[#33161] Call/CC and Ruby iterators. — olczyk@... (Thaddeus L Olczyk)

Reading about call/cc in Scheme I get the impression that it is very

11 messages 2002/02/05

[#33242] favicon.ico — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

19 messages 2002/02/06
[#33256] Re: favicon.ico — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/06

[#33435] Reg: tiny contest: who's faster? (add_a_gram) — grady@... (Steven Grady)

> My current solution works correctly with various inputs.

17 messages 2002/02/08

[#33500] Ruby Embedded Documentation — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2002/02/10
[#33502] Re: Ruby Embedded Documentation — "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...> 2002/02/10

> Now, I am using Ruby on Linux, and I have downloaded Ruby version

[#33615] Name resolution in Ruby — stern@... (Alan Stern)

I've been struggling to understand how name resolution is supposed to

16 messages 2002/02/11

[#33617] choice of HTML templating system — Paul Brannan <paul@...>

I am not a web developer, nor do I pretend to be one.

23 messages 2002/02/11

[#33619] make first letter lowercase — sebi@... (sebi)

hello,

20 messages 2002/02/11
[#33620] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2002/02/11

sebi wrote:

[#33624] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <jeffp@...> 2002/02/11

On Feb 11, Tobias Reif said:

[#33632] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2002/02/12

[#33731] simple XML parsing (greedy / non-greedy — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

Suppose I had this text

14 messages 2002/02/13

[#33743] qualms about respond_to? idiom — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hi --

28 messages 2002/02/13
[#33751] Re: qualms about respond_to? idiom — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/02/13

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[#33754] Re: qualms about respond_to? idiom — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/02/13

Hi --

[#33848] "Powered by Ruby" banner — Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>

Hello Ruby folks,

78 messages 2002/02/14
[#33909] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/14

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Yuri Leikind wrote:

[#33916] RE: "Powered by Ruby" banner — "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@...> 2002/02/15

A modest submission:

[#33929] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — yet another bill smith <bigbill.smith@...> 2002/02/15

Kent Dahl wrote:

[#33932] OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...> 2002/02/15

On 2/15/02 5:54 AM, "yet another bill smith" <bigbill.smith@verizon.net>

[#33933] RE: OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@...> 2002/02/15

i just don't understand why it didn't show up! dhtml/javascript, ok, but a

[#33937] Re: OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...> 2002/02/15

On 2/15/02 7:16 AM, "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> wrote:

[#33989] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2002/02/16

Chris Gehlker wrote:

[#33991] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Rob Partington <rjp@...> 2002/02/16

In message <3c6e5e01_1@spamkiller.newsgroups.com>,

[#33993] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...> 2002/02/16

* Rob Partington (rjp@browser.org) wrote:

[#33925] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek@...> 2002/02/15

In article <3C6CFCCA.5AD5CA67@scnsoft.com>, Yuri Leikind wrote:

[#33956] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/15

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Martin Maciaszek wrote:

[#33851] Ruby and .NET — Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>

I have been reading a bit about .NET for the last couple of days and must say

53 messages 2002/02/14

[#34024] Compiled companion language for Ruby? — Erik Terpstra <erik@...>

Hmmm, seems that my previous post was in a different thread, I'll try

12 messages 2002/02/16

[#34036] The GUI Returns — "Horacio Lopez" <vruz@...>

Hello all,

33 messages 2002/02/17

[#34162] Epic4/Ruby — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>

Rejoice, for you no longer have to put up with that evil excuse for a

34 messages 2002/02/18

[#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

10 messages 2002/02/18

[#34217] Ruby for web development — beripome@... (Billy)

Hi all,

21 messages 2002/02/19

[#34350] FAQ for comp.lang.ruby — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2001-2-18)

15 messages 2002/02/20

[#34375] Setting the Ruby continued — <jostein.berntsen@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2002/02/20
[#34384] Re: Setting the Ruby continued — Paulo Schreiner <paulo@...> 2002/02/20

Also VERY important:

[#34467] recursive require — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I'm having a really odd thing happen with two files that mutually

18 messages 2002/02/21

[#34503] special characters — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2002/02/22

[#34517] Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

16 messages 2002/02/22

[#34597] rdoc/xml questions — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2002/02/23

[#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

44 messages 2002/02/23

[#34682] duplicate method name — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I just found a case in a test file where i had two tests of the same

16 messages 2002/02/24
[#34687] Re: duplicate method name — s@... (Stefan Schmiedl) 2002/02/24

Hi Ron.

