[#385051] How to order Structs based on two fields — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, I've a struct like this:
2011/7/1 I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:55 PM, I=F1aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote=
>
2011/7/1 Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@gmx.net>:
[#385069] Offering Help — Joe Peric <peric.joe@...>
I'm new to Ruby and I am willing to learn. Anyone need help on a
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Joe Peric <peric.joe@gmail.com> wrote:
Never heard of it, but I'll get right on it. Thanks.
Just finished this. I had to find some more info on exceptions to get
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Joe Peric <peric.joe@gmail.com> wrote:
A tutorial site here.
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Y. NOBUOKA <nobuoka@r-definition.com> wrote:
[#385074] Ruby Kickstart - free course with videos, quizzes, & challenges — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
WEBSITE:
[#385075] ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 352 released — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
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[#385076] Ruby C API:How to prevent a VALUE being collected by the garbage collecter? — ZaCk <ladacez@...>
Ruby C API:How to prevent a VALUE being collected by the garbage collecter?
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On 07/02/2011 11:35 AM, Kim Burgestrand wrote:
[#385086] Renages — Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@...>
All,
[#385097] Are blocks objects? What messages can they handle? — Chad Perrin <code@...>
Stop me if I'm making any unwarranted assumptions here:
A block is a syntactical construct, not an object. A Proc is the
John,
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:15:54AM +0900, Stephen Boesch wrote:
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
[#385102] symbol vs string for hash keys — Intransition <transfire@...>
What are the important factors to consider when deciding whether to
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:28:03AM +0900, Intransition wrote:
[#385130] Define a constant in dynamically defined class — Intransition <transfire@...>
Have me a conundrum.
[#385144] NoBacksies v0.3.0 released — transfire@...
NoBacksies 0.3.0 has been released.
[#385153] Dir.glob and File.fnmatch don't seeing eye to eye — Intransition <transfire@...>
What does File.fnmatch? not support {p,q} style selectors?
[#385157] LOCat v0.1.0 released — transfire@...
LOCat 0.1.0 has been released.
[#385160] Fatal Error with Ruby/GTK2, Homebrew, Green Shoes, and OSX Snow Leopard — Timothy Barnes <barnes7td@...>
I posted the below question to the Shoes mailing list and got back the
Hi,
I can't find that directory at all. is it ~/opt/local/......? much less the
Hi,
Here are the instructions that I followed (from green shoes github site):
kou,
[#385184] Lemon v0.8.4 released — transfire@...
Lemon 0.8.4 has been released.
[#385192] summaryse 1.1.0 Released — Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@...>
summaryse version 1.1.0 has been released!
[#385194] RubyInstaller Extras — Jon <jon.forums@...>
Since 2009, we've been pleased to include Huw Collingbourne's The Book of Ruby with RubyInstaller. Well now, Huw has a newly updated version, and he's published it with No Starch Press.
...looks interesting...i'm just finishing up on a long Haskell journey...so,
[#385197] alf 0.9.1 Released — Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@...>
Hi all!
