[#329967] Ruby beginner Problem — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

I get the following error message when running the code below:

18 messages 2009/03/01
[#329972] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga@...> 2009/03/01

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Zayd Connor <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:

[#329973] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@...> 2009/03/01

Thanks Lasitha that worked perfect. I'm slowly getting more comfortable with

[#329975] Re: Ruby beginner Problem — Justin Collins <justincollins@...> 2009/03/01

Zayd Abdullah wrote:

[#330022] Delegating class methods — abc <arcadiorubiogarcia@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2009/03/01

[#330038] Rub 1.9: "inline rescue" doesn't work? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, is there any explanation for the folowing big difference between the sa=

11 messages 2009/03/01

[#330067] passing a method as a paramter — Sarah Allen <sarah@...>

I'm probably missing some basic Ruby syntax, but I'm relatively new to

13 messages 2009/03/02

[#330097] Compiling a Ruby app — Sharagoz -- <blashyrkh1@...>

Hi

22 messages 2009/03/02
[#330193] Re: Compiling a Ruby app — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/03/03

Sharagoz -- wrote:

[#330209] expanding environment variable — Daniel Schoch <trash@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2009/03/03
[#330212] Re: expanding environment variable — Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...> 2009/03/03

On [Tue, 03.03.2009 23:28], Daniel Schoch wrote:

[#330246] fixnum problem plz help — Guy Dols <guy_dols@...>

hy

14 messages 2009/03/03

[#330287] Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...>

Ruby has definite positives over Java and even other scripting

29 messages 2009/03/04
[#330292] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...> 2009/03/04

On Mar 4, 10:02=A0am, "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyfo...@dagnon.net> wrote:

[#330322] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...> 2009/03/04

Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

[#330388] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...> 2009/03/05

On Mar 4, 3:32=A0pm, "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyfo...@dagnon.net> wrote:

[#330401] Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies? — "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyforum@...> 2009/03/05

Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

[#330363] Ruby -Question about Framewroks — jazzez ravi <jazzezravi@...>

Hi All,

12 messages 2009/03/05

[#330383] add a new line after, w/txtfile thats comma delimited — Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>

How do you add a new line after you have split a text file with

16 messages 2009/03/05

[#330387] Ruby - Imperative Language Features? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

The Wikipedia entry for Ruby says:

12 messages 2009/03/05

[#330601] how to un-ragged a 2D array? — Phlip <phlip2005@...>

Rubies:

12 messages 2009/03/07

[#330630] Can I access or find a object from it's instance variable? — Aki Wakabayashi <zzyzx2001@...>

Hello.

14 messages 2009/03/08

[#330638] OO style tutorials? — Paul Archer <paul@...>

I'm pretty new to Ruby, and while I've read (and mostly get) several books

20 messages 2009/03/08

[#330665] What are the 5 most innovative ruby projects/libraries? — Camille Roux <roux.camille@...>

Hi,

27 messages 2009/03/08

[#330701] Ruby OpenGL Gears example that uses shiny and velvet GLSL shaders — Michael Brooks <michael.brooks@...>

Hello:

11 messages 2009/03/09
[#330722] Re: Ruby OpenGL Gears example that uses shiny and velvet GLSL shaders — Matthias Reitinger <reitinge@...> 2009/03/09

Michael Brooks wrote:

[#330718] MacRuby 0.4 — Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2009/03/09

[#330954] How Many hours in A day — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

I have a very simple ? How many hours in a day should someone who is new

17 messages 2009/03/11

[#330990] How to read a charecters from and image? — rails and rails only <mjayakumar2k6@...>

16 messages 2009/03/12
[#330993] Re: How to read a charecters from and image? — pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) 2009/03/12

rails and rails only <mjayakumar2k6@yahoo.com> writes:

[#330994] Re: How to read a charecters from and image? — Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@...> 2009/03/12

Stop that! He's probably looking to crack CAPTCHAs.

