[#387246] newbie question — sunny parker <info@2020proj.com>

i am coming from php and dont seem to quite understand how ruby works

13 messages 2011/09/01

[#387330] installing naive bayes classifier — aya abdelsalam <ayoya_91@...>

Hello

10 messages 2011/09/02

[#387344] Beginner needing help - Writing right-angle triangle program — Kane Williams <theburrick@...>

I've been going through a Haskell tutorial (Just to see what it's like)

12 messages 2011/09/03

[#387356] Which version should I download? — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

Im new to programming and Im thinking of downloading and starting with

17 messages 2011/09/03

[#387392] loops problem — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

for (j = @array.length ; j > counter ; j = j-1) # counter is a variable

13 messages 2011/09/04

[#387469] posts on Unix systems programming — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

I would like to do a series of mailing list posts on the subject of Unix

28 messages 2011/09/06

[#387530] Unexpected behavior of Ruby array — Suvankar Satpati <suvankar.17@...>

I was going through the exercises at http://rubykoans.com/ and got

11 messages 2011/09/08

[#387544] Executing the output of a look — dwight schrute <spambocks@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2011/09/08

[#387586] Creating a hash from two arrays — simon harrison <simonharrison.uk@...>

Hi. Can anyone help with this? I'd like to end with a hash like so:

15 messages 2011/09/09

[#387596] newbie ruby installation malloc issue — "mark e." <mark_f_edwards@...>

hi all -

12 messages 2011/09/09

[#387614] how to write data in binary to a file? — frank hi <yw_hi@163.com>

Hi,

11 messages 2011/09/10

[#387646] How do I make output generate a float without an excess numbers of decimal places? — Kane Williams <theburrick@...>

For example, my current code is

11 messages 2011/09/11

[#387725] Any downsides to writing paranthesises? — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

Im a newbie programmer who is trying to learn Ruby after having just

18 messages 2011/09/12

[#387811] Get interpreter path — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>

Hello,

26 messages 2011/09/14
[#387842] Re: Get interpreter path — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/09/14

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrot=

[#387844] Re: Get interpreter path — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...> 2011/09/14

On 14 September 2011 20:47, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@gmail.com> wrote:

[#387814] Tough Ruby Homework — Rory Pascua <rorypascua@...>

I'm trying to take a long piece of text, find a word, and get that word

18 messages 2011/09/14

[#387853] Can I Safely Use Rubinius While Learning? — Aaron Jackson <jacksonaaronc@...>

Greetings,

18 messages 2011/09/15

[#387915] Some newbie questions — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

I got some newbie questions which I would very much appreciate if

14 messages 2011/09/15

[#388003] Ruby Speed Question — Kevin Anon <oblivious.sage@...>

Wrote my first Ruby program recently for a class assignment where we had

12 messages 2011/09/18

[#388078] appending \n to each element in an array — Joe Collins <joec_49@...>

I have an array

13 messages 2011/09/20

[#388123] Turning on a special program at special time and turning off the computer at another special time — "amir e." <aef1370@...>

I decided to write a program in RUBY wherein these items have been done

11 messages 2011/09/21
[#388124] Re: Turning on a special program at special time and turning off the computer at another special time — andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...> 2011/09/21

That sounds like a program a special program a terrorist would write. Are

[#388198] Conditional statements with multiple arguments — "Thomas B." <sinixlol@...>

Good afternoon everyone,

18 messages 2011/09/24

[#388203] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — "Yuki Sonoda (Yugui)" <yugui@...>

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19 messages 2011/09/24
[#388208] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2011/09/24

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[#388209] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Chris White <cwprogram@...> 2011/09/24

[#388214] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2011/09/24

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[#388216] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Yusuke Endoh <mame@...> 2011/09/24

Hello,

[#388248] Looking for better/familiar approach to command line opts — "Perl J." <perljunkie@...>

So I guess the warning to the reader upfront is... I'm a bit of a Perl

14 messages 2011/09/25

[#388333] Get all classes from a list of files — Jeroen van Ingen <jeroeningen@...>

I have a list of ruby files. I would like to create objects from all

11 messages 2011/09/28

[#388342] Ruby Syntax @keywords ||= [ ] — Bhavesh Sharma <sharmabhavesh@...>

Sorry if this comes across as a dumb question, but what does the

11 messages 2011/09/28

[#388366] IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why? — Joda jenson <jodajen2@...>

I am fairly new to Ruby and I am stuck on this. Would someone have a

13 messages 2011/09/29
[#388368] Re: IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2011/09/29

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Joda jenson <jodajen2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Re: GEMS: GEMSPEC problem

From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2011-09-19 07:09:41 UTC
List: ruby-talk #388026
On 09/18/2011 10:01 AM, Frederick Lee wrote:
> Greetings:
>      I'm a Ruby/Rails/Cucumber neophyte.
>
> Goal: To use Cucumber for automated testing of iOS (Objective-C)
> applications.
>
> Environment:
> 1) Mac OS X&  iOS simulation/OS X.
> 2) ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin11]
> 3) gem --verison
> 1.3.7
>
> ----------------------
>
> I'm trying to install a cohesive ruby/gem library that simply work.
> After I've installed a 'frank-cucumber' gem, everything went crazy.
>
> Now I'm getting a string of diagnostic text with a warning after I
> attempt to access a gem item.  For example (abridged):
>
> RicMac:~ Ric$ gem --list
> WARNING:  #<ArgumentError: Illformed requirement
> ["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0x10f13dcc8>  0.8.4"]>
> # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
>
> Gem::Specification.new do |s|
>    s.name = %q{cucumber}
>    s.version = "1.0.4"
>
>    s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if
> s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
>    s.authors = ["Aslak Helles\303\270y"]
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> WARNING:  Invalid .gemspec format in
> '/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/cucumber-
> 1.0.4.gemspec'
> rake aborted!
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Question:
>
> 1) How do I correctly manage my gems/ruby environment so the assorted
> .gemspecs are in sync?
> 2) I have ruby 1.9 instance installed on my Mac OS X in addition to the
> default ruby v1.8.7.
>     How do I manage both environments (with associated gem specs)?
>
> In short...
>     I want to be able to type $>gem --version or $>cucumber --version
> WITHOUT flagging 'invalid...gemspec.'
>
>
> Regards,
> Ric

rvm[1] should help you with the "managing your environments" issue.

I'm guessing your specific issue may be related to this post[2].

[1] http://beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/
[2] http://blog.rubygems.org/2011/08/31/shaving-the-yaml-yacc.html

-Justin

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