[#349422] Date.parse('17:26:33 Oct 31, 2009') returns invalid date — Jacob Gorban <jacob.gorban@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2009/11/01

[#349519] All Gems Down? — Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>

I think I must be the only one using allgems.ruby-forum.com. It seems

17 messages 2009/11/03

[#349527] Ruby Inline over two times slower under 1.9 than under 1.8? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

I=E2=80=99m starting to dip my toes in non-Ruby coding (for performance rea=

13 messages 2009/11/03
[#349564] Re: Ruby Inline over two times slower under 1.9 than under 1.8? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2009/11/03

[#350186] Re: Ruby Inline over two times slower under 1.9 than under 1.8? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...> 2009/11/11

Ryan Davis:

[#350196] Re: Ruby Inline over two times slower under 1.9 than under 1.8? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/11/11

> — Shot, who’s off to play with RubyToC now. :)

[#350228] Re: Ruby Inline over two times slower under 1.9 than under 1.8? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...> 2009/11/11

Roger Pack:

[#349640] Odd : a = Hash.new(Hash.new) — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>

irb(main):086:0> a = Hash.new(Hash.new)

13 messages 2009/11/04
[#349641] Re: Odd : a = Hash.new(Hash.new) — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2009/11/04

Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

[#349685] Create HTML files using RUBY — Krithika San <skrithikaa@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2009/11/04
[#349690] Re: Create HTML files using RUBY — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/04

Krithika San wrote:

[#349691] Re: Create HTML files using RUBY — Krithika San <skrithikaa@...> 2009/11/04

Hi Marnen,

[#349692] Re: Create HTML files using RUBY — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/04

Krithika San wrote:

[#349720] Executing one of several ruby objects — "dhf0820@..." <dhf0820@...>

I am trying to write a program that will load a series of DSLs (ruby

11 messages 2009/11/05

[#349849] RCR enumerable extra into core — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>

I'm considering suggesting that the base functionality for the

25 messages 2009/11/08
[#349853] Re: RCR enumerable extra into core — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/11/08

Hi --

[#349996] Re: RCR enumerable extra into core — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2009/11/09

[#349888] Using Nokogiri — jzakiya <jzakiya@...>

I'm trying to scrape some data off websites using nokogiri

18 messages 2009/11/08

[#349926] FileString - request for comments — apeiros@...

Hi there

15 messages 2009/11/09
[#349931] Re: FileString - request for comments — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2009/11/09

On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:47 PM, apeiros@gmx.net wrote:

[#349987] Berkeley DB BDB Install on Windows — david <davidhooey@...>

I've been scripting in Ruby (and Rails) for about two years now, but

14 messages 2009/11/09

[#350007] Good or best way to allocate a large array — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Newbie here:

45 messages 2009/11/09
[#350017] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/09

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

[#350019] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/09

Marnen,

[#350023] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/09

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

[#350029] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/09

Marnen,

[#350042] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — "Florian Frank" <flori@...> 2009/11/09

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

[#350045] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/09

Florian,

[#350047] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2009/11/09

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

[#350048] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/10

Rick,

[#350053] Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array — Florian Gilcher <flo@...> 2009/11/10

Hi,

[#350142] Calling a subprocess with specific arguments and capturing its output? — Dan Q <quinxex@...>

Hi. I haven't written Ruby in a while, and I was wondering if someone

9 messages 2009/11/10

[#350147] Roman Numerals (Arrgh!) — Rick Barrett <chngth3wrld@...>

I have a homework assignment where I have to convert an inputted integer

22 messages 2009/11/10
[#350150] Re: Roman Numerals (Arrgh!) — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/11/11

On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Rick Barrett wrote:

[#350152] Re: Roman Numerals (Arrgh!) — Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...> 2009/11/11

On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Rob Biedenharn wrote:

[#350156] Re: Roman Numerals (Arrgh!) — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/11/11

On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Gennady Bystritsky wrote:

[#350159] Re: Roman Numerals (Arrgh!) — Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...> 2009/11/11

[#350290] DRYing a Regex — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

I've got a routine that works fine at building an array of upper-case

42 messages 2009/11/12
[#350311] Re: DRYing a Regex — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...> 2009/11/13

On Nov 12, 6:50=A0pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@graysoftinc.com>

[#350367] Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/14

RichardOnRails wrote:

[#350368] Re: Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2009/11/14

On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#350369] Re: Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/14

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#350415] Re: Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/11/14

Hi --

[#350426] Re: Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/14

David A. Black wrote:

[#350359] Trajectories — Thijs Leeflang <t_leeflang@...>

hello,

60 messages 2009/11/13
[#350444] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/14