Bernard Lambeau wrote in post #1010469:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
I was not aware of this difference between RRV and SemVer before;
[#385204] Passing a ruby arrays to JS func — ruby rails <rubyonrails4me@...>
How do I pass the ruby arrays to Js func and access it(from JS func)from
[#385207] Creating a range of directories — Simon Harrison <simon@...>
I'm wanting to create a range of directories with a prefix, like the
Thanks a lot. I didn't realise that FileUtils.mkdir accepted a format
[#385234] ruby 1.9 mac install problems — Marshall Farrier <info@...>
Following Dave Thomas' instructions in Programming Ruby 1.9, p. 7, I got
Ryan Davis wrote in post #1010623:
[#385247] Why return(XXX) is valid within a "value = case N ..." ? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, the following code does not "compile":
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, I=F1aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrot=
[#385271] does OrderedHash exist? — Alexey Muranov <muranov@...>
Hello,
[#385276] Is there a more efficient way to remove data from a string? — Eddie Catflap <catflaporama@...>
Hi
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:37:14AM +0900, Eddie Catflap wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:54:48AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
[#385281] Problem with Ruby on OS X — Abhishek Chanda <rony358@...>
Hi,
[#385292] Look — Intransition <transfire@...>
I have tried for over a year to contact Michel Martens concerning the
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#385297] Help needed for a new release of text-hyphen — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
I've had folks asking me for a release of text-hyphen that works with
On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> Running with the debugger on for 1.8.7 brings up this discrepancy:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrot=
[#385306] Not receiving some mail from ruby-talk — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Hi, it seems that some of the posts to ruby-talk aren't making it to my
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1978201#new
[#385307] Elegant selection of closest number? — Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
People,
[#385311] replace string between xml tags that contains special characters — Rousan Malik <rousanmalik@...>
I am trying to get rid of the string in a xml file which contains some
[#385326] Comparing hashes based on their keys — Stefano Mioli <stefano.mioli@...>
Hi list,
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Stefano Mioli <stefano.mioli@gmail.com> wr=
[#385342] moving a 1.8.6 install? — Roggie Boone <rogboone@...>
Is it possible to move the gems from a Ruby 1.8.6 install on an (old)
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Roggie Boone <rogboone@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Hassan Schroeder <
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
[#385382] Ignore Segmentation fault? — Paul Bergstrom <pal@...>
When I run a cron, using whenever gem, the script is executed but I get
[#385389] duplicated when clause is ignored — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
I recieve quite some errors like this.
On 7/16/11 11:50 PM, Marc Heiler wrote:
[#385395] Array#each vs. Array#each_index iteration — jake kaiden <jakekaiden@...>
hey folks,
i was indeed missing something obvious - thanks for pointing it out!
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM, jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#385410] Better name for #zip_with — Intransition <transfire@...>
Any ideas for a better name for:
How about #zip_and_map? Notice that:
Thomas Sawyer wrote in post #1011313:
[#385432] Ruby output formater — raju sathliya <raju.sathliya@...>
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:52 AM, raju sathliya <raju.sathliya@gmail.com>wrote:
[#385439] Is this a float-bug or naive comprehension? — ZipiZap zap <zipizap123@...>
Hello all,
[#385442] What is BasicObject (really)? — Jim Maher <jdmaher@...>
In a recent thread titled "Unexpected results from private_methods", I
[#385449] Another year, another Ruby Conf, another round with the begging bowl — Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
A touch of deja vu here: UK-based full-time open source developer =
[#385452] Ruby + USB + CCTV Camera Driver? — "Bob Carpenter." <rgc3679@...>
I want to write a Ruby driver that handles the feed from A CCTV camera.
On 2011-07-18 1:00 PM, Bob Carpenter. wrote:
William Rutiser wrote in post #1011466:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bob Carpenter. <rgc3679@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hassan Schroeder wrote in post #1011472:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Bob Carpenter. <rgc3679@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Hassan Schroeder
Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #1011503:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Bob Carpenter. <rgc3679@yahoo.com> wrote:
Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #1011518:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Bob Carpenter. <rgc3679@yahoo.com> wrote:
Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #1011653:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Bob Carpenter. <rgc3679@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#385465] Ruby Readline - and why ruby can learn from python — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Lately I wanted to have <TAB> completion work for some of my scripts
[#385485] forcing all http requests to follow system proxy configuration — eunikorn imazinator <gp.eunikorn@...>
I am working with a ruby application that uses some loosely coupled
[...]
[#385492] Get common entries in two arrays — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, is there a way to generate a new array with the common elements in
2011/7/19 I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
[#385501] How to change date format from Y/m/d to Y-m-d — Annie smith <annie.smith.vufind@...>
Hi All,
[#385509] A beginner question. — "Cajus A." <cajus_@...>
Hi i'm trying to write and example program where you speak to a
Sorry i uploaded the wrong file. Heres the right one.
