[#386100] Numeric#coerce docs are disaster — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

num.coerce(numeric) =E2=86=92 array

14 messages 2011/08/02

[#386114] Documentation Improvement Proposal — Chris White <cwprogram@...>

=3D Issues =3D

24 messages 2011/08/02
[#386115] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

I reeeeeealy dislike user comments on documentation. It's one of the

[#386117] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/08/02

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> wrot=

[#386118] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

> What's wrong with stealing WikiPedia's procedures? The model works

[#386119] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Chris White <cwprogram@...> 2011/08/02

On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote:

[#386123] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

Apologies, I've just responded to everyone in-line.

[#386231] Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

The title is misleading...

42 messages 2011/08/05
[#386233] Re: Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — "Fred L." <f.linard@...> 2011/08/05

Hello,

[#386235] Re: Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — Alexander Litvinovsky <alexander.litvinovsky@...> 2011/08/05

What are you talking about? Ruby has a nice docs, railsapi.com for example.

[#386297] Help out with the next version of ruby-lang.org — Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>

https://github.com/rubylang/ruby-lang.org

11 messages 2011/08/07

[#386341] Exceptional Ruby and Metaprogramming Ruby has anyone picked these up? — Kevin <darkintent@...>

I'm thinking of picking up these two books and was wondering if anyone

11 messages 2011/08/09

[#386378] ruby installation — "Momodou J." <modou75alieu@...>

how to implement this in windows :

16 messages 2011/08/09

[#386401] *WHY* does this not work? — serialhex <serialhex@...>

ok, so code:

23 messages 2011/08/09
[#386403] Re: *WHY* does this not work? — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...> 2011/08/09

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:52:59AM +0900, serialhex wrote:

[#386404] Re: *WHY* does this not work? — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2011/08/09

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:

[#386480] Odd regexp behavior — Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>

I'm running 1.9.2-p180

16 messages 2011/08/10

[#386506] Distributing Ruby program as a standalone executable (exe) for windows — Michelle Pace <michelle@...>

Hello there,

10 messages 2011/08/11

[#386539] Online tutor for Ruby — T J Pereira <tj5155@...>

I am finding it difficult to apply the RUBY program. Its because i have

18 messages 2011/08/12
[#386541] Re: Online tutor for Ruby — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/08/12

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:00 AM, T J Pereira <tj5155@tm.net.my> wrote:

[#386637] class inheritance and class constants — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

------------------------

16 messages 2011/08/14

[#386784] Green Shoes v1.0 released — ashbb <ashbbb@...>

Hello, everyone.

15 messages 2011/08/18
[#392062] Re: Green Shoes v1.0 released — Barry Yu <yubarry@...> 2012/01/09

why do I get this error?

[#386796] Searching in a directory — Yu Yu <htwoo@...>

Hello,

21 messages 2011/08/18

[#386893] Gritty Details of super() — luke gruber <luke.gru@...>

Hey guys,

18 messages 2011/08/21

[#386900] Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I cannot find an explanation for the following issue so I think it's a =

15 messages 2011/08/21
[#386901] Re: Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2011/08/21

[#386903] Re: Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...> 2011/08/21

2011/8/22 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:

[#386920] New to Ruby some problems — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

I am new to Ruby, My mother tongue is C++ .. I have too many problems I

21 messages 2011/08/22

[#386949] Want to get involved with this doc stuff? I'm making it even easier — Steve Klabnik <steve@...>

Hey guys-

9 messages 2011/08/22

[#387058] How the access the values of this result — QAS WM <qaiserwali@...>

I am getting the following as a result of a script I run.

11 messages 2011/08/26

[#387070] overloading methods question please? — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

def do_something(a as Array)

11 messages 2011/08/26

[#387138] String#split resets regex captures variables (Ruby 1.8.7) — Olivier Lance <bestiol@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2011/08/29

[#387196] SAMSUNG to produce "Ruby on Rails in Silicon" System on a Chip — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>

(public draft)

9 messages 2011/08/31

[#387197] Prepend a character to a string in ruby — ruby rails <rubyonrails4me@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2011/08/31

[#387212] GUI programming — Samuel Mensah <sasogeek@...>

Is ruby GUI programming something that will come along as I study ruby

19 messages 2011/08/31
[#387230] Re: GUI programming — Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@...> 2011/08/31

I believe right now it's better to stay with console, there's no Ruby

Re: Help in Pointer

From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-08-02 20:03:16 UTC
List: ruby-talk #386125
On Aug 1, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Tridib Bandopadhyay wrote:
> I got to know from this forum before that the Garbage Collector just=20=

> scans the stack looking for pointers. So, if we allocate a pointer and=20=

> hide data behind the pointer the Garbage Collector won't see pointers=20=

> which aren't on the stack.
>=20
> As I am working on Garbage Collector and want to implement manual =
memory=20
> deallocation so I need to hide data from the garbage collector =
applying=20
> the above technique.

You can inform the garbage collector of your pointer through =
Data_Wrap_Struct and Data_Make_Struct.  =46rom README.EXT:

> 3.3 Encapsulate C data into a Ruby object
>=20
> To wrap and objectify a C pointer as a Ruby object (so called
> DATA), use Data_Wrap_Struct().
>=20
>   Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, mark, free, ptr)
>=20
> Data_Wrap_Struct() returns a created DATA object.  The klass argument
> is the class for the DATA object.  The mark argument is the function
> to mark Ruby objects pointed by this data.  The free argument is the
> function to free the pointer allocation.  If this is -1, the pointer
> will be just freed.  The functions mark and free will be called from
> garbage collector.

Does this answer your questions?

For further reading:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/README.EXT?view=3Dmarkup=

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