[#374683] A algorithm for finding the number — zuerrong <zuerrong@...>

Hi members,

11 messages 2010/12/01

[#374721] FasterCSV parsing issues — Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>

I'm using FasterCSV to do an import into my DB, and the CSV file

14 messages 2010/12/01

[#374765] Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>

Every time I think I have my head around what these terms mean I seem to run

29 messages 2010/12/02
[#374783] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Intransition <transfire@...> 2010/12/02

[#374787] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2010/12/02

[#374803] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Intransition <transfire@...> 2010/12/02

[#374825] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/12/02

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#374830] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Intransition <transfire@...> 2010/12/02

[#374832] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/12/02

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#374834] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2010/12/02

[#374835] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/12/02

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#374844] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2010/12/03

[#374850] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2010/12/03

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#374903] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/12/04

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Peter Vandenabeele

[#374924] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2010/12/04

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> wrote:

[#374954] Re: Singleton class, metaclass, eigenclass: what do they mean? — Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...> 2010/12/05

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Peter Vandenabeele

[#374786] Screen scraping an aspx site with Mechanize — Sofie Willander <sofiewil@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2010/12/02

[#374875] cast object to object — "David E." <davidreynon@...>

So I have an object of class (user defined) Dave() and Dave2()

13 messages 2010/12/03

[#374960] Q: what database would you suggest? — Diego Virasoro <diego.virasoro@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2010/12/05

[#375002] Traverse YAML node tree with non-unique values — "Martin C." <mydoghasworms@...>

I have a YAML document which I believe is valid (at least it would be

11 messages 2010/12/06

[#375018] Manual Memory Management and Automatic Garbage Collection — Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@...>

Hello all

27 messages 2010/12/06

[#375118] HTTP POST request --> Ruby server — Chananya Freiman <thebluedragont@...>

I am making a tiny web server, and I am having problems with HTTP POST

17 messages 2010/12/07

[#375149] ruby book — abe <abedar2000@...>

i am looking for a good ruby book for a developer who has a c

14 messages 2010/12/08

[#375170] Consume Soap Service with Basic Authentication — Chris Gunnels <rfsllc@...>

I have been searching and trying different gems to get this to work, but

10 messages 2010/12/08

[#375192] Splitting on capital letters — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

Assume I have camelized string like

13 messages 2010/12/08

[#375213] Making a Website with Ruby (not rails?) — Jesse Jurman <e.j.jurman@...>

I have been programming in Ruby for a while and have made several

12 messages 2010/12/09

[#375270] Help with net/http — Atomic Bomb <atomicmcbomb@...>

I am trying to screen scrape a webpage and pull out the name, address,

19 messages 2010/12/09
[#375273] Re: Help with net/http — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com> 2010/12/09

Nokogiri provides a great interface for accessing the data trapped

[#375285] Re: Help with net/http — "A. Mcbomb" <atomicmcbomb@...> 2010/12/10

Thanks Alex.

[#375289] Re: Help with net/http — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/12/10

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, A. Mcbomb <atomicmcbomb@gmail.com> wrote:

[#375291] Re: Help with net/http — "A. Mcbomb" <atomicmcbomb@...> 2010/12/10

I didn't realized that, Jesus but it didn't help in my installation.

[#375292] Re: Help with net/http — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/12/10

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM, A. Mcbomb <atomicmcbomb@gmail.com> wrote:

[#375293] Re: Help with net/http — "A. Mcbomb" <atomicmcbomb@...> 2010/12/10

That definately helped, Jesus....thanks.

[#375295] Re: Help with net/http — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/12/10

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, A. Mcbomb <atomicmcbomb@gmail.com> wrote:

[#375298] Re: Help with net/http — "A. Mcbomb" <atomicmcbomb@...> 2010/12/10

Here's what my server is running:

[#375424] Instiki failing to run - msvcrt-ruby18.dll not found — John Smth <blip@...>

Hi

16 messages 2010/12/14

[#375442] do your bit for my mental health - how to find the difference between two strings? — Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2010/12/14

[#375537] Ruby and science ? — Michel Demazure <michel@...>

I am really puzzled.

56 messages 2010/12/16
[#375557] Re: Ruby and science ? — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/12/16

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com>wrote:

[#375560] Re: Ruby and science ? — Michel Demazure <michel@...> 2010/12/16

Tony Arcieri wrote in post #968904:

[#375567] Re: Ruby and science ? — Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...> 2010/12/16

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com>wrote:

[#375664] Re: Ruby and science ? — Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...> 2010/12/18

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:

[#375675] Re: Ruby and science ? — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2010/12/18

[#375681] Re: Ruby and science ? — Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...> 2010/12/19

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:

[#375687] Re: Ruby and science ? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2010/12/19

On Dec 18, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

[#375538] Re: Ruby and science ? — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2010/12/16

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com> wrote:

[#375569] Re: Ruby and science ? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/12/16

[#375581] Re: Ruby and science ? — Michel Demazure <michel@...> 2010/12/17

Ryan Davis wrote in post #968969:

[#375582] Re: Ruby and science ? — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2010/12/17

On Friday, December 17, 2010, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com> wrote:

[#375584] Re: Ruby and science ? — Michel Demazure <michel@...> 2010/12/17

Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #969006:

[#375590] Is programming art? — Yu-Hsuan Lai <raincolee@...>

(I'm a high school student confused by this concept)

23 messages 2010/12/17

[#375706] Regexp, String, Symbol literals' object_ids — "Pavel R." <pavel.rosputko@...>

Regexp literals:

14 messages 2010/12/19

[#375725] downloading a file — Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>

hello what is the best way to download a file?

12 messages 2010/12/20

[#375787] how to know a search result is successfully displayed through its source codes — Fan Jin <jeff_yq@...>

I am working on a project where need to search a keyword by using simple

9 messages 2010/12/21
[#375805] Re: how to know a search result is successfully displayed through its source codes — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...> 2010/12/21

On 12/21/2010 01:24 AM, Fan Jin wrote:

[#375839] gem install ruby-debug-ide errors don't give me anything to look for. — Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@...>

Hope I am not missing something obvious. I have searched high and low.

11 messages 2010/12/22

[#375908] What is the the best style and theory of writing a complier in your language — small Pox <smallpox911@...>

What is the the best style and theory of writing a complier in your

8 messages 2010/12/23

[#375921] Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — serialhex <serialhex@...>

Alright, i'm trying to do three things at once, and I'm almost succeeding.

17 messages 2010/12/24
[#375950] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...> 2010/12/24

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:45 AM, serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> wrote:

[#375955] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2010/12/25

Colin, your amazing insight has led me to programming greatness!!!

[#376011] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/12/27

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:34 AM, serialhex <serialhex@gmail.com> wrote:

[#376053] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2010/12/28

hey robert, thanks for the great article, i'll keep that stuff in mind as

[#376057] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — Everett L Williams II <rett@...> 2010/12/28

serialhex wrote:

[#376063] Re: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!! — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2010/12/28

>

[#376060] From python to ruby — AM <al.ma@...>

Hello

18 messages 2010/12/28

[#376066] Should I learn Ruby? — Din Ibbles <d.sp@...>

I am wondering whether to learn Ruby, as I would like to get a job after

21 messages 2010/12/28

[#376075] convert String "1;2;3;4;5;" to Array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] — "Thomas T." <tthackery@...>

I'm trying to convert a String of numbers that are separated by

10 messages 2010/12/28

[#376153] Parsing the Ruby File — "Thillai S." <thillaiselvan@...>

Hai any one pls guide me...

15 messages 2010/12/30

Re: DRM Principle - Don't Repeat Microsoft

From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2010-12-03 12:15:25 UTC
List: ruby-talk #374871
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
> I was thinking about this last night and it's part of a belief I have
> that you reuse powerful facilities available to you rather than imitate
> them or bodge them into Ruby. That's how scripting languages started -
> simple programming interfaces to applications, operating systems etc.

While Ruby is a scripting language, too, it does not follow that it
has the same origin as the first scripting language that evolved
(which would that be, anyway? sh? Something even older?).

> If you want to script a web site then don't struggle with Ruby-like
> libraries, run Internet Explorer and script its model.

I want, nay, need, a Ruby-like interface to IE, though. Nothing is as
annoying as mixing a dozen paradigms across the board.

Also: I'd script WebKit with V8 support. It's fast, and cross-platform.

> Nothing you can
> download from rubyforge is ever going to be as big, sophisticated and
> tested.

There is one good thing about the UNIX culture: "Programs should do
one thing, and do it well." The Ruby community soaked that up, and
applied it to libraries.

And with TDD/BDD/testing in general, your point about testing becomes
moot. Not to mention that, if a gem is open source, I can always fork
it and keep it going, instead of being beholden to one single entity.
Ain't that right, Oracle?

> Similarly with spreadsheets - Excel is on your computer, why
> mess with anything less? Fire up win32ole and the World is your oyster.

You are serious, I'm afraid. So: Excel is good, for a spreadsheet
program. But can it solve linear equations? Inverse a matrix (for the
curious: It can, but boy it ain't pretty)?

Not to mention that you have to rely on Excel being correct when, say,
importing CSV, or exporting TSV. Which you can't.

Also: Excel isn't necessarily installed on a computer, just like IE.

Last but not least: Excel only was possible because VisiCalc was
first, and because Lotus 1-2-3 kept the competition going. IOW:
Applying your "DRM" "principle" to Excel: Don't Repeat VisiCorp.

Wake up, and smell the world beyond what Dell sold you, Mike.

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.

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