Thijs Leeflang wrote:

[#350446] Re: Trajectories — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/11/15

On 14 Nov 2009, at 23:40, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#350447] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/15

Eleanor McHugh wrote:

[#350449] Re: Trajectories — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/11/15

On 15 Nov 2009, at 00:42, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#350451] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/15

Eleanor McHugh wrote:

[#350509] Re: Trajectories — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2009/11/15

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wr=

[#350523] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/15

Rick Denatale wrote:

[#350524] Re: Trajectories — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/11/15

On 15 Nov 2009, at 23:02, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#350529] Re: Trajectories — Todd Benson <caduceass@...> 2009/11/16

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Eleanor McHugh

[#350532] Re: Trajectories — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...> 2009/11/16

On 16 Nov 2009, at 01:12, Todd Benson wrote:

[#350538] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/16

Eleanor McHugh wrote:

[#350577] Re: Trajectories — Paul Smith <paul@...> 2009/11/16

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wr=

[#350593] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/16

Paul Smith wrote:

[#350600] Re: Trajectories — Paul Smith <paul@...> 2009/11/16

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:

[#350602] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/16

Paul Smith wrote:

[#350628] Re: Trajectories — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2009/11/17

On 11/16/09, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:

[#350629] Re: Trajectories — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/17

Caleb Clausen wrote:

[#350645] Re: Trajectories — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2009/11/17

On 11/16/09, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:

[#350454] How do I get a random number between two random numbers? — Alex Untitled <somebodydc691n@...>

I want to create a program that asks you to guess a number between two

12 messages 2009/11/15

[#350476] Traversing the contents of a proc (for a DSL) — Siemen Baader <siemenbaader@...>

Hi List,

11 messages 2009/11/15

[#350485] Using activerecord with mysql — Rob Mauchel <rmauchel@...>

Hi All,

13 messages 2009/11/15

[#350526] Newbie question: Defining a numeric type — Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>

I have a type which has a bit of internal magic, but fundamentally, I want

32 messages 2009/11/16

[#350535] Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class methods"? — Hunt Jon <jona.hunt777@...>

We all know Ruby really doesn't have class methods.

20 messages 2009/11/16
[#350539] Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/16

Hunt Jon wrote:

[#350682] Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/11/17
[#350689] Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/17

David A. Black wrote:

[#350698] Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/11/17

[#350590] Google Wave: A new type of "Ruby Quiz" ? — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>

Google Wave is, according to Google, "the new email". It combines email,

21 messages 2009/11/16

[#350594] something went wrong — Dev Tri <divyanshutri@...>

16 messages 2009/11/16

[#350669] What is the difference between the two following pieces of c — Doney Kaka <doneysr@...>

Don't really know where to go with this one, but I gotta know...

10 messages 2009/11/17

[#350679] Class inside a Method Body — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

I have a class that works fine if I declare it outside of anything. If

15 messages 2009/11/17

[#350705] Special characters in csv header using fastercsv — John Mcleod <john.mcleod@...>

Hello all,

17 messages 2009/11/17
[#350709] Re: Special characters in csv header using fastercsv — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2009/11/17

On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:24 AM, John Mcleod wrote:

[#350710] Re: Special characters in csv header using fastercsv — John Mcleod <john.mcleod@...> 2009/11/17

James,

[#350712] Re: Special characters in csv header using fastercsv — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2009/11/17

On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:38 AM, John Mcleod wrote:

[#350719] Re: Special characters in csv header using fastercsv — John Mcleod <john.mcleod@...> 2009/11/17

I'm not sure if the placement is correct but I'm still getting "Error

[#350810] Exact (LISP-ish) calculations in Ruby? — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>

Has anyone written a gem for exact calculations? The kind one would find

25 messages 2009/11/18

[#350829] Ruby/tk Help Please — Sean Ob <sob4ever33@...>

I am a complete beginner when it comes to programming and i need some

20 messages 2009/11/18
[#350830] Re: Ruby/tk Help Please — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/18

Sean Ob wrote:

[#350924] How to strip ruby comments in a ruby line of code? — Alexandre Mutel <alexandre_mutel@...>

Short description : My question is : do you know any available method,

17 messages 2009/11/19

[#350969] Re-opening an existing module and changing a method — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>

"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand."

