118480-119749

^ net/ftp issue
118480 [elbart0 free] I am having problem with the 'net/ftp' library (ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-24)
118482 [decoux moulo] Try it with
118496 [elbart0 free] Shame on me!

^ AppConfig, a configuration container class
118494 [martin.anker] to have all configuration parameters centralized, and seperated from
+ 118497 [feldt ce.cha] require 'ostruct'
| + 118498 [feldt ce.cha] I forgot to say: but with freeze as a substitute for your fixate it
| + 118508 [martin.anker] Oh, I was not aware of ostruct
+ 118522 [rff_rff remo] it is nice, thanks for sharing.

^ [ANN] win32-ipc 0.3.0
118509 [djberg96 hot] The Win32Utils Team is pleased to announce the release of win32-ipc

^ undef_method cutting off subclass's method lookup?
118510 [transami run] class Numeric
118512 [dblack wobbl] Module#undef_method
118515 [transami run] Sigh. So I should use #remove_method then. Okay. That's bit me again. Yes, I

^ Problem getting tiny RAILS demo working
118511 [duncan nycap] I've been following the instructions provided in
118562 [vfoley gmail] Is config/database.yml properly configured?  An authorization error
118595 [duncan nycap] It is.  I can't figure out why ident authentication (postgres) doesn't
118928 [duncan nycap] psql -h localhost <database> postgres
118959 [drbrain segm] I don't believe postgres accepts connections on the TCP socket by
118964 [duncan nycap] It hadn't occurred to me that specifying localhost implied using a TCP
118973 [tobias.luetk] Please add it on the wiki where you see fit.

^ RDOC: including from an included file?
118518 [cyclists nc.] I _can_ use the :include: directive in a file that has been included, can't
118529 [dave pragpro] I don't believe RDoc supports nested includes--I've never had the need

^ Re: problem with CGI, multipart forms, images and MSIE Mac OS X
118519 [patrick hexa] Francis,

^ Nuby Tip for the Day : Memoization
118527 [john.carter ] So you have written your ruby app.
+ 118528 [vjoel PATH.B] Just a little correction to a worthy post...
+ 118533 [flori nixe.p] class BigExpensiveMadeOften
  118545 [rff_rff remo] and you can write your own memoize() method or Memoized class, to
  118555 [mneumann nte] I think Robert Feldt's implementation in AspectR (?) is much more

^ Correction and another Tip. Re: Nuby Tip for the Day : Memoization
118532 [john.carter ] thanks
118538 [binary42 gma] Possibly you meant a string literal. A reference is what the variable

^ gem installations getting Killed
118535 [ptkwt aracne] I just set up my laptop with Debian (via Knoppix - very easy, BTW) and
118539 [Stephan.Kaem] With gems you need to
+ 118546 [rff_rff remo] the reason is that rubygems uses require_gem to load a gem with a
+ 118605 [ptkwt aracne] Oh, right.  For some reason I thought that you didn't have to require

^ [QUIZ][SOLUTION] Re: Sokoban (#5)
118540 [burtdav hotm] Well, that was fun.
+ 118576 [james graypr] This looks like the makings of a Sokoban level solver to me.  I was
+ 118577 [dennis.ranke] Here is my very simple solution, you controll the player using WASD for
+ 118586 [james graypr] i - move up
+ 118958 [t_leitner gm] Again, very late, but here is my solution. A central game core and two front ends, a curses one and and FXRuby one.
  118966 [james graypr] A nice submission as always Thomas, but just FYI, there is a subtle bug
  118980 [t_leitner gm] Thanks for pointing out that bug, James! I really enjoyed this quiz because I played Sokoban a lot and always thought it would be difficult to implement ;-)
  118989 [james graypr] Look at you creating more work for me.  Shame on you.  Thomas, if I
  119000 [t_leitner gm] No problem. Thanks to you for making the Ruby Quiz!!!

