[#358392] Increase significant digits in Float — Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhite@...>

If I want to increase my significant digits beyond 15 in a result of a

12 messages 2010/03/02

[#358431] A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>

I'm writing a program that needs to generate two or three temporary

21 messages 2010/03/03
[#358432] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Paul Harrington <xenogenesis@...> 2010/03/03

Albert Schlef wrote:

[#358443] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...> 2010/03/03

Paul Harrington wrote:

[#358486] Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)? — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2010/03/03

On 3/2/10, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:

[#358485] Test::Unit::Omission - Unable to omit tests — Champak Ch <champaka@...>

I am trying to omit some tests while using the test unit framework. My

12 messages 2010/03/03

[#358551] Shared hosting recommendation? — Rafael Vega <email.rafa@...>

Hello!

10 messages 2010/03/04

[#358559] Limit number of concurrent running threads in pool — Joe Martin <jm202@...>

Hi

14 messages 2010/03/04

[#358576] A good portable text editor/IDE for Ruby? — Reiichi Tyrael <xxreiichixx@...>

I am searching for a good portable text editor or IDE for Ruby to use on

19 messages 2010/03/05

[#358586] Base-64 encoding--Just for the fun of it! — "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@...>

Yes, there's always:

10 messages 2010/03/05

[#358611] On what of these books is better to start to study Ruby? — Vlad Gerasimov <refermaker@...>

I have 3 books:

12 messages 2010/03/05

[#358634] Conditional keys in hash - out of the box? — "Sven S." <svoop@...>

Hi

12 messages 2010/03/05

[#358661] Why no TextMate for Linux? — thunk <gmkoller@...>

I spent some happy development time in "VisualAge" for Smalltalk +

42 messages 2010/03/06

[#358702] win32console 1.3.0.beta2 Released — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>

win32console version 1.3.0.beta2 has been released!

17 messages 2010/03/07

[#358757] Shortest code — Prasanth Ravi <dare.take@...>

hi i'm a newbie in ruby and was test out some interesting problems in

18 messages 2010/03/08

[#358885] reading an UTF-8 encoded file — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

13 messages 2010/03/10

[#359008] Dir.glob problem — David Vlad <cluny_gisslaren@...>

In the program Im making I need to read some wma files into a variable

21 messages 2010/03/12

[#359031] Newbie Help : Object — Jerome David Sallinger <imran.nazir@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2010/03/13

[#359090] Overriding new? — Andrea Dallera <andrea@...>

Hi everybody,

19 messages 2010/03/15
[#359091] Re: Overriding new? — Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...> 2010/03/15

[#359093] Re: Overriding new? — Andrea Dallera <andrea@...> 2010/03/15

Hei Chuck,

[#359130] Recommended way to install Rubygems — Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>

Hi!

64 messages 2010/03/16
[#359175] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2010/03/17

On Mar 16, 2010, at 03:22, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

[#359176] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/17

(Please Cc me when replying, I don't follow ruby-talk@ closely enough to

[#359183] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Nick Brown <nick@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas: Thanks for maintaining the Ruby package in Ubuntu!

[#359187] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 13:36 +0900, Nick Brown wrote:

[#359200] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Nick Brown <nick@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

[#359204] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 23:05 +0900, Nick Brown wrote:

[#359210] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2010/03/18

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Lucas Nussbaum

[#359215] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 18/03/10 at 23:45 +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#359230] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...> 2010/03/18

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

[#359233] Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems — Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> 2010/03/18

On 19/03/10 at 02:49 +0900, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

[#359171] Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Shiny Hydra <slotriof@...>

Hello everyone,

12 messages 2010/03/17
[#359192] Re: Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/18

2010/3/17 Shiny Hydra <slotriof@guerrillamailblock.com>:

[#359198] Re: Replace Text at Specific Positions Across Files — Shiny Hydra <slotriof@...> 2010/03/18

> So your file has fixed width records? This is important to know,

[#359255] Grouping elements of an array — Steve Wilhelm <steve@...831.com>

I have an array of records that contain timestamps at random intervals.

24 messages 2010/03/18

[#359354] Living with a Swarm of Boids - A report from the front — thunk <gmkoller@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2010/03/20

[#359388] A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...>

Hi.