11 messages 2009/11/19

[#351010] RubyForge gem index is no more — Tom Copeland <tom@...>

Hello -

14 messages 2009/11/20

[#351084] Distinct Sets (#225) — Daniel Moore <yahivin@...>

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

21 messages 2009/11/21
[#351111] Re: [QUIZ] Distinct Sets (#225) — brabuhr@... 2009/11/21

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Daniel Moore <yahivin@gmail.com> wrote:

[#351170] Re: [QUIZ] Distinct Sets (#225) — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/11/22

[#351171] Re: Distinct Sets (#225) — lith <minilith@...> 2009/11/22

> http://gist.github.com/240457

[#351279] Re: Distinct Sets (#225) — Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...> 2009/11/23

On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:51 AM, lith wrote:

[#351137] Order of evaluation and precedence — Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>

In _The Ruby Programming Language_, it is asserted that order of evaluation

11 messages 2009/11/21

[#351245] More on psuedo arrays; Better way? — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Newbie here:

15 messages 2009/11/23
[#351266] Re: More on psuedo arrays; Better way? — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/23

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

[#351267] Re: More on psuedo arrays; Better way? — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2009/11/23

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#351271] Re: More on psuedo arrays; Better way? — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/23

BC> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#351297] ideas for a "parameter sweep" program? — Diego Virasoro <diego.virasoro@...>

Hello,

11 messages 2009/11/23

[#351328] Warning: instance variable @foo not initialized — Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>

Running some simple tests with Prawn, I am getting thousands of lines

13 messages 2009/11/24

[#351367] Difference between << and += for Strings and Arrays. Bug? — Pieter Hugo <pieter@...>

Hi

14 messages 2009/11/24
[#351373] Re: Difference between << and += for Strings and Arrays. Bug? — Tom Stuart <tom@...> 2009/11/24

2009/11/24 Pieter Hugo <pieter@internext.co.za>:

[#351377] Re: Difference between << and += for Strings and Arrays. Bug? — Pieter Hugo <pieter@...> 2009/11/24

Hi Guys

[#351426] Ruby internals & other questions — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Is there a document or website that describes how Ruby works?

17 messages 2009/11/25

[#351448] Ruby a good choice for CGI? — Nick Dr <nickhannum@...>

Ive been messing around with Ruby for a few weeks now, and I'm fairly

28 messages 2009/11/25
[#351452] Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI? — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/11/25

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 01:12:19 pm Nick Dr wrote:

[#351453] Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI? — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/11/25

David Masover wrote:

[#351455] Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI? — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/11/25

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 02:38:32 pm Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

[#351456] Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI? — Judson Lester <nyarly@...> 2009/11/25

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:52 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

[#351461] Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI? — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/11/25

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 03:00:49 pm Judson Lester wrote:

[#351508] Ruby byte access to disk sectors like dd does — Gary Hasson <gary@...>

I have been unable to find any reference to Ruby methods that provide

16 messages 2009/11/26

[#351548] Class variables, instance variables, singleton; Ruby v. C++ — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Newb here coming from C++

31 messages 2009/11/27
[#351570] Re: Class variables, instance variables, singleton; Ruby v. C++ — Steve Wilhelm <steve@...831.com> 2009/11/28

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

[#351579] Re: Class variables, instance variables, singleton; Ruby v. C++ — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2009/11/28

Hi --

[#351586] Re: Class variables, instance variables, singleton; Ruby v. C++ — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2009/11/28

DAB> And of course this is one of the (many) problems with class variables:

[#351572] Local variables can't be accessed from outside, right? — Michael Winterstein <parzival@...>

Hi, I've been trying to figure out metaprogramming and I've mostly got

9 messages 2009/11/28

[#351637] Best way to distribute an app — Omar Campos <hypermeister@...>

Hello everyone,

16 messages 2009/11/29
[#351682] Re: Best way to distribute an app — David Masover <ninja@...> 2009/11/29

On Saturday 28 November 2009 09:03:12 pm Omar Campos wrote:

[#351655] ruby language parser in ruby — Brian Candler <b.candler@...>

I'm looking for a ruby language parser written in ruby, that I can hack

27 messages 2009/11/29

[#351753] have a problem with the loops and variable — Sajjad Po <magicc0d3r@...>

Hi Friends.

20 messages 2009/11/30
[#351756] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Michael Linfield <globyy3000@...> 2009/11/30

[#351788] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/12/01

Michael Linfield wrote:

[#351796] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Sajjad Po <magicc0d3r@...> 2009/12/01

thank you friends.

[#351798] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Sajjad Iran <magicc0d3r@...> 2009/12/01

I want create a program like this.

