[#345382] Nice algorithm for 'spreading' indexes across an array? — Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>

Little ruby algorithm puzzle...

13 messages 2009/09/01

[#345437] clogger 0.0.4 - configurable request logging for Rack — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

* http://clogger.rubyforge.org/

10 messages 2009/09/02
[#345439] Re: [ANN] clogger 0.0.4 - configurable request logging for Rack — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...> 2009/09/02

2009/9/2 Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>:

[#345446] rdoc — Oleg Puchinin <ruby_talk@...>

Hello !

17 messages 2009/09/02
[#346260] Ruby 1.9 rdoc never ends (Re: rdoc) — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2009/09/12

Oleg Puchinin wrote:

[#346267] Re: Ruby 1.9 rdoc never ends (Re: rdoc) — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2009/09/12

[#346276] Re: Ruby 1.9 rdoc never ends (Re: rdoc) — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/09/12

Ryan Davis wrote:

[#345493] What licensing info is needed in code headers? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

Disclaimer: I know that some of you live in jurisdictions that do not

10 messages 2009/09/02

[#345535] Simple New Ruby Programmer Problem with $stdin.gets — Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>

I'm having difficulty getting any command to work to pick up input from a

14 messages 2009/09/02

[#345573] Type checking function parameters — Nick Green <cruzmail.ngreen@...>

More or less all my functions look something like

22 messages 2009/09/03
[#345593] Re: Type checking function parameters — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/09/03

On 3 Sep 2009, at 05:04, Nick Green wrote:

[#345606] Re: Type checking function parameters — Paul Smith <paul@...> 2009/09/03

My first stab at some Ruby started like this too.

[#345667] Re: Type checking function parameters — Nick Green <cruzmail.ngreen@...> 2009/09/03

OK...

[#345676] Re: Type checking function parameters — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/09/04

On 3 Sep 2009, at 23:47, Nick Green wrote:

[#345687] Re: Type checking function parameters — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2009/09/04

On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

[#345745] Re: Type checking function parameters — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/09/04

On 4 Sep 2009, at 03:56, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#345828] Re: Type checking function parameters — spiralofhope <spiralofhope@...> 2009/09/06

Along the lines of this thread..

[#345835] Re: Type checking function parameters — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/09/06

Hi --

[#345773] Rubyscript instead of javascript — Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>

30 messages 2009/09/05
[#345970] Re: Rubyscript instead of javascript — Jg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...> 2009/09/08

David Masover wrote:

[#345774] how to compare two object instances? is "m1.to_yaml.eql?(m2.to_yaml)" a good way? — Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>

Hi,

8 messages 2009/09/05

[#345848] i need to strip \n and nil — Bigmac Turdsplash <i8igmac@...>

im sending files back and forth form a client and a server using

16 messages 2009/09/06

[#345883] Executing system commands in threads under Ruby 1.8.6 — vhaerun vh <etaern@...>

I tried to write a script that makes use of external binaries. Each

17 messages 2009/09/07
[#345889] Re: Executing system commands in threads under Ruby 1.8.6 — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2009/09/07

2009/9/7 vhaerun vh <etaern@yahoo.com>:

[#345893] Re: Executing system commands in threads under Ruby 1.8.6 — vhaerun vh <etaern@...> 2009/09/07

Here's a link to the question I asked on SO:

[#345901] Re: Executing system commands in threads under Ruby 1.8.6 — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/09/07

On 7 Sep 2009, at 09:55, vhaerun vh wrote:

[#345904] Re: Executing system commands in threads under Ruby 1.8.6 — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...> 2009/09/07

Hi,

[#345886] Ruby 1.9, Rubygems, and .gemspec warnings — Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>

Hi all

14 messages 2009/09/07

[#346018] Tutorial challenge program help — Chris Logan <t-logan3@...>

Hello all im really new to ruby as in a few days and getting into it. i

20 messages 2009/09/09
[#346023] Re: Tutorial challenge program help — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2009/09/09

Chris Logan wrote:

[#346027] Re: Tutorial challenge program help — Chris Logan <t-logan3@...> 2009/09/09

7stud -- wrote:

[#346091] How Are Variables Kept Independent of Each Other Yet Pass Values? — Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>

Somewhere in the several books I've been learning Ruby from there was the

14 messages 2009/09/10
[#346096] Re: How Are Variables Kept Independent of Each Other Yet Pass Values? — venkatesh Peddi <venkat.peddi@...> 2009/09/10

[#346106] Asynchronous http POST? — Ivan Shevanski <ocelot117@...>

Hey everyone, I'm new to Ruby and to the mailing list, so go easy.

14 messages 2009/09/10
[#346166] Re: Asynchronous http POST? — Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...> 2009/09/10

[#346193] populating a hash from an array using inject — Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>

I was looking at this problem on Stack Overflow (this one:

12 messages 2009/09/10

[#346324] module to overwrite method defined via define_method — Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@...>

Hi List !