17 messages 2010/03/21
[#359394] Re: A plugin system using extend — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2010/03/21

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@vauguet.fr> wrote:

[#359398] Re: A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...> 2010/03/21

Thank you Josh. Actually I've already tested what you wrote and that's

[#359402] Re: A plugin system using extend — Jean-denis Vauguet <jd@...> 2010/03/21

Another idea I had is the following:

[#359410] Re: A plugin system using extend — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2010/03/21

On Mar 21, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Jean-denis Vauguet wrote:

[#359420] Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...>

Hello,

23 messages 2010/03/21
[#359422] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...> 2010/03/21

> I am trying to "Read Content" of all the files from a Directory. So far

[#359423] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...> 2010/03/21

> arr =3D Dir.open("K:/test").entries

[#359464] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/22

2010/3/21 Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@jmnet.us>:

[#360368] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

> If it is only for output purposes, we can actually do it in one line:

[#360370] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/04/04

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@hotmail.com> w=

[#360373] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

Thanks for replying ,when I am doing

[#360374] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...> 2010/04/04

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@hotmail.com> wrote:

[#360375] Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory — Hawksury Gear <blackhawk_932@...> 2010/04/04

Hassan Schroeder wrote:

[#359662] index of string from beginning of line vs beginning of file — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>

I am trying to write a basic script to implement "silent comments"

10 messages 2010/03/25
[#359663] Re: index of string from beginning of line vs beginning of file — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/03/25

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:

[#359684] Ruby Summer of Code 2010 — Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>

Fellow Rubyists, I'm proud to announce the first annual Ruby Summer of Code.

20 messages 2010/03/26
[#359985] Re: [ANN] Ruby Summer of Code 2010 — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2010/03/30

Jeremy Kemper wrote:

[#359697] Ruby and user documentation — Michel Demazure <michel@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2010/03/26

[#359749] Boid writeup idea — thunk <gmkoller@...>

30 messages 2010/03/26

[#359909] return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>

How would I find the number of spaces at the beginning of a line before

28 messages 2010/03/30
[#359925] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2010/03/30

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com> wrote:

[#359941] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/30

2010/3/30 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>:

[#359945] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — "Jesse B." <jessebos@...> 2010/03/30

This second post with the "spaces only" fix seems to meet all the needs

[#359961] Re: return number of spaces at the beginning of a line — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/03/30

2010/3/30 Jesse B. <jessebos@aol.com>:

[#360011] RubyDictionary - First Try — Max Schmidt <max.schmidt.privat@...>

Hello folks,

12 messages 2010/03/30
[#360035] Re: RubyDictionary - First Try — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/03/31

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Max Schmidt

[#360033] Playing Games with "Ruids" — thunk <gmkoller@...>

46 messages 2010/03/31

Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems

From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-03-18 16:17:54 UTC
List: ruby-talk #359222
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Lucas Nussbaum
<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>
>> > Note there are not many development communities that are proud of the
>> > fact of having different, incompatible versions of the same software
>> > being widely used at the same time.
>> >
>> > Most other communities solve that by having more stable APIs and making
>> > sure that their important software supports the latest API.

I find the massive and rapid open source contributions to the overall
Ruby ecosystem to be a big source of pride in the Ruby community.

The fact that not everything needs to be on the same version of
everything is what allows fast movement.

Now I realize that there's a different mindset between cutting-edge
development to deployment to system administration.  Clearly having
less stability in the various pieces that make up various applications
raises some issues, and we, the Ruby community have been dealing with
those issues and getting better at it as time goes on.

Allowing that 'instability' is important to a lot of us, believe it or not.

As I said before packaged Ruby solutions and re-packaged gems have
their place, they work for some users, but not for all.


In another reply to this thread you said:

> Such a minor issue" was the split of many software packages into
> seperate Debian packages, not the split of Ruby. ...

> Interestingly, we don't get many complaints on the Debian side about
> that.  The only place where I hear about it is on this list.

I'm not sure what the antecedent of 'that' in the first sentence in
the second paragraph is. But I guess it doesn't matter.  Perhaps the
reason you only hear complaints about the debian packaging of Ruby and
gems here is that there's a much higher proportion of users here who
are actually leveraging Ruby in such a way as to have conflicting
requirements with those of the debian packagers.

And as I said before, it's not really an either or.  You can run both
packaged ruby/gems if you need to in order to run other packages which
require them, along with multiple other installations outside of the
file system space clamed by debian policy within the FHS.

This whole discussion reminds me of the endless static vs. dynamic
typing debate.  Some feel strongly that one should live within a
highly constrained infrastructure, others see benefits in having more
freedom of action, and are willing to deal with the consequences and
use tools and techniques which do that.


>> > Of course, if you want to install many different Ruby and gems versions,
>> > and then try to keep them in a sensible state wrt security issues (which
>> > are not that uncommon in the ruby world), that's your choice.
>>
> On 19/03/10 at 00:35 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> You have lost the high ground in the civility argument.
>
> Why? What do you disagree with?

I can't speak for James but perhaps he was reacting to the remark
about security issues not being uncommon in the ruby world.

In fact, although there have been security patches to Ruby/Rails etc.
They haven't been more frequent than most other OSS software as far as
I have experienced, and certainly less than software from a certain
company headquartered in the US Pacific Northwest.  And such security
patches are generally released quickly.

In fact having the ability to apply such changes, without having to
wait for them to be packaged 'downstream' is another advantage to
allowing 'instability.'


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