[#403837] Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"? — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"?

9 messages 2013/02/02

[#403870] Confusion with Enum#with_object block argument construct — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

C:\>irb

9 messages 2013/02/03

[#403920] Character classes use in Ruby — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me by giving an explanatory example of each of the

13 messages 2013/02/04

[#403935] How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver?

11 messages 2013/02/04

[#403972] Ruby could recognize the values when putting into a webpage text filed. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

SGksCgpJIGhhdmUgc29tZSB2YWx1ZXMgaW4gbXkgRXhjZWwgYXMgYmVsb3c6

9 messages 2013/02/05

[#403986] old syntax? what's going on here — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

I have this in a _spec.rb file: (a gem I inherited at work)

11 messages 2013/02/05

[#404005] Implementing DRY with a function call — Rob Marshall <lists@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2013/02/05

[#404006] using an instance variable inside a method — FirstName Surname <lists@...>

Hello.

19 messages 2013/02/05

[#404021] Not able get the label text incurred with <input> element — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I do have a below `HTML`:

18 messages 2013/02/05

[#404025] Symbol.defined? — Student Jr <lists@...>

Symbol deserialization from external sources is now known to be

15 messages 2013/02/06

[#404058] Ruby 1.9.3-p362 on Mac OSX — Peter Bailey <lists@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2013/02/06

[#404082] Problem building Ruby 1.9.3 patchlevel 385 under AIX 7.1 — Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>

Hello World!

10 messages 2013/02/06

[#404101] Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...>

Hey guys, great to be part of such a great community! I look forward to

19 messages 2013/02/07
[#404104] Re: Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...> 2013/02/07

Ahh, thank you Matthew! That was just the push I needed!

[#404208] elegant way to determine if something is defined — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

Something like:

15 messages 2013/02/10

[#404218] Ruby Equivalent to VB's "With"? — Joel Pearson <lists@...>

I've looked around but I couldn't find anything helpful on this,

11 messages 2013/02/10

[#404235] The "ruby way" to do desktop applications? — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

17 messages 2013/02/11

[#404238] Best books for "advanced" programmers — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

18 messages 2013/02/11

[#404245] Issue with Excel column values read. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2013/02/11

[#404344] Ruby command line options s and S — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me to understand the difference between s and S with

15 messages 2013/02/13

[#404386] Re: Ruby command line options s and S — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...>

Dude!

20 messages 2013/02/14

[#404387] Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...>

Hi,

26 messages 2013/02/14
[#404896] Re: Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...> 2013/02/24

Bump!

[#404456] skip iteration in each loop — Saurav Chakraborty <lists@...>

I want to skip iteration for few values depending on dynamic condition.

11 messages 2013/02/15

[#404491] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — "Stu P. D'naim" <lists@...>

I need to make few scripts for tasks I do often manually, but last time

27 messages 2013/02/15
[#404492] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/15

Stu P. D'naim wrote in post #1097111:

[#404494] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Ryan Victory <ryan@...> 2013/02/15

Love U Ruby: I'm really not sure what you meant by that response, but

[#404570] What is Ruby's default constructor? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2013/02/17

[#404632] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Ok, understood what the guy wants ...

17 messages 2013/02/19
[#404640] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Marc Heiler wrote in post #1097736:

[#404645] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2013/02/19

[#404646] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Ryan Davis wrote in post #1097840:

[#404647] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...> 2013/02/19

On 19 February 2013 20:35, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#404648] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Peter Hickman wrote in post #1097848:

[#404696] THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2013/02/20
[#404699] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — Matt Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/02/20

Maybe you could provide more detail about what you are confused about. To

[#404700] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — "Xavier R." <lists@...> 2013/02/20

Matt Mongeau wrote in post #1098058:

[#404705] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — Matt Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/02/20

It's not really a paradox. Take for example

[#404738] backslash substitution — Mario Ruiz <lists@...>

don't know why... but this is not working

18 messages 2013/02/21

[#404809] Difference of 2 dates interms of years. — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

how can we get the experience years between two dates(ex:2012-01-11 to

13 messages 2013/02/22

[#404817] Not able to understand the difference between "||=" and "|=". — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

>> a = []

12 messages 2013/02/22

[#404839] range is not assigning to the splat variable. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Why splat variable couldn't take in the below two code the "range" ->

10 messages 2013/02/23

[#404842] Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I was actually playing around with the class definition return values.

