[#362083] Teaching Programming Languages (including Ruby) — Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller@...>

Hello,

20 messages 2010/05/02

[#362098] Main working window for Ruby is DOS? — Kaye Ng <sbstn26@...>

I know nothing about programming and am not a techy person, so please

16 messages 2010/05/03

[#362116] School teacher still at it learning programming language — Hilary Bailey <my77elephants@...>

Now I while glimpsing at the beauty of Ruby, there is the software of

11 messages 2010/05/03

[#362166] Something I expected to work, but didn't! — Kurtis Rainbolt-greene <kurtisrainboltgreene@...>

irb(main):001:0> x = 2

11 messages 2010/05/04

[#362215] for-in vs. map closures — Mike Austin <mike_ekim@...>

I was experimenting with closures and JavaScript's and Ruby's

11 messages 2010/05/05

[#362286] ri on sqlite — Intransition <transfire@...>

What do others think of a creating a new ri tool which uses a SQLite

17 messages 2010/05/06

[#362341] ease of porting (translating) ruby to C (vs. python)? — bwv549 <jtprince@...>

In a very small bioinformatics group I know of, they are deciding

17 messages 2010/05/07

[#362375] Strings iteration — Viorel <viorelvladu@...>

I have some names like aaxxbbyy where xx is '01'..'10' and yy is also

14 messages 2010/05/08

[#362425] Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — "R. Kumar" <sentinel.2001@...>

Have apps moved over to the web (or GUI) totally ? Will there be any

21 messages 2010/05/10
[#362441] Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — botp <botpena@...> 2010/05/10

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, R. Kumar <sentinel.2001@gmx.com> wrote:

[#362448] Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — "R. Kumar" <sentinel.2001@...> 2010/05/10

interface and/or the installation itself is terrible.

[#362458] Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — botp <botpena@...> 2010/05/10

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, R. Kumar <sentinel.2001@gmx.com> wrote:

[#362460] Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — "R. Kumar" <sentinel.2001@...> 2010/05/10

botp wrote:

[#362463] Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ? — "R. Kumar" <sentinel.2001@...> 2010/05/10

Strange. I cant push a gem even after yanking.

[#362452] Unit Test of method calling system() - how? — Martin Hansen <mail@...>

How can I unit test the two methods:

16 messages 2010/05/10

[#362498] In Ruby, can the coerce() method know what operator it is th — Jian Lin <blueskybreeze@...>

In Ruby, it seems that a lot of coerce() help can be done by

12 messages 2010/05/11
[#362546] Re: In Ruby, can the coerce() method know what operator it is th — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2010/05/11

On 5/10/10, Jian Lin <blueskybreeze@gmail.com> wrote:

[#362611] Re: In Ruby, can the coerce() method know what operator it is th — Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...> 2010/05/12

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:

[#362657] Asynchronous HTTP request — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

Does anyone know how to do the following, but without threads, purely

28 messages 2010/05/13

[#362718] Range on strings. — Vikrant Chaudhary <nasa42@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2010/05/14

[#362787] class best way for getters ? — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

i have a class "HFSFile" initialized by a parsed string

12 messages 2010/05/15

[#362979] curl library? — Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail <xeno.campanoli@...>

Two questions:

14 messages 2010/05/18
[#362980] Re: curl library? — Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail <xeno.campanoli@...> 2010/05/18

On 10-05-18 02:35 PM, Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail wrote:

[#362982] Re: curl library? — Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...> 2010/05/18

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and

[#362984] Re: curl library? — Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail <xeno.campanoli@...> 2010/05/18

Well, I got that -dev thing installed with apt-get, and then I tried again and

[#363027] Retrieve instance — Walle Wallen <walle.sthlm@...>

Quick question. Can I somehow retrieve the instance of the class Test in

11 messages 2010/05/19

[#363076] Scrape javascript content — Phil Mcdonnell <phil.a.mcdonnell@...>

I'm trying to scrape a page that hides some data behind a javascript

11 messages 2010/05/20

[#363115] OMG, why are there so many Strings in ObjectSpace! — timr <timrandg@...>

I was playing around looking at ObjectSpace in irb and was astounded

14 messages 2010/05/21

[#363225] Redefine a Class? — Mark T <paradisaeidae@...>

Currently this raises: superclass mismatch for class Soda (TypeError)

12 messages 2010/05/25

[#363240] Funny IO.select behaviour — Dennis Nedry <dennis@...>

I've been debugging my full screen console ruby editor.

