[#395238] rubygem: ispunity (unite all your internet connections) — Arun Tomar <tomar.arun@...>

Dear friends,

12 messages 2012/05/01

[#395250] Overwriting one Ruby array or arrays with another — Craig Law <lists@...>

Hi

14 messages 2012/05/02

[#395258] array of strings - finding letter combinations — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

Hi All,

16 messages 2012/05/02

[#395357] Why Enumerator#next does not return more than one value? — Földes László <lists@...>

If I have an Enumerator which yields elements of a mathematical series

10 messages 2012/05/07

[#395373] How to use Data_Wrap_Struct to assign the DATA VALUE to an exsiting Ruby object? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, my code receives an arbitrary klass name (provided by the user)

8 messages 2012/05/07

[#395429] passing via instance variable or regular () — sam jam <lists@...>

def first

10 messages 2012/05/10

[#395463] I'm looking for a Metaprogramming Project — Phil Stone <lists@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2012/05/11

[#395548] A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Newcomer wants to try Ruby.

15 messages 2012/05/15
[#395561] Re: A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/05/15

[#395595] Re: A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/16

I will add that the OP is not entirely alone in his opinion.

[#395551] How to ensure that a block runs entirely after other threads? (Thread.exclusive does not "work") — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I expected that in the following example code, thread t1 would not

8 messages 2012/05/15

[#395575] GUI with ruby on windows — David Acosta <lists@...>

hello friends, i am a begginer and i have a litlle question, how can i

17 messages 2012/05/16

[#395604] what is going wrong here? — roob noob <lists@...>

Notice the initialization of both classes in each of the examples, if

20 messages 2012/05/16

[#395646] rb_gc_register_address() or rb_gc_mark()? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I've bad experiences with rb_gc_register_address(), it does never

16 messages 2012/05/17

[#395686] reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2012/05/18
[#395694] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — Regis d'Aubarede <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Hello,

[#395697] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Regis d'Aubarede wrote in post #1061272:

[#395698] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — Regis d'Aubarede <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Sebastjan H. wrote in post #1061276:

[#395699] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Regis d'Aubarede wrote in post #1061277:

[#395750] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file - issues when using Shoes — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Hi,

[#395754] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file - issues when using Shoes — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Sebastjan H. wrote in post #1061483:

[#395740] ? Ruby through CGI and Rails — Shaun Lloyd <list@...>

Hi everybody,

22 messages 2012/05/21
[#395764] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Shaun Lloyd wrote in post #1061455:

[#395786] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Shaun Lloyd <list@...> 2012/05/22

On 22/05/12 03:37, Brian Candler wrote:

[#395838] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/23

Shaun Lloyd wrote in post #1061602:

[#395787] Changing self class from inside a method?? — David Madison <lists@...>

Let's start off with the assumption I want a method that allows an

10 messages 2012/05/22

[#395841] Memory-efficient set of Fixnums — George Dupre <lists@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2012/05/23

[#395883] looking for a ruby idiom : r=foo; return r if r — botp <botpena@...>

Hi All,

11 messages 2012/05/24

[#395966] Am I justified to use a global variable if it must be used in all scopes? — Phil Stone <lists@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2012/05/27

[#396010] does this leak more than the size of the string via timing side channels — rooby shoez <lists@...>

string1 = "string"

16 messages 2012/05/29

[#396038] Is it possible to avoid longjmp in exceptions, Thread#kill, exit(), signals? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, my Ruby C extension runs a C loop (libuv) without GVL. At some

8 messages 2012/05/29

Re: assert_equal ([:r, :u, :b, :e, :q, :u, :e] __), [:b, :q]

From: David Gustafson <daveg@...>
Date: 2012-05-01 20:33:26 UTC
List: ruby-talk #395243
Just the kind of pointer I was hoping for.  Thanks.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Raju Gandhi <raju.gandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> Perhaps it has to do with certain operations that you can do with arrays =
in
> Ruby ... Remember that Ruby provides syntactic sugar for certain kinds of
> methods ... So, for e.g
>
> def name=3D (name)
> =A0 @name =3D name
> end
>
> can be invoked as
>
> <some_object>.name =3D "David"
>
> What Ruby does here is that it sees an assignment (name =3D "David") and =
looks
> for a method called name=3D (Note there is no whitespace between name and
> "=3D").
>
> I bring this up b/c it seems that you are thinking of a method that you
> could use here ("I don't understand the above because the blank is not ri=
ght
> up against
> the .. array"). And the solution lies in invoking a method on an array, b=
ut
> with the syntactic sugar applied.
>
> Look at http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html and look at any
> mathematical operators that might come in handy - see how they are to be
> used.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Raju
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:55 PM, David Gustafson <daveg@radicalskeptic.net=
>
> wrote:
>>
>> This is part of a online ruby quiz. =A0Just doing it for my own
>> education, not on a test that I'm graded on.
>>
>> assert_equal ([:r, :u, :b, :e, :q, :u, :e] __), [:b, :q]
>>
>> I don't understand the above because the blank is not right up against
>> the [:r, :u, :b, :e, :q, :u, :e] array. =A0I'm not sure how to search
>> for whatever is supposed to be in the blank.
>>
>> If someone could give me a hint rather than an answer it would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Voltaire
>>
>



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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Voltaire

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