[#306796] Hash#select returns an array but Hash#reject returns a hash... — "Srijayanth Sridhar" <srijayanth@...>
Hello,
Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
irb(main):001:0> a=Hash.new
From: Srijayanth Sridhar [mailto:srijayanth@gmail.com]=20
>
Hi --
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi --
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:24 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
Hi --
Hi --
[#306800] meaning of %w — Junkone <junkone1@...>
what is the meaning of %w. atlest in my copy of rubydoc, i could not
[#306809] Dynamic Variables — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Is there any way in ruby to create dynamic variables?
Marc Heiler wrote:
[#306812] in select: interrupt — "Mark Firestone" <mark@...>
Anyone getting errors like this.... I'm working on a console mode full
2008/7/1 Mark Firestone <mark@cortex-media.com>:
Thanks for the advice. I can provide more of the code, or all the code...
[#306879] How to install Ruby DBI module? — Justin To <tekmc@...>
I downloaded the mysql-ruby-2.8pre4, which I guess is the database
Ok, I typed it into the window's command prompt, but i get this error:
On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Justin To wrote:
[#306894] options for running code in parallel — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
Our testing department wants a small tool that can make a number of
[#306908] threadify-0.0.1 — ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:04 PM, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
ara howard wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
[#306913] Problem with unpack — Rafael <mayoral.rafael@...>
Hi,
[#306924] workarounds for ruby 1.8.6 segmentations faults — liquid_rails <cheri.anaclerio@...>
Hi,
liquid_rails wrote:
RnJvbTogQ2hhcmxlcyBPbGl2ZXIgTnV0dGVyIFttYWlsdG86Y2hhcmxlcy5udXR0ZXJAc3VuLmNv
Pe単a wrote:
RnJvbTogQ2hhcmxlcy5PLk51dHRlckBzdW4uY29tIA0KIyBZZXMsIHdlIHBsYW4gdG8gc3RhcnQg
[#306939] Mac OS X 10.5.4 - no new Ruby? — matt@... (matt neuburg)
The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update came out yesterday, but it did not update the
[#306940] Is posible String#to_s doesn't add the decimal value if not needed? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, I want to convert a string to a Float value:
[#306962] Missing zlib on latest ruby version — fedzor <fedzor@...>
You all know the error. missing require, blah blah. Seriously,
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:49 AM, fedzor <fedzor@gmail.com> wrote:
[#306971] Ruby Exponents — Tony Dermont <tonydermont@...>
Hi,
[#306975] Ruby Idiom for dynamic programming? (request for comments) — Lars Christensen <larsch@...>
Random idea i had...
[#306980] Taint mechanism — Olivier Sarrouy <olivier.sarrouy@...>
Hi everyone,
[#306988] Arithmetic oddity — Minh Tran <mtgred@...>
>> l = [1.0, 1.0, 2.0**0.5]
On 2 Jul 2008, at 12:30, Minh Tran wrote:
It still look odd as the value in s[2] is 2.0 which doesn't seems to
[#306991] reading zipfiles from a url? — Janus Bor <janus@...>
Hi everyone!
[#307014] Ranges and Enumerable problems — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...>
Okay so when I play with "!".."~" wrong things happen.
2008/7/2 Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com>:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
On 7/2/08, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/2/08, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02.07.2008 19:48, Adam Shelly wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/3 Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
On 7/3/08, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
Adam my apologies, instead of logic nitpicking, which was fun of
[#307017] Problem building Ruby from sources — Kurt Usen <kurtus@...>
Hello,
[#307024] How to wrap text in an Excel cell? — Leshak Leshak <leshak@...>
Hello,
[#307031] Design Pattern for RUBY Beginner Learner — "Salai Khine" <sayakyi@...>
Dear Ruby Folk,
I do not know a site but I do know a book which is excellent:
[#307051] Worthwhile to build a gem? — Greg Willits <lists@...>
I have a project where a number of internally-developed Ruby libraries
[#307067] Lost with OptionParser — Greg Willits <lists@...>
I'm having a real problem understanding OptionParser -- the docs in
[#307070] Install/Enable openssl for ruby 1.8.6? — Jason Bornhoft <jbornhoft@...>
I was trying to install Redmine on rails 2.0.2 (this is not a rails
Jason Bornhoft wrote:
Thank you. I'm using a non-debian linux...
Still getting the same error...
On Jul 2, 2008, at 21:12 PM, Jason Bornhoft wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:23:16PM +0900, Jason Bornhoft wrote:
[#307080] thoughts on a more generic Array#partition function — "Rudi Cilibrasi" <cilibrar@...>
An experiment in a more generic partition function. The current
From: Rudi Cilibrasi [mailto:cilibrar@gmail.com]=20
Hi Botp,
From: Rudi Cilibrasi [mailto:cilibrar@gmail.com]=20
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Pe=F1a, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrot=
2008/7/3 Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>:
From: Rick DeNatale [mailto:rick.denatale@gmail.com]=20
Hi,
From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]=20
[#307100] Embedded usage message, ascii terminal output, markup — Stephen Prather <smprather@...>
Hi everybody--
[#307101] Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S5 Support (Including Built-In Gradient Themes) — "Gerald Bauer" <geraldbauer2007@...>
Hello,
Gerald Bauer wrote:
Hello,
Hello Axel,
/^\w{3}[0,4-9]{3}\w{3}$/
[#307117] yet another regexp problem — shaman <noone@...>
Hello-
[#307140] Ruby C API Question — "Tristin Davis" <tristin.colby@...>
I've been going over the Ruby API and I have a couple questions.
