From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-03-29T11:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] tld.rb 0.11 - Check wether a given TLD is valid or not


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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt (jupp@gmx.de) wrote:

> tld.rb allows you to check wether a TLD (top level domain) is valid
> or not where 'to be valid' means that the TLD is presently in use on
> the Internet.=20

irb(main):001:0> require 'tld'
=3D> true
irb(main):002:0> TLD.valid? 'org'
NameError: undefined method `valid?' for TLD:Module
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> TLD::valid? 'org'
NameError: undefined method `valid?' for TLD:Module
        from (irb):3
irb(main):004:0> include TLD
=3D> Object
irb(main):005:0> valid? 'org'
=3D> true

If you use def self.valid? and friends, it'll work without having
to use include.

Also, method names in Ruby are typically all_lowercase_with_underscore

and, as a personal nit-pick, I dislike is_foo? methods, I prefer either
is_foo or foo?

--=20
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