[#321574] Regular Expressions — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

Hi everyone.

15 messages 2008/12/01

[#321655] Ruby cgi script — ZippySwish <fischer.jan@...>

I put "script.rb" into the cgi-bin folder of my webhost, but nothing's

12 messages 2008/12/02

[#321733] FFI 0.2.0 — "Wayne Meissner" <wmeissner@...>

Greetings Rubyists.

20 messages 2008/12/03

[#321920] Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>

Any idea how to do that?

25 messages 2008/12/04
[#321924] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...> 2008/12/04

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@

[#322011] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Ron Fox <fox@...> 2008/12/05

See http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Process.html#M003012

[#322016] Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration — Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...> 2008/12/05

Everybody automatically assumes that rubyists are using Linux - sadly,

[#321969] Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Vito Fontaine <vito.matro@...>

I am a beginner with Ruby who was interested in writing some programs.

15 messages 2008/12/04
[#321975] Re: Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2008/12/04

On 04.12.2008 22:43, Vito Fontaine wrote:

[#321984] Re: Are there any Ruby Technical Writers here? — Vito Fontaine <vito.matro@...> 2008/12/05

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#322014] Proximity searches in Ruby — Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>

Does Ruby have the ability to perform proximity searches on data. For

14 messages 2008/12/05
[#322056] Re: Proximity searches in Ruby — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2008/12/05

No proximity searches with 1.8.. you would need a full fledged text

[#322073] shoes 2 (raisins) is go. — _why <why@...>

Salutations and hi.

13 messages 2008/12/06

[#322260] Help on algorythm — Helder Oliveira <hrpoliveira@...>

Guys i have been trying to make this algorythm but with no sucess, can

13 messages 2008/12/09
[#322261] Re: Help on algorythm — "Glen Holcomb" <damnbigman@...> 2008/12/09

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Helder Oliveira <hrpoliveira@gmail.com>wrote:

[#322283] Completely new programmer lacks direction — Cameron Carroll <ubernoobs@...>

Hi. I recently picked up a beginning ruby book, having only lightly

17 messages 2008/12/09

[#322285] compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

Hi. I want to take two files that are supposed to be identical, then ook

12 messages 2008/12/09
[#322301] Re: compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2008/12/09

Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:

[#322306] Re: compare 2 text files - check for difference - Please help — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...> 2008/12/09

require 'diff/lcs/Array'

[#322417] why Hash corrupts 'key' object ? — Dmitry Perfilyev <dmitry1976@...>

Hi, I have next script:

13 messages 2008/12/10

[#322464] Q: FFI and C++? — Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>

If I want to wrap a C++ library using FFI, can it cope with the name

14 messages 2008/12/11

[#322516] Invoking Ruby code from a low-level language? — Alex Fulton <a.fulton@...>

Hi, my sincerest apologies if this question has already been answered

11 messages 2008/12/11

[#322529] parallel method return value — Louis-Philippe <default@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2008/12/12

[#322566] How to run background processes (more than 1 worker) parallely. — "Deepak Gole" <deepak.gole8@...>

Hi

10 messages 2008/12/12

[#322624] singleton methods vs. meta instance methods — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

If I understand the ruby object model correctly, then an object's

15 messages 2008/12/13

[#322705] ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String — Tom Link <micathom@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2008/12/14

[#322710] Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I'm getting crazy to get a theorically easy substitution:

16 messages 2008/12/14

[#322819] Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>

Hi,

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[#323877] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2009/01/03

[#323903] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/01/04

[#324011] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2009/01/05

[#324442] Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2009/01/10

On Jan 9, 9:26=A0pm, "Charles L." <aquas...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#322987] Using ruby hash on array — Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>

I would like to process some data from an array and using hash to

14 messages 2008/12/17

[#323085] Ruby and Rails supported on 10gen — "Jim Menard" <jim.menard@...>

http://www.10gen.com/blog/2008/12/ruby-support-on-10gen

11 messages 2008/12/18

[#323166] Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187) — Matthew Moss <matt@...>

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11 messages 2008/12/19

[#323204] get first and last line from txt file - how? — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

I have txt file with date/time stamps only. I want to grab the first

19 messages 2008/12/20
[#323205] Re: get first and last line from txt file - how? — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2008/12/20

Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:

[#323207] Re: get first and last line from txt file - how? — "Yaser Sulaiman" <yaserbuntu@...> 2008/12/20

I'm just wondering..

[#323273] how to make installing Ruby easier for amateurs — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>

Greetings!

21 messages 2008/12/22

[#323312] Name that data structure! — Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@...>

I'm using a data structure that I'm sure has been implemented and

18 messages 2008/12/22
[#323314] Re: Name that data structure! — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2008/12/22

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com> wrote:

[#323342] Are all Ruby built-in objects thread safe? — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>

Are all built-in objects thread safe? For example, if I have an array

23 messages 2008/12/23
[#323346] Re: Are all Ruby built-in objects thread safe? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/12/23

Hi,

[#323519] What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — "Yaser Sulaiman" <yaserbuntu@...>

According to Wikipedia, a monkey patch[1] is:

36 messages 2008/12/27
[#323813] Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — Jg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...> 2009/01/02

Phlip wrote:

[#323832] Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/01/02

Hi --

[#323644] Why Ruby? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

I have never seen or heard of Ruby in a corporate context. The single

35 messages 2008/12/30

[#323668] Ruby 1.9.1 RC1 is released — "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui@...>

Hi, folks

21 messages 2008/12/30

Re: libxml-ruby is too crazy

From: "Sebastian W." <swittenk@...>
Date: 2008-12-13 07:34:25 UTC
List: ruby-talk #322627
Okay, I will admit that I was trolling a bit when I wrote that original 
post. I apologize -- it was the end of a frustrating day. Sorry for 
injecting negativity on the forums.

That having been said, my source of frustration was that yes, okay - 
there is a new version of the gem out. I ran my scripts, things broke 
and I started looking through my code to find the problem. The error 
message I got when calling "save" was that I was passing a boolean where 
a hash was expected.

So, sure enough, I dig through my trusty RDocs to find the documentation 
for the newest version of the gem. Here is where things went wrong for 
me and I posted in the forums -- the API doc for save, at least when I 
looked, had not been updated to reflect the new signature for the "save" 
method. So...at least in my view of programming, if you do something as 
significant as changing the signature of a method as VITAL as "save", 
you had better update that in the API doc.

It's good that there's a libxml-ruby forum - and I did check it for 
threads but nothing jumped out - but I don't find it reasonable to 
expect folks to have to go to the forum for updates on such a 
significant refactoring. If you change something as important as "save", 
that MUST be updated in the RDoc. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Should I go dig through the source code if I think the RDoc is wrong? 
Well...on the one hand, I'm sort of forced to do that, but I don't think 
that should be required. Just because we're using open source software 
doesn't mean that people should get sloppy. If you bothered to write the 
doc once, you've created an expectation that it's going to stay updated.

Did this turn into another rant? I suppose, but I just wanted to get it 
out there.

Again -- I just want to emphasize that libxml-ruby has been a great tool 
in my toolbelt for the past few months. It's blazingly fast, gets stuff 
done fast, and I've generally found it to be pretty easy to work with 
(as easy as XML lends itself to be, but we'll let that go by). So...I 
guess the frustration also came from me being used to the library being 
so great. When something that has been tried and true suddenly blows up, 
I get a little miffed. Whether or not that's justified is something we 
can debate, I guess. : )



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