[#391884] col 1.0.1 — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
col: high-level console color formatting for Ruby
[#391890] noob question regarding strings — Linus Phan <linusphan@...>
Hello,
[#391919] File size of web-based flv. Reading some bytes from a web-based file. — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
This is such a noobie question.
You should probably make a HEAD request and parse Content-Length header
[#391923] Re: Ruby Future in coming years — Akshay Jangid <akshay.dce@...>
final workspace
Is there a particular reason why you are positing a 17m zip file of
[#391927] Re: Create web application using ruby not with frameworks — Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Nike Mike wrote in post #1039276:
[#391935] Looping through an array of hashes? help — "Shawn M." <stress4@...>
Hello, I've been toying with general functionality using the below. This
[#391939] Re: Create web application using ruby not with frameworks — luke gruber <luke.gru@...>
I started writing a little microframework built on top of Sinatra for
[#391951] Including/selecting modules based on the methods they define — Jon Hart <jhart@...>
At http://spoofed.org/go.tar.gz I've put a simplified version of a problem
2012/1/4 Jon Hart <jhart@spoofed.org>:
[#391957] organizing a complex gem — Chad Perrin <code@...>
I need to organize a project into a gem, and would like some ideas about
Use dot directory:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:39:38PM +0900, Intransition wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 01:26:21AM +0900, Intransition wrote:
[#391958] Using Ruby to organize ones music collection — Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here@...>
Hey!
Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here@gmail.com> wrote:
[#391963] MOVING A RUBY ENVIRONMENT — Manav Gupta <manavkbgupta@...>
I have been using Ruby for a project since 2 months. Now I have to move
[#391969] crontab and ruby script — CC Chen <dickyhide@...>
Hi all,
[#391973] Ruby-GNOME2 1.1.0 — Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Hi,
[#391989] 'with-static-linked-ext' does what, now? — Khat Harr <myphatproxy@...>
I had thought from readme.ext that configuring with the
[#391996] Shoes Experts - Can someone explain this — Fily Salas <fs_tigre@...>
I have been practicing with Shoes and currently enjoying it.
[#392025] one liner to insert line in a file — Neubyr Neubyr <neubyr@...>
Can someone help to come up with Ruby one-liner to add a line at the
Got it:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Neubyr Neubyr <neubyr@gmail.com> wrote:
[#392050] Http proxy, string chomp error is nil? — Bigmac Turdsplash <i8igmac@...>
im building a proxy, im having a problem with processing the get request
[#392073] Stripping double quotes — Mickey Vogel <cjose@...>
Hi,
[#392086] New to programming, my first program! — "Luke D." <crazybuzz100@...>
Hi Ruby world!
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Luke D. <crazybuzz100@gmail.com> wrote:
[#392102] DNote v1.7.1 released — transfire@...
DNote 1.7.1 has been released.
[#392105] Re: Servolux: monitoring outside change? — Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
[#392111] A few noob questions. — Chris Meisenzahl <meisenzahl@...>
Hey guys, new here. ;-)
Well Notepad++ is a good general purpose editor on windows (I dont know
[#392122] relativity 0.0.1 released — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
relativity - time relative to a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year
[#392128] negative grep — Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
A bit of syntax that I have never picked up. How do I use grep to exclude
biglist !~ /bar/
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:22 PM, K Clair <kclair@pickledradish.com> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Robert Klemme wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:26:59AM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Robert Klemme
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
[#392135] Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...>
Hello,
IMHO ~PERHAPS~ the begin rescue is not working because the exception
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Peter Vandenabeele <peter@vandenabeele.com
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Unfortunately (or fortunately) your script is working pretty well in my set=
Hello,
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis
[#392151] at_exit handling — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Lately I asked on IRC:
[#392160] Problem using HighLine for password prompt on Windows — Claus Folke Brobak <cfb@...>
I am trying to use the HighLine library for password prompting on
[#392167] Installation Help — Rory Glenn Pascua <roryglennpascua@...>
Trying to install ruby in my box (RHEL5) so I can type "irb" on the
How about downloading Ruby on my Windows box? Would you guys recommend
[#392204] Language deisng question and stinrgs and object id's — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
a = "string"
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:
JGyG> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:
[#392207] ruby summer of code? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Anybody know who I should talk to to "nudge" them toward doing another
I'm not sure, but I'd be interested in helping getting this going.