^ erb: undefined local variable
118541 [mhtang cs.in] This is my first time into the world of Ruby. I was interested in erb and so
+ 118543 [tamc2 cam.ac] May just have been the way it arrived in my email message,  but ruby
| 118549 [mhtang cs.in] Yup, that did the trick... And now, after I reread the relevant page in the
+ 118548 [B.Candler po] Unfortunately, Amazon haven't dispatched mine yet, so I can't see exactly the
  + 118571 [james graypr] Just FYI, I am currently documenting the erb module.  I've been asking
  + 118728 [fritz.heinri] the % ruby-line syntax is unfortunate IMO, it prevents using ERB with
    118757 [james graypr] That's an option (off by default) in the ERB class.  The stand-alone

^ Ruby Weekly News 25-31st October 2004
118547 [timsuth ihug] Here is the Ruby Weekly News for the past week.
118885 [timsuth ihug] I have exams Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday...
118926 [rff_rff remo] well, I'll add something

^ FBI SADISTS SEXUALLY ABUSED ME and RAPED ME for 3 YRS and BEHEADED ME
118558 [keithn1234 y] If you are a US Govt "PROGRAMMED SLAVE and MORON"  OBSESSED with tin
118621 [mickeyb comc] Help, Help..... The paranoids are after me....

^ [ANN] Nitro 0.3.0
118566 [george.mosch] a new version of Nitro was released on

^ ActiveRecord + NDB = Og
118567 [george.mosch] after releasing the NDB Object-Relations mapping library some time
+ 118568 [george.mosch] class Comment; end
+ 118610 [transami run] I stripped Active Record's database adapter code out and made it into its own
  118613 [george.mosch] and NDB

^ fastcgi + eruby
118582 [jd nospam.co] What is the best way to handle .rhtml (eruby) documents using fastcgi?
+ 118585 [patrick hexa] Maybe use the erb interpreter, and use fcgi instead of cgi?  I think
| + 118590 [Ara.T.Howard] fastcgi works as a cgi out of the box without any code changes or
| | 118671 [patrick hexa] The best case for continuations I have seen is demonstrated by Matz in
| + 118592 [jd nospam.co] Thanks, you're right about erb!
| + 118638 [mneumann nte] Is this still true? I did some tests with the newest ruby-stable, and it
+ 118593 [B.Candler po] Tricky, because it's a different way of working.

^ Re: Rounding error
118584 [transami run] Speaking of the cost of Rounding errors.

^ Re: is this an open-uri bug?
118597 [todd.bradley] That's what I guessed at first, but when I open that URI in either

^ [ANN] Updated - Ruby on Rails presentation added to the WhyRuby repository
118607 [curt hibbs.c] I incorporated all of the changes and corrections that everyone suggested

^ [ANN] rq-0.1.7
118611 [Ara.T.Howard] URLS

^ OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6
118612 [carl.youngbl] I'm not sure who to talk to about this, but in my correspondence with
+ 118614 [dross code-e] Ouch, I hope they fix the problem with having a old version. Really its
+ 118616 [jan spam.spa] Are you sure it is 1.6? The source code for darwin 8 (tiger) has been
+ 118620 [ptkwt aracne] Tiger still having 1.6 would be really bad.  When are they looking to
| 118624 [carl.youngbl] The question is, who do we talk to to change it?
| 118642 [ptkwt aracne] Has anyone out there ruby-talk-land signed up for the Tiger developer
| + 118649 [Gavin.Kistne] Who do we talk to to first ensure that the information starting this panic is correct?
| | 118780 [carl.youngbl] I based my supposition on the fact that a developer on the carbon-dev
| + 118650 [michael.deha] I wonder what we could do to get Apple to throw in some extra bells
|   + 118654 [mike clarkwa] I expect Apple will track the latest Ruby version available during
|   + 118748 [eeklund gmai] I think I know who to talk to (their release engineer).  However, I
|     + 118754 [jan spam.spa] * a working ftp module on osx (it has been fixed in 1.8.2-preview, maybe
|     | 118765 [dross code-e] This would be a bad for anyone to do. When you include a library into
|     | 118935 [michael.deha] "When you include a library into
|     | + 118947 [dross code-e] Rpa-base is also self-upgradable, and has a decent package count. Sure,
|     | + 118954 [batsman.geo ] Both RubyGems (admittedly not 100% automatically) and rpa-base (from the
|     + 119499 [gltewalt yah] The shiny Tk working out of the box would be huge. Tk has never worked on
|       119596 [michael.deha] "*Me thinks Apple should replace applescript with Ruby. One can
+ 118745 [roberto REMO] My contact at Apple and the people I know who have tried the

