[#289413] ZenTest 3.9.1 Released — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
[#289415] system command is wierd — Junkone <junkone1@...>
Hello. this system command works from the command prompt but not from
[#289436] What does $var mean? — Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@...>
Hello,
[#289445] Re: how to get the name of parent object inside child object — Raffaele Tesi <raffaele_tesi@...>
i don't know exactly what you mean, but...
[#289452] Desktop Application — Hemlata Gupta <hemlata@...>
Hello Everyone,
[#289454] Why gem built with hoe depends on hoe? — pluskid <pluskid@...>
Hi,
[#289455] is this a complex encoding problem? — Tim Perrett <hello@...>
Hey chaps,
[#289458] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
Hey guys
On Feb 3, 2008 8:14 AM, steve <oksteev@yahoo.com> wrote:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 6:25 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 6:39 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 7:44 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008 7:55 AM, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
A bit aside, but it seems a good place to plug the thought: JSON is so
> It's key: value>> {key: "value"}
On Feb 1, 2008 7:55 AM, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> Maybe, but then making a fast parser wouldn't be any fun :)
On Feb 5, 2008 11:44 AM, tho_mica_l <micathom@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 3:14 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
[#289496] @var = change to accessor method? Why? — Day <iamday@...>
In ZenTest 3.9.0's release notes
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:57:21PM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
[#289515] Temporarily dropping root access — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 04:23:02 +0900, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
[#289531] Child processes live after parent process is killed — Uwe Kubosch <uwe@...>
Hi all!
[#289534] Cannot run any gem as non-root user - freebsd 6.2 — Gordon Pedersen <gordon@...>
On my freeBSD 6.2 laptop I recently installed ruby 1.8.6 and ruby gems
[#289557] Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — Softmind Technology <softmindtechnology@...>
Hello,
Softmind Technology wrote:
On 2/2/08 3:56 PM, "Ilan Berci" <coder68@yahoo.com> wrote:
s.ross wrote:
[#289565] user information through ldap — Varun Goel <varun.rajeshkumar@...>
Hi,
[#289572] Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression — Dondi <Donovan.Dillon@...>
I am trying to parse a string and extract all vowels and consonants
Alle Saturday 02 February 2008, Dondi ha scritto:
>
Elegant? I don't know, but I kind of like it. :)
On Feb 2, 2008 7:27 PM, Corey Haines <coreyhaines@gmail.com> wrote:
Sweet! I like pulling the numbers out, but I get this in irb
[#289574] eRuby giving problems with http.rb — Adi Nag <adityanag.nagesh@...>
Hi,
On Feb 2, 2008 4:30 PM, Adi Nag <adityanag.nagesh@gmail.com> wrote:
Jano Svitok wrote:
On Feb 2, 2008 7:24 PM, Adi Nag <adityanag.nagesh@gmail.com> wrote:
[#289578] Ruby And Threads — Magician White <w__magician@...>
I need make my application execute 5 operations in the same time, for
[#289579] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
FastRI is an alternative to the ri documentation browser for Ruby.
On Feb 3, 2008 1:07 AM, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008, at 07:40 AM, botp wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:52:20AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
James Gray wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:45:09AM +0900, James Britt wrote:
[#289582] creating a 2d array — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
Hi im just coming to ruby from C albeit after many years of no
On Feb 2, 2008 12:55 PM, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
[#289584] env command — "Christian Roese" <croese@...>
Does anyone know why I can type this at the cmd line:
[#289593] mySQL Ruby Gem and MAMP mySQL — Mark Meijer <mtlmeijer@...>
[#289599] I feel like this is a dumb question.... — Chris Hickman <hickmanchris@...>
I am trying to call a method where the name is based on a parameter.
[#289609] Strings .each method — Chris Hickman <hickmanchris@...>
I am using .each to pull apart a string at every space. Is there a way
I'm not sure about looking ahead to the next element using #each, but if you
[#289630] how does sort work? — Chris Sepic <chris.sepic@...>
I'm confused as to how the sort method works.
[#289634] Why is my var undefined? — Tim <TimWelsh5@...>
I'm new to ruby and I have the following code:
[#289641] Webby 0.7.2 — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
== Webby
On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
[#289674] Ruby for game programming — t3chn0n3rd <darrin_allen@...>
Is anyone using Ruby for game programming?
On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:04 AM, t3chn0n3rd wrote:
> To clarify though, I build turn-based strategy games that don't have =A0
t3chn0n3rd wrote:
[#289703] Resizing pictures for file size — "J. Pablo Fern疣dez" <pupeno@...>
Hello,
J. Pablo Fern疣dez wrote:
[#289704] mechanize get methods returns both ::File and ::Page — Carl Bernardi <carlbernardi@...>
Hi,
Carl Bernardi wrote:
[#289728] shorter form of concat — SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@...>
the following line will concat "1" all the way to "10"... but is there
SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
Tim Hunter wrote:
[#289763] Help for Unicode char and Unicode char based string in Ruby — Chirag Mistry <chirag80bece@...>
Hi
[#289764] Help - multithreading, systemcall.. — Idealone Ideally <shekarls@...>
Hi All,
[#289777] how to handle java script pop ups ?? — Pradeepta Swain <pradeepta.swain@...>
How can I access java script pop ups using ruby ? I want to access the
[#289789] Hobix Dead?? — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
Hello
[#289799] Re: convert array to array-of-arrays? — Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
On Feb 4, 10:45 am, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#289815] Extensions: Init_extension exists, looking for Deinit_extension — "daniel 虧erud" <daniel.akerud@...>
I am allocating a resource in Init_extension, that is, when the .so file is
As you cannot explicitly unload a require, no there's nothing like
[#289835] eval vs. class_eval — Carl Youngblood <youngblood.carl@...>
Howdy everyone,
On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Carl Youngblood
On Feb 4, 2008 4:16 PM, Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@googlemail.com> wrote:
[#289838] ruby syntax question — "grz01@..." <grz01@...>
Hi,
[#289845] Webby, Gems and Paths — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
I am running an Ubuntu box, and it seems that whenever I "gem install" something
[#289851] Treetop problem — Marco Guiseppe <kreatix@...>
Hello everyone,
[#289859] how to say # in ruby — Dan Ford <wade@...>
I'm accustomed to usenet as opposed to whatever this is.
