ruby — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...> 2007/03/29

S. Robert James wrote:

[#245545] Memory leak in ruby code — Pratik <pratiknaik@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2007/03/27

[#245651] general question (different between methods and functions)? — "Yamal Khaled Soueidan" <jkhaledsoueidan@...>

Hello everyone,

15 messages 2007/03/28

[#245922] text processing — "Stephen Smith" <4fires@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2007/03/30

[#245981] Micrrowave Numbers (#118) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

21 messages 2007/03/30

[#246062] Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string — "Nasir Khan" <rubylearner@...>

Say you have a class definition in a string -

11 messages 2007/03/30
[#246064] Re: Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string — ara.t.howard@... 2007/03/30

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Nasir Khan wrote:

[#246082] Re: Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/03/30

On 3/30/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

[#246088] Re: Find the fully qualified name of a class from a string — "Nasir Khan" <rubylearner@...> 2007/03/31

> I don't think that's what he's looking for.

[#246076] New presentation on Ruby — "Chauk-Mean P" <chauk.mean@...>

Hi all,

47 messages 2007/03/30
[#246093] Re: New presentation on Ruby — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2007/03/31

On 3/30/07, Chauk-Mean P <chauk.mean@gmail.com> wrote:

[#246111] Re: New presentation on Ruby — "Chauk-Mean P" <chauk.mean@...> 2007/03/31

2007/3/31, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:

[#246114] Re: New presentation on Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/31

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:21:54PM +0900, Chauk-Mean P wrote:

[#246125] Re: New presentation on Ruby — "Chauk-Mean P" <chauk.mean@...> 2007/03/31

2007/3/31, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>:

[#246430] Re: New presentation on Ruby — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2007/04/02

Chauk-Mean P wrote:

[#246101] Re: New presentation on Ruby — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2007/03/31

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:13:52PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#246131] On banning (Was: New presentation on Ruby) — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...> 2007/03/31

* Chad Perrin, 31.03.2007 05:26:

[#246164] Where have Ruby/Tk examples gone? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>

I have previously been able to access Hidetoshi NAGAI's examples of

13 messages 2007/03/31

Ruby Weekly News 5th - 11th March 2007

From: Tim Sutherland <timsuth@...>
Date: 2007-03-13 09:14:23 UTC
List: ruby-talk #243368
Links are at http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20070311.html

Ruby Weekly News 5th - 11th March 2007
======================================

   Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week's activity on the ruby-talk
   mailing list and its cohorts, the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup and Ruby forum.

   It is brought to you this week by

     * Tim Sutherland (firstname.lastname at gmail.com)
     * Robert Postill (robert-at-grinning-cat.com)
     * Christian Carter (cdcarter at gmail dot com)

Articles and Announcements
==========================

     * Google Summer of Code 
     -----------------------

       Pat Eyler notes that Google's Summer of Code is coming up shortly.
       "Ruby Central is once again planning to act as the mentoring
       organization for Ruby."

       > Google will post the list of mentoring organizations on March 14th.
       > Google will be accepting student proposals March 15-24, so, if
       > you're a student, this is the time to start putting together a
       > proposal.

     * Free webcasts on Ruby and Rails from CodeGear 
     -----------------------------------------------

       Joe reports that CodeGear are hosting a free "live virtual developer
       conference" on March 12th - 16th. At least four session are to do with
       Ruby.

     * Speaker Selection for Gotham Ruby Conference 
     ----------------------------------------------

       Gregory Brown posted the official speaker list for GuRuCo, the Gotham
       Ruby Conference. (New York City, April 21st.)

       > It will be a technical conference aimed at highly motivated
       > Rubyists, Rails developers, and language enthusiasts. GoRuCo is a
       > joint effort by volunteers from NYC.rb and the New Haven Ruby
       > Brigade. It's supported by the sponsors of this conference including
       > Google, StreetEasy, and Jonathan Summers.

       According to the website, the conference has now sold out, but you can
       sign up to a waiting list in the hope someone cancels.

Threads
=======

  SimFrost (#117)
  ---------------

   James Edward Gray II posted this week's Ruby Quiz. "This was one of the
   Perl Quiz of the Week problems a couple of years ago. It's also my
   favorite computer simulation."

   Create a simulation of frost, following the (given) rules that describe
   how to iterate the animation. "Again, use whatever output you are
   comfortable with, from ASCII art in the terminal to pretty graphics."

   What is Ruby Quiz? From the website:

   > Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the
   > spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week. A new Ruby Quiz is sent to the Ruby
   > Talk mailing list each Friday. (Watch for the [QUIZ] subject
   > identifier.) After a 48 hour no-spoiler period has passed, everyone is
   > invited to contribute solutions and/or discussion back to the list. The
   > following Thursday a Summary will be sent to the list, discussing the
   > quiz, solutions and discussion. The next day, the cycle begins again.