[#385528] Code works in IRB but not when saved and run (NET/TOC) — Opviel Krevt <ovashena@...>
I'm using the net-toc gem to connect to AIM with Ruby 1.8.7 since 1.9.2
[#385542] Splitting strings — Ryan Mckenzie <ryan@...>
Hi all,
You're right. I'm still a beginner to Ruby, however I have still tried
Ok, so far at the minute then I have included the counter hash so I have
[#385556] File copy from Client to Server via web-services — Rails Crazy Idiot <mail2sanand@...>
Hi,
[#385565] error building ruby p290 — Dev Guy <devguy.ca@...>
I get the following build error on my Linux box while trying to build
On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Dev Guy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
[#385595] array max value — CC Chen <dickyhide@...>
When I set an array k = [3,5,6,0,1,4,5,6,9,1]
[#385611] How to replace "\" from string. — Gaurang Shah <shahgomji@...>
Hi all,
[#385612] How to find the character in string — Gaurang Shah <shahgomji@...>
I have a string where i need to find out if particular character is
[#385615] Building a tree from the leaves down — Intransition <transfire@...>
Have a algorithmic problem, I can't quite get a clear idea of how to
[#385626] Issue downloading an image from a URL (HTTP request) — Hunter Mcmillen <mcmillhj@...>
I am trying to download the image of a chart I created using the
[#385629] Are Job Ads OK? — Lee Hughes <lee@...>
Is it OK to post Ruby job ads on this forum?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:45:11AM +0900, Lee Hughes wrote:
[#385639] attr_accessor for hash keys — Chad Perrin <code@...>
Is there a way to use attr_accessor, or something like it (without
[#385650] create object by reflection — leandro doe <leandro.rhcp99@...>
My doubt is how create objects by reflection, when they need more than
[#385676] builder lib-a-like? — Intransition <transfire@...>
Wasn't there already a lib like this?
[#385680] regex oddity — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Anybody know why this occurs?
[#385683] open localhost url — Smp Mp <sharnelp@...>
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Smp Mp <sharnelp@gmail.com> wrote:
[#385688] What's up with "Dir.glob"? — Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Hi,
[#385719] Top level function definition gets in Kernel module? — Jean-Pascal Billaud <jp.billaud@...>
irb(main):001:0> def test_fun
[#385730] best style for setting items in a collection — Marshall Farrier <info@...>
I've only recently started learning Ruby and notice in Thomas'
[#385737] Exclusive operator in ruby — "amir e." <aef1370@...>
Hi
[#385740] Run something on last test case — Mario Ruiz <tcblues@...>
I need to run some code always on the last testcase that is run in any
[#385741] why doesn't return ascii code? — "amir e." <aef1370@...>
hi
[#385750] Help with Regex — Gregory Ma <g.marcilhacy@...>
Hi,
[#385771] Please give simple example of when to use symbols — Kaye Ng <sbstn26@...>
I'm still a bit confused on whether to use strings or symbols in certain
[#385777] Very Very simple problem — "amir e." <aef1370@...>
Hi
[#385795] Issue installing a gem from local disk. zlib error message received — Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>
Hello all,
[#385810] Why aren't string literals treated similarly to symbols? — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Explaining the difference between symbols and strings got me wondering
Hi,
Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #1013041:
[#385814] Ruby to C transpiler — Intransition <transfire@...>
Are there any?
[#385831] How do I pass a variable to the Chroinc library function? — Terry Improv_coder <tpensel@...>
require 'chronic'
[#385833] Difference between Ruby Versions — Data Flow <dataoverflow@...>
Can you tell me please what's the difference between ruby versions..
[#385837] read excel file — CC Chen <dickyhide@...>
How to read the excel file(.xls)
[#385847] String manuplation example — kotin 76 <kotin76@...>
Hi,
You have static value '/dev/sda4'? then you can do the following
Hi Hans Mackowiak and Shah,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:54 AM, kotin 76 <kotin76@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#385860] Counting lines of code in a ruby code file ignoring method code lines in the process — Harry Truax <htruax@...>
Hello,
Well this could be a bit of a cheat but you could put the code through
Thanks for the reply Peter. Yeah, I thought about something like that, but
[#385866] if condition for pattern matching — kotin 76 <kotin76@...>
Hi All,
you need "" or '' around your string
Hi all,
hi ,
Hi ,
[#385881] I Need some help installing ruby — Data Flow <dataoverflow@...>
I need some help people.. i hope i don't ask too much.