Dan Ford wrote:
On Feb 6, 3:45 pm, Tim Hunter <rmag...@gmail.com> wrote:
Chris Hulan wrote:
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008, Gerry Ford wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
2008/2/11, Gerry Ford <wade@zaxfuuq.net>:
[#289863] String scanning woes :( — Vell <lovell.mcilwain@...>
Hello all,
[#289871] Having problems with my instance variable — macaco <macacoangel@...>
I'm sorry if this question seem stupid, but couldn't find it in the books.
[#289893] Invoke .NET objects from Ruby — Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
I have a DLL assembly containing some classes I wrote in C#, and I'd
[#289895] Handling data in games done in Ruby — "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
For those of you who write games in Ruby, what is your preferred method
[#289898] How to add string objects to hash? — dare ruby <martin@...>
Dear friends,
dare ruby wrote:
Thank you very much for your information. what you said is right. I want
[#289900] Introducing Waves - Web App Framework — Dan Yoder <dan@...>
I am pleased to announce the first beta release of Waves, an open-
Dan Yoder wrote:
Or Merb?
>> just like rails, except done in a slightly different way, different
On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Dan Yoder wrote:
> The walk-through looked promising, although I haven't had a chance
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:33:53PM +0900, Dan Yoder wrote:
Are you using FF3? I've gotten a couple of reports on that ... not
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:11:09 -0500
> But according to
> Tables are more brittle and make the code itself harder to read.
From a designer's perspective, tables are not accessible since they
[#289911] mssql image field: ado returns an array — David De vits <ictodavid@...>
Hi,
[#289925] got any good string exercises? — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
Looking for fairly simple string exercises that will familiarise myself
[#289945] Mr Bones 1.3.2 — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
== Mr Bones
[#289949] Would like to learn ruby step by step — Sudhindra Joshi <manyroles-ruby@...>
Hi,
[#289984] how can I use variable as a attribute name — Darin Duphorn <dduphorn@...>
I'm unable to use the attribute name (variable) to verify the button
[#289986] hash value inconsistencies — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
ruby -e "puts 'test'.hash"
[#290001] Computer Science Problems — markonlinux@...
Hi all,
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:31:17 -0800, markonlinux wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:34 PM, markonlinux@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:47:51AM +0900, James Gray wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
[#290009] Is there an easy way to color/control console output? — Andy <agunnerson@...>
Hello everyone, is there an easy way for me to color my console
[#290020] Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls? — "rule.rule.rule@..." <rule.rule.rule@...>
Hi,
On Feb 5, 2008 7:20 PM, rule.rule.rule@gmail.com <rule.rule.rule@gmail.com>
> This reminds me about several good articles related with Dynamic typing
On Feb 6, 7:56 am, Eivind Eklund <eekl...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 22, 2:08 am, Bill Kelly <bi...@cts.com> wrote:
Hi,
[#290022] simple ruby proxy server? — Dt Town <dtown22@...>
I am trying to right at application which will simply record the headers
Well, this will work to record the headers. You'll need to install
[#290032] Looking for libraries to monitor postgres queries — "Gian Holland" <gianmh@...>
My goal is to display postgres queries as they happen or close to as they
Gian Holland wrote:
[#290033] Regexp matching in a block of code — Vell <lovell.mcilwain@...>
I am trying to create a script that will allow me to compare email
[#290034] cgi.params sometimes empty following post to a form handler with mod_ruby — "zak.wilson@..." <zak.wilson@...>
I have a simple form handler in the form of an rhtml file being served
On Feb 6, 6:03 am, Tim Perrett <he...@timperrett.com> wrote:
[#290040] Pattern for "include"ing class methods? — Clifford Heath <no@...>
I'm doing some meta-programming where I want to add the same
[#290045] Which version do I have then? — Sebastian Komianos <sebkom@...>
Hello there!
[#290070] Strange characters... how are they created? — Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@...>
This isn't a Ruby-specific question, I suppose, but it's the language
Frederick Cheung wrote:
Daniel Waite wrote:
T24gRmViIDYsIDIwMDggNDoxMSBBTSwgRGFuaWVsIFdhaXRlIDxyYWJiaXRibHVlQGdtYWlsLmNv
[#290071] Data for eigenclass — Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@...>
How do I set data at the eigenclass level (data should basically be
On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Jari Williamsson
>>> sender: "Thomas Wieczorek" date: "Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:19:53PM +0900" <<<EOQ
[#290072] Implementation of Win32Api with "WNetUseConnection" — MicMCdo@...
Hi!
[#290080] calling a testcase from another class — Mario Ruiz <mario@...>
Hi everybody,
Hi Mario,
Hi Thomas, I knew it.
[#290129] Getting SNMP data in variable instead of using puts — jackster the jackle <contact@...>
I'm trying to access my variable directly here rather than using puts to
[#290167] Array Practice — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
As some of you may know from previous threads im trying to practice
Adam Akhtar wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Adam Akhtar wrote:
Rob Biedenharn wrote:
and with hashes
a few people have mentioned some pretty concise solutions involving
On Feb 9, 2008 12:50 PM, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2008-02-07 08:20 +0900 (Thu), Adam Akhtar wrote:
[#290174] XML Parser (SOAP Request) — Eder Quiñones <eder.sq@...>
[#290184] Non-blocking SSL handshake — "Tony Arcieri" <tony@...>
Hello. I'm attempting to use SSL within my Fiber-based Actor framework (
[#290185] how to put hash values in function — "shawn bright" <nephish@...>
Hey there,
[#290188] TreeTop: dealing with Grammars in multiple files? — "Phil Tomson" <rubyfan@...>
I know that you can include one grammar into another like so:
[#290191] Dynamically instantiate a class — macaco <macacoangel@...>
Hi.
[#290195] info on block arguments — Russell Me <russ@...>
I'm trying to pick up ruby and I'm impressed by all the cool stuff it
> I think of a block as Cookiemonster from Sesame street. When you throw
tho_mica_l wrote:
Russell Me wrote:
You've all contributed a great deal of information and I'm glad to be
Russell Me wrote:
[#290208] idiom I've not seen before — Rob Saul <wyrd@...>
On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Rob Saul wrote:
On 2/6/08, Rob Saul <wyrd@code-gnomemad.org> wrote:
[#290224] Write superscripted text — "Abir B." <abboura84@...>
Hello,
[#290241] Tenjin 0.6.1 - a fast and full-featured template engine — makoto kuwata <kwa@...>
Hi all,
[#290244] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
We saw a large variety of solutions for this week's problem. Many of them used
On Feb 7, 2008 8:08 AM, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
James Gray wrote:
[#290245] using net::ssh shell to sudo to another user and execute commands — "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>
[#290252] ENV — RVC planning <mcintosh80305@...>
Mac OS X example scripts have the command (directive/statement/?)...