^ Ruby Planet, anyone?
118622 [zoso foton.e] AFAIK, there is no Ruby Planet/centralized RSS site for Ruby anywhere..=
+ 118628 [flgr ccan.de] active. They also provide an RSS feed.
| 118662 [jamesUNDERBA] Yes, it works quite well.
+ 118630 [dross code-e] A site of what you describe is getting worked on =]
| 118633 [flgr ccan.de] I think he actually meant sites like planet.gnome.org and planetkde.org
| + 118635 [dross code-e] Oh, I'll never visit planetgnome again.. the sites which have peoples
| + 118637 [zoso foton.e] =20
|   118640 [jason.sweat ] It will be the top hit in google if you search for "ruby buzz", as
+ 118641 [batsman.geo ] MoonWolf used to host Planet Ruby: http://devlog.moonwolf.com/ ...
| 118656 [rff_rff remo] ...for japanese blogs
| 118657 [batsman.geo ] And summaries of ruby-talk threads, etc... in Japanese.
+ 118661 [jamesUNDERBA] James Britt

^ [ann] symbol solver.. early experiments
118651 [neoneye adsl] I have been writing some code that can differentiate expressions.
118653 [binary42 gma] I like how short it is. Quite amazing what ruby can accomplish.
118655 [neoneye adsl] Thanks.. Yes.. Ruby is energy.
119654 [ jupp gmx.de] This strongly depends on the way you represent polynomials. To give an
+ 119656 [ruby brian-s] Hey, I'm just now preparing for my CS exam and refreshing my algorithm-threorie stuff. There we learned, that polynom product should be done using fft to get (point, value) representations, multiply these, and use fft again to interpolate and get the original results back.
| 119662 [batsman.geo ] (inverse)?
| 119696 [ruby brian-s] Thanks for answering this. Now that you explain it, it becomes clear. They should have motivated it in class like that, because I'm shure 90% of my colleges have no idea for how many usefull things you need the FFT.
+ 119749 [neoneye adsl] [snip diff, mul]

^ Re: OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6 [NOT]
118665 [rich infoeth] Apple pulls the latest stable from OSS projects it includes at a fixed point
118668 [Steven ruby-] I've got it from good authority that it will ship with 1.8.1.

^ location of core *.rb source files?
118666 [corey_s qwes] I'm brand new to ruby - just got a copy of the pickaxe II and am working
118667 [halostatue g] A lot of things, such as Array, Enumerable, and Object are implemented
118673 [corey_s qwes] Ok - that makes sense;  thanks!

^ [OT] Re: Another scrach on head
118669 [Ara.T.Howard] ah yes - that bug is actually fixed in a bunch of similar code - in reality it
118670 [halostatue g] Actually, not at all. By using SolarElevFile, the value of

^ Debugger breakpoints work?
118674 [duncan nycap] Back in Feb & Apr 2003 there was some ruby-talk regarding breakpoints
118782 [todd.bradley] I'm just now learning Ruby, making my way through the
+ 118797 [duncan nycap] Ohmigod!  That would have never occurred to me in a million years.
+ 118802 [mailinglists] I would guess you mean debugger for compiled languages not script
  118803 [todd.bradley] I guess that's why I'm in QA.
  118806 [todd.bradley] That is correct.  Now that I think about it, I can't

