[#32926] Re: smallest non-zero number (and other limits) — Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
It looks like it has been a year since I first posed
[#32935] RDoc error(?) with template file — moontoeki@... (Sung Moon)
RDoc error(?) with template file
moontoeki@aol.com (Sung Moon) writes:
[#32948] Ruby + XML Proposal — Bryan Murphy <bryan@...>
The following is a sample application that will be included with the next revision
[#32950] for the FAQ maybe — "Aidan Mark" <ahumphr@...>
I didn't see this in the FAQ but its a frequently asked newbie question.
[#32995] RDoc parsing error — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Hello,
[#33003] Variable types — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
I know I'm new to ruby, but I feel obligated to share my dislike for
[#33034] bash-like command splitting (for regexp wizards) — Massimiliano Mirra <info@...>
I am trying to split a command line containing several commands that
On Feb 3, Massimiliano Mirra said:
[#33039] range and modification — moontoeki@... (Sung Moon)
Two things to think about.
[#33048] Terminology (was: Soap4r/Webrick question) — " JamesBritt" <james@...>
[#33065] http://www.loveruby.net/ with Netscape 4.79 — Stephan K舂per <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Hi all,
[#33076] Mixins and accessing earlier definitions. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Having read in the archives that super can be used to go back in the
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, ts wrote:
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#33093] CVS commit emails — Martin Man <Martin.Man@...>
hi all,
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:00:43PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#33094] Ruby bug? IO.close doesn't check for error — Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
It is possible for fclose() to fail (for example, when fclose() needs
[#33096] newbie: Array element conversion — Mark Probert <probertm@...>
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mark Probert wrote:
[#33128] Progress with Ruby/Tk — Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Thanks for all the help and pointers that people have given me, as you
[#33129] Ruby and Swig?? — Markus Jais <mjais@...>
hello
[#33135] some dbi questions (probably postres specific) — fastjack@... (Martin Maciaszek)
I'm playing around with dbi and postgres. After a while two problems remained
[#33174] generating Ruby libs from XML Schemas — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
[#33200] Regexp::Parser ported to Ruby...? — "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <jeffp@...>
I'm writing a Perl module for the parsing and handling of regexes. It's
This would be very interesting and a way to play with RegExp's in Ruby in
[#33238] mkmf, extconf.rb — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Further to my suggestions in Ruby-Talk:31391, about adding methods to
Hi,
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
[#33242] favicon.ico — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, I wrote:
Thomas Hurst wrote:
[#33281] MYSql on Windows - help! — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#33286] returning multiple values from a method — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
irb(main):001:0> def foo; return 1,2,3; end
[#33292] shuffle (all possible sequences) — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
[#33309] XML::SAX2 critique — msergeant@... (Matt Sergeant)
This isn't exactly a critique of XML::SAX2 per-se, but more of the
[#33321] ruby and vim — fastjack@... (Martin Maciaszek)
To edit my ruby code I rediscovered the good old vim. vim6 even has
[#33324] Class variable bug — "Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@...>
It seems that the following class variable bug feel through the
Hi,
[#33344] Adding rockit power to Rdoc? — Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
While researching the feasibility of teaching Rdoc to
[#33356] SMTP and attachments — Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@...>
Does anyone know how to send an e-mail with attachments using net/smtp?
[#33381] Latest CVS/Win32 build error — "Bob Calco" <robert.calco@...>
Anyone:
[#33382] FXRuby: how to create a static status line? — Jos Backus <josb@...>
I'm trying to create a status line at the bottom of the application window
[#33396] Setting the Ruby — "Aidan Mark" <ahumphr@...>
Around 1994 I was writing a book on Perl. I mentioned this to an old timer.
[#33419] Re: NT Service — "Marty Alchin" <gulopine@...>
>I used FireDaemon some years back and it worked so well that if you
[#33421] iowa segfault — Paul Brannan <paul@...>
I know there used to be a mailing list for iowa, but listbot seems to be
[#33423] Need help with ruby-gimp please — Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Hi:
[#33435] Reg: tiny contest: who's faster? (add_a_gram) — grady@... (Steven Grady)
> My current solution works correctly with various inputs.
grady@xcf.berkeley.edu (Steven Grady) writes:
[#33462] Google programming contest.... — "Mikkel Bruun" <lists@...>
Im a little amazed that this hasn't been brought up yet...
[#33470] 'is a quine' is a quine — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
In case anyone's bored, how about another of those nice challanges?