[#290272] is lots of files with Threads faster? — Chris Richards <evilgeenius@...>
Im required to open 50+ files and parse the data in them. WOuld using
Take a look at the wide finder implementations on Tim Brays blog.
[#290279] Best way for sending file to user — Mark Mr <pimea.mark@...>
HI, I'm currently using the FasterCSV library to pull a bunch of data
[#290291] New user - very basic question — "Ashley Wharton" <ashleywnj@...>
Hi - sorry to bother with such a basic question, but is there a better way
[#290296] BigDecimal.new('15.25') == 15.25, false ?? — Henry Jones <mathieu.houle@...>
Hi,
On Feb 7, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Henry Jones wrote:
[#290320] regex dynamic count modifier {min, max} ? — jOhn <netcam@...>
Here is an idea and tell me if it could be accomplished by some other means.
[#290328] trouble with FileUtils.rm() -- Invalid arguement error — an an <dtown22@...>
I have been screwing with this for the last hour, and I still cant get
an an wrote:
Tim Hunter wrote:
an an wrote:
Justin Collins wrote:
[#290332] Anyone use eclipse on Windows? — Day <iamday@...>
If you saw my other post similarly titled, it may become apparent: I'm
[#290353] convert String to range — "Abir B." <abboura84@...>
Hi,
[#290374] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz:
Here's my first solution, attached and pastied here:
> Internal Rate of Return (IRR -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_rate_o=
[#290384] how can 1/100=0 — Junkone <junkone1@...>
cannot belive my eyes. how can 1/100 be equal to 0.
[#290400] converting strings to booleans, symbols, etc — an an <dtown22@...>
Hi,
[#290409] Digest Ruby Quiz 2 — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>
Hi list
On Feb 8, 2008 3:12 PM, Matthew Moss <matthew.moss@gmail.com> wrote:
[#290412] ragel and ruby — Philipp Hofmann <phil@...126.de>
[#290418] Logging 0.6.3 (Feral Dust Bunny) — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
== Logging
[#290425] alias_method and initialize — Leon Bogaert <leon@...>
Hi all!
Leon Bogaert wrote:
I updated the code (made it simpler) but it still doesn't do what I
[#290443] Your own if/else — Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...>
Hello i remeber someone asking fif it's possible in Ruby - and i have no
[#290445] array of here documents — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Question: is it possible to create an array of here documents?
On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Roger Pack wrote:
[#290457] If || statements — John Maclean <info@...>
Hey chaps,
[#290483] Beginner help - txt dungeon — Jonathon Hartoon <ezrickknight@...>
Hi. I have tried to learn other programming languages before and ruby
On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Jonathon Hartoon wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:05:25 +0900, Jonathon Hartoon wrote:
On Feb 16, 9:22=A0am, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
Since the main use is lookup by reference, and hash is designed for
[#290499] Inheriting from / Delegating to Integer - Currency class implementation — Pascal Ehlert <pascal.ehlert@...>
Howdy folks.
On Feb 9, 4:25=A0pm, Pascal Ehlert <pascal.ehl...@odadata.eu> wrote:
[#290533] TreeTop help? — Day <iamday@...>
So I'm building a parser, and I thought I'd give TreeTop a go. I
[#290543] Identifying — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
If you have an array which contains a mixture of say intergers and
[#290550] ssleay32.dll, postgresql, extension problem — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#290556] Recursive array bug? — Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
I've just reinvented the recursive array.
[#290559] Better relative requires with Need — Drew Olson <olsonas@...>
Need makes ruby relative requires just work. Simply need a file with a
[#290579] getting human-readable results — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>
How do I get human readable results instead of:
[#290584] Private encapsulation question — myemail@... (andrea)
Hello,
[#290609] lost in "=", forest searching for methods of abstraction (bad habits die hard) — Vladimir Konrad <vk@...>
2008/2/10, Vladimir Konrad <vk@dsl.pipex.com>:
[#290651] Problems with Rubygems — hemant <gethemant@...>
Hi,
[#290656] New user - correct way to think and write code — "Ashley Wharton" <ashleywnj@...>
Hi - sorry to belabour the point, but I would appreciate any help or
2008/2/11, Ashley Wharton <ashleywnj@gmail.com>:
[#290660] youtube-g 0.4.1 Released — "Shane Vitarana" <shanev@...>
youtube-g version 0.4.1 has been released!
[#290672] Rice 1.0.0 - Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions — "Jason Roelofs" <jameskilton@...>
Rice: Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions
SSBoYXZlIGVycm9yIGR1cmluZyBpbnN0YWxsYXRpb24gcHJvY2VzczoKL3Vzci9iaW4vbGQ6IC4u
[#290678] Return number of matches — Christopher Causer <chy.causer@...>
This seems like an easy question but I cannot find any documentation on
[#290693] Deleting values of array elements — Jonas Schneider <JS.Sokrates@...>
Heya,
[#290706] Hash keys — "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
I ran into something I hadn't realized (common occurrence). Keying a
[#290716] non case sensitive searching — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
If i want to see if a list contains a particular word how would i go
On Feb 11, 3:19 pm, Adam Akhtar <adamtempor...@gmail.com> wrote:
the reg exp. looks good but when i try to apply it to help me romove
[#290733] Actors and Concurrency — fedzor <fedzor@...>
So I was messing with actors today, and I found that I couldn't get
[#290735] Rev/actor TCP monkey patching — fedzor <fedzor@...>
Short and sweet -
On Feb 11, 2008 4:26 PM, fedzor <fedzor@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you so much!
On Feb 12, 2008 1:38 PM, fedzor <fedzor@gmail.com> wrote:
[#290737] nested hash from array of paths — Adam Groves <adam.groves@...>
Hi,
[#290742] Ruby one liner killed my script — John Maclean <john@...>
Talk about redundancy!
[#290747] Ruby, MySQL, and apostrophe problem — Mark Adkins <kaujot@...>
I'm building a website for a university class that allows users to
[#290757] DRb rescue: Shouldn't this be changed? — Mitch Mitch <mitch.lloyd@...>
I'm a ruby newbie so I wanted to ask a forum about this before I emailed
On 11-Feb-08, at 6:06 PM, Mitch Mitch wrote:
[#290767] betabrite 1.0.0 Released — Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
betabrite version 1.0.0 has been released!