+1 to get this going.... though more than likely i'll be participating as a
Ok email me or reply to this if anybody out there'd be interested in
[#392208] A very very beginner question. — "Brandon K." <brandon0981@...>
First off I apologize for the 'noobishness' of this question. I'm on a
[#392224] Help or Advice appreciated for parsing — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Hi,
[#392231] Including MySQL in a desktop application — "Damián M. González" <gonzalezdamianm@...>
Hello good people, first of all: my english is not so good, I'll try my
2012/1/15 Dami=E1n M. Gonz=E1lez <gonzalezdamianm@hotmail.com>:
[#392237] rescue Exception => ex — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
I am trying to grok
[#392242] The Better Code — Intransition <transfire@...>
Which would you judge to be the better code?
[#392252] Which library to write a parser — thomas carlier <carlier.thomas@...>
Hi,
thomas carlier писал 16.01.2012 11:48:
Gotta give a nod to kpeg:
Tony Arcieri писал 16.01.2012 12:47:
> Is there a PEG parser around here which does not keep all the symbols
[#392259] global array — Emil Enem誡ke <eme@...>
Hi,
[#392262] uniq with count; better way? — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
a = [4,5,6,4,5,6,6,7]
The first that came to my mind.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 16:00, Sigurd <cu9ypd@gmail.com> wrote:
Well it's one of the possible solutions.
On Jan 16, 2012 4:09 PM, "Sigurd" <cu9ypd@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 17:04, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Robert Klemme
Peter,
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>wrote:
I like this
Kenichi,
Abinoam,
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Kenichi Kamiya <kachick1@gmail.com> wrote:
I found a below discussion in rails. (via google)
[#392286] Parsing log with date time entry — Christopher Graves <gravescl@...>
The log file looks like this
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Christopher Graves <gravescl@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Klemme wrote in post #1041261:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Christopher Graves <gravescl@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele wrote in post #1041349:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Christopher Graves <gravescl@gmail.com>wrote:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
The Rio way looks interesting but even after installing the gem it is
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Christopher Graves <gravescl@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Kenichi Kamiya <kachick1@gmail.com> wrote:
[#392297] Cross-Compile Ruby with OpenSSL for Angstrom Linux ? — "Martin M." <capiman26061973@...>
Hello,
[#392316] Finding a <p> text which contains <br> — Brad Symons <snomys@...>
Hi
[#392361] Extending/embedding Ruby — "Matěj P." <matejuh@...>
Hi! I would like to extend nfdump in Ruby, which will be probably
[#392363] Understanding 'require' — Doug Jolley <ddjolley@...>
I am clearly missing something WRT 'require'. I have a program file
[#392365] Elegant expression of sorting — Garthy D <garthy_lmkltybr@...>
Hi all,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Garthy D
[#392384] Beginner Questions — "T.J. L." <tlamanna42@...>
I'm hoping someone can give me a hand. I've having trouble recalling
[#392394] Installing PCAP — Cliff Rosson <cliff.rosson@...>
Hi everyone. I have been having issues installing a few gems. PCAP is
Weird. It is complaining about the pcap.h file.
[#392398] Dynamically Calling a Class Method — Doug Jolley <ddjolley@...>
I need to dynamically call a class method (i.e., unless there is some
[#392406] Name directory with a variable — Alex Sweps <alexszepes@...>
Hello again everyone.
On Friday 20 January 2012 at 1:02 PM, Alex Sweps wrote:
Hello Everyone
[#392420] RCR String#{last, first} — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Hello.
[#392421] What defines an Error? — Intransition <transfire@...>
I wonder how we are to know the appropriate error to raise or to subclass?
> Does narrowly defining the purpose of errors this way make sense?
[#392429] Getting an Object to Push or Register "Itself" With a Hash During Initialization — Frank Guerino <frank.guerino@...4it.com>
Hi,
[#392430] regexp bug - max quantifier — Straff Walton <straff_walton@...>
regex for matching 1 to 4 caps alpha, followed by 1 to 4 digits seems to
[#392454] (Beginner Question) Trying to extract elements from an embeded array — Dave Elman <cyreath@...>
Hiya All,
[#392460] Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Intransition <transfire@...>
So simple...
