[#389739] Ruby Challenge — teresa nuagen <unguyen90@...>

Here is a ruby challenge for all you computer science lovers out there,

22 messages 2011/11/05
[#389769] Re: Ruby Challenge — "Jonan S." <jonanscheffler@...> 2011/11/05

Totally unrelated to any husker computer science programs right? Like

[#389905] Re: Ruby Challenge — Stephen Ramsay <sramsay.unl@...> 2011/11/09

Jonan S. wrote in post #1030330:

[#389907] Re: Ruby Challenge — aseret nuagen <unguyen90@...> 2011/11/09

> You mean like the professor for the course? Because that would be me .

[#389915] Re: Ruby Challenge — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2011/11/09

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:52 AM, aseret nuagen <unguyen90@aim.com> wrote:

[#389792] Tricky DSL, how to do it? — Intransition <transfire@...>

I'd want to write a DSL such that a surface method_missing catches

18 messages 2011/11/06

[#389858] Compiling Ruby Inline C code - resolving errors — Martin Hansen <mail@...>

I am trying to get this Ruby inline C code http://pastie.org/2825882 to

12 messages 2011/11/08

[#389928] Forming a Ruby meetup group... — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>

Where I work we have a local Ruby group that used to meet up, until the

12 messages 2011/11/09

[#389950] The faster way to read files — "Noé Alejandro" <casanejo@...>

Does anybody know which is the fastest way to read a file? Lets say

18 messages 2011/11/09

[#390064] referring to version numbers in a gem — Chad Perrin <code@...>

How do I specify and access a gem's version number within the code of the

28 messages 2011/11/11

[#390238] RVM problem, plz help — Misha Ognev <b1368810@...>

Hi, I have this problem:

15 messages 2011/11/16

[#390308] any command line tools for querying yaml files — Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>

(Sorry, this is not exactly a ruby question).

11 messages 2011/11/18

[#390338] Newbie - cmd question — Otto Dydakt <ottodydakt@...>

I've literally JUST downloaded ruby from rubyinstaller.org.

21 messages 2011/11/19
[#390342] Re: Newbie - cmd question — Otto Dydakt <ottodydakt@...> 2011/11/19

OK thank you, I uninstalled & reinstalled, checking the three boxes at

[#390343] Re: Newbie - cmd question — "Ian M. Asaff" <ian.asaff@...> 2011/11/19

did you type "irb" first to bring up the ruby command prompt?

[#391154] Re: Newbie - cmd question — "Hussain A." <hahmad@...> 2011/12/12

Hi all,

[#391165] Re: Newbie - cmd question — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2011/12/12

Hussain A. wrote in post #1036281:

[#390374] Principle of Best Principles — Intransition <transfire@...>

I seem to run into a couple of design issue a lot and I never know what is

16 messages 2011/11/20

[#390396] how to call Function argument into another ruby script. — hari mahesh <harismahesh@...>

Consider I have a ruby file called library.rb.

10 messages 2011/11/21

[#390496] How to make 1.9.2 my default version using RVM — Fily Salas <fs_tigre@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2011/11/24

[#390535] Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...>

Well, first of all, I'm new to Ruby, and to this forum. So, hello. :)

39 messages 2011/11/25
[#390580] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...> 2011/11/27

Hi,

[#390593] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...> 2011/11/27

Joao Pedrosa wrote in post #1033884:

[#390600] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Douglas Seifert <doug@...> 2011/11/27

A big gain can be had by disabling the garbage collector. Here is my best

[#390601] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Douglas Seifert <doug@...> 2011/11/27

I've thrown various solutions up on github here:

[#390650] Loading a faulty ruby file - forcing this — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

Hi.

10 messages 2011/11/29

[#390689] Stupid question — James Gallagher <lollyproductions@...>

Hi everyone.

22 messages 2011/11/30

Re: Using gets and split

From: Reese Chappuis <c0dege3k@...>
Date: 2011-11-13 23:03:33 UTC
List: ruby-talk #390144
That's a good point & idea. I will take that into consideration and will
most likely use the loop like you suggested. Thanks.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dave Aronson <
rubytalk2dave@davearonson.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 21:42, Reese Chappuis <c0dege3k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, that does work- so the problem is with how the data is being
> inputted,
> > not with the program?
>
> No, it's the program, if you do indeed want to use gets.  Thing is,
> you're just using gets *once*, and gets just reads one line.  I don't
> see how you could have wound up with multi-line results from one gets
> call in irb.  Possibly the modifications you glossed over, were doing
> a good bit more than that.  Anyway, there are a couple alternate
> suggestions that spring to mind.
>
> One is to use a different input reading function that will read until
> end-of-file, and then split it as you were doing.  The user must press
> ^Z when done (^D on Mac or Linux).  However, typical non-technical
> end-users might not understand things like "press ^Z".  (I'm guessing
> this is really just an academic exercise so that wouldn't really
> matter, but it's still a good idea to get into the habit of thinking
> about what your users will understand or not.)  Also, reading until
> EOF in one chunk can be a dangerous habit to get into, as some joker
> (or malicious attacker) may enter much more data than your program can
> really handle.  (Again, good habit to get into thinking about security
> and scalability.)
>
> A much better way is to put gets in a loop with some condition to end
> it, such as entering a blank line.  How to initialize the data and
> execute that loop, are left as exercises for the reader.
>
> -Dave
>
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>


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Reese Chappuis

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