[#290776] Subclassing Integer; solved! — Clifford Heath <no@...>
Folk,
On 2/12/08, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
[#290803] Ruby on Rails job — David Harland <dharland@...>
Hi guys, anyone want a web development role? Using open source
As inspired by this post quoted below:
[#290810] get active selection from tk iwidgets radiobox — Unwen <Stefan.Schelm@...>
Hi there,
[#290818] Ruby equivalent to source command — Brett Williams <brettandbecky@...>
Hello all,
2008/2/12, Brett Williams <brettandbecky@gmail.com>:
Robert Klemme wrote:
[#290825] How do C programmers do unit testing? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
This may seem like a silly question, but how do C programmers (assume
[#290838] XML to Canonical XML — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
I'm trying to find a Ruby package that will convert valid XML into
[#290841] How to add a instance variable through a mixin? — "MrBanabas@..." <MrBanabas@...>
Hi,
> If you mix the module in after some instances of MyClass have already
On 12.02.2008 20:54, MrBanabas@googlemail.com wrote:
[#290851] New Ruby developer Rake questions — Joe Wirtley <joew@...>
I am relatively new to Ruby and I am trying to introduce Rake to build
[#290874] most useful instance methods — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
Ive just been getting to grips with some of the string and array
[#290878] ERB: import function — Alvaro Bautista <alvarobp@...>
I want to import rhtml files into another using ERB. I wrote a function:
[#290884] Help Understanding Ruby/C Bindings — Bryan Richardson <btrichardson@...>
Hello all,
[#290889] Logging 0.7.0 (Quixotic Starfish) — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
== Logging
[#290910] Ruby, Perl, Python — "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
As a new programmer (still in school), I'm curious as to the world of
[#290914] Test for instance method existence? — Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@...>
How can I test if an instance method is defined for a class, without
[#290931] Robert's Ruby Riddle: Local or Method — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>
Hi list I was just thinking it might fun to present some of Ruby's
On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
On Feb 13, 2008 9:08 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
[#290943] Ruby Network Programming Guide — Sam <ruby@...>
Is there a good reference guide out there (either a physical book or
[#290970] RDoc question: How do I make a link from the README file to a specific RDOC Page — "Jesper Rønn-Jensen" <jesperrr@...>
VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBleGNlcnB0IGZyb20gdGhlIEFjdGl2ZVdhcmVob3VzZS1ldGwgUkVBRE1FIGZp
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#290976] another RMagick and rotation question — "shawn bright" <nephish@...>
Hello there all,
[#290982] ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
I recently upgraded to ruby 1.8.6 on mac os x 10.4.7. I had ruby tk
On 2008-02-13, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
Jeremy Henty wrote:
From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>
Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>
Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:52 AM, 7stud -- wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:05 PM, 7stud -- wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:28 PM, 7stud -- wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:05 AM, 7stud -- wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
John Joyce wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:41 PM, 7stud -- wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 20, 2008 8:59 AM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
John Joyce wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
Tim Ferrell wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
Tim Ferrell wrote:
Tim Ferrell wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
On Feb 29, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Tim Ferrell wrote:
In case anyone else would like to use it, the following is what I used
7stud -- wrote:
Tim Ferrell wrote:
[#290985] my noob "numbering lines" programe. How to improve? — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
Give us hints on how to improve this program. If you want to show your
On 13/02/2008, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291013] Memcached: Dealing with unknown keys — Tony Garcia <tony23@...>
I was wondering if there is a way to handle reading keys when you don't
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008, Tony Garcia wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Tony Garcia wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
[#291017] Problem usning 'OR' operator in 'IF' condition? — dare ruby <martin@...>
Dear friends,
Apply De Morgan's and you'll see this condition is always true:
[#291030] How can I write this method in one line? — Jigar Gosar <jigar.gosar@...>
def gen_indices_string num
[#291039] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Solving the IRR equation is essentially a matter of computational guesswork.
[#291050] lambda/procs and dynamically generated methods — Chris Hall <christopher.k.hall@...>
I'm not sure one way is technically better than the other, so if anyone
[#291072] How to pass a hash into a function — Mark Mr <pimea.mark@...>
Hi, I have a hash and i need to pass it to a function in another
[#291084] object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...>
Hi,
UpsNDowns wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Gary Wright wrote:
Hi Gary, I grateful for you helping me on this.
[#291096] Net::HTTP and handling 302 Redirect — zeeboo <zbethem@...>
Greetings all. Ruby n00b here.
[#291099] Making an object follow another object - FAIL! — Lasse Svensson <a02larsv@...>
First of all, I'm new to the forum (and to ruby) so hi everyone!
[#291108] Cute open range? — Clifford Heath <no@...>
So I wanted to allow folk using my DSL to say "0..N",
[#291127] Inheritance — Mickael Veovis <rouvier.mickael@...>
Hello,
Mickael Veovis wrote:
I wrote:
[#291141] The Smallest Circle (#157) — Matthew D Moss <matthew.moss@...>
The three rules of Ruby Quiz 2:
Philipp Hofmann wrote:
On Feb 15, 3:19 pm, Matthew D Moss <matthew.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, I know that this probably isn't the best first impression I
[#291151] Ruby on mac - requires don't work — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Hi - i'm trying to write a ruby program on my wife's mac (i use linux
[#291152] recursive merge for hash — goodieboy <goodieBoy@...>
Hi,
On 15/02/2008, goodieboy <goodieBoy@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291162] special type of string replacement — laredotornado <laredotornado@...>
Hi,
[#291164] Which data-type can I use for this task? — Adna rim <adnarim@...>
Hi,
[#291180] Thread safety — Jeff Turc <jeff.turcotte@...>
With the discussion surrounding merb/rails and thread safety, I've been
On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jeff Turc wrote:
On 15.02.2008 21:08, s.ross wrote:
[#291187] Programmatic VCR Control — Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Hello,
[#291189] qtruby install on redhat — Scott Cook <scootercook@...>
running ./configure after untarring korundum-3.5.5 I get:
[#291192] Proper way to RDoc markup? — Serg Koren <skoren@...>
Hi,
Serg Koren wrote:
Not quite what i wanted. I wanted to capture inline comments. i know
I don't think that's possible. Unless you want to hack on the RDoc
hm oh well.