[#385884] How do we read this line of code? — SW Engineer <abder.rahman.ali@...>
If we have the following line of Ruby code:
[#385902] siimple string manuplation logic. But i did not getting correct one — kotin 76 <kotin76@...>
Hi All,
[#385908] Location of SSL certificates on Windows (7) — Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>
I am trying to access Exchange server with viewpoint gem. Connection is
[#385928] long loops inside threads — Miguel Angel Nieto <correo@...>
Hi,
[#385929] OptionParser on option separator "--" — Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@...>
Hi all!
[#385936] Help in Pointer — Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@...>
Hello
Is this what your looking for:
[#385944] No tests were specified errror — Gaurang Shah <shahgomji@...>
Hi all,
[#385947] class variables in modules, annoying — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, let me show the following code:
"I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #1013702:
2011/7/29 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>:
[#385961] Unite test is not woking as per design — Gaurang Shah <shahgomji@...>
require 'test/unit'
What do you get when you run this program:
7stud -- wrote in post #1013742:
This is what I see in my mail from 7stud
Josh Cheek wrote in post #1013761:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:05 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
[#385982] avoiding capturing local variables in closures — Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
I do a lot of event-driven programming (Eventmachine, ZMQMachine). You would think that by now I would know how to answer this question but I'm a bit stumped.
<snip>
Robert Dober wrote in post #1013853:
[#386010] Documentation in Ruby — "amir e." <aef1370@...>
Hi
[#386012] Ruby a "4th generation language"? Credible sources? — Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
I've noticed that Wikipedia says that "C#, Java" are 3'rd generation
The Wikipedia articles are spurious.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:24:43PM +0900, Mike Stephens wrote:
> I've noticed that Wikipedia says that "C#, Java" are 3'rd generation
[#386013] NoMethodError: undefined method — Gaurang Shah <shahgomji@...>
I am not able to understand why it gets nil object. would someone let me
[#386016] Installing Ruby — Felipe Velasquez <velasquez.felipe@...>
Hy guys! :)
[#386024] Ruby 1.9.3 preview1 released — "Yuki Sonoda (Yugui)" <yugui@...>
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[#386030] How to connect to and use Postgresql from Ruby — Rannug Pong <ruby@...>
Hello everyone.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:30:25AM +0900, Chris White wrote:
[#386033] send() docs are wrong — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
obj.send(symbol [, args...]) =E2=86=92 obj
[#386050] system stack error in ObjectSpace.each_object — luke gruber <luke.gru@...>
Hey guys, I'm just starting to mess around with metaprogramming in Ruby,
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:29 PM, luke gruber <luke.gru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Typically, SystemStackError is due to recursing for too long, perhaps I
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM, luke gruber <luke.gru@gmail.com> wrote:
> I assume you created some weird kind of recursion via
luke gruber wrote in post #1014312:
>Something like:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:54 AM, luke gruber <luke.gru@gmail.com> wrote:
[#386053] newbie question — Marc Chanliau <marc.chanliau@...>
This snippet works fine:
Chris White wrote in post #1014080:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Marc Chanliau <marc.chanliau@gmail.com>wrote:
Re: Issue downloading an image from a URL (HTTP request)
2011/7/22 Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Hunter Mcmillen <mcmillhj@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> I am trying to download the image of a chart I created using the
>> GoogleChart API using the 'net/http' module. I have the URL I want to
>> download the image from stored in a string variable named failures_url,
>> when I use the variable to download the image it doesn't work. But if I
>> use the string literal value of that variable it does work.
>
> I don't know why one of your attempts works and the other won't, maybe
> you should post a complete example that fails. But looking at how I'd
> do it I realized that in the failures_url variable there are a couple
> of characters that are not valid for a URL and should be escaped: %
> and |. So I tried this and it worked for me:
>
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :022 > require 'open-uri'
> =A0=3D> true
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :037 >
> failures_url=3D"chtt=3DFailure+By+Type+Over+Last+Year&cht=3Dp&chd=3Dt:26.=
8720821661998,25.6022408963585,24.9859943977591,17.9831932773109,2.80112044=
817927,0.65359477124183,0.354808590102708,0.336134453781513,0.2240896358543=
42,0.168067226890756,0.130718954248366,0.0373482726423903&chs=3D700x400&chc=
o=3D4466AA|9BC4E2|1464F4|0000FF|63D1F4|388E8E&chl=3DBuild/Compile+Failure+2=
6.87%|Unknown+Failure+25.6%|User+Manifest+Failure+24.99%|Invalid+Clientspec=
+17.98%|Incomplete+Build+2.8%|Coverity+System+Error+0.65%|Do+Not+Use+Error+=
0.35%|Version+Failure+0.34%|Coverity+Defects+0.22%|Flash+Build+Error+0.17%|=
Space+Insufficient+0.13%|Integrate+Failure+0.04%"
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :038 > failures_url.gsub!("%", URI.escape("%"))
> =A0=3D> "chtt=3DFailure+By+Type+Over+Last+Year&cht=3Dp&chd=3Dt:26.8720821=
661998,25.6022408963585,24.9859943977591,17.9831932773109,2.80112044817927,=
0.65359477124183,0.354808590102708,0.336134453781513,0.224089635854342,0.16=
8067226890756,0.130718954248366,0.0373482726423903&chs=3D700x400&chco=3D446=
6AA|9BC4E2|1464F4|0000FF|63D1F4|388E8E&chl=3DBuild/Compile+Failure+26.87%25=
|Unknown+Failure+25.6%25|User+Manifest+Failure+24.99%25|Invalid+Clientspec+=
17.98%25|Incomplete+Build+2.8%25|Coverity+System+Error+0.65%25|Do+Not+Use+E=
rror+0.35%25|Version+Failure+0.34%25|Coverity+Defects+0.22%25|Flash+Build+E=
rror+0.17%25|Space+Insufficient+0.13%25|Integrate+Failure+0.04%25"
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :039 > failures_url.gsub!("|", URI.escape("|"))
> =A0=3D> "chtt=3DFailure+By+Type+Over+Last+Year&cht=3Dp&chd=3Dt:26.8720821=
661998,25.6022408963585,24.9859943977591,17.9831932773109,2.80112044817927,=
0.65359477124183,0.354808590102708,0.336134453781513,0.224089635854342,0.16=
8067226890756,0.130718954248366,0.0373482726423903&chs=3D700x400&chco=3D446=
6AA%7C9BC4E2%7C1464F4%7C0000FF%7C63D1F4%7C388E8E&chl=3DBuild/Compile+Failur=
e+26.87%25%7CUnknown+Failure+25.6%25%7CUser+Manifest+Failure+24.99%25%7CInv=
alid+Clientspec+17.98%25%7CIncomplete+Build+2.8%25%7CCoverity+System+Error+=
0.65%25%7CDo+Not+Use+Error+0.35%25%7CVersion+Failure+0.34%25%7CCoverity+Def=
ects+0.22%25%7CFlash+Build+Error+0.17%25%7CSpace+Insufficient+0.13%25%7CInt=
egrate+Failure+0.04%25"
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :040 > File.open("test.png", "wb") {|f| f.write
> open("https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?#{failures_url}").read}
> =A0=3D> 46677
>
> and I got your nice pie chart in test.png. Ideally you would
> URI.escape each parameter and value of the URL separately, but as in
> this example you already had the big string with everything I cherry
> picked the problematic characters. But if you are building the query
> string programatically, you should escape like this. Say you have a
> map with all the params and values for the query string:
>
> require 'uri'
>
> map =3D {"chtt" =3D> "Failure By Type Over Last Year", "cht" =3D> "p" } #=
and so on
>
> failures_url =3D ""
> map.each {|key,value| failures_url << URI.escape(key) << "&" <<
> URI.escape(value)}
>
> and then the rest of the program.
Ooops, sorry, I got it wrong (I was joining with &):
map =3D {"chtt" =3D> "Failure By Type Over Last Year", "cht" =3D> "p" } # a=
nd so on
failures_url =3D map.map {|key,value|
"#{URI.escape(key)}=3D#{URI.escape(value)}" }.join("&")
Jesus.