[#356209] Workaround for "conflict" between ARGV and gets? — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

gets looks to ARGV, if populated, for its source of data. That is its

9 messages 2010/02/01

[#356306] UTF8 hell — Xavier No謖le <xavier.noelle@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2010/02/02
[#356309] Re: [ENCODING] UTF8 hell — David Palm <dvdplm@...> 2010/02/02

> I fetch rows from an UTF8 database and try to work with the string. To

[#356317] Why Ruby? — Jim Maher <jdmaher@...>

I've asked several friends and associates (application developers) what

52 messages 2010/02/02

[#356433] Hashes versus Arrays — Jerome David Sallinger <imran.nazir@...>

Hello,

11 messages 2010/02/03

[#356439] rdoc_osx_dictionary 1.2.0 Released — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>

rdoc_osx_dictionary version 1.2.0 has been released!

14 messages 2010/02/03

[#356451] Error: uninitialized constant Mysql::Protocol::UNIXSocket — Shahab Qadeer <shahab_qadeer@...>

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Wed Feb 03 23:02:50 +0500 2010

15 messages 2010/02/03

[#356459] hooking subscript operations in a hash — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

In order to help debug something, I'd like to hook the hash subscript operation.

17 messages 2010/02/04
[#356461] Re: hooking subscript operations in a hash — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2010/02/04

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

[#356462] Re: hooking subscript operations in a hash — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com> 2010/02/04

RD> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

[#356489] Some noob questions — John Ydil <john.gendrot@...>

Hello Ruby friends!

29 messages 2010/02/04
[#356494] Re: Some noob questions — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/04

On 02/04/2010 11:58 AM, John Ydil wrote:

[#356568] Re: Some noob questions — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/02/04

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#356605] Re: Some noob questions — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/05

On 05.02.2010 00:10, Albert Schlef wrote:

[#356624] Re: Some noob questions — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/02/05

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#356626] Re: Some noob questions — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/05

On 02/05/2010 12:50 PM, Albert Schlef wrote:

[#356628] Re: Some noob questions — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/02/05

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#356665] Re: Some noob questions — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/05

On 02/05/2010 02:01 PM, Albert Schlef wrote:

[#356811] Re: Some noob questions — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2010/02/08

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#356814] Re: Some noob questions — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/08

2010/2/8 Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@trevoke.net>:

[#356531] Finding duplicate records before creating using FasterCSV — John Mcleod <john.mcleod@...>

Hello all,

11 messages 2010/02/04

[#356563] Can Ruby Do This? — Mr Bubb <jcabraham@...>

In Perl, you can create a hash of arbitrary depth like so:

14 messages 2010/02/04

[#356685] Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo — Forthminder <mentifex@...>

Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010.

11 messages 2010/02/06

[#356716] match/scan does not return multiple matches — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>

Hello

12 messages 2010/02/06

[#356744] Honest opinion needed... — Schala Zeal <schalaalexiazeal@...>

I've been trying to find a scripting language to integrate into a game

15 messages 2010/02/07

[#356769] C embed assistance — Schala Zeal <schalaalexiazeal@...>

I was wondering if there was a site with reliable documentation covering

15 messages 2010/02/07

[#356792] Why no ++ and --? — Sonja Elen Kisa <sonja@...>

"foo += 1" somehow seems less elegant or pretty as "foo++".

27 messages 2010/02/08

[#356882] "Code must be Chunkable" — Intransition <transfire@...>

I watched Part 1 of this great lecture, and I just had to share:

46 messages 2010/02/08
[#356943] Re: "Code must be Chunkable" — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2010/02/09

Thomas Sawyer wrote:

[#357074] Re: "Code must be Chunkable" — Intransition <transfire@...> 2010/02/11

On Feb 9, 11:40 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:

[#356944] Need Code to Create Directory Picking Dialog Box — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...>

I have a Ruby program and want to be able to pick a directory using a

14 messages 2010/02/09

[#357030] Exit method? — Charlie Ca <artemisc360@...>

Hello World,

23 messages 2010/02/10
[#357033] Re: Exit method? — Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...> 2010/02/10

Charlie Ca wrote:

[#357103] Can SWIN CommonDialog.openFilename() select multiple files? — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...>

12 messages 2010/02/11

[#357170] how to detect used protocol (SOAP, JSON, XML etc.) — jeljer te Wies <jeljer@...>

Hi guys!.