[#307153] pseudo-randomize an array in a consistent order — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Does anyone know how to pseudo-randomize an array (eg with a seed) so
Hi --
a.sort{ rand }
On Jul 3, 4:56 pm, Max Williams <toastkid.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
ThoML wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Max Williams <toastkid.williams@gmail.com>
Rick Denatale wrote:
Here's my final version in case anyone's interested:
[#307158] Check version — Pål Bergström <pal@...>
How do I check what version of Ruby I have, besides ruby -v? I'm trying
[#307178] Rawr install error — "Mateusz Winiarski" <mawiniarski@...>
Greetings,
[#307203] Parameter name reflection — Oliver Saunders <oliver.saunders@...>
If I declare
[#307208] How to duplicate elements in array? — Chris Chris <kylejc@...>
Hi,
[#307238] failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted — "Tristin Davis" <tristin.colby@...>
I'm writing a ruby wrapper for a proprietary api. I compiled it, but when I
On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Tristin Davis wrote:
I tried it the solution in the 1st link, but it didn't help.
[#307240] creating dynamic hashmap — Sameera Gayan <sameera207@...>
Hi All,
[#307241] Basic ruby Question — "Deepak Gole" <deepak.gole8@...>
Hello,
[#307246] Getting Folder Size — Clement Ow <clement.ow@...>
When I use File.size("C:/ruby"), all it returns is 0.
Clement Ow wrote:
On 2008-07-04, Clement Ow <clement.ow@asia.bnpparibas.com> wrote:
John Joyce wrote:
Dave Bass wrote:
phlip wrote:
[#307271] initialize and super with parameters — Andy Joel <ak_joel@...>
Some example code
[#307281] Statistician II (#168) — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss@...>
Apologies if this appears as a repost, but the mailing list complained it
[#307284] from ruby/RoR to Java (framework unknown) :( — S2 <x@...>
My company today decided to ditch ruby development and to develop new web
Ryan Davis wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
S2 wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 04:08 +0900, James Britt wrote:
On 6 Jul 2008, at 07:19, Michael T. Richter wrote:
Jim Morris wrote:
[#307302] Does Ruby have any advantage over Python to create semantic applications? — Costan <CMValma@...>
Hi all,
On Jul 5, 3:11=A0pm, Marc Heiler <sheve...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
[#307309] amalgalite 0.2.0 Released — Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
amalgalite version 0.2.0 has been released.
[#307318] MySQL/Ruby Module — Justin To <tekmc@...>
After downloading the mysql-ruby-2.8pre4 from
[#307326] title avoiding spurious response — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)
for each db.execute row, i get a spurious respense like :
[#307357] irb not recognized in windows command line — Bert Ameche <bert.ameche@...>
I'm reading Beginning Ruby and followed the installation process , using
Hi Bert,
Bill Walton wrote:
[#307380] amalgalite 0.2.1 Released — Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
A quick bugfix release for amalgalite. If you had a bug running amalgalite
[#307387] book — "Tommy" <no_mail@..._mail.no>
Hello all,
[#307408] mkmf isn't finding my shared object to link with — "Tristin Davis" <tristin.colby@...>
I have an extension I wrote which is actually just a wrapper for a C api.
[#307414] implementing a simple and efficient index system — Janus Bor <janus@...>
Hello everyone,
Janus Bor wrote:
phlip wrote:
Janus Bor wrote:
>
Robert Dober wrote:
[#307420] Accessing variables when loading a file to irb — Ib Lis <bordelentoutgenre@...>
Hi
[#307422] rubygems won't run on WinXP after system update — Artūras Šlajus <x11@...>
hello.
[#307429] .include? for string — Chris Chris <kylejc@...>
Hi,
[#307445] Array Combinations — "Pragash Mr." <gananapragasam@...>
Hi,
[#307455] Find matching elements in array — "Pragash Mr." <gananapragasam@...>
Hi,
[#307484] Gnuplot with ruby - unset variable? — M3tr0 G33k <rubyforum@...3tr0g33k.com>
Hi all,
[#307498] Another logical precedence question — -j b- <jrb562@...>
I am used to using the following shortcut:
[#307527] emacs-mode for ruby? — defn noob <circularfunc@...>
I dont find anything useful while googling.
[#307529] ruby gems doc indexer — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Don't know if this would be useful for anyone, but I wrote a utility to
On Jul 7, 2008, at 14:44 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#307532] XMLRPC Question — Michael Taras <michaeltaras@...>
I am working on a little project that requires me to interface with an
[#307545] Where is the .rb for sockets? — John Maclean <jayeola@...>
Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. There's
[#307576] Q: Remote installer — "G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS" <grk@...>
I am looking for a "remote installer" for ruby for Windows. I need to
[#307585] Threads: Different behavior under Linux and Windows — Armin Armbruster <aarmbruster@...>
Hi,
ara.t.howard schrieb:
On Jul 8, 9:00=A0pm, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#307594] Ruby without rails? — Shashank Agarwal <shashank_hi@...>
I'm trying to develop a small website, and was planning to use Ruby
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Shashank Agarwal <shashank_hi@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#307631] 'ab\c' and 'ab\\c' — subbu <loveajax@...>
I encountered a rather peculiar behavior of strings today.
