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

num.coerce(numeric) → array

14 messages 2011/08/02

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

= Issues =

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> wrote:

[#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:

[#386409] Re: *WHY* does this not work? — Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...> 2011/08/09

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM, serialhex <serialhex@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@...>

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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 bug:

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: String#split resets regex captures variables (Ruby 1.8.7)

From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-08-29 09:01:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #387152
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/8/29 Bartosz Dziewoナгki <matma.rex@gmail.com>
>
>> I think it makes sense for $1, $2 etc to change any time a regex match
>> is performed anywhere in Ruby, it might be even kind of useful in some
>> perverse scenarios. That said, you shouldn't use these if you can,
>> it's a Perl relic (but I admit, sometimes it's the easiest way).
>>
> I don't, that means that if you call some method, then it can implicitly and
> unintentionally change variables you've set, and the only way to know it is
> to go digging through source code. You could empirically experiment with it,
> but say the regex was conditionally evaluated, then you'd not know it was
> used unless conditions were right, meaning it might not pop up until you
> were in production.

And actually the situation is much more friendly: $1 etc. are local to
stack frame...

10:57:55 ~$ cat -n x.rb
     1  def x
     2    /(a+)/ =~ "aabb" and $1
     3  end
     4
     5  str = 'abcd'
     6
     7  if str =~ /(c)(d)/
     8   p [$1, $2]
     9   p x
    10   p [$1, $2]
    11  end
10:58:02 ~$ allruby x.rb
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme2 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
========================================
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
["c", "d"]
"aa"
["c", "d"]
========================================
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [i386-cygwin]
["c", "d"]
"aa"
["c", "d"]
========================================
jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.8.7-p330) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM)
Client VM 1.6.0_26) [Windows XP-x86-java]
["c", "d"]
"aa"
["c", "d"]
========================================
jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.9.2-p136) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM)
Client VM 1.6.0_26) [Windows XP-x86-java]
["c", "d"]
"aa"
["c", "d"]
========================================
10:58:11 ~$

... and local to thread:

10:59:54 ~$ cat -n x.rb
     1  def x
     2    /(a+)/ =~ "aabb" and $1
     3  end
     4
     5  str = 'abcd'
     6
     7  if str =~ /(c)(d)/
     8   p [$1, $2]
     9   Thread.new { /(c+)/ =~ "ccccc" and p $1 }.join
    10   p [$1, $2]
    11  end
10:59:56 ~$ allruby x.rb
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme2 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
========================================
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
["c", "d"]
"ccccc"
["c", "d"]
========================================
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [i386-cygwin]
["c", "d"]
"ccccc"
["c", "d"]
========================================
jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.8.7-p330) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM)
Client VM 1.6.0_26) [Windows XP-x86-java]
["c", "d"]
"ccccc"
["c", "d"]
========================================
jruby 1.6.3 (ruby-1.9.2-p136) (2011-07-07 965162f) (Java HotSpot(TM)
Client VM 1.6.0_26) [Windows XP-x86-java]
["c", "d"]
"ccccc"
["c", "d"]
========================================
11:00:04 ~$

Kind regards

robert

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