[#33499] SourceForge Foundry for Ruby ? — Richard Harlos <quadzero@...>
Hi, folks. I'm interested to know if any of you would support the
[#33500] Ruby Embedded Documentation — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Hi,
> Now, I am using Ruby on Linux, and I have downloaded Ruby version
>>>>> "L" == Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> writes:
In message "Re: Ruby Embedded Documentation"
[#33518] Ruby interpreter's stability (hosting companies etc.) — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
[#33535] Class variable madness — stern@... (Alan Stern)
Can someone tell me what's going on here? Or has this already been fixed?
[#33556] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.0 — "triptych" <triptych@...>
The latest version of ByteCodeRuby is now available from the RubyVM project
[#33560] syntax across languages — Pixel <pixel@...>
http://merd.net/pixel/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html
[#33570] array diff — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
[#33607] Ruby browser similar to Smalltalk browsers? — John Clarke <clarkej@...>
Hi,
[#33615] Name resolution in Ruby — stern@... (Alan Stern)
I've been struggling to understand how name resolution is supposed to
[#33617] choice of HTML templating system — Paul Brannan <paul@...>
I am not a web developer, nor do I pretend to be one.
[#33619] make first letter lowercase — sebi@... (sebi)
hello,
sebi wrote:
On Feb 11, Tobias Reif said:
[#33630] Help with i18n and RDoc, please.... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#33672] rubycentral.com down? — J Anthony <jeremy@...>
pardon me if this is the wrong place to ask, but what's up with
[#33695] Ruby/Tk reference — Nemesis@... (Nemesis)
Hi everyone, I'm searching for a free ruby/tk reference (I've found one
[#33702] eruby + apache and charset — Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>
Hello all,
[#33711] Ruby Developer's Guide has arrived :-) — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hi --
[#33712] Ruby performance on the Language Shootout — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
I haven't taken a look at the Great Computer Language Shootout page for
[#33715] Possible bug -- ruby cvs (1.7.2 2002-02-10) interpreter seg fault — Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
If I run this script
[#33731] simple XML parsing (greedy / non-greedy — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Suppose I had this text
[#33743] qualms about respond_to? idiom — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hi --
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
Hi --
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
Paul Brannan <paul@atdesk.com> writes:
[#33761] (CSV) text file processing... — bobx@... (Bob)
I am looking for an example of (csv)text file processing. What I am
[#33848] "Powered by Ruby" banner — Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>
Hello Ruby folks,
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Yuri Leikind wrote:
A modest submission:
Kent Dahl wrote:
On 2/15/02 5:54 AM, "yet another bill smith" <bigbill.smith@verizon.net>
i just don't understand why it didn't show up! dhtml/javascript, ok, but a
On 2/15/02 7:16 AM, "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Chris Gehlker wrote:
In message <3c6e5e01_1@spamkiller.newsgroups.com>,
* Rob Partington (rjp@browser.org) wrote:
Thomas Hurst wrote:
In message <20020216140007.GB75585@voi.aagh.net>,
* Rob Partington (rjp@browser.org) wrote:
Thomas Hurst wrote:
In article <3C6CFCCA.5AD5CA67@scnsoft.com>, Yuri Leikind wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
On 2/15/02 10:59 AM, "Leon Torres" <leon@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
hello ppl,
[#33851] Ruby and .NET — Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>
I have been reading a bit about .NET for the last couple of days and must say
Erik B虍fors wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:22:31PM +0900, Stephan J. Schmidt wrote:
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:27, Patrik Sundberg wrote:
Javier Fontan wrote:
Sean Middleditch wrote:
[#33885] File.open weirdness — "Craig Files" <craig_files@...>
Hi,
[#33899] building ruby — Mark Probert <probertm@...>
[#33915] Keyword arguments (Was: File.open weirdness) — Martin Man <Martin.Man@...>
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:59:23AM +0900, Craig Files wrote:
[#33923] SWIG/Ruby woes with g++ 3.0 — Luigi Ballabio <ballabio@...>
> I just found a problem with generated SWIG code and g++ 3.0.3 which
Lyle,
> I don't think that this is fixed yet. (I attempted to email
[#33943] CGI::Session problems — dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
Argh!
[#34013] hash as key in hash — Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
I don't understand why this doesn't work. Can anyone help?
[#34024] Compiled companion language for Ruby? — Erik Terpstra <erik@...>
Hmmm, seems that my previous post was in a different thread, I'll try
[#34030] LocalJumpError when defining each — Matt Kussow <junk@...>
The following script seems to work with ruby version 1.6.5, but not with 1.6.6.
Hello --
[#34036] The GUI Returns — "Horacio Lopez" <vruz@...>
Hello all,
[#34037] dump/load a class that has C and Ruby data — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#34048] Formatting — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
In C, people use printf to format data nicely for display. In Java,
[#34053] OOP overhead (Was: tiny contest...) — Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
I got stuck in a tar baby re: the tiny contest proposed by Tobias. I was
Richard Harlos wrote:
On 2/17/02 3:45 PM, "Sean Russell" <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:
[#34077] Problems with Ruby in C — Joakim Andersson <tyrak@...>
Hi,
[#34099] net/http or webfetcher with pasworded urls — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Hi, some help please ...
[#34107] x =~ /pat/, "return type?" — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
When I say:
[#34131] alias danger — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#34162] Epic4/Ruby — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Rejoice, for you no longer have to put up with that evil excuse for a
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:31:01AM +0900, Thomas Hurst wrote:
Hi,
In article <1014312459.984378.27488.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>,
[#34179] expect.rb vs Expect (Tcl)... — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I have had a look at the expect.rb in the 1.6 library.
[#34183] Rinn and Perl CORBA::ORBit — Selander@...
Good evening,
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:57:43AM +0900, Selander@thomases.com wrote:
[#34185] Operator overloading and multiple arguments — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
I'm trying to overload the '<=' operator in a class in order to use it for
[#34189] FalseClass / TrueClass singleton methods? — Brad Hilton <bhilton@...>
Hello,
"Brad Hilton" <bhilton@vpop.net> wrote in
[#34217] Ruby for web development — beripome@... (Billy)
Hi all,
Hey!
[#34228] RE: Ruby, PickAxe, FreeRIDE mentioned on BYTE magazine — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...>
Horacio Lopez wrote:
[#34284] advice on dispatch tables — Mark Probert <probertm@...>
[#34294] Java JNI and Ruby — "Rich Kilmer" <rich@...>
I know about the JRuby project, but has anyone looked in to just embedding
[#34304] strings embedded inside strings — Paul Brannan <paul@...>
I've seen this on the ML before, but searching the ruby-talk archives I
[#34315] eRuby and require — beripome@... (Billy)
Hi all,
[#34329] ruby booting? — Chris Moore <kurisu@...>
This is gonna sound crazy but how hard would it be to make ruby boot as
[#34335] patch to allow dump/load to work on DATA objects — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
[#34350] FAQ for comp.lang.ruby — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2001-2-18)
> Ruby selectively integrates many good ideas taken from Perl,
Hi,
matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
[#34361] REBOL vs Ruby — beripome@... (Billy)
Hi all,
Hi,
[#34375] Setting the Ruby continued — <jostein.berntsen@...>
Hi,
Also VERY important:
Hello,
Ok, I can't take part in developing ruby not becouse of the language
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[#34379] including files in eruby — Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek@...>
I'm using eruby on some of my web pages. Now they became big and
[#34405] Now I'm really confused! — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
I'm still struggling with producing RubyStudio. The following example
[#34412] dang it, CGI::Session is broken again — dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
What is wrong with this? I swear this was working yesterday, but now
[#34446] eRuby and erb — moontoeki@... (Sung Moon)
I would like to use either of eRuby or erb for my web design.
[#34457] Help with blocks? — "Pattern-chaser" <patternChaser@...>
I'm trying to learn Ruby; just started. I like what I've understood
[#34467] recursive require — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
I'm having a really odd thing happen with two files that mutually
[#34489] IPSocket.getaddress and signals — Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
[#34503] special characters — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi all,
Urban Hafner wrote:
[#34515] Rubicon Failure — Urban Hafner <ruby-lists@...>
Hey hey,
[#34517] Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
[#34554] dispatching and class references — Mark Probert <probertm@...>
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:19:19AM +0900, Mark Probert wrote:
[#34566] Ruby's Future — Paulo Schreiner <paulo@...>
Hello, folks, what are the plans for the future of ruby? What new
Speaking of which, I remember and argument I brought up (and some of
Hi,
[#34597] rdoc/xml questions — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
> From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com]On Behalf Of Dave
james@rubyxml.com writes:
james@rubyxml.com wrote:
[#34631] Object/Memory Management — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>
I'm new to Ruby and the community here (I've been learning Ruby for a grand
"Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com> writes:
On 2/23/02 5:15 PM, "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
"Sean Middleditch" <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> wrote in message > On Sat,
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 04:22, Sean O'Dell wrote:
[#34661] Re: Newbie question — "roktas" <roktas@...>
Hi,
Hello --
Hi!
[#34682] duplicate method name — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
I just found a case in a test file where i had two tests of the same
Hi Ron.