[#331216] does IO.read block? — Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>

Hi All,

16 messages 2009/03/15
[#331218] Re: does IO.read block? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2009/03/15

On 15.03.2009 23:02, Michael Malone wrote:

[#331307] Trying to install Fox, FXRuby, and IFMapper on Mac OS X — kpkilburn@...

I can't seem to find a specific answer on this...

12 messages 2009/03/16

[#331326] Dynamically extending modules once they have been included — pete@...373.net

It doesn't seem possible to dynamically extend modules once they have

14 messages 2009/03/17

[#331371] free RAM problem — Edouard Dantes <edrd.dantes@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2009/03/17

[#331411] hpricot 0.7 — _why <why@...>

Please enjoy a succulent, new Hpricot. A bit faster, some Ruby 1.9

25 messages 2009/03/17

[#331476] Complex sort of matrix possible, e.g. like Excel? — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2009/03/18

[#331478] REXML get specific element — Pierre Pat <theyojimbo@...>

All,

15 messages 2009/03/18

[#331568] Modulo ? — Zayd Connor <devrubygem@...>

Maybe i need to get some sleep, but can someone explain how modulos

16 messages 2009/03/19

[#331628] Passing a named function instead of a code block? — Paul Jungwirth <once@9stmaryrd.com>

Hello,

13 messages 2009/03/20
[#331630] Re: Passing a named function instead of a code block? — Matthias Reitinger <reitinge@...> 2009/03/20

Paul Jungwirth wrote:

[#331760] Ruby GUI Libs — ntwrkd <ntwrkd@...>

Is there a nicer GUI framework for Ruby other than RubyGoo?

12 messages 2009/03/21

[#331793] Newbie needs help with first project — Daniel Dale <dochappy@...>

I was told about Ruby several weeks ago and started my journey lol. I've

15 messages 2009/03/22
[#331796] Re: Newbie needs help with first project — Stefan Codrescu <fixxie.wits@...> 2009/03/22

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Daniel Dale <dochappy@gmail.com> wrote:

[#331803] convert PNG to hex — jeljer te Wies <jeljer@...>

Hey people! ..

20 messages 2009/03/22

[#331899] Test::Unit - same test, different "args" — "Luke St.Clair" <secureboot@...>

I need to run the same unit test case more than 10 times (around 150

14 messages 2009/03/23

[#331924] Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...>

Hello there!

20 messages 2009/03/24
[#331931] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — gcristelli <giovanni.cristelli@...> 2009/03/24

On 24 Mar, 04:21, Felipe Coury <felipe.co...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#331938] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Giovanni / Rob,

[#331940] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Some more discoveries...

[#331941] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@...> 2009/03/24

Just as a FYI, it works!!!

[#331948] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/03/24

On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Felipe Coury wrote:

[#365126] Re: Mimic AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT functions in Ruby — Joshua Mckinney <joshmckin@...> 2010/07/01

Having no luck with this. Getting the following error when generating

[#331930] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

44 messages 2009/03/24
[#332078] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "Andrew S. Townley" <ast@...> 2009/03/25

Hi Ara,

[#332095] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2009/03/25

[#332141] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "Andrew S. Townley" <ast@...> 2009/03/25

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:23 +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:

[#332160] Re: [ANN] tagz-5.0.0 — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2009/03/26

[#331971] : HOWTO start irb on a different object — Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>

I wanted to have irb start its session on an object other than the

10 messages 2009/03/24

[#332023] ruby and 2D graphics — Philip Müller <me@...>

Hi everybody,

22 messages 2009/03/24
[#332029] Re: ruby and 2D graphics — Philip Müller <me@...> 2009/03/24

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:08:34 +0100, Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.ru>

[#332112] Parsing xml — Arun Kumar <arunkumar@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2009/03/25
[#332115] Re: Parsing xml — "Peter Zotov" <whitequark@...> 2009/03/25

Quoting "Arun Kumar" <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>:

[#332116] Re: Parsing xml — Arun Kumar <arunkumar@...> 2009/03/25

Peter Zotov wrote:

[#332118] Re: Parsing xml — "Peter Zotov" <whitequark@...> 2009/03/25

Quoting "Arun Kumar" <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>:

[#332206] Update latest Ruby Version 1.9 on Mac OSX — Thomas Khaipi <sayakyi@...>

Dear All,

14 messages 2009/03/26

[#332357] testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

55 messages 2009/03/28
[#332418] Re: testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2009/03/29

Ara Howard wrote:

[#332405] Ruby 1.9, OS X, command line: negative string size (ArgumentError) — Bartlomiej Owczarek <bartlomiej@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2009/03/29

[#332474] Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, in Ruby 1.8 there is an issue when adding more and more Symbols

27 messages 2009/03/30

[#332520] When to use instance variables @ — Steve Dogers <stevedogers@...>

Hi, I have a couple questions about instance variables in Ruby.

20 messages 2009/03/30

[#332547] Localmemcache-0.2.0: The beauty of memcached. For local data. Blazingly fast. — "Sven C. Koehler" <schween@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2009/03/30

[#332624] Move over, Phusion, here comes the *real* Enterprise Edition! — Jg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>

Hi!

20 messages 2009/03/31

Re: CGI newbie

From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-03-05 23:43:09 UTC
List: ruby-talk #330459
Phlip wrote:
>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ruby+cgi+tutorial&l=1
>>
>> ;-)
>
> For future reference, posting that thing is the equivalent of saying 
> "I am too stupid to be able to exceed Google's average answer for this 
> newsgroup's topic."

Or it's the equivalent of saying "Your question is so simple it could be 
answered with a Google search, yet you didn't give us the courtesy of 
going that far, and instead chose to bother hundreds of people with YOUR 
problem."

And let's face it, that link is a lot tamer than, say:

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

If you want an answer that exceeds Google's first few search results, 
ask a more intelligent question in the first place, and ask it _after_ 
making a decent effort to find the answer yourself. In fact, here's a 
detailed guide on how to ask:

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Common points that a few newbies every _day_ seem to miss:

 - Try to find the answer yourself
   There's Google, there's archives, there's manuals, there's FAQs. 
Those exist for a reason -- to save your time and ours. Even if you 
can't find it, showing that you at least made an effort will get you a 
bit more respect than "Help, I'm a newbie!"

 - Choose your forum carefully
   Ruby is not Rails. Ask on the Rails group for Rails questions.

 - Follow common etiquette for that forum
   Most of the people who care hate top-posting. If you can't be 
bothered to spend a few seconds pressing the fscking arrow keys, why 
should I bother to spend a few seconds reading your post?

 - Don't post homework questions
   There seems to be a _lot_ of these on this forum, and they get 
answered, unfortunately...
   Look, I'm not against helping, but if you're clearly asking me to do 
your job for you, I feel like I should be asking to get paid. And if 
this actually is your homework (or your job), from some of the questions 
asked, I hope you get fired (or fail), and go back to school (or take 
the class over) -- not because I hate you, but because your employer 
(current or future) deserves better than a Paula Bean:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_brillant_paula_bean.aspx

This particular question is one of a pattern: "I'm a newbie at foo." 
Clearly you are, what was the question? "How do I learn foo?" Sigh...

For future reference, keep in mind that you are asking a favor from 
quite possibly hundreds of people you've never met. Meet us halfway. 
It's probably faster to STFW anyway than it is to ask us -- so it's not 
just inconsiderate laziness, it's foolish, self-defeating, inconsiderate 
laziness.

And here's a hint: If you at least say "I looked, but I couldn't seem to 
find a good tutorial. This page <link> looks outdated..." That at least 
shows you tried, and is likely to get a friendlier response.

By the way, I have no problem being called out if I start asking stupid 
questions, too. But frankly, I think a harsh answer like lmgtfy, or even 
justfuckinggoogleit or STFW, is better than no answer at all. Better for 
the user, because they might get their question answered, and they might 
even pick up some Google skills. Better for us, because the same person 
won't be back tomorrow asking the exact same question, wondering why it 
never gets answered.

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