I think you stumbled on another special character, \c, which seems to
[#307633] type specific operator — Amitraj singh Chouhan <chouhan.rj@...>
Hi all,
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Amitraj singh Chouhan wrote:
[#307637] Piping data in on the command line — "James Coglan" <jcoglan@...>
Hello all,
[#307648] class methods — Clement Ow <clement.ow@...>
I have built my own ruby library where it contains my specific commands
[#307653] webgen 0.5.0 released — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>
Hey everybody!
[#307654] How to delete a file in Win XP — MAwiniarski <MAwiniarski@...>
Greetings,
[#307667] Thread-safe priority queue? — "Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohalpin@...>
Hi,
Sean O'Halpin wrote:
[#307671] Error installing sqlite gems — Andrea Aaa <marchese58@...>
I've tried from NetBeans to install sqlite gems, but I always got the
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:11:28AM +0900, Andrea Aaa wrote:
[#307678] How do I link to inferior-ruby/interpreter in emacs? — ssecorp <circularfunc@...>
I have fixed ruby-mode for emacs but I dont understand how to run the
[#307689] Trying to find good examples of Ruby Sessions. — Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Pickaxe 246 is not only weak, but appears to be just wrong by saying:
Dave Thomas wrote:
[#307701] Ruby bug database — "Stefan Schmidt" <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Hello,
[#307710] String#upcase/downcase with UTF-8 strings in Ruby 1.9 — "Stefan Schmidt" <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Hello,
Hi,
[#307738] Problem with hash in function — Skave Rat <skaverat@...>
Somehow I'm missing something really basic. Why is following function
[#307759] Overloading the []-Operator — Matthias Winkelmann <matthias.winkelmann@...>
Hi,
[#307772] calling c++ from Ruby — Mr_Tibs <tiberiu.motoc@...>
Hi,
[#307780] character-encodings gem with Ruby 1.9 — "Stefan Schmidt" <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Hello,
[#307782] file modes — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>
A post on Arc [http://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2008/07/arc-gets-io-right.html]
[#307787] Map with &:method_name — Oliver Saunders <oliver.saunders@...>
I see this a lot but it doesn't work for me in IRB. Is a gem required or
[#307795] Communication between 2 ruby programs — Julien Genestoux <julien.genestoux@...>
Hi!
[#307804] Why Ruby interpreter is writed in c (not in c++)? — "Ranieri Teixeira" <ranieri.tx@...>
Hi,
Ranieri Teixeira wrote:
phlip wrote:
phlip wrote:
On 11 Jul 2008, at 02:31, phlip wrote:
[#307812] MS SQL 2005 Express and MySQL on Windows — Kyle <kyle.rabe@...>
The short question: Has anybody successfully connected to both MS SQL
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Kyle <kyle.rabe@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your tips. I'd rather not install Rails if possible -
Update: the 64/32 threw me a bit. I installed the 32-bit MySQL, and
[#307826] Beginner: if statement in one line? — Chris Chris <kylejc@...>
Hi,
[#307848] gem update — José Cruz <jose.cruz@...>
Hi,
[#307853] Symbolify (#169) — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss@...>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:12 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
ara.t.howard wrote:
On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:16 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:19 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Alex LeDonne
> Or even
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Matthew Moss <matthew.moss@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Alex LeDonne wrote:
Here's a fairly straightforward solution, this passes the tests and works
My first version cheats a bit, but passes the tests. Converts the num
[#307861] Regex to find urls in text? — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
On our site, our resources have a description, which is often copied and
[#307867] block variable not working how I expect it to work — James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Here is my ruby version:
[#307897] Working on a first plain Ruby script, need help with `join' — Jesse Crockett <tefflox@...>
I need help in the block to create a csv file of these entries.
[#307900] inject idiom — "عمر ملقب بالثانی" <bordelentoutgenre@...>
Dear all,
Thanks to both of you ara.t.howard and Kentaro-san for the nice hints.
[#307917] Treetop positive lookahead problem — Tom Aadland <tomhaa@...>
Hi,
[#307933] can ruby replace bash scripts for linux script — "Greg Hauptmann" <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
hi,
Greg Hauptmann wrote:
[#307945] AutoIt: HWnd function of AutoIt giving method missing error — Anukul Singhal <anukul.singhal@...>
Hi,
Anukul Singhal wrote:
[#307954] Hpricot question — Rainer <wolf.rainer@...>
Hello,
[#307962] Can't install gems after a new ubuntu install — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Sorry if this is the wrong forum...
Actually, looking at this error "no such file to load -- mkmf"
Doh, just checked, i have make installed already. I'm going to shut up
Max Williams wrote:
phlip wrote:
Max Williams wrote:
On Jul 12, 3:07=A0pm, Max Williams <toastkid.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, miles.sterrett@gmail.com
Dick Davies wrote:
[#307973] regular expressions help — Vivek <krishna.vivek@...>
Hi,
Axel wrote:
[#307975] behavior of delete! method — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...>
I am confused by the use of the delete! method as applied to a string.
[#308024] ForkAndReturn 0.1.0 — Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
ForkAndReturn 0.1.0 is released.