16 messages 2013/02/23
[#404844] Re: Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/23

@Stefano Yes you are right. The below code is proved that.

[#404867] how to see the class creation time in Ruby? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

In Ruby any chance to see the last-modified time of a specific class?

15 messages 2013/02/23

[#404901] Confusion with `nil` value being produced by IRB in case of Array#size manipulation. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

enum[int] =3D obj =E2=86=92 obj

10 messages 2013/02/24

[#404921] How should I print only the last combination when using Array#combination(n) ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

>> a = [1,2,3]

15 messages 2013/02/24

[#405026] Please, help (GCD) greatest common divisor. — Caddy Tonks Lupin <lists@...>

Write a program to read two integers and show their greatest common

17 messages 2013/02/26

[#405059] Does this specific sound library exist? — Dirk Vogel <lists@...>

Hi there,

16 messages 2013/02/26

[#405067] Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl — "Dr. Hegewald" <hegewald@...>

Hi everybody,

24 messages 2013/02/27

[#405079] Why `10` not returned without the `return` from the block ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

CODE - I

10 messages 2013/02/27

[#405107] Object track llist for a particular class. — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

Say I have created more than one instances from a particular class as

13 messages 2013/02/27

[#405145] Discussion on Ruby's `alias` — Tukai Patra <lists@...>

>> class Foo

27 messages 2013/02/28

[#405175] telnet - how to loop through commands listed in a file — Bob Ford <lists@...>

Let me first explain what I'm trying to do. I have written a very

18 messages 2013/02/28

Re: Financial models using Ruby

From: Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@...>
Date: 2013-02-05 08:21:42 UTC
List: ruby-talk #403977
On 02/05/2013 08:41 AM, Dwayne Henderson wrote:
> I'm working on this financial model 
> <http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/moyes/html/documents/FinancialProjectionsModelv6.8.9.xls> for my upcoming 
> ecommerce business using OpenOffice.org Calc (and the BASIC programming language). But as the need for more 
> advanced programming arises (making the various spreadsheets more dynamic and interconnected, applying 
> algorithms for analyzing data and forecasts etc.) I can't help but think that maybe this would all be a lot 
> easier if it was Ruby.
>
> Is anyone aware of similar financial models made using Ruby, and if so how are they implemented? Are they 
> simply Ruby wrappers for Calc or Excel, or maybe Xero, or a dedicated Rails app?
>
> --Dwayne

Hi Dwayne!
I'm not familiar with any financial models, but I've seen a lot excel stuff for analyzing data. so here are my 
2cts:

When I worked for a x-Ray tube company, they used excel to prepare data for the tube controller. I took 1-2 
hours for every tube and only 2 people were able to do  this. My first task was to improve this situation. I 
used ruby for this, although they wanted me to do this in VBA ;-)

With my final version it was possible to create the data
1) within 5 min per tube
2) automatically from the command line
3) independent of the number of data sets (excel strongly depends on the number of rows or columns of input data).

The drawbacks:
1) people could not longer use Excel - I'm not kidding, this IS a real disadvantage, because (esp.) 
non-programmers tend to use excel for everything. That's why it's a lot easier to give your software away, 
when you've written it in Excel (or calc). People are simply familiar with it.
2) no gui - my gui was an editor with the config file opened. Anything else (like a cool gui) will keep you 
from the problem (or I am just not familiar with writing guis).

I think ruby is a really good choice for doing these things - implementation could take a while, but you'll 
get a lot back: Most important might be Unit-testing (I'm sure there are thousands of buggy excel lists in the 
banks out there - hey might be the REAL reason for the crisis ;-).
As long as you do not want to change anything excel is ok, because it simply runs. Keep in mind, who should 
use your software - programs are most useful when used properly.

regards
ralf

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