[#396148] Facebook Group — Moses Aronov <mosesaro@...>

There is a facebook group that was recently created so we could all communicate with other fellow developers

13 messages 2012/06/05
[#396178] Re: Facebook Group — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/06/06

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:55:48AM +0900, Moses Aronov wrote:

[#396186] Inexplicable Argument Error — Doug Jolley <lists@...>

I am encountering a very strange argument error. I simplified my code

12 messages 2012/06/06

[#396229] Thread#kill is not rescued by "rescue Exception" — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, let me show this easy code:

13 messages 2012/06/07

[#396333] Is "a,b=c,d" atomic? or do I need a Mutex? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I have two methods that could be called by different threads and

10 messages 2012/06/10

[#396357] ffi - Popping image on top of the screen — "Damián M. González" <lists@...>

Ey guys, how are you? I`m developing an application in Ruby, using

12 messages 2012/06/11

[#396373] Why should I learn ruby? — Kasper Steensig <lists@...>

I have wondered whether I should learn ruby or python hence they are

16 messages 2012/06/11

[#396503] Syntax Highlighter — Intransition <transfire@...>

Would you agree that Ruby shouldn't lack for a syntax highlighting library

18 messages 2012/06/14

[#396589] Unsubcripe — Suresh Rajkumar <sureshrajchennai@...>

Unsubcipe my mail address from the group.

13 messages 2012/06/18

[#396615] Symbols and Strings... — Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@...>

Hello, all...

29 messages 2012/06/18
[#396620] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2012/06/18

On Jun 18, 2012, at 15:09, Hal Fulton wrote:

[#396641] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/06/19

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#396643] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@...> 2012/06/19

Personally, I don't have a problem with "reducing the contract"

[#396646] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/06/19

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

[#396659] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@...> 2012/06/19

> > Freezing an object also reduces its contract.

[#396678] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/06/20

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

[#396701] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...> 2012/06/20

[#396702] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/06/20

2012/6/20 Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@me.com>:

[#396703] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...> 2012/06/20

[#396710] Re: Symbols and Strings... — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...> 2012/06/20

On 06/20/2012 03:58 PM, Henry Maddocks wrote:

[#396627] Does ERB have recursive template support? — Todd Wei <lists@...>

I want to use ERB template library to do some code generation. It

10 messages 2012/06/19

[#396649] Looking for a better way to add a method to a core class than monkey patching — Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2012/06/19
[#396670] Re: Looking for a better way to add a method to a core class than monkey patching — Avdi Grimm <groups@...> 2012/06/20

Please do not monkey patch core libraries in gems, unless the *purpose* of

[#396685] Benchmark obsession? — "Jan E." <lists@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2012/06/20
[#396709] Re: Benchmark obsession? — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/06/20

[#396815] Array#sample is Set#sample and not Array#sample ! — Michel Demazure <lists@...>

Arrays are ordered, sets are not. Sampling an array should give random

11 messages 2012/06/25

[#396877] CSV.open problem, help please — Kaye Ng <lists@...>

This code doesn't seem to work

21 messages 2012/06/27

[#396896] Copying text from MS Word and wrapping in HTML - help please — Adam Holloway <lists@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2012/06/27

[#396966] Interactions between 'new' and 'initialize' ? — Cees Zeelenberg <lists@...>

In JRuby, I am extending an existing Java Class with a Ruby initialising

9 messages 2012/06/28

[#396975] stack level too deep for quicksort code — bei zhao <lists@...>

Hi, below is my quicksort implementation in ruby(using the first element

12 messages 2012/06/28

[#396996] Accessor Methods with a Twist — Doug Jolley <lists@...>

I am surprised that the code shown below returns, 'Doug'. I would

15 messages 2012/06/29

[#397001] ruby performance — anaray anaray <lists@...>

Hi,

33 messages 2012/06/29
[#397007] Re: ruby performance — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/06/29

The MRI is, unfortunately, slow as balls, and there's not much you can

[#397008] Re: ruby performance — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2012/06/29

Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski wrote in post #1066673:

[#397010] Re: ruby performance — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/06/29

2012/6/29 Hans Mackowiak <lists@ruby-forum.com>:

[#397011] Re: ruby performance — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/06/29

2012/6/29 Hans Mackowiak <lists@ruby-forum.com>:

[#397047] Re: ruby performance — "Andreas S." <lists@...> 2012/07/01

Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski wrote in post #1066681:

[#397048] Re: ruby performance — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/07/01

2012/7/1 Andreas S. <lists@ruby-forum.com>:

[#397068] Re: ruby performance — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/07/02

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski <matma.rex@gmail.co=

[#397086] Re: ruby performance — Dan Connelly <lists@...> 2012/07/02

Here's my contribution:

Re: Ruby vs Python vs Java bytecode concept

From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2012-06-22 02:39:13 UTC
List: ruby-talk #396757
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>wro=
te:

> Daniel Hernandez =D0=C9=D3=C1=CC 20.06.2012 20:03:
>
>  At Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:56:48 +0900,
>> gmspro gmspro wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a confusion about the process of ruby file.
>>>
>>> Suppose you have a file named f.rb.
>>> To run this file you do:
>>> ruby f.rb
>>>
>>> After this command what does happen?
>>>
>>> I knew for python, python makes bytecode and java makes .class. Both ar=
e
>>> not human readable.
>>>
>>> Is ruby a interpreted language or compiled language?
>>>
>>
>> Maybe it depends on the the system that you use to run ruby. For
>> example, YARV (now ruby 1.9) is a bytecode interpreter. I suppose that
>> ruby code is converted to a bytecode sintactical tree that is
>> interpreted by YARV. This is different to compile C, because the
>> output of GCC is a machine code and not a sintactical tree.
>>
>
> Bytecode has nothing to do with syntactical trees. Abstract syntax tree
> is a notation used to represent the _source code_, e.g.
>
> irb> require 'ripper'; require 'pp'
> irb> pp Ripper.sexp("puts 1 + 2")
> [:program,
>  [[:command,
>   [:@ident, "puts", [1, 0]],
>   [:args_add_block,
>    [[:binary, [:@int, "1", [1, 5]], :+, [:@int, "2", [1, 9]]]],
>    false]]]]
>
> The mentioned structure can be thought of as a tree because it does not
> have any loops (if you can't imagine it, try to find inspiration in this
> image: http://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/images/**gcdast1.png<http://cs.lmu.edu/~ray=
/images/gcdast1.png>
> )
>
> Bytecode is a format used akin to machine code, but for a virtual machine
> specialized for a certain language. Nothing (except maybe common sense)
> prevents you from creating a very real, silicon processor for the YARV
> bytecode; it isn't inherently inferior to x86 machine code. Bytecode
> looks like this:
>
>  puts RubyVM::InstructionSequence.**new("puts 1 + 2").disasm
>>
> =3D=3D disasm: <RubyVM::InstructionSequence:<**compiled>@<compiled>>=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D*
> *=3D
> 0000 trace            1                                               (  =
1)
> 0002 putself
> 0003 putobject        1
> 0005 putobject        2
> 0007 opt_plus         <ic:2>
> 0009 send             :puts, 1, nil, 8, <ic:1>
> 0015 leave
>
> As you can see, it's very similar to assembler code, but of a kind
> developed specially for Ruby.
>
> Ruby 1.8 walks each node of the AST and interprets them. This is very slo=
w.
> Ruby 1.9 first converts the AST to the bytecode and then executes the
> bytecode.
> This still isn't very fast, but at least it is much faster than walking
> the AST.
>
>
>> --
>> Daniel
>>
>
> --
>  WBR, Peter Zotov.
>
>

Holy crap, I didn't even know about RubyVM.

Is there a way to get at the code from a block passed in? Looking at the
docs, it appears both of these take a string, Could I do this sort of
analysis and manipulation on ASTs or would I need to drop into C for that?

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