[#308030] Are not used Objects cleaned from memory? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, a simple question:
I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo wrote:
[#308047] Hoe dependencies — "James Coglan" <jcoglan@...>
Hello list,
[#308060] Passing arguments to a class, how do? — "Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso" <grabber@...>
I'm learning Ruby, and i need to solve a problem:
El Domingo, 13 de Julio de 2008, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso escribi=C3=B3:
Hi --
[#308070] Connecting to a Windows share from a Windows computer — Kory Woods <kory@...>
We have two separate servers running Windows Server 2003, and what we
Hi!
Björn Andersson wrote:
[#308086] Factorials — Adam Trager <adamman62@...>
I just started using ruby, and no matter how hard i try i cant do
[#308107] Raw Sockets for packet sniffing — Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...>
Hello,
[#308111] date format — Sijo Kg <sijo@...>
Hi
[#308124] Help with class instance variables — Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@...>
Hello,
Hi --
Hi,
[#308153] regexp with gaps — egrasso <egrasso.rb@...2.net>
Hi, I need to find the position of some substrings inside of a long
[#308154] Text Editor — Jacob Grover <jacob.grover@...>
Hello, I've been wondering for a long time if there's an Internet text
You can write Ruby code in any text editor. Is your friend not using one,
[#308172] Ruby & Threads — Michael Boutros <me@...>
Hello all,
[#308175] Do we "own" XML namespace? — Trans <transfire@...>
Hi--
[#308182] how to loop through two arrays in parallel — Mitchell Gould <go_mitchell@...>
I have two arrays from a form.
[#308200] array of hashes (finding value) — Nate Leavitt <nateleavitt@...>
I'm just looking for other possible solutions. Sorry, this is kinda a
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Nate Leavitt <nateleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
[#308227] Syntax Checker that's better than the normal syntax checker — Jacob Grover <jacob.grover@...>
I've been using the stupid built in syntax checker, it's been making
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008, Jacob Grover wrote:
[#308233] Proc argument names instead of arity — Macario Ortega <macarui@...>
Roger Pack wrote:
[#308240] Is it possible to dynamically extend Test::Unit test cases? — "David Mitchell" <monch1962@...>
Hello list,
David Mitchell wrote:
[#308261] "Address already in use" Error with net/http — Christian Kerth <christian.kerth@...>
Hey!
[#308264] Array.drop doesn't work — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
Frederick Cheung wrote:
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 08:00:13 Dave Bass wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:16 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
[#308278] Immediately print a string on stdout without new line? — Janus Bor <janus@...>
Hi everyone!
[#308291] Is there a way to call include for an object instance? — Chris Olsen <olsen.chris@...>
I need to be able to create an object and, based on the param that I
[#308292] check my class — misterparker@...
Hey i'm super new at ruby, This is my first class attempt. can i copy
[#308294] Complicated class initialization/instantiation problem. — "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
I've been trying to crack this nut on my own for the past week or so,
2008/7/16 Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com>:
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:13 +0900, Pit Capitain wrote:
[#308300] New to Ruby. Specific syntax question. — Cole Mister <chonald@...>
I'm reading through the PickAxe book right now. I'm new to programming,
On Jul 16, 12:20=A0pm, Cole Mister <chon...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#308356] "gem update" eats 100% cpu and memory — Axel Bock <mr.Axel.Bock@...>
Hi all,
[#308363] Loading ftools.rb automatically — "bparanj@..." <bparanj@...>
I have Ruby 1.8.5 patch-level xyz and Ruby 1.8.5 with no patch-level
[#308370] The next number that is not in an array — Tim Conner <crofty_james@...>
I want to increment the current value of a variable to the next number
Hi --
> true while restricted_numbers.include?(n+=1)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
[#308384] Logging 0.9.0 (the "Monkeyful Chimptacular" release) — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
logging version 0.9.0
[#308398] Form Control — Devious Forlan <devyone@...>
Hi guys,
[#308400] Getting an object's class definition namespace — Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
In a program I module_eval class definitions into a dynamically created
[#308409] So who's coming to RubyFringe? — Oliver Saunders <oliver.saunders@...>
...I am! Hope you meet some of you guys over here.
Can we still get tickets??
Kent Fenwick wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:01 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
Austin Ziegler wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Oliver Saunders
[#308423] Where should I put the loops — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#308424] Why is this cause an infinite loop? — Trans <transfire@...>
Why is this cause an infinite loop?
[#308431] Readline and conditional tab results based on input — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Hi there,
Hi,
I should be even more specific.
[#308462] weird deadlock message — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
So...I run an app with three threads running, it churns for awhile,
[#308476] NamedParameters v0.0.0 ('first', :second => 'release') — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
NamedParameters
> I did notice that Matz apparently plans on using something very similar
ThoML wrote:
[#308498] show text in italics. — Vamsi Krishna <vamsikrishna.naidu@...>
Hi ,
Where are you displaying the text? At the console? In a window? Using shoes?
[#308509] Records and Arrays (#170) — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss@...>
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[#308512] Finding the date of an event based on related events. — Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@...>
Hi all,
[#308525] Multiple GEM repositories — Rob Mauchel <rmauchel@...>
I have a Ruby script which runs fine on my own machine that I'd like to
On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Rob Mauchel wrote:
On Jul 22, 2008, at 17:33 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#308528] FileUtils.cp_r — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Hi,
[#308537] compile from source - how difficult? — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
On a fresh install of Kubuntu Linux (ver. 8.04.01), I'm not having good
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
Martin DeMello wrote:
Tom Cloyd wrote:
[#308546] Suggestions for a parsing strategy? — Robb <Robb.Shecter@...>
Hi all,
[#308552] JRuby 1.1.3 Released — Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...>
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1.3!