   It's a great way for new and experienced Ruby programmers alike to try
   their hand at problems, and get feedback from others.

  Duck Typing Hash-Like Objects
  -----------------------------

   Gary Wright asks for ideas on the best way of identifying a "hash-like"
   object, so that the check relies only on the interface, as in duck typing.

   Various suggestions were put forward including the detection of the
   to_hash method, using #fetch and the discussion also careered through the
   meaning of duck typing.

   If you want to know more about hash behaviour and/or duck typing you could
   do a lot worse than reading this thread.

  Ruby.on-page.net - Evolution began
  ----------------------------------

   A flurry of feedback greeted ruby.on-page.net, an online Ruby
   documentation site featuring a novel interface.

   The idea appears to be help offered on a single page with wiki-like
   attributes. Give it a shot and see what you think.

  Yahoo!'s Ruby Developer Center
  ------------------------------

   Brian Adkins ran into Yahoo!'s Ruby Developer Center and thought it looked
   interesting.

   "Nice heads up", concluded Richard Conroy.

  the name of Matz
  ----------------

   In this thread you'll find Matz' name in Kanji, how to pronounce "Yukihiro
   Matsumoto", and a discussion of naming conventions to distinguish given
   and family names.

   Following a comparison with Matz' non-capitalisation of his family name,
   Akinori MUSHA said "Although passports and other formal documents may have
   restrictions, one should be allowed to spell one's name as one wants, so
   long as it is used consistently and serves as social identification."

   why the lucky stiff's name was also dissected, with Wilson Bilkovich
   reckoning that the underscore in _why "represents the intake of breath
   before speaking his name".

   Matz said (without joking) "I've heard that it's his REAL first name", and
   Hal Fulton backed up the rumour - he'd heard it was based on a younger
   sibling's alternative to _why's real first name; "Wyatt or something".

New Releases
============

  Rassmalog 3.1.0 - the mutant
  ----------------------------

   Rassmalog is a blog engine based on RSS 2.0, YAML and Textile. By the end
   of the thread v3.0.0 had mutated into v3.1.0, so it's definitely under
   active development.

  JRuby 0.9.8
  -----------

   The JRuby folks are obviously busy as there is yet another release for
   your delight. Highlights here are the Rails support (say goodbye to
   irksome WAR deployments :) which the developers reckon is good enough for
   testing.

  ActiveWarehouse ETL 0.6.0
  -------------------------

   Check out the latest release of ActiveWarehouse's Extract, Transform and
   Load project. Gem goodness is included and there are a "slew" of new and
   improved features. Definately one for Ruby in the Enterprise folk.

  rcairo 1.4.0
  ------------

   The ruby wrapper for the Cairo library was released this week. This
   release has emphasis on performance and PDF output. Also some
   standardisation with Ruby-GNOME2 has occurred.

  memcache-client 1.3.0
  ---------------------

   The pure Ruby client for memcached has been released. Patches and new
   functionality appear to be the order of the day. So if your DB development
   lacks a certain dash of speed, why not give this a shot?

  Instant Rails 1.6, with MySQL 5
  -------------------------------

   Instant Rails now includes MySQL 5. The Instant Rails installer is an easy
   way for Windows users to get up and running with a Rails development
   environment.

   Curt Hibbs: "Many thanks to Jirka Pech who made the MySQL upgrade
   possible."

  Ruby ORBit2 (CORBA)
  -------------------

   Max Lapshin implemented preliminary support for the ORBit2 library (for
   CORBA).

   "No IDL is required at all: all information about method calling can be
   accessed via CORBA reflection mechanism."

  New "Ruby for Windows" Installer
  --------------------------------

   Lothar Scholz posted a new Ruby installer for Windows, as an alternative
   to the widely-used One Click Ruby Installer, with a different philosophy
   as to which packages should be included in the base install.

   > Everything is compiled with MSVC 6.0, so it is compatible with the one
   > click installer and all the "msvcrt" binary gems.

  Rack 0.1, a modular Ruby webserver interface
  --------------------------------------------

   Christian Neukirchen released Rack, a webserver and framework interface
   for Ruby. It is based on Python's WSGI and PEP333, and he believes it will
   bring a lot to the Ruby web community.

   > Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing
   > web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the
   > simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers,
   > web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into
   > a single method call.

   With the Rack standard, any Rack compatible framework (Rails, Camping,
   custom, more to come) will work with any Rack supported web server
   (Mongrel, WEBrick, FCGI, CGI).

   This means that we would need to develop just one Rack adapter per
   framework, and one Rack handler per webserver. Currently, each framework
   has to implement its own support for each web server.

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