15 messages 2010/02/12

[#357187] Is there a way to get a method to always run at the end of any descendent's initialize method? — Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>

I have an initialize method I want to run at the end of any daughter or

11 messages 2010/02/12

[#357249] Generating all possible combinations of a 5 digit pattern. — Zach Bartels <no@...>

This is probably childs play for most of you.. But I lack the

17 messages 2010/02/13

[#357446] Dia 1.1 released! — Robert Gleeson <rob@...>

Hey

17 messages 2010/02/16
[#357451] Re: Dia 1.1 released! — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2010/02/16

[#357453] Re: Dia 1.1 released! — Robert Gleeson <rob@...> 2010/02/16

Dan --

[#357909] Re: Dia 1.1 released! — Robert Gleeson <rob@...> 2010/02/23

I'm just leaving an update:

[#357485] Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6 — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>

Is it possible to install Ruby Tk bindings on Windows with

37 messages 2010/02/16
[#357491] Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6 — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/02/16

Eric Christopherson wrote:

[#357492] Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6 — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...> 2010/02/17

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wro=

[#357496] Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6 — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/02/17

Eric Christopherson wrote:

[#357548] Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...>

Just installed Ruby 1.9 and tried to run one of my TK applications that

31 messages 2010/02/17
[#357559] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2010/02/17

On Feb 17, 7:36=A0pm, Alex DeCaria <alex.deca...@millersville.edu>

[#357567] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...> 2010/02/17

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

[#357570] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/02/17

> Luis, is it possible at all to *add* Tk bindings to a copy of Ruby

[#357572] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...> 2010/02/18

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

[#357577] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...> 2010/02/18

Roger Pack wrote:

[#357583] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/02/18

[#358598] Re: Where is Ruby 1.9 'TK' library? — Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@...> 2010/03/05

Roger Pack wrote:

[#357617] strings combine — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>

Shouldn't the following be a syntax error?

24 messages 2010/02/18
[#357618] Re: strings combine — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2010/02/18

[#357637] Re: strings combine — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/02/18

[#357658] Re: strings combine — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/19

On 02/18/2010 11:32 PM, Roger Pack wrote:

[#357681] Re: strings combine — Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@...> 2010/02/19

This doesn't work if you assign the strings to variables though:

[#357683] Re: strings combine — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/19

2010/2/19 Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@gmail.com>:

[#357697] Re: strings combine — Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@...> 2010/02/19

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#357707] Re: strings combine — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/02/19

On 19.02.2010 17:40, Raul Jara wrote:

[#357716] Re: strings combine — Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@...> 2010/02/19

> Robert@babelfish ~

[#357621] RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding — The Chromag <brent@...>

I'm using the rtranslate gem (sishen-rtranslate) to handle translating

12 messages 2010/02/18

[#357622] Ruby conditionals subtlety? — Farhad Farzaneh <ff@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2010/02/18
[#357630] Re: Ruby conditionals subtlety? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/02/18

[#357632] Re: Ruby conditionals subtlety? — Farhad Farzaneh <ff@...> 2010/02/18

Ryan Davis wrote:

[#357641] Re: Ruby conditionals subtlety? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/02/18

[#357642] Re: Ruby conditionals subtlety? — Farhad Farzaneh <ff@...> 2010/02/19

Ryan Davis wrote:

[#357678] Get Goolge Result — Sajjad Seyyed <treep_ir@...>

Hi

15 messages 2010/02/19

[#357878] Speed sprint — Benedikt Müller <benemue@...>

Hi

23 messages 2010/02/22

[#357899] Test::Unit Newbie Question regarding loops — Yotta Meter <spam@...>

With the following example:

13 messages 2010/02/23
[#357936] Re: Test::Unit Newbie Question regarding loops — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2010/02/23

Yotta Meter wrote:

[#357939] Re: Test::Unit Newbie Question regarding loops — Yotta Meter <spam@...> 2010/02/23

This is really the great idea I was looking for, thanks. Obviously I'm

[#357940] How do I set the encoding on a regexp ? — Perry Smith <pedzsan@...>

Title pretty much says it all. Here is a small sample program:

20 messages 2010/02/23
[#358010] Re: How do I set the encoding on a regexp ? — David Springer <dnspringer@...> 2010/02/24

Perry,

[#358060] Array index question — John Smith <ks1911shooter@...>

Question about an array. Say I have the following array...