[#308580] execve syscall in ruby — Daniel Kamiski <maniel.rulez@...>
Hi
That's me again, now i know that i have to terminate an array with null
[#308584] repeat a method inside a string — Zoe Phoenix <dark_sgtphoenix@...>
I have a method that will generate a random HTML link, but I need to
[#308587] XML parser — C馘ric H. <cedric.hernalsteens@...>
Hi guys,
[#308610] system admin script — Ott Mr <sixfourimpala@...>
i am trying to find a good scripting language for Mac OS X. I was told
[#308614] Simple program with a simple(?) error -- what's wrong? — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Hi,
[#308623] filtering email addresses — Luca Scaljery <lcalje@...>
Hi All
On Jul 20, 10:15=A0am, Luca Scaljery <lca...@gmail.com> wrote:
[#308642] Does "rescue" wihtour argument handle any kind of Exception or not? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, I read in this article:
On Sunday 20 July 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo wrote:
Stefano Crocco wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> begin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
El Domingo, 20 de Julio de 2008, Phlip escribi=C3=B3:
On Sunday 20 July 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo wrote:
[#308669] Why Thread.abort_on_exception = yes doesn't show errors? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, when Thread.abort_on_exception =3D yes I don't see any error log in the=
I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
El Domingo, 20 de Julio de 2008, Joel VanderWerf escribi=C3=B3:
El Domingo, 20 de Julio de 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo escribi=C3=B3:
El Domingo, 20 de Julio de 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo escribi=C3=B3:
[#308688] Grouping/Sorting an Array of objects — Howard Roberts <howardroberts@...>
Suppose I have an array of two different kinds of objects, each with
[#308694] Implementing ruby webservice after having used wsdl2ruby — Vipin Vm <vipin@...>
Hi All,
[#308698] rdoc 2.1.0 Released — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
rdoc version 2.1.0 has been released!
Eric Hodel wrote:
I started playing with new release and frameless template doesn't work.
On Jul 21, 2008, at 14:05 PM, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
Ryan Davis wrote:
I'm glad, i just started hacking, and don't know if i did good job, and
On Jul 23, 2008, at 02:04 AM, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#308699] protected members or explicit abstract classes? — aidy <aidy.lewis@...>
Hi,
Short answer:
Hi --
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
[#308704] Use of special character like @ in irb — mosar <jean.moser@...>
The version I use is 0.9.5. I want to code @ name = name(for example)
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:04 AM, mosar <jean.moser@neuf.fr> wrote:
[#308731] How to invoke an external program and get anything the pgm returns back — "Victor Reyes" <victor.reyes@...>
Team,
[#308736] read CSV file using csv library — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
Hey you can use faster csv instead using the standard csv ruby library.
kranthi reddy wrote:
Hi,
kranthi reddy wrote:
Frank Guerino wrote:
Marvin G端lker wrote:
Frank Guerino wrote:
I just realized that in Ruby 1.9 there shouldn't be the need to install
Marvin G端lker wrote:
[#308745] Get Owner of a file — Charles Heizer <heizer1@...>
Hello,
[#308758] how do i open a terminal using ruby? — Philip Rutkowski <phil@...>
hi-
[#308761] bj and rails 2.1 - can't get bj to run jobs — dusty <dusty.doris@...>
I have been trying to setup bj with rails 2.1.0 and am having some
[#308770] interacting with a shell script (ssh) — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)
[#308783] Action mailer — Sujith Gangaraju <sujithkumar@...>
i want how to recieve mails to inbox
[#308797] Filling multidimensional array problem — "Indra M." <peppermint_petty@...>
Hi,
[#308799] RMagick 5th anniversary — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Today is the 5th anniversary of the first appearance of RMagick on
[#308831] simple module for "count my instances" behaviour — Julien Thewys <jt@...>
I want to make a simple module that makes its including classes
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:07 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Dober wrote:
[#308836] fastercsv and several row — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Hi all,
[#308847] how to capitalize a number of characters in a word — Cheyne Li <happy.go.lucky.clr@...>
Hi, there
Cheyne Li wrote:
[#308862] How to do group Exception classes? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, I've some exception that I want to group into "AuthError" class so I ca=
[#308880] Ruby and RDBS — "Thilanka Marasinghe" <thilankaster@...>
This may seem like a very newb question. BUt are there any groups or
[#308884] Is there a simple way to find a method definition? — Ruby Freak <twscannell@...>
Hi,
[#308907] Generate accessors for an hash — Andrea Gianarro <giandrea@...>
Hello, I need to generate read and write accessors for all the keys in
[#308909] circular 'require' — Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Hi,
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Shadowfirebird wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Stefano Crocco
*Is* there any executable code in my two example programs, other than
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:39 +0900, Calamitas wrote:
I found a very easy way around it. This is what bothers me. If it's
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:48 +0900, Shadowfirebird wrote:
Yes, I can see now that in your example no order of loading will allow
2008/7/23 Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@gmail.com>:
I've had my think.