I guess...? You just need to pay attention to what you're doing. :P
[#291210] syntax problem: @var=="v" ? { ... } : { ... } — Luca Scaljery <lcalje@...>
Hi All
Luca Scaljery wrote:
Alle Friday 15 February 2008, Sebastian Hungerecker ha scritto:
[#291234] eventmachine and rev — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
What would you say is the difference between rev and eventmachine?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291239] Favorite Ruby idioms, shortcuts? — Serg Koren <skoren@...>
Hi
[#291257] Decimal 0.0 released — Tadashi Saito <shiba@...2.accsnet.ne.jp>
Hello all,
[#291269] Alter String base class to perform new (private methods) before returning itself when called by print statements — "Steven G. Harms" <steven.harms@...>
class String
[#291280] GC error ? — Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawicki@...>
Run this program and observe memory usage.
On 16.02.2008 13:12, Piotr Sawicki wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote:
On Feb 16, 4:12=A0am, Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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RadosナＢw BuナＢt wrote:
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RadosナＢw BuナＢt wrote:
Piotr Sawicki wrote:
On 2/20/08, Eliot Miranda <eliotm@pacbell.net> wrote:
[#291281] TRAC - Trac, Project Leads, Python, and Mr. Noah Kantrowitz (sanitizer) — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Essence:
On 16 =D6=E5=E2, 15:45, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
[#291299] Getting IP address using UDP Socket — jackster the jackle <contact@...>
Hi Ruby Forum...
[#291313] Use of ? in variable names — Michael Brooks <michael.brooks@...>
Hello everyone:
[#291316] where to check for nils or empty? — John Honovich <jhonovich@...>
I am processing arrays of URLs. I call a series of methods to delete or
Maybe something like this?
[#291351] Send keystrokes to Firefox or Safari? — Stedwick <philip.brocoum@...>
Is there a way to send keystrokes to Firefox or Safari on Mac OS X
[#291354] Slide Show v0.1 - A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and KeyNote in Ruby Now Live — "Gerald Bauer" <geraldbauer2007@...>
Hello,
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:42:31PM +0900, Gerald Bauer wrote:
Hello Gregory,
Stupid new user question.
Hello,
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Gerald Bauer <geraldbauer2007@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
[#291358] smtp - from field shows up blank in client — Max Payne <lc1200@...>
Hello,
[#291370] Randomising — Angelo Joseph <angelojoseph803@...>
Dear All,
[#291376] why apt-get install ruby1.8 on ubuntu version is patch level 36 — chaoqun <zouchaoqun@...>
I konw that the last ruby patch is level 111, but when I use apt-get
Thanks a lot, Tim. I have built my ruby p111 today with some search
On [Mon, 18.02.2008 01:04], chaoqun wrote:
[#291381] displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...>
[code]
I'm not entirely sure what you intend to do. If you wanted to get five
Wally T Terrible wrote:
Im going to try the first solution because i seems like that would work.
Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
Ok now im trying to ask for 5 words ON THE SAME LINE then it prints the
Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
On Feb 17, 2008 9:18 AM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:
Im not really wanting it to take only the first 5 words i want it to say
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks that works!
Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks that really shortens up my code and works but i have a couple
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks you all for your help i have finished my code (so far) and just
[#291415] Ruby GC — Pie Squared <PieSquared@...>
I've been trying to look at how dynamic languages do memory management
Pie Squared wrote:
[#291449] Help with Writing Replacement Text to Files — Thomas Pierce <ruby@...>
Hello!
[#291461] rubynode won't build on Leopard Ruby — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...>
I'm trying to build rubynode on a macports installed Ruby on Leopard,
Hi Rob,
On Feb 18, 2008 2:01 PM, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
[#291463] how to implement class constants? — ruud <r.grosmann@...>
hi list,
[#291497] Write a copy of the current script — dkmd_nielsen <donn@...>
I would like to write a copy of the current script being executed.
[#291502] File#flock with LOCK_SH causes Errno::EBADF on Solaris — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
[#291515] Connecting to HyperTerminal — Active View <active.view@...>
Hi all...
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Active View wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008 8:21 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008 1:32 PM, Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey people...
I don't know much about cygwin. Have you tried with the Ruby one-click
Ben Bleything wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
[#291523] Create record into Oracle DB — Alexey Nik <sc_out@...>
Hello all, there is part of my code :
why u use upper case name as the field name?
Jesse Hu wrote:
2008/2/20, Alexey Nik <sc_out@tut.by>:
[#291550] OT: Why are .zip files so much bigger than tar.gz files? — Trans <transfire@...>
So I has started to offer .zip packages of my projects to make life a
On Feb 18, 2008 6:53 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291561] how come this code doesnt work as designed? — an an <dtown22@...>
Hi,
[#291582] Modules: The Secret H method — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
Hello!
Leslie Viljoen wrote:
[#291612] controller methods and my .rjs file — Robert Lincolne <info@...>
Hey Guys,
[#291630] Object#freeze as a basis for caching of method results? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Hello, ruby-talk.
2008/2/19, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) <shot@hot.pl>:
Robert Klemme:
2008/2/21, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) <shot@hot.pl>:
// Thanks a lot for that delegate tutorial in the other post =E2=80=93
[#291655] Newbie eRuby site design question — Peter Woodsky <peter@...>
Hi list
[#291663] Strange Windows warning with IO.popen: The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Hi all,
On Feb 19, 8:02 pm, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291664] ||= [] idiom — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>
I often make use of this idiom to add something to an array in a hash of arrays:
Leslie Viljoen wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:15:52 +0900, Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:21:15 +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:
[#291677] Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ? — tom_33 <tomjbr.56770318@...>
I am very new to Ruby and my question is about trying to understand
On Feb 19, 2008 2:45 PM, tom_33 <tomjbr.56770318@bloglines.com> wrote:
Christopher Dicely wrote:
[#291682] HELP: Need to continue the loop after the exception — mirth <mirthcyy@...>
hi guys,
[#291685] String Concatenation and Implicit Object Creation — pachl <clintpachl@...>
Do adjacent strings or strings separated by backslash and a newline
[#291710] Need Help With OptionParser — "Bryan Richardson" <btricha@...>
Hello all,
Hi,
Perfect!!! Thanks for the help.