17 messages 2009/09/13
[#346326] Re: module to overwrite method defined via define_method — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/09/13

Hi --

[#346328] Re: module to overwrite method defined via define_method — Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@...> 2009/09/13

David A. Black wrote:

[#346347] FasterCSV.foreach loop — Dot Baiki <dot_baiki@...>

Hello community,

16 messages 2009/09/13

[#346367] .map.with_object(3){|v|v+3} #=> 3 Is this a bug? — ErMaker <ermaker@...>

At ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-18 trunk 24186) [i386-mswin32_90]

15 messages 2009/09/14

[#346383] Pre-allocate large amount of memory? — Carsten Gehling <carsten@...>

I've created a small daemon, that serves certain data very fast to our

15 messages 2009/09/14
[#346404] Re: Pre-allocate large amount of memory? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2009/09/14

2009/9/14 Carsten Gehling <carsten@sarum.dk>:

[#346419] whats the best way to package deploy a Ruby app to windows??? (no UI, also standalone if possible) — Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>

Hi,

8 messages 2009/09/14

[#346452] Command line — Rong <ron.green@...>

Please forgive this stupid newb question but I thought it was possible

13 messages 2009/09/15

[#346500] Array of Hashes in an array of hashes - Complicated! — Matt Brooks <mattbrooks@...>

I have an unique problem that I can't solve. I am sorry this is long,

17 messages 2009/09/15
[#346505] Re: Array of Hashes in an array of hashes - Complicated! — John W Higgins <wishdev@...> 2009/09/15

Morning Matt,

[#346508] Re: Array of Hashes in an array of hashes - Complicated! — Matt Brooks <mattbrooks@...> 2009/09/15

Hi John,

[#346510] Re: Array of Hashes in an array of hashes - Complicated! — John W Higgins <wishdev@...> 2009/09/15

Matt,

[#346515] Re: Array of Hashes in an array of hashes - Complicated! — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2009/09/15

+1 on object creation

[#346574] string to array — Re BR <rereis@...>

Hello all,

15 messages 2009/09/16

[#346611] block issues... — Dylan Lukes <revenantphoenix@...>

In the following block, each plugin in the constant hash PLUGINS is

17 messages 2009/09/16

[#346621] Monkey Patching 2 Methods, Overrides One Method, Not The Other — MaggotChild <hsomob1999@...>

I'm monkey patching 2 methods of an existing module: some_method() and

18 messages 2009/09/17

[#346645] Mucking about with dynamically adding methods to objects — Paul Smith <paul@...>

I've been toying with Ruby for a while, but only now am I beginning to

12 messages 2009/09/17
[#346652] Re: Mucking about with dynamically adding methods to objects — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2009/09/17

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Paul Smith <paul@pollyandpaul.co.uk> wrote:

[#346665] Re: Mucking about with dynamically adding methods to objects — Paul Smith <paul@...> 2009/09/17

2009/9/17 Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:

[#346676] Value isn't appended in puts statement(appears on next line) — Mrmaster Mrmaster <mrsolarlife@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2009/09/17
[#346678] Re: Value isn't appended in puts statement(appears on next line) — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2009/09/17

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Mrmaster Mrmaster

[#346759] Newbie: Are Ruby regexp's a subset, superset, or equal to Perl's? — Harry <simonsharry@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2009/09/18

[#346774] Exceptional Rails Developer — Richard Price <richard.price100@...>

Hi all,

32 messages 2009/09/18
[#347451] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Ilan Berci <ilan.berci@...> 2009/09/30

Richard Price wrote:

[#347452] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Zundra Daniel <zundra.daniel@...> 2009/09/30

At least he didn't say "Rockstar" or "Ninja"

[#347476] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/09/30

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 01:45:27 pm Zundra Daniel wrote:

[#347477] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Greg Donald <gdonald@...> 2009/09/30

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

[#347482] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/10/01

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 06:54:16 pm Greg Donald wrote:

[#347514] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/10/01

On 1 Oct 2009, at 01:32, David Masover wrote:

[#347551] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/10/01

On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:20:26 am Eleanor McHugh wrote:

[#347592] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/10/02

On 1 Oct 2009, at 19:15, David Masover wrote:

[#347596] Re: Exceptional Rails Developer — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2009/10/02

[#346775] Determining if a file is binary or text — James Masters <james.d.masters@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2009/09/18

[#346891] Incrementing variable names in a loop? — Matt Brooks <mattbrooks@...>

I have a function write_log that takes in a string and it prints to

10 messages 2009/09/21

[#347044] the great ruby editor and ide roundup — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al_hzYODcgxwdG9tUFhqcVVoUDVaLTlqT2YtNjV1N0E&hl=en

26 messages 2009/09/23
[#347045] Re: the great ruby editor and ide roundup — Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...> 2009/09/23

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:

[#347058] How do you limit the line length of the output commands? Where is pqueue library documented? — Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>

There must be an easy way to solve the problem of controlling the length of

12 messages 2009/09/23

[#347156] Roulette & rand — Semih Ozkoseoglu <ozansemih@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2009/09/25
[#347161] Re: Roulette & rand — Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...> 2009/09/25

