112609-114034

^ Fwd: [suby-ruby] Multi-set with instance_variable_set
112609 [transami run] Would others support an  RCR on instance_variable_set, to allow it to take a

^ Truly modular
112613 [troplosti or] As Ruby claims to be very modular I'd like to do the following (I tried
+ 112624 [bob.news gmx] "Jesse van den Kieboom" <troplosti@orcaweb.cjb.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 112634 [troplosti or] This is not the main issue though. If I have to I can manually tell the
| 112650 [ryco gmx.net] This reminds me a little of rbot ( http://linuxbrit.co.uk/rbot/ ), a
| 112655 [troplosti or] Thanks, this is just what I needed!
+ 112637 [patrick hexa] Does 'load' work?

^ Setting up my website - mod_ruby and Apache V2 - Naive questions.
112615 [victor.reyes] I am in the process of setting up a website on my own hardware.
+ 112621 [usenet andre] I don't think that mod_ruby works with Apache 2.x (-> threading). I
| 112639 [beast system] Well, considering that 1.2.2 fixes a SEGV bug on Apache2 with threads,
+ 112626 [matt technor] When you do, please let me know what it took.  Also, if you need any AIX
+ 112636 [probertm nos] Good luck!
+ 112672 [victor.reyes] Thanks you all for your help.

^ Camp Ruby
112620 [Bil.Kleb NAS] I sent this yesterday at 15:24 EST, and it never showed up as far as
112635 [chadfowler g] Brian Marick and I started planning one after RubyConf last year (with

^ rb_struct_each_pair
112625 [khowe perfne] but am getting an "undeclared identifier" error. Is this function not
+ 112687 [cyclists nc.] It's not defined in any version of Ruby that I have available (1.6.7, 1.6.8,
+ 113341 [nobu.nokada ] Yes, but it's static.

^ [ANN] Copland 0.7.1, Packrat 0.1.0
112640 [jgb3 email.b] Copland 0.7.1 is a maintenance release. It fixes a few bugs is all.

^ Ruby and LD_RUN_PATH
112646 [rcoder gmail] I'm trying to distribute a version of Ruby along with an application,
+ 112651 [gfb tonesoft] Try LD_LIBRARY_PATH
| 112656 [rcoder gmail] Excellent. I've never really grokked the subtle distinctions between
+ 112658 [jim freeze.o] If you are launching your app with a shell wrapper script then

^ (none)
112659 [alex verk.in] class A

^ Intercepting break within a block after yield
112663 [alex verk.in] Sorry for posting this without a subject earlier.
112669 [jgb3 email.b] Would something like this work?

^ ruby-dev summary 24236-24254
112668 [ttate ttsky.] Here is a summary of ruby-dev last week.

^ Any Tibco bindings out there?
112673 [djberg96 hot] Has anyone out there written a Ruby library for Tibco/Rendezvous?

^ Dropped messages? (Re: Camp Ruby)
112681 [jamesUNDERBA] I think a few people had that experience.

^ Re: irb (was: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?)
112688 [cmills frees] Very cool.

^ Hacking the Ruby interpreter
112692 [cyclists nc.] I've got an idea for a hack^H^H^H^H enhancement to the interpreter that I'd
+ 112698 [matz ruby-la] If the idea is a really good one, send us to merge in.
+ 112701 [ptkwt aracne] What enhancements are you planning to add?  There are a couple of problems
+ 112703 [batsman.geo ] It might be possible to implement it in pure Ruby (look at evil.rb).
+ 112774 [pbrannan atd] If at all possible, implement it as an extension first so people who
  112808 [markus reali] I can't believe no one has asked you the obvious question yet.  I
  112825 [agorilla gma] my inner child says thanks ;)

^ Tidy binding using DL
112702 [khowe perfne] After reading the recent post re: Ruby's DL functions I decided to see if I
112750 [ttate ttsky.] Try the following code, since 'tmbstr' in tidy header files is
+ 112761 [khowe perfne] This runs without errors, but returns a value of 68, with the "out" string
| 112785 [ttate ttsky.] I corrected that as follows.
+ 112790 [khowe perfne] Go it. The extern statement was correct, but the buffer string still wasn't
  112858 [assaph avaya] wasn't
  112861 [khowe perfne] Point taken!