Bryan Richardson wrote:
2008/2/20, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>:
[#291717] IP Address to Decimal - is an one-liner possible? — "Tiago Pinto" <thpinto@...>
Hi guys,
On Feb 20, 3:38 am, Tiago Pinto <thpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#291746] split string — Sijo Kg <sijo@...>
Hi
I'm not sure if i really understand your question but if 3:43,2:65,3:50 is
[#291754] Multidatabase transactions — "coolgeng coolgeng" <coolgeng410@...>
Hi guys,
2008/2/20, coolgeng coolgeng <coolgeng410@gmail.com>:
Now I just try use commander like "transaction" to resolve this . However it
[#291762] Populate from db table — Mattia Galati <lathspell84@...>
Hy everybody, I've just started learning a bit of this amazing language
[#291774] What does *args do? — Stedwick <philip.brocoum@...>
I sometimes see funcs declared with def fun (blah, *args)
[#291800] ultraviolet 0.10.2 Released — "Dizan Vasquez" <dichodaemon@...>
ultraviolet version 0.10.2 has been released!
[#291810] Ruby 1.9, threads and FreeBSD 5 — Eric Jacoboni <jaco@...>
Hi,
[#291822] how to parse a soap xmp result of amazon? — jacques <jvalet@...>
hello everybody
[#291833] Confused about OCI8 — eddy.pagotto@...
Hi folks,
[#291844] Kernel#putc vs. $stdout#putc — "Gordon Thiesfeld" <gthiesfeld@...>
I was under the impression that Kernel#putc was an alias, or wrapper
[#291853] 32bit vs 64bit vs UML performance — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
I've run the QUIZ benchmark on several systems to check their relative
Lionel Bouton wrote:
Bill Kelly wrote:
The key here is to run 32bit and 64bit on the same hardware, under
Kyle Schmitt wrote:
OK, I didn't have a 32bit install on a 64 bit capable box that was
[#291863] How to get the directory of the current script? — laredotornado <laredotornado@...>
Hi,
[#291866] regex question — "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
So I am scanning through chat logs looking for messages where I
[#291914] trouble with threads — gm gm <dtown22@...>
I am trying to expand my web crawler to use multiple threads (with
[#291938] rubyscript2exe (Couldn't execute this command (rc=): — Nick Thisguy <nickkolegraf@...>
Hello,
On Feb 21, 1:38 am, Nick Thisguy <nickkoleg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Luis Lavena wrote:
[#291941] Help - Linux? — Knute Johnson <nospam@...>
Would somebody please try this on Linux for me. It works fine on
>> getMetar("KBFL")
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Knute Johnson
[#291963] rubybind library — prizrak6@...
Hey.
[#291976] Reusing the existing code. — MohsinHijazee <mohsinhijazee@...>
Hi!
[#291982] Ruby on WinCE / cegcc — John Snowdon <j.p.snowdon@...>
I'm trying to get Ruby up and running on an ARM-based Windows CE device
John Snowdon wrote:
John Snowdon wrote:
On [Sun, 24.02.2008 02:43], John Snowdon wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Dominik Honnef <dominikho@gmx.net> wrote:
Arlen Cuss wrote:
I've built another release; this time the socket library built cleanly
[#291985] How to define the assignment operator in Ruby ? — Stephane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@...>
Hi all,
[#291990] beginner's problem with sqlite3 — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
It would be helpful if the sqlite3-ruby documentation offered one or two
Hi,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:14:56 +0900, St辿phane Wirtel wrote:
[#292004] Code Reduction — Jigar Gosar <jigar.gosar@...>
I am using ERB templates in my code. It seems too big, can't get my head
[#292038] Simple array of strings sorting — Ed <pyroguy@...>
Say I have an array of strings that looks like this:
[#292056] Where does instance_eval _magically_ set the variable to? — Andrew Chen <hangfei@...>
Hi,
Todd,
[#292080] Newbie Mem Leak Issue — Keith Barr <keith.barr@...>
I am fairly new to Ruby and a program that I have created seems to have
Keith Barr wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Keith Barr wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
[#292096] OptionParser - no short options or incomplete options — Bryan Richardson <btrichardson@...>
Hello all,
Bryan Richardson wrote:
Thanks for responding 7stud. However, I'm not clear on how this will solve
Bryan Richardson wrote:
I'd just hate for someone to fat-finger a simple option and end up deleting
[#292107] Efficient file downloading — Kyle Hunter <keletmaster@...>
Hello,
[#292124] DateTime.new vs. DateTime.now — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
This may be a well known thing but it surprised me.
[#292137] Reduce three line method to one line — Giant Cranes <ruby-forum@...>
Hi,
[#292147] Bioruby-Name error: uninitialized constant — Carl Olme <calvin7602@...>
I'm very new to both programming in general and to programming in Ruby.
I get the same problem if I install with "gem install bioruby" (which
[#292148] require error in gems — BENI <rajib.chakrabarti@...>
I have installed rubyzip gems .
[#292180] Ruby/Tk — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...>
Ok i have a question how come when i press the button it adds one but
Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
lol i tried that but i did =+ 1 so it was a typo and didnt work lol
On Feb 22, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
Morton Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:
[#292186] gsub("\\", "\\\\") seems unintuitive — John Woods <jqwoods@...>
The following confusing behavior is noted in the pickaxe book (2nd ed)
On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:27 PM, John Woods wrote:
Thanks Rob, that's exactly what I was missing -- the second round of
I stumbled onto this thread trying to figure out a similar problem...
[#292188] Regex in Ruby question — "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
Another newbie question:
[#292200] Sorry very newbie post! — Steve <stevecuth@...>
Ok so I just got myself Chris Pines book and started with the
[#292231] Need cohercing a var into a method name — Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...>
Hello,
[#292235] Random Question Generator — Joshua Lefkowitz <joshualef@...>
I am trying to make my own exam simulator, similar to GRE or SAT. I
[#292250] ANN: Teach yourself Ruby - the hard way! — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
A frequent question from Ruby newcomers is "Okay, I've read the
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Martin DeMello
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
[#292269] Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...>
Hi folks,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>
Avdi Grimm wrote:
Rails != Ruby
On 24/02/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
I'd be at least a little interested in potentially offering developers
On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:52 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
Trans wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, James Britt=20
On Feb 27, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM, s.ross <cwdinfo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Florian Gilcher wrote:
Oh bother. If it ain't the Duck, it's the Monkey.