Shadowfirebird wrote:
[#308916] read document in browser itself — Sujith Gangaraju <sujithkumar@...>
[#308918] Good exercises for beginner — Sam Haskins <sam.haskins@...>
Hello all,
[#308927] Errors installing RedCloth 4.0 on Windows XP — "John T." <johnts@...>
I tried installing/upgrading RedCloth to 4.0 on this Windows XP box, but
I think I know what happened--you're using an older version of RubyGems
[#308951] Of GUIs threads and scheduling woes — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...>
I have a small GUI app that I have written the purposes for it's creation
Glen Holcomb wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Alex Fenton <alex@deleteme.pressure.to>
[#308953] multiple constructors? — aidy <aidy.lewis@...>
Hi,
[#308968] BJ - Reaping 1 threads for slow workers because of 'shutdown' — dusty <dusty.doris@...>
I'm calling Bj from inside a controller in rails.
[#308988] RubyWeekend #2 game contest this weekend — "John Croisant" <jacius@...>
The second RubyWeekend game creation contest is this weekend. The
T24gV2VkLCBKdWwgMjMsIDIwMDggYXQgNjowMCBQTSwgSm9obiBDcm9pc2FudCA8amFjaXVzQGdt
[#309001] word document in html html format — Sujith Gangaraju <sujithkumar@...>
i am uploading one word document
[#309006] differnce between .nil? , .empty?, .blank? — Sijo Kg <sijo@...>
Hi
[#309021] Ruby-Talk Admin — Trans <transfire@...>
Who is the Ruby-Talk Admin?
[#309031] Gem install of rubyzip working, but not. — Nathan Loyer <4namlet@...>
I installed the rubyzip gem with the command:
[#309045] Rendering an mp3 as a waveform image in ruby?? — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Does anyone know of a way, in ruby, to render an mp3 into a waveform
[#309059] what is "p"? — matu <m@...>
a really really stupid question:
[#309064] Library Metadata Storage Format — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>
Hi--
[#309074] Simultaneously URL call, is it possible? — Toki Toki <toki84@...>
Hi to all!
Toki Toki wrote:
matu wrote:
El Jueves, 24 de Julio de 2008, Toki Toki escribi=C3=B3:
I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
Toki Toki wrote:
S2 wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Toki Toki <toki84@gmail.com> wrote:
[#309077] avoid reinstalling gem (if its already installed?) — "Rob Sanheim" <rsanheim@...>
Is there a way to have rubygems not reinstall a gem if the latest
On Jul 24, 2008, at 13:26 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:
[#309078] RedCloth 4.0.0 -- Total rewrite - less buggy - 40x fas — Jason Garber <jg@...>
I sent this message to the list early Tuesday morning, but it never
[#309089] inline comments in future release? — Mike Schwab <mike.schwab@...>
Are inline comments a potential feature of Ruby 2.0?
ha ha sorry if I was unclear. I meant comments that can have more code
Mike Schwab wrote:
> If you have so much code on one line that you feel the need for inline
Mike Schwab wrote:
RnJvbTogTWljaGFlbCBXLiBSeWRlciBbbWFpbHRvOl9td3J5ZGVyQHdvcmxkbmV0LmF0dC5uZXRd
total_charges =3D line_charge_1 + line_charge_2 + misc_charges
From: Jeremy McAnally [mailto:jeremymcanally@gmail.com]=20
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Pe=F1a, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wro=
[#309128] how to disable ctrl + c key in ruby on rails — Sujith Gangaraju <sujithkumar@...>
I am showing document in browser
[#309133] reading from a .ini file — Kishore Rp <kishore007@...>
Hi all,
[#309143] Regexp Ruby selection — "touffik@..." <touffik@...>
Hi folks,
[#309165] weird backsplash behaviour inside single quotes — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...>
Hello
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
On 25/07/2008, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/25 Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>:
Pit Capitain wrote:
2008/7/25 Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com>:
[#309172] Ruby 1.9.0-3 is released — "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui@...>
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[#309173] Interesting Array Initialization Typo — Maciej Tomaka <lunatyq@...>
When initializing for example : [ [1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 2] ]
[#309180] Monitor Error when Joining Threads — Bryan Richardson <btrichardson@...>
Hello all,
[#309182] RubyZipFIleSystem - help with simple task — Nathan Loyer <4namlet@...>
I am new to Ruby, but am doing my best. I have a zip file that I'm
[#309194] hexdump (#171) — "Matthew Moss" <matthew.moss@...>
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[#309221] rubyforge forgets I'm logged in — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Has anyone else run into some problems of rubyforge forgetting that you
[#309243] local constant — aidy <aidy.lewis@...>
Hi,
On Jul 26, 4:19=A0pm, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
[#309254] head/tail split for path — Trans <transfire@...>
I need to split a path by head/*tail.