[#34791] Style Question — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

So I'm building this set theory library. The "only" object is supposed

13 messages 2002/02/25

[#34912] RCR?: parallel to until: as_soon_as — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2002/02/26

[#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*

20 messages 2002/02/28

[#35015] Time Comparison — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>

I am using the time object to compare times between two files and I'm

21 messages 2002/02/28

RE: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging

From: Wyss Clemens <WYS@...>
Date: 2002-02-26 15:23:08 UTC
List: ruby-talk #34876
Hi Robert,
>it seems to leave a process running in the system

A "ruby.exe" process?
What Ruby version are you running?
My "old" 1.6.3 has no problems alike.
Neither with excel nor with word.
Clemens

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert C. Martin
> [mailto:u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b.@.o.b.j.e.c.t.m.e.n.t.o.r.d.o.t.c.o.m]
> Sent: Dienstag, 26. Februar 2002 16:06
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging
> 
> 
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:39:25 -0500, Alexander Schofield
> <pcs3@mailhost.njit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I should have been clearer.  The goal is for the Ruby program
> to quit, leaving the Excel window on the screen.  The user can then
> look at the Excel window for as long as they like and then close it.
> By then the Ruby program is long gone.
> 
> So what I need is a way for the Ruby program to detach from the excel.
> program, and leave it running.
> 
> 
> 
> >Also 
> >excel.ActiveWorkbook.Close(0);
> >probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
> >
> >It seems like you were expecting a GC to clean up, in Ruby 
> it can, but
> >there are problems interfacing with other progs.  Try
> >ObjectSpace#define_finalizer for a destructor.
> >
> >"Robert C. Martin" wrote:
> >> 
> >> I have created a neat little ruby program that generates a useful
> >> graph in Excel.  I keep the program on my desktop and 
> doubleclick it
> >> whenever I want to see the graph.  Unfortunately, once I 
> invoke this
> >> program, it seems to leave a process running in the system.  After
> >> 20min or so, it will stop working.  What's more, it often prevents
> >> other OLE operations from working in other applications.  It can be
> >> fixed by a logout/logon.  I'm using windows 2000.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas?
> >> 
> >> Here is the code for AmazonAnalyzer.rb
> >> 
> >> require 'AmazonAnalyzer'
> >> require 'win32ole'
> >> 
> >> if __FILE__ == $0
> >>   periodLength = 7
> >>   if (ARGV[0] != nil) && (ARGV[0].to_i > 0)
> >>     periodLength = ARGV[0].to_i
> >>   end
> >> 
> >>   puts "Running Amazon Analyzer with period length #{periodLength}"
> >> 
> >>   analyzer = AmazonAnalyzer.new()
> >>   analyzer.analyzeFile("bookData", periodLength)
> >> 
> >>   excel = WIN32OLE.new("excel.application")
> >>   workbook = excel.Workbooks.Add()
> >> 
> >>   col = 'b'
> >>   row = "1"
> >>   analyzer.startDate.step(analyzer.endDate,periodLength) {|date|
> >>     excel.Range(col+row).value = date.to_s
> >>     col = col.succ
> >>   }
> >> 
> >>   isbns = analyzer.isbns
> >>   isbns.each {|isbn|
> >>     col='a'
> >>     row = row.succ
> >>     title = analyzer.getTitleFor(isbn)
> >>     title = title.split(':')[0]
> >>     title = title.split('(')[0]
> >>     title = title[0,40]
> >>     excel.Range(col+row).value = title
> >> 
> >>     periods = analyzer.getPeriodsForIsbn(isbn)
> >>     0.upto(periods.max) {|period|
> >>       col = col.succ
> >>       if periods.include?(period)
> >>         excel.Range(col+row).value =
> >>           analyzer.getRange(isbn,period).mean
> >>       end
> >>     }
> >>   }
> >>   xlLine=4
> >>   xlValue=2
> >>   xlRows=1
> >>   xlScaleLogarithmic = -4133
> >>   excel.Range("a1:"+col+row).Select()
> >>   excelChart = workbook.Charts.Add()
> >>   excelChart.type = xlLine
> >>   excelChart.plotBy=xlRows
> >>   excelChart.Legend.Font.Size=8
> >>   excelChart.Axes(xlValue).scaleType = xlScaleLogarithmic
> >>   excelChart.Axes(xlValue).minimumScale = 100
> >> 
> >>   workbook.saved = true
> >>   excel.visible = true
> >> end
> >> 
> >> Robert C. Martin  | "Uncle Bob"
> >> Object Mentor Inc.| unclebob @ objectmentor . com
> >> PO Box 5757       | Tel: (800) 338-6716
> >> 565 Lakeview Pkwy | Fax: (847) 573-1658           | 
www.objectmentor.com
>> Suite 135         |                               | www.XProgramming.com
>> Vernon Hills, IL, | Training and Mentoring        | www.junit.org
>> 60061             | OO, XP, Java, C++, Python     |
>> 
>> "One of the great commandments of science is:
>>     'Mistrust arguments from authority.'" -- Carl Sagan

Robert C. Martin  | "Uncle Bob"                   
Object Mentor Inc.| unclebob @ objectmentor . com
PO Box 5757       | Tel: (800) 338-6716         
565 Lakeview Pkwy | Fax: (847) 573-1658           | www.objectmentor.com
Suite 135         |                               | www.XProgramming.com
Vernon Hills, IL, | Training and Mentoring        | www.junit.org
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"One of the great commandments of science is:
    'Mistrust arguments from authority.'" -- Carl Sagan

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