[#34732] Hash.each block parameters — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>
I ran into a problem where I should have called .each_key for a hash, but I
[#34735] TestUnit 0.1.1 — <nathaniel@...>
From the README:
[#34748] Assignment Rules — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>
I'm trying to get in my head what the rules about assignment are. So far
[#34750] inconsistence in class complex — juergen.katins@... (Juergen Katins)
While translating the book "Programming Ruby" by Dave Thomas and
[#34753] 9 years with Ruby — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Hi,
[#34762] Directory copy recursively — kwatch@... (kwatch)
Hi,
[#34777] CONFIG['(site|ruby)libdir'] policies? — Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
On my system (Debian Linux), Config::CONFIG['sitelibdir'] and
Massimiliano Mirra <list@chromatic-harp.com> writes:
[#34778] Re: Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Alexander writes:
[#34780] RCR 65: IO orthogonalization, improved reusability — "Thomas Sdergaard" <tsondergaard@...>
I hope I'm not violating the rubiqette by cross-posting this from
"Thomas Sdergaard" <tsondergaard@speakanet.com> writes:
[#34791] Style Question — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
So I'm building this set theory library. The "only" object is supposed
[#34823] Can't get stderr to flush — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
[#34835] Standard preambles and prompting on standard error? — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
I've been testing RubyStudio against the sample programs that come with
[#34857] TestUnit 0.1.3 — <nathaniel@...>
From the README:
[#34896] New OS for Old Mac — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
I have an old Mac 6400 that I want to use as a server. Ruby for the old Mac
[#34905] Rescue Clause — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>
Where all can you put rescue clauses? Are these correct:
[#34912] RCR?: parallel to until: as_soon_as — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Hi,
Hi --
[#34920] RE: Kernel.system incongurity - Windows98 — "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>
[#34941] rpkg 0.3 pre-release and beta testers — Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
I've just uploaded rpkg 0.3 to www.allruby.com/rpkg/rpkg-0.3.tar.gz
[#34961] RE: RCR 65: IO orthogonalization, improved reusability — =?Windows-1252?Q?Thomas_S=F8ndergaard?= <tsondergaard@...>
"Thomas Sdergaard" <tsondergaard@speakanet.com> wrote in message
[#34971] RDoc and XML - opinions please — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#34972] OT A Question on work styles — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
As a Mac baby I just had to step through ruby in GDB *from the command line*
Hi,
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:21:24 GMT, Chris Gehlker <gehlker@fastq.com> wrote:
[#34998] Matrix class in Ruby — jasa <jasa@...>
Hi,
[#35008] RDoc with XML — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#35015] Time Comparison — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>
I am using the time object to compare times between two files and I'm
Hi
Re: Object/Memory Management
"Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
news:m24rk720r4.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
> "Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com> writes:
>
> > I wanted to use Ruby for my hosting system configuration, web site
> > development and also plug it into an XML-over-HTTP application server I
> > wrote/use. Currently, I'm using a blend of script languages and C++,
and I
> > want to replace my Perl stuff with something more reliable/readable in
terms
> > of being object-oriented and which uses exception-handling. Speed isn't
> > that much of an issue, but memory resources are. Memory gets out of
hand
> > quick already, so when I think of all those strings/numbers/objects
lying
> > around as zombie objects after I'm done in a block of code, it sort of
gets
> > my hair standing up.
>
> It needn't. Ruby is pretty conservative - you'll find it garbage
> collects frequently (too frequently sometimes, but that's a
> performance issue).
>
> A suggestion. Write a typical application in Ruby, then run it and
> monitor its memory usage. Watch the patterns. And see if its
> acceptable.
>
> One last thought. Many (the majority?) of server-side web applications
> are currently being written in the COBOL of the New Millennium, Java.
> And Java uses garbage collection to dispose of objects. Seems to work
> fine for these applications. C# (and the clr) use garbage collection
> too. It seems to be with us to stay.
That's where I am now. My evaluation period is moving on to actually
converting some of my existing Perl applications. I'm converting because
I'm really unhappy with the error handling in Perl and I just don't trust
some of my stuff right now. I can think of lots of things that can go
wrong, and I know my scripts won't handle certain system errors well, and I
don't really want to obfuscate them further with tons of error-checking. I
want to give them exception-handling instead; I can handle errors with much
less code that way.
I never did Java. I always used C++ for the heavy stuff, and my own script
language for the HTML-embedded stuff (also stack-based object cleanup). I
would have used PHP more if it were happier in our virtual hosting
environments. I'm actually going to evaluate eRuby next and see if I can
chroot it and/or see how hard it would be to convert it for that purpose
and, if that pans out, start doing all the HTML-embedded stuff in Ruby.
Probably no matter what, the heavy stuff will still be in C++.
Actually, I don't mind garbage collection happening too frequently.
Processor usage goes up and then back down. I was worried that memory usage
would go up and not back down soon enough for the other processes to be
happy with Ruby around.
Sean
Well, I'm giving it a go right now.