[#309256] DSL/thread design question — David Masover <ninja@...>
I am writing something which I am calling "suits" for now -- the idea
[#309273] Faster Marshaling? — Greg Willits <lists@...>
Exploring options... wondering if there's anything that can replace
On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:58 PM, Greg Willits wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
On Sunday 27 July 2008 00:07:10 Greg Willits wrote:
David Masover wrote:
[#309278] deaf grandma. — Houston Barnett-gearhart <americanpragmatic@...>
i picked up ruby 2 days ago & have been bustlin' chris pine's "learn to
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Houston Barnett-gearhart
thank you, martin, for your reply. i took your advice & wrote an
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:32 PM, houston barnett-gearhart
Martin, is there any way I can get in touch with you outside of the
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:51 PM, houston barnett-gearhart
I don't know why this is so hard for me to get my head around, but
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:32 PM, houston barnett-gearhart
Martin, I believe I've successfully written the first portion of Chris
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:30 PM, houston barnett-gearhart
Martin, regardless of having been away I don't need another loop, I seem
[#309289] net-ssh and remote shell — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)
[#309300] "nested" methods — Stefan Buhr <buhrmi@...>
Hi there,
[#309311] problems with throw/catch (newbie) — Thomas Luedeke <thomas.luedeke@...>
I'm trying to do something that I think would be pretty trivial. I've
Thomas Luedeke wrote:
Joshua Ballanco wrote:
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Joshua Ballanco wrote:
[#309332] Camping not saving @state — Fred Phillips <fophillips@...>
I have a sqlite3 database with the sessions table and schema set up
Okay the problem was with ActiveRecord 2.1, downgrading to 2.0.2 fixed
[#309335] Is it possible to change the superclass of one class dynamic — Sean Liu <seanliugm@...>
[#309339] Single Line replacement in file — Raveendran Jazzez <jazzezravi@...>
Hi All,
[#309352] "or" and "and" — es_ <esuomikim@...>
Hi,
[#309367] Gsup with variable when replacing — Romain LOMBARDO <touffik@...>
Hi people,
[#309387] Win32ole equivalent for Mac OS X — Nathan Loyer <4namlet@...>
Is there an equivalent library for the Win32ole library on the PC? I
Nathan Loyer wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Nathan Loyer <4namlet@gmail.com> wrote:
Glen Holcomb wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Nathan Loyer <4namlet@gmail.com> wrote:
[#309394] IO.pos bug? — andrey <Andrey.D.Nikitin@...>
irb(main):001:0> f = File.new("/etc/host.conf")
[#309395] what is %w — Joel Saltzmanjoelh <talk@...>
What is the %w used for in ruby?
[#309434] Running methods in parallel — Skave Rat <skaverat@...>
is there a way to parallelize ruby methods?
[#309441] Concurrent Ruby? — Kyle Murphy <kmurph79@...>
Apologies if this is a really stupid question, I am new to programming,
On Monday 28 July 2008 23:17:22 Kyle Murphy wrote:
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On Tuesday 29 July 2008 06:01:10 Florian Gilcher wrote:
[#309442] and and or in case — Pe, Botp <botp@...>
Hi All, apologies in advanced if this has been discussed already
Pe単a,
RnJvbTogQmVuIEJyaWdodHdlbGwgW21haWx0bzpuZW9naWE0QGdtYWlsLmNvbV0gDQojIFRoZSB3
On 29 Jul 2008, at 08:47, Pe=F1a, Botp wrote:
[#309443] Another Deaf Grandma Topic, different issue — Phee Luche <phee92@...>
I'm trying to learn using a tut, and I'm getting stuck on one of the
Phee Luche wrote:
Ben Brightwell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Phee Luche <phee92@gmail.com> wrote:
[#309455] Can't connect to MySQL server — Darshana Gangwal <darshna.17@...>
Hi
[#309463] about class in module — Kyung won Cheon <kdream95@...>
-- test1.rb --
[#309469] net/ssh unsupported algorithm: DSS1withDSA (OpenSSL::PKey::PKeyError) — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)
I've migrated from CRuby to jRuby with the same code for ssh connection.
[#309472] libxml: is it possible not to use doctype declaration? — "ruud grosmann" <r.grosmann@...>
hi all,
ruud grosmann wrote:
hi Phlip,
ruud grosmann wrote:
hi Phlip,
ruud grosmann wrote:
To start, the rdoc documentation can be found at
Whoops, those were supposed to be class variables. What you really want
[#309505] OT: comp.lang.ruby spam — aidy <aidy.lewis@...>
Hi,
[#309520] how regenerate ri data? — matt@... (matt neuburg)
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=25981:
[#309529] Time.rb path — "Matias Pablo Brutti" <matiasbrutti@...>
V2hpbGUgd29ya2luZyBvbiBhIHByb2plY3QgSSBjYW1lIGFjcm9zcyB3aXRoIGEgcHJvYmxlbSB0
[#309570] Q: Documentation for PGconn — "G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS" <grk@...>
Is there any documentation for PGconn (or postgres/postgres)? When I
[#309572] Re: How to do methodsoverloading in — Jeff Moore <jcmoore@...>
Sunny Bogawat wrote:
I think I'm right in saying that a OOP does not require method overloading?
Shadowfirebird wrote:
>> Given that Ruby is typeless, I'm not sure how it would be otherwise.
Hi --
[#309589] Suggestions for improving a trivial tag parser — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...>
Hi folks,
What about
On 30-07-2008, at 13:53, Robert Dober wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rolando Abarca <funkaster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Gregory Brown
[#309590] My simple downloader doesn't work — "Mateusz Tybura" <wujciol@...>
Hello,
It still don't work:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:29 AM, WujcioL <WujcioL@gmail.com> wrote:
[#309599] Loop behavior not understood (newbie) — Thomas Luedeke <thomas.luedeke@...>
My coding looks like this:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Luedeke
Gregory Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Luedeke
Gregory Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Thomas Luedeke
[#309627] gc doesn't collect? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Any ideas why:
The thing with garbage collection (in most languages, I don't know about
[#309646] super with block — Lou Zell <lzell11@...>
Hi all,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Lou Zell <lzell11@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
Mikael, I can deal with that, I'll swap out the $'s with block params.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Lou Zell <lzell11@gmail.com> wrote:
[#309649] webgen 0.5.1 released — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>
Hey everybody!