On Friday 25 September 2009, Semih Ozkoseoglu wrote:

[#347164] Re: Roulette & rand — Semih Ozkoseoglu <ozansemih@...> 2009/09/25

Hi again Stefano,

[#347171] Re: Roulette & rand — Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...> 2009/09/25

On Friday 25 September 2009, Semih Ozkoseoglu wrote:

[#347173] Re: Roulette & rand — Semih Ozkoseoglu <ozansemih@...> 2009/09/25

Stefano, Paul,

[#347179] Re: Roulette & rand — Semih Ozkoseoglu <ozansemih@...> 2009/09/25

Hi again,

[#347193] How to remove duplicate elements in a 2D array — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2009/09/25

[#347202] Backporting Enumerator.new { ... } to Ruby 1.8.7 — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

Hello, good people of ruby-talk.

12 messages 2009/09/25

[#347260] handling of regexp objects that aren't referenced by variables, arrays, tables or objects — ThomasW <x.zupftom@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2009/09/27

[#347354] How do I use nitpick — "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>

I was looking for a program like lint in C and came across nitpick. I

23 messages 2009/09/29
[#347366] Re: How do I use nitpick — Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...> 2009/09/29

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Michael W. Ryder

[#347397] Re: How do I use nitpick — "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...> 2009/09/29

Hassan Schroeder wrote:

[#347398] Re: How do I use nitpick — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2009/09/29

[#347364] Group by unique entries of a hash — Ne Scripter <stuart.clarke@...>

I have two data sets loaded into a hash to give the following output

15 messages 2009/09/29

[#347443] Get current working copy version in subversion/git — Anthony Metcalf <anthony.metcalf@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2009/09/30

[#347456] SystemStackError: stack level too deep > how make it deeper? — Joshua Muheim <forum@...>

Hi all

15 messages 2009/09/30
[#347459] Re: SystemStackError: stack level too deep > how make it deeper? — Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...> 2009/09/30

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch> wrote:

Re: newcomer to Ruby

From: Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>
Date: 2009-09-02 23:53:58 UTC
List: ruby-talk #345561
In spite of its flaws, I also recommend "Beginning Ruby".  I have a copy and
am using it to learn Ruby after wandering off in left field with "why the
lucky stiff"s online introduction that was entertaining but left a lot of
explaining missing.  Walk through your code, guys, as you are explaining how
things work!!!

There are several weaknesses to Peter Cooper's book.  The book has a slight
bias for the UNIX environment.  I work on Windows XP, so that was an issue
for me.  The $stdin.gets is not explained.  Because of the enormous number
of topics, you get a feeling of being rushed and that a lot is being left
out because of a need to scope in.  I felt that in Chapter 12 that Peter
could have tied things together better than he did.  What calls what and how
his Eliza look alike all hangs together.  Important details are left out,
such as what is happening  in "class TestWordPlay < Test::Unit::TestCase" on
p. 316.  Yes, he mentions that you are establishing a hierarchy between a
new class TestWordPlay" and Ruby system classes Test::Unit, (to use the
assist methods), and TestCase in an earlier part of the book, but it would
be nice to have reminded the student of that.  It would have been nice to
have some reference to "regulare expressions" outside of the book.  If you
go to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression, you find
code characters such as the "^" that mean something entirely different than
how it is used in Ruby.  Here is a web site to test any Ruby regular
expression you write, http://www.rubyxp.com/    I felt that the chapter 8 on
Error Handling had poor examples.  And I wish that authors could avoid "foo"
in every book they write as it is never clear to a beginner if that means
something special and the joke is dead.  Catching and throwing are not
clearly explained on page 187.  Too rushed.  The author needs to walk the
reader through each line of code and explain what is happening, instruction
by instruction.  The book talks about escapting out of a block but the
example is not IN a block with code outside of it to show the logic flow
properly.  Would be nice to have a chapter on queues, heaps, stacks, and
dequeues.  Maybe applied to searching a binary tree.  While Part 3 is
interesting, I will be picking up a separate book on Ruby on Rails to learn
that.  So 62 pages could have been saved there to make room for that
essential but missing chapter on Ruby data structures.  Chapter 15 on
Networking, Sockets, and Daemons....scream!...overload!  Put Chapters 13
through 16 in a separate book.  And improve the index.

Today I also put in an oder for Algorithms in a Nutshell by George Heineman,
and Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby)
by Dave Thomas, which is the latest edition of "the pickaxe book".

Learning a new language is always work.  Even after my 127th language it is
work.  (Actually I lost count after I went over 100 back in the 1980s.)

No Sam

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:02 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  John Kearney wrote:
> > I am a newcomer to programming and wish to explore ruby. Can anyone
> > recomend
> > a book for this purpose.
>
> I think you have to buy "the pickaxe" for the language reference, which
> is about 1/3 of the book.  For a good tutorial, I would recommend
> "Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional(2nd ed)".
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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