[#351833] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Michael Linfield <globyy3000@...> 2009/12/01

Sajjad Po wrote:

[#351835] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/12/01

Michael Linfield wrote:

[#351840] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Michael Linfield <globyy3000@...> 2009/12/01

For something small such as testing lets say a million keys, the

[#351842] Re: have a problem with the loops and variable — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2009/12/02

Michael Linfield wrote:

[#351755] Problem trying to get a constant with correct scope — Alexandre Mutel <alexandre_mutel@...>

I'm trying to get a constant inside a class (but i have to do it outside

11 messages 2009/11/30

Re: mtime.max

From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-11-02 08:31:00 UTC
List: ruby-talk #349464
2009/11/2 Derek Smith <derekbellnersmith@yahoo.com>:
>> Why do you convert the mtime (a Time object) to an integer? Time
>> objects are comparable. Try to omit the ".to_i" and compare the
>> Time objects that represent the mtimes.

> I feel like Im smoking crack and getting pissed off at the same time! No
> offence intended!
> This is still not working as I should be seeing
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Thr2009-10-291052.gz
> as the oldest file.
>
>
> =A0require 'time'
> =A0 =A0stats =3D Hash.new
> =A0 =A0DB_BKUP1.each do |dbfile|
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0stats[dbfile] =3D [File.stat(dbfile).mtime]
> =A0 =A0end
>
> =A0 =A0stats_sorted =3D Hash.new
> =A0 =A0stats_sorted =3D stats.sort { |x,y| x[1]<=3D>y[1] }
>
> =A0 =A0oldest =3D stats_sorted[0][1].first
> =A0 =A0p oldest
> =A0 =A0oldestfile =3D ''
> =A0 =A0stats.each_value do |v|
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if =A0#{v} < #{oldest}
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0oldest =3D v
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0oldestfile =3D stats.index(oldest)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0end
> =A0 =A0end
> =A0 =A0puts oldestfile
> =A0 =A0puts "exit"
> =A0 =A0exit
> end
>
> prod_DB_OS_bkup.rb: 108 lines, 2997 characters.
> [root@.../usr/local/vrep/OS_scripts]# ruby prod_DB_OS_bkup.rb
> Thu Oct 29 10:52:41 -0400 2009
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Thr2009-10-291054.gz
> exit
>
> [root@.../usr/local/vrep/OS_scripts]# ls -alrt /backups/prod*.gz
> -rw-r--r-- =A01 root =A0wheel =A038608780 Oct 29 10:52
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Thr2009-10-291052.gz
> -rw-r--r-- =A01 root =A0wheel =A038608793 Oct 29 10:54
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Thr2009-10-291054.gz
> -rw-r--r-- =A01 root =A0wheel =A038608802 Oct 29 11:00
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Thr2009-10-29110.gz
> -rw-r--r-- =A01 root =A0wheel =A038609193 Oct 30 10:42
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Fri2009-10-301042.gz
> -rw-r--r-- =A01 root =A0wheel =A038770872 Nov =A01 16:29
> /backups/prod_db_bkup_Sun2009-11-011629.gz

IMHO you're making your life too difficult: for the youngest file you
can use Enumerable#max_by:

09:25:28 Temp$ ls -lt | head -5
total 339
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users   1544 Nov  2 09:25
etilqs_y5Wb4Ntehb25BGev1S84-journal*
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users 184862 Nov  2 09:14 xphoon.bmp*
drwx------+ 2 RKlemme Domain Users      0 Nov  2 09:14 notes6030C8/
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 RKlemme Domain Users      0 Nov  2 09:11 hsperfdata_rklemme/
09:26:07 Temp$ allruby -e 'puts Dir["*"].max_by {|f| File.mtime f}'
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
etilqs_y5Wb4Ntehb25BGev1S84-journal
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-cygwin]
etilqs_y5Wb4Ntehb25BGev1S84-journal


For the oldest it is Enumerable#min_by:

09:26:41 Temp$ ls -lt | tail -5
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users    663 Feb  6  2009 to_h.rb*
-rwxr--r--  1 RKlemme Domain Users    548 Jan 27  2009 typo-finder.rb*
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users    390 Jan 20  2009 req.rb*
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users    426 Dec 11  2008 ds.rb*
-rwx------+ 1 RKlemme Domain Users    787 Dec  9  2008 drb-demo.rb*
09:26:47 Temp$ allruby -e 'puts Dir["*"].min_by {|f| File.mtime f}'
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
drb-demo.rb
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-cygwin]
drb-demo.rb

Even if you want the whole array sorted by mtime you can use #sort_by
and #last or #first:

09:26:53 Temp$ allruby -e 'ar =3D Dir["*"].sort_by {|f| File.mtime f};
puts ar.first, ar.last'
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
drb-demo.rb
etilqs_y5Wb4Ntehb25BGev1S84-journal
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-cygwin]
drb-demo.rb
etilqs_y5Wb4Ntehb25BGev1S84-journal


Kind regards

robert


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