[#309650] Help me with this Numerology code please... — Web Reservoir <webreservoir@...>
Hi,
Web Reservoir wrote:
Web Reservoir wrote:
[#309653] Cool Projects — Alasdair Bell <alasdair@...>
So, anyone working on something awesome?
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Alasdair Bell <alasdair@seedcamp.com> wrote:
[#309670] Input redirection in ruby — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...>
Hello
[#309676] How to get special directories? — Niklas Baumstark <niklas.baumstark@...>
hi all,
Niklas Baumstark wrote:
> "/" should get you the home folder in linux
Hi,
On Jul 31, 2008, at 07:57 AM, Niklas Baumstark wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
[#309711] File manipulation — Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@...>
So, I am currently working on a MUD (Online multiplayer text based game,
On 31.07.2008 20:22, Tim Mcd wrote:
Hi Robert,
[#309723] Needing help with which to_s gets called — John Winters <john@...>
I'm a beginner learning Ruby and I've hit something which I can't find
John Winters wrote:
Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
[#309739] RubyGems - update made a mess - help needed with Windows — Becca Girl <cschall@...>
I just did a system update of RubyGems and it just broke my rake test. I
On Aug 1, 12:25=A0am, Becca Girl <csch...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Luis Lavena wrote:
Ryan Davis wrote:
Re: Is it possible to dynamically extend Test::Unit test cases?
David,
test/spec or shoulda or rspec can be used to provide a more "dsl-ish" front
end for your tests.
Bret
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:39 AM, David Mitchell <monch1962@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Phlip,
>
> The reason I need to do this is that we've got a small Watir-based DSL
> written to allow us to drive an app through code that looks sort of
> like:
> login("fred", "password")
> click_tab("Reports")
> click_drilldown("Asia")
> open_report("Some report title")
> ...
>
> It essentially lets us construct test cases in something like plain
> English.
>
> We built a few test cases using the DSL with a "normal"
> Test::Unit::TestCase approach, then showed them to our testers.
> Everyone was pretty excited about it; we can generate our own test
> data using the DSL, the testers can comprehend the DSL without having
> to dig into the nuts and bolts of the application itself, we can
> finally build a full regression test suite for an application that's
> basically a pig to drive using normal automation testing tools like
> QTP, the scripts we write using the DSL are easy to maintain over
> time, and everyone's happy.
>
> Once our testers got a look at that, they pointed out what should've
> been obvious all along: we can now get actual business users to write
> a lot of the test cases using the DSL, rather than using specialist
> testers. Rather than writing huge business requirements documents
> that have a habit of getting misinterpreted, we can get the business
> users to create what are essentially test cases using the DSL, and
> that gives the developers a reasonably unambiguous description of how
> things are supposed to work - we'll save a whole lot of time and money
> we're currently wasting translating between business-speak and
> developer-speak.
>
> The only problem was the "scaffolding" code; apparently business users
> are incapable of writing/extending code that looks like
>
> class Testcases < Test::Unit::TestCase
> def test_1
> <<DSL stuff here>>
> end
> def test_2
> <<more DSL stuff here>>
> end
> ...
> end
>
> but they are capable of creating a bunch of test cases in individual
> files that contain nothing but the DSL commands. They'll use e.g.
> Notepad to create test cases in individual files that look like:
> login('fred', 'password')
> click_tab('Reports')
> ...
>
> Fine with me - I just work here...
>
> So now I've got a situation where we're going to have business users
> generating loads of test cases using our DSL (without any of that
> nasty complicated Test::Unit::TestCase stuff), saving them in flat
> files, and we need to run be able to run some unspecified number of
> test cases that will change over time. What I need to be able to do
> is something like:
>
> Dir.glob("app_test_cases/**/*.app).each do |test_script_file|
> <<grab the content of each file, build a new Test::Unit::TestCase
> wrapper around it and eval it>>
> end
>
> That's no problem - I've got most of this working already; all I
> needed was the way to dynamically add new test cases, and you've now
> given me a way to do that. I'll have a play with it tomorrow.
>
> Thanks again
>
> David Mitchell
>
> 2008/7/15 phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>:
> > David Mitchell wrote:
> >
> >> The test cases run as expected, but now I need to add some new test
> >> cases at run time.
> >
> > Why? Just curious...
> >
> >> What I think I need to do is something like this
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > class MySuite < Test::Unit::TestCase
> >
> > [:concept_1, :concept_2, :concept_3].each do |thang|
> > define_method "test_#{thang}" do
> > assert_concept thang
> > end
> > end
> >
> > def assert_concept(thang)
> > # now convert the thang symbol to a real thing and test it
> > end
> >
> > end
> >
> >> t.send(:define_method, "test_defined_at_run_time", "")
> >
> > You are trying too hard. define_method is easier than that to call.
> >
> > And note I put most of the processing _outside_ the define_method. Its
> only
> > job is to construct a test case name and pass in a thang. This helps make
> > assert_concept() more comprehensible.
> >
> > --
> > Phlip
> >
> >
>
>
--
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist