[#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

[#398964] Compiling ruby from source on windows — GPad <peterpan105105@...>

Hi to all,=0AI'm trying to compile ruby on my windows 7. I have already a r=

10 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[#399218] Pathname#to_str withdrawn in 1.9?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> wr=

[#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: Pathname#to_str withdrawn in 1.9?

From: matt@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2012-09-12 22:34:09 UTC
List: ruby-talk #399223
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Matt Neuburg <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:
> > Just getting started experimenting with Ruby 1.9 (1.9.3) and my scripts
> > are collapsing about my ears - for various reasons, of course, but one
> > of them turns out be that my code relies heavily on implicit conversion
> > of Pathname to String in various string contexts. It seems that Pathname
> > no longer has to_str. My questions are:
> >
> > (1) Why? Was this regarded as a security issue? Or has it, perhaps,
> > something to do with encodings? I can see the change happening here:
> >
> > <https://github.com/shyouhei/ruby/commit/4ded52b623ebd1b3de12db82f8b54cc
> > 156c1fd28>
> >
> > But I don't understand the reasons for it - and especially why they
> > would do this when it causes so much breakage.
> 
> I interpret "path object is not a string." to mean that a Pathname is
> not generally considered equivalent to a String.

Except that it is. From the core methods section of the Pathname
documentation: "These methods are effectively manipulating a String,
because that's all a path is."

The use cases are like this:

require "pathname"
f = Pathname("howdy")
p ("well " + f)

Under 1.8.7 that's "well howdy". Under 1.9.3 it's an error, "can't
convert Pathname into String." One wants to say: "Sure you can, just
call to_s like you used to!"

It's the breakage I don't understand. Why do our Benevolent Masters
think this is just okay? I'll never find all the code where I'm doing
this sort of thing... m.

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