Avdi Grimm wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Phlip wrote:
2008/2/25, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net>:
On Feb 24, 8:57=A0pm, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahu...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#292287] Using a variable as a method name? — Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...>
Hello,
[#292292] ruby-net-ldap — imdwalrus <mike.rood@...>
I'm running ruby 1.8.6 on Windows. I've installed the ruby-net-ldap
[#292299] difference between StringScanner#scan and Regexp#match — makoto kuwata <kwa@...>
Hi,
[#292311] Netbeans with Ruby! — Steve <stevecuth@...>
Hi all
[#292326] RubyTk... — Serg Koren <skoren@...>
Any RubyTk books around? I haven't been able to find anything
[#292333] computer programming — t3chn0n3rd <darrin_allen@...>
Are there any new computer languages coming out?
[#292350] Get value from string — Luca Roma <roma@...>
I have a string that content a link of a youtube page .
[#292368] Suprising behaviour with "def property=" method — "Farrel Lifson" <farrel.lifson@...>
I had a bit of a surprise with the following
Farrel Lifson wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#292394] NoMethodError: private method `to_date' — Sukeerthi Adiga <sukeerthiadiga@...>
Loading development environment.
Sukeerthi Adiga wrote:
7stud -- wrote:
[#292398] Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
I wrote up an article on Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb that
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:02:52AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:43:28AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
In article <E1JaB7P-0000Zc-QP@x61.netlab.jp>,
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:06:47 +0900, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
In article <E1JaM9H-0000jj-AB@x61.netlab.jp>,
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:04:40PM +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:29:09 +0900, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:50:13AM +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:
In article <20080319172919.GL26883@atdesk.com>,
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:22:35 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
Tanaka Akira wrote:
In article <47E4A106.7060405@sun.com>,
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:20:54 +0900, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
[#292406] Java interpreter for ruby? — Joe K <jkauzlar@...>
Hi, I'm looking for an interpreter for Java that allows me to run my Java
[#292412] Question about split method — Glenn <glenn_ritz@...>
Hello,
[#292430] How to detect string charset — Simone Carletti <weppos@...>
Hi list,
[#292435] treemaps — Javi Jimenez <jim7magnus@...>
hello everybody in the list!
Javi Jimenez wrote:
> You are recursively calling the method color() until your stack goes
[#292439] Newbie Question — Christian Rubio <chris.rubio.osv@...>
Help I am completely new to ruby and to OO programming. Why-does my code
[#292448] "OneLiner" - replacement — Christian <ozric@...>
Hi,
[#292485] Web archive for ruby newsgroup — Ward Bekker <ward@...>
Just live:
[#292497] regex and lookahead to specific number of chars — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>
If I have a string such as
[#292499] rake task with arguments — Reacher <brandon.g.jones@...>
I found an example (http://www.betweentherails.com/rake/) of passing
[#292504] How to make the gem ? — St駱hane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@...>
Hi all,
[#292520] Having trouble reading from stderr — Christopher Rasch <crasch@...>
Hi,
[#292539] attr_writer vs attr_accessor — ycsunil <ycsunil@...>
Hello all,
[#292540] Math problem — grandmabeckie@...
I am try to help my daughter:
On 26/02/2008, grandmabeckie@msn.com <grandmabeckie@msn.com> wrote:
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@helenius.dk> wrote:
Oh my goodness! A thousand apologies. I gave you a rotating month. See below.
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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
There's a calendar_helper plugin if this is for a Rails app. Works well for me.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Jeremy McAnally
Todd Benson wrote:
Re: The Smallest Circle (#157)
Bill Kelly wrote: > >> These are the times I get running the other solutions, >> 10 runs of 1000 points each. Each run, every solution is >> fed the exact same point data. > > Auuughhh!! > > Sorry for another self-reply........ :-/ > > The benchmark script I attached to the earlier post did not, > in fact, pass the same point data to each solution per run. > (Maybe that'll teach me to make last minute changes without > verifying...) > > The benchmark script at > http://tastyspleen.net/~billk/ruby/quiz/157-smallest-circle/benchmark/ > now does correctly pass the same coordinate data to each script > per run. > > . . . > > I had hoped by averaging multiple runs (10) - each run having > different point data - that the rankings would have been pretty > stable. > > However, JUSTIN and LIONEL still tend to trade places on > different invocations: Here's a 157_benchmark_2.rb which benchs on several point distributions (square, disk, circle and gaussian) and my code adapted to the benchmark (the convex hull was done outside of encircle so it wasn't active for the benchmark). Lionel
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require 'benchmark'
module PHILIPP ; eval(File.read('157_philipp_hofmann.rb')) ; end
module LIONEL ; eval(File.read('157_lionel_bouton.rb')) ; end
module THOMAS ; eval(File.read('157_thomas_ml.rb')) ; end
module DOUG ; eval(File.read('157_doug_seifert.rb')) ; end
module FRANK ; eval(File.read('157_frank_fischer.rb')) ; end
module JUSTIN ; eval(File.read('157_justin_ethier.rb')) ; end
module BILL ; eval(File.read('157_bill_kelly.rb')) ; end
namespaces = [
# THOMAS, # points.combination ??
FRANK,
JUSTIN,
LIONEL,
DOUG,
PHILIPP,
BILL ]
# Some folks implemented generate_samples differently,
# but we want to run all solutions on the same dataset.
# We'll use an implementation equivalent to that
# provided by the quiz author: [rand, rand]
num_runs = 10
num_samples = 1000
def generate_samples(mod, coords)
coords.map {|xy| mod::Point.new(*xy)}
end
def prepare_pointsets(namespaces, raw_coords, num_runs)
pointsets = {}
namespaces.each do |mod|
pointsets[mod.name] = (0...num_runs).map do |i|
generate_samples(mod, raw_coords[i])
end
end
pointsets
end
# Pregenerate different point data for successive runs.
# (All solutions are fed the same point data per run.)
distributions = {
"Random on square" =>
(1..num_runs).map {(1..num_samples).map {[rand, rand]}},
"Random on disk" =>
(1..num_runs).map {(1..num_samples).map {
ro = rand(0.5)
theta = Math::PI * 2 * rand
[ ro * Math::cos(theta), ro * Math::sin(theta)]
}
},
"Random on circle" =>
(1..num_runs).map {(1..num_samples).map {
theta = Math::PI * 2 * rand
[ Math::cos(theta), Math::sin(theta)]
}
},
"2D Gaussian" =>
(1..num_runs).map {(1..num_samples).map {
ro = Math::sqrt(-2 * Math::log(rand))
theta = Math::PI * 2 * rand
[ Math::cos(theta), Math::sin(theta)]
}
},
}
label_width = namespaces.map {|mod| mod.name.length}.max
distributions.each { |name,raw_coords|
puts "-- #{name} --"
pointsets = prepare_pointsets(namespaces, raw_coords, num_runs)
solutions = {}
namespaces.each {|mod| solutions[mod.name] = Class.new { include mod }.new}
Benchmark.bm(label_width) do |x|
namespaces.each do |mod|
name = mod.name
solution = solutions[name]
x.report(name) do
num_runs.times do |i|
points = pointsets[name][i]
solution.encircle(points)
end
end
end
end
}
include Math
module ConvexHull
# after graham & andrew
def self.convex_hull(points)
lop = points.sort_by { |p| p.x }
left = lop.shift
right = lop.pop
lower, upper = [left], [left]
lower_hull, upper_hull = [], []
det_func = determinant_function(left, right)
until lop.empty?