12 messages 2010/02/25

[#358108] Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...>

Hi All,

35 messages 2010/02/26
[#358114] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Shashank Tiwari <tshanky@...> 2010/02/26

Are you installing this on a mac, windows or a linux environment? You may

[#358116] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/02/26

Shashank Tiwari wrote:

[#358256] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/03/01

Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358269] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/01

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:56 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358278] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/03/01

Here is the result of the '$ dpkg --get-selections' command;

[#358288] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/01

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 23:19 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358289] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/03/01

Reid Thompson wrote:

[#358330] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/01

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:58 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358370] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/03/02

Reid Thompson wrote:

[#358386] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/02

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:24 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358387] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...> 2010/03/02

Reid Thompson wrote:

[#358399] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/02

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 23:09 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:

[#358402] Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4 — Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...> 2010/03/02

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:23 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote:

[#358117] Music Theory (#229) — Daniel Moore <yahivin@...>

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29 messages 2010/02/26
[#358430] Re: Music Theory (#229) — Ben Rho <dearbenj@...> 2010/03/03

Daniel X Moore wrote:

[#358444] Re: Music Theory (#229) — Daniel Moore <yahivin@...> 2010/03/03

Wow, this is some great discussion! Both piano and guitar chords are

[#358467] Re: Music Theory (#229) — Ben Rho <dearbenj@...> 2010/03/03

Daniel X Moore wrote:

[#358141] running a file — John Pasqa <jasello098@...>

ok, i'm writing a ruby program that interprets some text and does stuff

14 messages 2010/02/27

[#358204] Shoes? — Kurtis Rainbolt-greene <thinkwritemute@...>

Ok, so I'm getting back into GUI development and I want to use Ruby.

23 messages 2010/02/28
[#358205] Re: Shoes? — Howard Roberts <howardroberts@...> 2010/02/28

Kurtis Rainbolt-greene wrote:

[#358208] Re: Shoes? — Kurtis Rainbolt-greene <thinkwritemute@...> 2010/02/28

Howard Roberts wrote:

[#358228] Re: Shoes? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/02/28

Re: Why Ruby?

From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2010-02-03 02:05:15 UTC
List: ruby-talk #356385
On 2010-02-02, Jim Maher <jdmaher@jdmaher.com> wrote:
> I've asked several friends and associates (application developers) what
> programming language they recommend for new development.  The most
> prevalent answer was Ruby (with Ruby-On-Rails a close second).  This was
> surprising to me, since my understanding is that Java and C (et al) are
> most prevalent.

Seems plausible.

> Is Ruby a good programming language for general purpose usage?  That is,
> is it worth the time and effort to become proficient?

I think so.

Background:  I'm a pretty decent shell programmer (I wrote a book on
portable shell scripting), and a pretty decent C programmer (was on standards
committee for quite a while, also I actually write code).

I love working in C.  It's a very comfortable language for me.  However, it's
sort of a hassle to do some kinds of things, like string manipulation.  You
can, and if you do it carefully you can have it be both bulletproof and
reasonably efficient... But it's a lot of work.  So sometimes I like to use
scripting languages.  Obviously, I learned perl, way back when perl5 wasn't
even out yet.  I've also done C++ (only a little), Java (a bit more),
Objective-C (a fair bit), and a few others.

Ruby is a really pleasant language to work in.  It's expressive, and
well-suited to putting things clearly without a lot of extra verbiage.  The
language favors writing tiny little helper functions which make it easy
to express things clearly, and help you avoid repeating yourself.
The object model is clear and, well, pretty.  It avoids the hassle Java
has with some things being Objects and other things being Not Really Objects,
partially through trickery.

A big part of the fun of Ruby is that it doesn't feel all half-baked and
rushed.  It seems to attract programmers who think a lot about the developer
experience of using an interface, rather than treating it as a checklist of
necessary functions, haphazardly named.  A strong sense of effective style
and good conventions (the ? and ! suffixes on method names), for instance,
makes Ruby code often much more readable.

-s
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