[#398788] Constructor or a Method — Rubyist Rohit <lists@...>

Take for instance this code:

13 messages 2012/09/01

[#398896] how to sum element of array — Edward QU <lists@...>

dear all

19 messages 2012/09/04

[#398936] best coding for limiting a value — Regis d'Aubarede <lists@...>

A) result=value<min ? min : (value > max ? max : value)

17 messages 2012/09/04

[#398962] Long calculation & time limit — toto tartemolle <lists@...>

Hello,

17 messages 2012/09/05

[#398997] OpenURI open method problem — "Derek T." <lists@...>

The code I am referring to looks like this:

12 messages 2012/09/05

[#399002] Parsing through downloaded html — Sybren Kooistra <lists@...>

Hi all,

28 messages 2012/09/06

[#399012] "Hiding" pictures(and source code if it's possible) — "Damián M. González" <lists@...>

Ey guys, how are you?

11 messages 2012/09/06

[#399083] regix in grep or something like this — Ferdous ara <lists@...>

Hi

12 messages 2012/09/07

[#399206] please help me with making script — Charmaine Willemsen <lists@...>

In this example i like to parse birthday and sexe

11 messages 2012/09/11

[#399218] Pathname#to_str withdrawn in 1.9? — matt@... (Matt Neuburg)

Just getting started experimenting with Ruby 1.9 (1.9.3) and my scripts

13 messages 2012/09/12

[#399227] Breaking Down the Block — incag neato <lists@...>

Can someone please explain in plain english how this block treats the

20 messages 2012/09/13

[#399244] ruby Range to array that acts like time objects? — "Jermaine O." <lists@...>

Hello everybody,

15 messages 2012/09/13

[#399293] Ruby on Ubuntu 12.04 LST — Bojan Jordanovski <lists@...>

Hello everybody,

13 messages 2012/09/14

[#399298] wow, YAML / Psych in 1.9.3 is *slow*! — matt@... (Matt Neuburg)

I just started trying Ruby 1.9.3, coming from Ruby 1.8.7, and was

12 messages 2012/09/14

[#399304] Ruby 1.9.3 and OS X Mountain Lion — sto.mar@...

Hi all,

16 messages 2012/09/14

[#399343] Class variables or Class singleton variables? — "Damián M. González" <lists@...>

Guys, how are you?

18 messages 2012/09/15

[#399386] Ruby - is it worth the effort? — neomex <neomex@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2012/09/17
[#399406] Re: Ruby - is it worth the effort? — Roger Pack <lists@...> 2012/09/17

Unfortunately with Ruby for me it's typically "fun and fast development"

[#399409] Re: Ruby - is it worth the effort? — Peter Zotov <whitequark@...> 2012/09/17

Roger Pack писал 17.09.2012 22:06:

[#399491] Re: Ruby - is it worth the effort? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/09/19

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org> wrote:

[#399421] Encoding question — Thomas Bednarz <lists@...>

I am new to ruby and play around with it a little bit at the moment. I

17 messages 2012/09/17

[#399441] Bug or feature — Damjan Rems <lists@...>

There has probably been some discussion about this problem so sorry if I

13 messages 2012/09/18

[#399451] Class variables — Aleksander Ciesielski <neomex@...>

Is it obligatory to use instance variables in classes? Can't we just

17 messages 2012/09/18

[#399479] Ruby SQL Select Sum 2 Columns? — Courtney Fay <lists@...>

I have the following definition which is looking at an apache database,

12 messages 2012/09/18

[#399556] still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

Hi,

28 messages 2012/09/20
[#399570] Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...> 2012/09/20

[#399574] Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/09/21

Henry Maddocks wrote in post #1076876:

[#399575] Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...> 2012/09/21

[#399576] Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/09/21

Could you be so kind as to suggest another book? I mean there are many

[#399585] Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/09/21

Sebastjan H. wrote in post #1076909:

[#399572] How would you allow variable from specific list of Fixnum? — Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@...>

I have:

11 messages 2012/09/21

[#399623] Very important question - survey — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Is matz more like a ninja or more like a samurai?

11 messages 2012/09/22

[#399695] inject problem — Roelof Wobben <rwobben@...>

26 messages 2012/09/25

[#399714] could initialize return an existing object instead of a new instance? — Gary Weaver <lists@...>

Is it possible for initialize to return an existing object instead of a

9 messages 2012/09/25

[#399811] Good book for getting started with Ruby? [I code Python!] — Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@...>

I've learned programming in C++, Python and PHP at University. (also

12 messages 2012/09/28

[#399815] calcaulation with unknown numbers of numbers and options fail — Roelof Wobben <rwobben@...>

11 messages 2012/09/28

Re: Parsing through downloaded html

From: Michelle Col <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-07 14:21:21 UTC
List: ruby-talk #399067
Lars Haugseth wrote in post #1075010:
> On 09/07/2012 03:29 AM, Michelle Col wrote:
>> Ruby is a nice language for beginners. I am new user for 1 day now and I
>> have learned so much from everyone! Try to avoid saying that you are
>> new. This is due to a user named Ryan Daves<sp?>. He talks very negative
>> to users who do that. Also another ruby forum you might want to
>> reference is at tek-tips.com. The users are helpful there as well. Good
>> luck. -Michelle
>
> As someone commenting on other people's lack of social skills, you could
> do far worse than trying to improve your own, badmouthing Ryan like that
> in a topic that is totally unrelated to the one where you took offence
> to his manner of replying.
>
> You need only look through a couple of days' worth of older messages
> here to see that you are drawing totally incorrect conclusions based on
> a single post of his. For your information, Ryan Davis is among the most
> helpful and knowledegable people around here.
>
> If you have issues with his reply to you, I suggest you take in up with
> him within that very thread, preferrably in a more civilized manner.
> Thank you.

In my approach for help on this forum, I tried to be as detailed as 
possible to get help. I even explained that I am a beginner and the 
reply that I received contained false accusations. If the user was 
expecting a snippet, I would have sent it. Otherwise, why did he even 
reply if he didn’t know how to reply? A logical reply would have been, 
“Will you send the code you have so far?”

In my 1-day experience as a user on this ruby forum, I have discovered 
that if a user says that they are a “newb” or a “beginner” then they may 
be verbally attacked or told they are being “passive”.
The intent of a forum is for other users to help or advise a user in the 
subject matter; it is not to decide if the user is being “passive” in 
their approach.

Perhaps there is a need to focus on helping users with ruby programming 
logic when the user requests help instead of replying to the user by 
stating that they are being “passive” as discovered in this thread or 
making false accusations.

-Michelle

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