^ fastcgi performance problems and ruby
118675 [andrew.stuar] I have recently embarked upon the process of getting FastCGI to work
+ 118678 [Ara.T.Howard] [ahoward@www htdocs]$ cat env.fcgi
+ 118683 [jd nospam.co] Sometimes, limiting the number of fastcgi processes that get created can
| 118725 [rff_rff remo] a little suggestion: try to quote a little less if the quote is not
| 118755 [jd nospam.co] Oops. I will use your suggestion.
+ 118705 [rubyzbibd ub] Note, that the FCGI.each_cgi method is slower than the FCGI.each method.
| 118706 [patrick hexa] It would make sense for each_cgi to be slower.  I think CGI adds alot
+ 118727 [B.Candler po] I think that may be your problem. The 'out' methods of cgi are inefficient,
  118751 [transami run] I'm also curious about Singleton Class, i.e. I recall (it was a while ago)
  118760 [B.Candler po] That sentence doesn't make much sense to me - can you define what you mean
  118768 [transami run] Ah yes, the old name confusion. Sorry. I'm _not_ referring to Virtual class
  + 118793 [B.Candler po] OK, the 'Singleton pattern'. Always seemed rather pointless to me; if
  | 118874 [transami run] In fact I asked about that (albeit not in relation to CGI) on the list a
  | 118981 [ksibilev bel] No. all apachecgi extension does it removes parsing of request
  | 118990 [transami run] Ah, okay. Thanks, now I don't have to figure it out myself :)
  + 118862 [patrick hexa] This is leads to a nice api, ie CGI::params.  I think it's more of a