^ beginner question on ruby sql
112715 [nkb pacific.] When I run sqlsh.rb from my c:/ruby, I received the error
112718 [assaph avaya] to
112723 [nkb pacific.] I installed 1.8.2_rc8 and received an application error on OCI.dll when
112724 [assaph avaya] when

^ Re: Ant Wars (Warning:  long)
112719 [james graypr] This proved too great a temptation to ignore.  Below is my new Ruby

^ [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0
112726 [chad chadfow] Marking the 3000th download of RubyGems
+ 112729 [rich infoeth] I STRONGLY suggest the RUBYOPT thing.  And, because rubygems starts with an
+ 112731 [gsinclair so] Thanks Chad; this is a groovilicious release.  For the collective
+ 112762 [halostatue g] cripts': You don't have write permissions into the c:/bin directory. (Gem::FileP
  112777 [chad chadfow] Thanks.  We've had several reports of similar things on Windows (and
  112791 [jamesUNDERBA] Successfully built RubyGem

^ Re: irb and multiline editing
112736 [vjoel PATH.B] That would be very nice. I've wanted that ever since I started using zsh

^ ruby soap with ssl?
112738 [nkb pacific.] Does the soap for ruby support SSL?
112756 [drossruby ya] Yes, soap4r does have SSL support. I haven't

^ [Ruby Adv] Pat Eyler stars in Linux Journal
112741 [botp delmont] Feature Links of the Week

^ eRuby 1.0.4 truncated content problem
112747 [ gv cs.uu.nl] I have a very difficult to trace-down problem with
112748 [rasputnik he] Tried just 'erby foo.cgi' ? That might narrow it down to apache/eruby.
112758 [ gv cs.uu.nl] I suppose you mean 'eruby' ?  Forgot to mention that, sorry.  In the test
112802 [ gv cs.uu.nl] $ /c/mingw/usr/local/bin/eruby --version

^ Debugging wxruby programs.
112755 [cheungr ecid] I'm new to Ruby. I'd like to debug my wxruby applications (in Windows
112776 [zdennis mkte] Do you have wxruby installed? You can download the latest windows
112870 [cheungr ecid] Yes, I've installed both ruby and wxruby. The problem I have is that
+ 112871 [assaph avaya] Syntax errors are always reported by the Ruby parser, nothing to do with
| 112907 [zdennis mkte] I have seen this problem when running inside of some editors like
| + 112908 [shanko_date ] Put this line as the first executable line of your
| + 112909 [agorilla gma] $stdout.sync = true
+ 112873 [david.naseby] Rename the file from *.rbw to *.rb, as rubyw.exe will cause ugly segfaults
+ 112904 [mailinglists] Maybe you want to try  Arachno Ruby. It works perfectly with wxRuby.
+ 112915 [agorilla gma] Ok, you've inspired me :)
+ 112921 [jamesUNDERBA] Have you tried to use a logger?

^ Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0 (failing to install)
112757 [dennis.ranke] When trying to install the new rubygems 0.8 on a winxp system (latest

^ Using Ruby and openssl
112764 [tajoc easy.c] I am interested to use the openssl module of ruby

^ Changing outside variables inside a proc
112797 [nsmith5 nist] Is there any way to change an outside-scoped object inside a proc? Such
+ 112805 [markus reali] I suspect you are right (that it isn't possible), at least without
| + 112806 [ummaycoc gma] a, b = "foo", "bar"
| | 112810 [rcoder gmail] This only works as long as the variables and block params have the
| + 114034 [nsmith5 nist] Very true indeed (that works great). I was more thinking about
+ 112809 [rcoder gmail] Nate,
  112820 [markus reali] I played around with adding a method Module#become(other) (IIRC)
  112823 [rcoder gmail] Actually, I think I just described the 'replace' method, which String,

^ Ruby's FTP incredibly slow - culprit is peeraddr
112801 [bob.work ves] files.  It turned out to be ridiculously slow.
112803 [rcoder gmail] BasicSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true
112910 [bob.work ves] That did the trick! Thanks very much.

^ horribly impossible debugging task
112814 [Ara.T.Howard] i've got 30 process running on 30 machines running jobs taken from an nfs mounted
+ 112824 [markus reali] Ara --
| 112830 [Ara.T.Howard] yes - perhaps even in some library code i'm exercising - this my current best
+ 112867 [cjh-nospam n] This sort of scenario is almost always caused by a memory corruption,
| + 112888 [Ruben.Vandeg] Sounds like the same thing valgrind does (for free). It might be
| | + 112894 [Ara.T.Howard] actually both are options since the code in question simply manages a queue of
| | + 112905 [mailinglists] And now you see the difference between good working (and expensive)
| |   112938 [Ruben.Vandeg] Lothar,
| + 112903 [elbows spamc] Also worth checking out (for linux/x86 only, I believe) is valgrind.
+ 113350 [nobu.nokada ] What are these, "Util::fork" and "warn" with block?
| 113375 [Ara.T.Howard] module  Util
+ 113386 [kevin_mcconn] Ara,
  113395 [Ara.T.Howard] oh yeah - definitely, from many machines at once!  ;-)
  113398 [kevin_mcconn] Ah...yeah, I suspected I was just stating the obvious :-)
  113401 [Ara.T.Howard] better to assume nothing when debugging though - i AM grasping at straws so
  113402 [kevin_mcconn] Just had one other suggestion (hopefully more useful than the last :-)
  113406 [Ara.T.Howard] i'm now looking at using detach.rb, which creates a drb object out of any

^ expect.rb in 1.8.2
112827 [ptkwt aracne] On my Linux box I've got Ruby 1.8.1 installed and it seems to have the
112842 [rcoder gmail] Phil,
112852 [ptkwt aracne] ...
112853 [ptkwt aracne] I hit 'send' a bit prematurely...

^ Want a regular Ruby Quiz? (long)
112831 [james graypr] I'm a fan of short, but regular programming "challenges" or "quizzes".
+ 112834 [zdennis mkte] I would like that very much. It would help me fine tune my Ruby skills.
| + 112840 [rcoder gmail] I think it could be an interesting twist to use a quiz like this as a
| + 112848 [james graypr] It's self disciplined, yes.  Keeping the quiz on this list, that would
+ 112841 [alex verk.in] +1 to the overwhelming "yes" vote that you are about to get :)
+ 112847 [gsinclair so] From me, yes.  I don't care if it's two-bit dredged up Perl quizzes
+ 112849 [james graypr] I forgot to add that the aim would be non-golf, non-obfuscated
+ 112854 [agorilla gma] I'm looking forward to it!  But I wouldn't limit it to just programming in
| + 112862 [assaph avaya] Possible correction: any kind of quiz in Ruby is fun! ;-)
| | 112865 [Gavri_F info] i know, i know, i know this one! :)
| | 112866 [agorilla gma] Congrats!  You win a Cuban cigar!  Which also lacks that worn out glyph :)
| + 112897 [james graypr] I expect you to be the first person inline to submit quiz ideas.  ;)
+ 112872 [burtdav hotm] +1
| 112901 [james graypr] Sorry for not making that more clear.  I forgot that everyone wouldn't
| 112971 [burtdav hotm] Yes, thanks.
+ 112878 [ml-ruby thep] I don't know how others feel, but I would love to see everyone using the
| 112920 [james graypr] I see what you're getting at here.  I could possibly even agree, if the
+ 112880 [surrender_it] sure, it would be cool :)
| 112914 [james graypr] That's okay, I disagree with your opinion.  ;)  Let me tell you why...
+ 113059 [bob.news gmx] "James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
  113078 [james graypr] Perl's Quiz of the Week has definitely suffered from this problem more

^ 2-d arrays
112832 [barry anglei] Reading the recent posts about ant-wars, I thought that, as a nuby, it
+ 112833 [james graypr] You'll enjoy it, it's a fun project.
+ 112835 [markus reali] I suspect method 1 doesn't do what you expect because you create one
+ 112838 [msparshatt y] this creates an array
+ 112919 [halostatue g] cols = 10

^ [Ruby Forum] Hard-coded fonts problem is fixed
112836 [alex verk.in] Several people (including Nobu Nokada on this list) complained that

^ [Ruby Forum] Hard-coded fonts problem is fixed
112837 [alex verk.in] Several people (including Nobu Nokada on this list) complained that

^ [Ruby Forum] Hard-coded fonts problem is fixed
112839 [alex verk.in] Several people (including Nobu Nokada on this list) complained that

^ colorized Test::Unit console testrunner
112843 [martin.anker] tests that it provides a colorful output. I have only tested it in
+ 112844 [alex verk.in] There is a project of mine on RubyForge, that provides different
| 112850 [gsinclair so] Oooooh!!  Goody goody gumdrops!  Please merge, Martin!  Please merge!
| 112930 [martin.anker] Ok, I'll have a look at it :-)
+ 112851 [flgr ccan.de] Now if somebody can also add syntax highlighting to irb I'll be in

^ http-access2 error
112868 [nkb pacific.] When I run ssl_client from http-access2's sample program, I received the
112981 [nakahiro gma] Hmm.  What version of ruby are you using?  It seems work on my machine
112983 [nkb pacific.] I'm on linux with ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i686-linux]
112986 [nakahiro gma] Hmm.  Http-access/2.0.4 should work with your ruby.
112988 [nkb pacific.] I received
112993 [nakahiro gma] It's the root problem.  As you assume, Ruby/OpenSSL library (called

^ class variable weirdness
112869 [bob windsong] This program runs, and prints "Foo" (as expected).
+ 112874 [christoph.ne] It's the same behaviour on ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32]
+ 112877 [bob.news gmx] "Bob Sidebotham" <bob@windsong.bc.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ MultiTkIp class (Re: ruby-dev summary 24236-24254)
112875 [nagai ai.kyu] Please try the latest version of multi-tk.rb/remote-tk.rb.