13 messages 2010/05/25

[#363348] Ruby as Client Side Language in Web Browser (replacing JS) — "Simone R." <k5mmx@...>

Hi everybody,

17 messages 2010/05/27

[#363412] A better way to write this function? — Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhite@...>

Here is my attempt at Newton's second law in Ruby:

14 messages 2010/05/28

[#363417] Interrupting the evaluation of a ruby script — Emmanuel Emmanuel <emmanuel.bacry@...>

This is my problem :

12 messages 2010/05/28
[#363447] Re: Interrupting the evaluation of a ruby script — Branden Tanga <branden.tanga@...> 2010/05/28

Emmanuel Emmanuel wrote:

[#363483] Re: Interrupting the evaluation of a ruby script — Emmanuel Emmanuel <emmanuel.bacry@...> 2010/05/29

[#363426] A complete beginners question — Ant Walliams <anthonywainwright@...>

Hi there,

19 messages 2010/05/28

[#363432] Dynamic SVG with Ruby/Tk — Yotta Meter <spam@...>

The example I'm looking for in regards to ruby/SVG differs from the

14 messages 2010/05/28

[#363467] Date.today problem on linux with Ruby 1.8.6 — Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>

Hello.

10 messages 2010/05/29

[#363524] enumerator problem in 1.9.1 — Bug Free <amberarrow@...>

The following line:

19 messages 2010/05/31
[#363528] Re: enumerator problem in 1.9.1 — botp <botpena@...> 2010/05/31

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Bug Free <amberarrow@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#363533] Re: enumerator problem in 1.9.1 — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/05/31

2010/5/31 botp <botpena@gmail.com>:

Re: Retrieve instance

From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-05-20 06:55:30 UTC
List: ruby-talk #363080
2010/5/20 Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com>:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.co=
m>
> wrote:
>> Btw, funny thing is that "klein" is actually also a German word which
>> can be directly translated to "small". =A0"Klemme" is a tad more
>> difficult, you can see translations here:
>> http://dict.leo.org/?search=3Dklemme
> Google Translate seems quite close to that, giving several possibilities:
> =A0http://translate.google.co.uk/?&hl=3Den&lr=3D&tab=3DwT#de|en|klemme<ht=
tp://translate.google.co.uk/?&hl=3Den&lr=3D&tab=3DwT#de%7Cen%7Cklemme>
> but http://babelfish.yahoo.com gives just a one word answer "wedges"!
> I rather like the phrase "in der Klemme sitzen" in "http://dict.leo.org",

Hehe. :-)  You know what?  That's the typical phrase I use when
someone does not know how to spell my surname.

> and that "leo" reminds me of the following "quiz" question:
> Was the world's first business computer manufactured by:
> =A0(a) IBM,
> =A0(b) another American business machines company, or
> =A0(c) a chain of British tea-shops and cafes?
> The answer is of course (c)!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/=
LEO_%28computer%29>
> http://www.leo-computers.org.uk
> http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/index.htm <http://www.kzwp.com/lyons>
> http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/leo.htm
> http://www.economicexpert.com/a/LEO:computer.html
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-worlds-computer/dp/1841151858
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1841151866
> ... When I joined the computer industry in 1965, a friend in IBM confided=
 in
> me that the Leo (Lyons Electronic Office) series of computers (already in
> there last days) were IBM's most serious rival in commercial computing. .=
..

Amazing!  Learn something new every day.  Thanks for that!

Kind regards

robert

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