On Jan 21, 2012 9:34 AM, "Gary Wright" <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
On 1/21/2012 12:08 PM, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:
So they can drop a billion transistors on a chip, have implemented 3D
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Robert Klemme
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Peter Vandenabeele <peter@vandenabeele.com
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Peter Vandenabeele
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:33:20PM +0900, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> Even that and the '1.1'.to_dec option mentioned elsewhere seem pretty
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:14:27AM +0900, Steve Klabnik wrote:
No, it's not a terminology difference. That's why it won't work. You
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:45:18AM +0900, Steve Klabnik wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:19:06AM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:23:36AM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
>> It'd be nice if you read the thread before chipping in. Adam Prescott
On 23.01.2012 11:33, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
2012/1/25 Matthias W=E4chter <matthias@waechter.wiz.at>:
Am 25.01.2012 15:28, schrieb botp:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Matthias W=C3=A4chter
"Standard is better than better." -Anon.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Alex Chaffee <alexch@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrot=
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Alex Chaffee <alex@stinky.com> wrote:
I have tried this, but recently discovered the same issues arise.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
Seriously? You blame the example? Reminds me of that old joke.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Garthy D <
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:05, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02:52PM +0900, Adam Prescott wrote:
On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Gary Wright wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:03:04AM +0900, Gary Wright wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Robert Klemme
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:22:47PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:35:10AM +0900, Yong Li wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> (2) The amount of emotion and defensiveness around this issue is
[#392478] What's wrong with this? — Paet Worlds II <paetilium@...>
Hey everyone, I'm very new to Ruby and I'm starting to do a bit more
[#392482] DIfferent outputs? — josh smith <use_this_123@...>
Hi,
[#392511] Building desktop application using Ruby and any GUI Framework — Rubyist Rohit <passionate_programmer@...>
I want to write a small desktop application on Ruby. I want the
@Rohit Mehta:
To warm up your research...
You should give green_shoes[1] a try.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Zachary Scott <zachary@zacharyscott.net>wrote:
Oh, I should clarify, you can use any ruby that is >=3D 1.9.2, I'm not
[#392515] Ruby bash replacement — Rohit Mehta <pigdog@...>
Dear Rubyists, I have been inspired by the wonderful PERL shell known as
[#392523] Why do I receive this error? — Paet Worlds II <paetilium@...>
So I've returned today with a new problem... I get this error, and I
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:42, Paet Worlds II <paetilium@live.com> wrote:
[#392527] codepart - please explain! — Blub Bla <susannepiehl@...>
Hey everyone,
[#392534] A simple XPATh failing — Ruby Mania <prateek123@...>
<p>
[#392536] 1.9.3-p0 performance patch — Yura Sokolov <funny.falcon@...>
https://gist.github.com/1658360#comments
[#392569] SimpleAWS - Simple and Forward Compatible AWS Library — "Jason R." <jameskilton@...>
What is it?
[#392598] Web Application from Scratch - like PHP — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...>
Hi,
http://rack.rubyforge.org/
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> wrote:
Rack in general could use some help. I'm sure they'd love any help you
> Rack 2.0 is being undertaken, and it's a huuuuge shift.
[#392602] Register an action to be done at a later time — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Hi.
> Why do you want to write a cron replacement?
[#392620] "files" gem - for creating temporary files and dirs — Alex Chaffee <alex@...>
Ever want to create a whole bunch of files at once? Like when you're
On 01/24/2012 12:03 PM, Alex Chaffee wrote:
[#392626] Foreign character problem — "Daryn L." <daryn.lam@...>
The problem I am currently facing is that the Chinese characters that
[#392635] A little assistance please :) — Paet Worlds II <paetilium@...>
So I'm still quite new to Ruby and so far I love it's simplicity, but I
On 24 January 2012 17:14, Paet Worlds II <paetilium@live.com> wrote:
Hilco Wijbenga wrote in post #1042399:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0900, Paet Worlds II wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 23:32, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:43:59AM +0900, Dave Aronson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:20:08PM +0900, Josh Cheek wrote:
> You're right, that's much better -- apart from the fact I have yet to
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:31:38PM +0900, Gunther Diemant wrote:
[#392640] BRASS v1.0.0 released — transfire@...
BRASS 1.0.0 has been released.
For info: the GIT and BUG links are buggy on the home page.
Thanks, fixed.
[#392650] Print and puts. What inputs do they require? — Kane Williams <theburrick@...>
print while gets != "42\n"
[#392661] A sort of design question — Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...>
Dear Ladies (??) and Gentlemen (okay we have plenty of those),
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis
[#392669] Install mysql2 gem in Ubuntu 11.10 with RVM — Jim Wharton <jamesawharton@...>
I'm trying to get this gem installed and it keeps puking up errors. All
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Jim Wharton <jamesawharton@gmail.com>wrote=
Peter Vandenabeele wrote in post #1042534:
Hi,
Markus Fischer wrote in post #1042547:
[#392694] Ruby Database Query with Grouping — Courtney Fay <cfay@...>
I am working in an application that has a Lucene and apache derby
[#392704] Assay v0.4.0 released — transfire@...
Assay 0.4.0 has been released.
[#392769] Windows RubyInstaller 1.8.7: Installing missing TCL/TK packages? — Axel Friedrich <axel.friedrich@...>
Hi,
[#392799] Class variables — "josh j." <jinjosh97@...>
Hey guys,
[#392818] Help please Undefined Method error — "andres d." <andres.1996.1@...>
Hi and thank you for reading this
The program is done !!!! i was only checking it for the last time
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:58 AM, andres d. <apolo-andres@hotmail.com> wrote:
2012/2/3 Peter Vandenabeele <peter@vandenabeele.com>:
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski <matma.rex@gmail.co=
Personally I have no problems using:
[#392834] Is there a gem that packages common activerecord related rails tasks? — Kevin <darkintent@...>
There are times when I would like to use ActiveRecord outside of a
[#392839] Embedding Ruby debugging and gems using — "Matěj P." <matejuh@...>
Embedding Ruby in C is poor documented part of Ruby programming. When I
[#392848] Why Ruby 1.9 GUI hangs if i do any intensive computation in separate Ruby thread? — Grigory Petrov <grigory.v.p@...>
Ruby 1.9 suppose to have native threads, and GIL is supposed to lift
[#392862] RUBY_CRITICAL — Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@...>
Hello all
[#392867] Multiple assignment in conditional — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
I find this a strange Ruby error.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:49 AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Joel VanderWerf
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, botp <botpena@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote=
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Robert Klemme
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote=
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Robert Klemme
[#392887] why we need heredoc — Lucky Nl <lakshmi27.u@...>
In ruby we have the concpet "heredoc" to handle multiple line strings
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lucky Nl <lakshmi27.u@gmail.com> wrote:
[#392895] the future of ruby — "mark e." <mark_f_edwards@...>
according to this article:
[#392917] PHP vs Ruby is it worth it? — Samuel Mensah <sasogeek@...>
Hi, I've been searching around for what the best language there is out
By "real time" I mean, having every activity occur synchronously on
well I want to build a real time website, exactly what languages should
Re: (Beginner Question) Trying to extract elements from an embeded array
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Dave Elman <cyreath@gmail.com> wrote: > Hiya All, > > I've been learning Ruby for about 2 weeks or so and had a go at putting > together proper bit of code, which I of course can't get working ;) Part > of my practice is to see how if..., while..., collect... and so on work. > > In the code I have a set of embedded arrays with various strings. I then > generate a sequential number (0, 1, 2, etc) and a random number. With > those I index into each array in sequence using the sequence number, and > use the random number to pick a string at random from within them. > > The output should be say "a, B" or "c, A", etc. > > I've been testing this in SciTe and get results of either [nil, nil] or > just "a, b" every time. Running it in Codepad I got [nil, nil] and [98, > 98]. > > How the heck I can get nil, nil I don;t know, I'm guessing I'm getting > int/str mixed up here. > > If anyone has a moment, could you look over the code I pasted at > Codepad. Any guidance on what I'm missing here technically and logically > would be greatly appreciated. > > http://codepad.org/ohuMRrlE > > Regards, > > Dave. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > The numbers are due to codepad using an older version of Ruby (1.8.6). It used to be that characters were represented by numbers known as an ascii value. If you look it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII you'll see that the character "a" correlates to the number 97, so on older Rubies, if you said "abc"[0] it would return 97. On newer Rubies (1.9.x), characters are represented by strings of length 1, so "abc"[0] returns "a". Other than that, the reason you're doing "a"[0] rather than ["a","b","c","d"][0] is because you haven't wrapped them in an array, as Vikhyat showed in his updated version. Also, consider using inspect instead of to_s when you're trying to look at these values, inspect makes it easier to see what objects you're dealing with. ie: puts "Array contents: " + extractedArray.inspect