^ rdoc bug (and rdoc bug tracker site is down)
112879 [mail brian-s] I just noticed an rdoc parsing bug, and tried to enter the rdoc bug-tracking system, but it gives me a warning that I'm not allowed to enter the page because I'm not an administrator. That seems odd.
112948 [ruby brian-s] Ah, I see. I think it is this way because rdoc is no longer hosted on
112955 [dave pragpro] SourceForge are remarkably unhelpful when it comes to moving projects
+ 112957 [curt hibbs.c] I faced this same problem when I moved the One-Click Ruby Installer from
+ 112972 [gsinclair so] Can you just remove releases, and disable the tracker facility?  And
  112999 [dave pragpro] That's what I did.

^ Automatic class conversion / function overloading
112881 [torehalv jag] information I want.
+ 112885 [bob.news gmx] "Tore Halvorsen" <torehalv@jaguar.stud.ntnu.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 112886 [B.Candler po] Essentially it's what you've written. However, you'll find that in more
| + 112889 [transami run] That's very interesting. A little aliasing magic? Hmm... (see gears working
| | + 112890 [flgr ccan.de] I've done a simply library that allows overloading on anything that can
| | | 112892 [transami run] Cool. I'll have a look at it.
| | | 112893 [bob.news gmx] "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| | + 112891 [bob.news gmx] "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| + 112899 [torehalv jag] Thanks for helpfull info, but still...
|   + 112911 [markus reali] Perhaps.  But (as others have noted) there isn't a single unique ruby
|   | + 112913 [bob.news gmx] "Markus" <markus@reality.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
|   | | 112918 [markus reali] Yes.  But it's a convenient context for discussing the real issues
|   | | 113006 [B.Candler po] If you want to see an example of Ruby idiom in practice, just see
|   | | 113060 [bob.news gmx] "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
|   | + 112925 [torehalv tig] Thanks :)
|   + 112917 [halostatue g] 1) There is a Rational class in Ruby already.
|     112924 [torehalv tig] Figured as much, but I wanted to know how the mechanism is done in
+ 112926 [tamc2 cam.ac] As I understand it, the idiom in ruby would be to, where possible,

^ rdoc help needed
112883 [mail brian-s] I'm preparing a class on ruby, and I decided to write the exercices as ruby files with function stubs and rdoc comments. Additionally I'm defining unit tests, such that the student can test his program to complie with the unit tests.
+ 112898 [dave pragpro] Does --inline-source do what you want?
+ 112902 [Ara.T.Howard] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
+ 112923 [ruby brian-s] Thanks for the answers, and I'm sorry that I have expressed myself
  112931 [dave pragpro] Have you tried --inline-source --one-file
  + 112946 [ruby brian-s] Thank you Dave,
  | 112958 [batsman.geo ] ====
  + 112950 [ruby brian-s] Oh, two fast. I think I'll go to bed and have some sleep. I didn't see
    112956 [dave pragpro] That's not something it currently does (but it's an interesting idea.

^ Redefining the { } behavior (Hash creation method)
112896 [ mig 1984.cz] a = {'a'=>1}
112906 [matz ruby-la] No.  See http://www.ruby-talk.com/111499
112912 [ mig 1984.cz] I have the same problem - I want to create ordered Hash.

^ Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.1 (was [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0)
112900 [chadfowler g] It turns out that our release manager for 0.8.0 (me) made a mistake
112916 [chadfowler g] [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.1 (was Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0)
112922 [dennis.ranke] This installs fine now, however there appears to be some kind of problem
112935 [chadfowler g] Thanks, Dennis.  This is going to require some pretty hefty tracking.
113264 [dennis.ranke] While trying to track down where the proxy option is lost, I just found
113271 [chadfowler g] Aha! :)

^ Re: Want a regular Ruby Quiz?
112927 [probertm nos] Perhaps we could take a favorite book, "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bently
+ 112932 [dave pragpro] Have you had a look at my CodeKata?
| 112933 [james graypr] Are you regularly adding more?
| 112934 [dave pragpro] I plan to start again once I get this Ruby book put to bed.
+ 112947 [james graypr] I'm unfamiliar with this book, but it's looking good so far.  Pick a
  112965 [g_ogata optu] Are you familiar with http://acm.uva.es/problemset/ ?
  113001 [james graypr] I am now.  Thank you for the rich link.