p = lop.shift
( det_func.call(p) < 0 ? lower : upper ) << p
end
lower << right
until lower.empty?
lower_hull << lower.shift
while (lower_hull.size >= 3) &&
!convex?(lower_hull.last(3), true)
last = lower_hull.pop
lower_hull.pop
lower_hull << last
end
end
upper << right
until upper.empty?
upper_hull << upper.shift
while (upper_hull.size >= 3) &&
!convex?(upper_hull.last(3), false)
last = upper_hull.pop
upper_hull.pop
upper_hull << last
end
end
upper_hull.shift
upper_hull.pop
lower_hull + upper_hull.reverse
end
private
def self.determinant_function(p0, p1)
proc { |p| ((p0.x-p1.x)*(p.y-p1.y))-((p.x-p1.x)*(p0.y-p1.y)) }
end
def self.convex?(list_of_three, lower)
p0, p1, p2 = list_of_three
(determinant_function(p0, p2).call(p1) > 0) ^ lower
end
end
class Point < Struct.new(:x, :y)
def self.random
Point.new(rand, rand)
end
def self.generate_samples(n)
(1..n).map { self.random }
end
def to_s
"(#{x}, #{y})"
end
end
class PotentialCenter < Struct.new(:x, :y, :points)
include Math
# Square distance with a point
def square_distance(point)
((point.x - x) ** 2) + ((point.y - y) ** 2)
end
# Maximum square distance with my points
# It's cached because it's called several times and can be very costly
def max_square_distance
@sq_dist ||= (points.map { |point| square_distance(point) }.max)
end
# Compute the best move with given distance (ro)
# and angles (thetas)
# returns nil if none is better than the current position
def best_move(ro, thetas)
potential_moves = thetas.map { |theta|
new_x = x + (ro * cos(theta))
new_y = y + (ro * sin(theta))
PotentialCenter.new(new_x,new_y,points)
}
choose_move_1(potential_moves)
end
# Dumber, faster
def choose_move_1(potential_moves)
potential_moves.detect { |move|
max_square_distance > move.max_square_distance
}
end
# Look for the shortest path, slower (~1.4x on average with many points)
def choose_move_2(potential_moves)
potential_moves.reject! { |move|
max_square_distance <= move.max_square_distance
}
potential_moves.min { |c1,c2|
c1.max_square_distance <=> c2.max_square_distance
}
end
# Check that the given offset is big enough to move
# the current position
# (floating point rounding errors prevent infinite precision...)
def can_be_moved_by(offset)
((x + offset) != x) || ((y + offset) != y)
end
def to_s
"(#{x}, #{y})"
end
end
class Circle < Struct.new(:center, :radius)
def to_s
"{center:#{center}, radius:#{radius}}"
end
end
def chose_original_center_and_move_amount(points)
# Start with a good potential (around the middle of the point cloud)
max_x = points.map{|p| p.x}.max
min_x = points.map{|p| p.x}.min
x = (max_x + min_x) / 2
max_y = points.map{|p| p.y}.max
min_y = points.map{|p| p.y}.min
y = (max_y + min_y) / 2
center = PotentialCenter.new(x, y, points)
# The original displacement value is based on the fact that a truly
# random distribution gets a mean value with a precision of this order.
# The actual center is probably reachable with a few of these steps
move_amount = ((max_y - min_y) + (max_x - min_x)) / points.size
return [center, move_amount]
end
# Look for the best center by minimizing
# its maximum distance with the given points
# This is the same as minimizing its square
# (the maximum of the square distances)
# This can be seen as a dichotomy on a 2-dimensional space
def encircle(points)
points = ConvexHull.convex_hull(points)
center, ro = chose_original_center_and_move_amount(points)
# We'll move with polar coordinates (distance + angle : ro/theta)
# How many directions do we follow?
# each new angle creates a new (costly) max_square_distance call
# so we take the minimum needed to move around and climb the
# square_distance gradient: 3
angle_count = 3
thetas = (1..angle_count).map { |c| (2 * c * Math::PI) / angle_count}
iter = 0
# Trace our moves
center_list = []
loop do
center_list << center
iter += 1
# puts "#{iter}: #{center.max_square_distance}"
# Is there a best move available ?
if new_center = center.best_move(ro, thetas)
center = new_center
else
ro /= 2
# We stop when ro becomes too small to move the center
break unless center.can_be_moved_by(ro)
end
end
# puts "Circle found in #{iter} iterations"
return [ Circle.new(center, sqrt(center.max_square_distance)),
center_list ]
end
if $0 == __FILE__
# Uses 10 points by default
POINT_COUNT = (ARGV[0].to_i == 0) ? 10 : ARGV[0].to_i
points = Point.generate_samples(POINT_COUNT)
t = Time.now
circle, center_list = encircle(hull)
puts circle
puts "Found in: #{Time.now - t}s"
# Generate a GnuPlot command file to see the result
f = File.open('plotcommand.cmd', 'w')
f.print <<EOF
set parametric
set size square
set xrange [-0.2:1.2]
set yrange [-0.2:1.2]
set multiplot
plot "-"
#{points.map { |p| "#{p.x} #{p.y}" }.join("\n")}
end
plot "-" with lines
#{center_list.map { |p| "#{p.x} #{p.y}" }.join("\n")}
end
plot [0:2*pi]
(sin(t)*#{circle.radius})+#{circle.center.x},(cos(t)*#{circle.radius})+#{circle.center.y}
set nomultiplot
EOF
f.close
puts <<EOF
use 'gnuplot -persist plotcommand.cmd' to see
the circle, points and path to the center
EOF
end