^ [OT] US Presidential Election
118679 [transami run] Election Day is upon us!
+ 118681 [jamesUNDERBA] There are other candidates, though mainstream press prefer to ignore
| + 118688 [transami run] IMHO Great choice. Although also IMHO, I'm not sure it's the best year for it.
| | 118729 [curt hibbs.c] This is my feeling exactly. Even though my overall leanings are more in line with the Libertarian and Green parties, I will vote for Kerry -- the race is to tight and there is too much at stake.
| + 118712 [corey_s qwes] Coverage?   Like Badnarik and Cobb getting arrested in protest of
| | + 118756 [ruby-lists l] YAY! wow! someone GETS it!
| | + 118762 [sera fhwang.] Corey, I agree with much of what you say in this matter, but I wonder
| |   + 118766 [curt hibbs.c] Ahhhh... more thoughtful discourse, the ruby community is wonderful on both
| |   | 118773 [Ryco gmx.net] Let's see. Foreign interest...hm... wait... that's the people in foreign
| |   | 118776 [transami run] Although when people act as a group it take on a life of it's own.
| |   + 118826 [corey_s qwes] It has a profound effect within myself.
| |     + 118832 [billk cts.co] Huh.  I take it you have a septic tank, and pump your own
| |     | 118839 [corey_s qwes] I pay a water bill every month.
| |     | 118844 [billk cts.co] Have a garage sale and list a bicycle for $25.  I'll plunk
| |     | 118858 [corey_s qwes] That's a horribly inaccurate analogy, almost not worth responding to -
| |     | 118878 [billk cts.co] I don't regard it as flawed, since it was intended to
| |     | 118882 [corey_s qwes] ...what one will contribute toward some service that is
| |     | 118905 [billk cts.co] It's not so much having zero problem with it, ... how can
| |     + 118903 [sera fhwang.] You have a much more idealistic assessment of the legitimacy
| + 118753 [ruby-lists l] oh go on, let me!
+ 118682 [zdennis mkte] Bush supporter here.
+ 118684 [dross code-e] I didn't get registered this year. If I don't have enough time to do
| 118693 [zdennis mkte] I entirely agree with you here David, I see this to with the first time
+ 118685 [jason.sweat ] Vote Libertarian
| 118784 [carl.youngbl] Hear! Hear! Michael Badnarik for me too.  The only candidate who is
+ 118687 [sera fhwang.] I'm voting for Kerry this year, and have volunteered a little bit this
| 118796 [jd nospam.co] There is no such thing as the 'left' or the 'right'.
| 118900 [sera fhwang.] I've considered myself on the left pretty much every day of my life
+ 118689 [mrmargolis w] Voting for Bush.
+ 118690 [Ara.T.Howard] i still haven't decided if i can bring myself to vote.  i will state an
| + 118692 [zdennis mkte] Isn't P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" threatening enough? You dare defy the
| | 118740 [halostatue g] It might help if (1) Michael Badnarik himself weren't a bit of a
| | + 118781 [markus reali] I've been a registered republican for well over twenty years, but
| | | 118788 [tim vegeta.a] I've never heard my own position stated better, except with my
| | + 118799 [carl.youngbl] Actually, I found Badnarik to be a refreshing change from the other
| |   118800 [carl.youngbl] ...
| + 118708 [horacio.lope] I entirely subscribe to this opinion,  no matter where you are in this
| | 118717 [lucsky mac.c] And why isn't the whole world allowed to vote then ? Isn't that a
| | 118719 [corey_s qwes] Well said.
| + 118823 [bg-rubytalk ] Right on.  I bike to work every day as well, I used to own a car, but I
|   118842 [bobgus rcn.c] In the US, it isn't often we have a chance to give a thumbs up or thumbs
+ 118695 [ptkwt aracne] Do you really think this is a good idea?
| + 118694 [ptkwt aracne] Sorry, hit reply a bit too soon...
| + 118697 [dross code-e] Well, I personally think its alright talking about politics as long as
| + 118699 [dblack wobbl] Not in any respect whatsoever.
|   118703 [transami run] But why that? To see if the actual election results match real world
|   118948 [mortonda gma] I find it fascinating how much more Bush support there is here than on
|   118950 [mailinglists] You think that this is also true for the 40+ million US citizens
|   118952 [zdennis mkte] There has always been a poverty line with millions of people under it.
+ 118696 [logancapaldo] I am neither a Kerry or Bush supporter. Idealy I would vote
| 118789 [carl.youngbl] I was wondering how effective my vote for Badnarik would be in our
+ 118700 [pete petta-t] vs.=20
| + 118704 [sera fhwang.] Sometimes you raise because you've got a bad hand and you want the
| | + 118707 [transami run] Well said.
| | + 118772 [jan spam.spa] I don't think the goal wasn't really to sway people away from Bush or
| + 118808 [jwkenne attg] No, it means that the monkey in the White House angers bin Laden.
+ 118701 [patrick hexa] Kerry, barring any voting machine fiaso
| 118709 [phlip_cpp ya] I'l vote for whoever promises to hang spammers up by their nuts...
+ 118710 [hal9000 hype] I shouldn't answer this at all, as some of my comrades here will (I know)
| + 118731 [    s xss.de] I just noticed that with a two-party system,
| + 118732 [daniel danie] Thanks Hal. I understand people's fear of this creating a division,
| | 118747 [curt hibbs.c] What a well-reasoned and thoughtful statement. I certainly don't have all
| + 118752 [transami run] It might not mean much coming from me, but I commend you for saying your piece
+ 118711 [burtdav hotm] I'm Australian, and I support Mr. Bush despite, let's say, recent foreign
+ 118723 [roelandmoors] I *think* that a lot of people here in Europe are hoping that Bush
| + 118724 [rasputnik he] Here in the UK we certainly are. He decides our foreign policy at the
| | 118746 [robert.mcgov] Agreed (also UK), though I am unsure how much Kerry is going to be ...
| | 118749 [sera fhwang.] Kerry is swayable, whereas Bush is not. Many Bush supporters consider
| + 118738 [jan spam.spa] I read something that +80% of Europeans would vote for Kerry. (I'm one
|   118794 [mailinglists] No. I doubt that.
|   + 118801 [duncan nycap] There was an interesting article by Gabriel Kolko on the Counterpunch
|   + 118812 [jwkenne attg] And if Europe is caught in the whirlpool, what then?
+ 118734 [rich infoeth] Bush, with conviction ;-)
| 118744 [lists halffu] Bush, with just as much conviction.
| 118759 [rasputnik he] [ not flamebait, but will probably offend some - let me make it clear
| + 118779 [zdennis mkte] Ok here is a quick 2 cents while I have quick 5 minute break at work...
| | + 118785 [rasputnik he] Depending who gets in, you could just stop pissing it away on missile defence :)
| | + 118809 [halostatue g] ... whereas I believe that healthcare should be out of the hands of
| | | 118813 [zdennis mkte] Things may have changed....but some information I found.
| | | + 118887 [sgallagher r] The mistaken belief that Canadians pay 50% in income tax is because
| | | + 118893 [sgallagher r] Of course, if you're going to use that article you need to keep in
| | + 118810 [lunixlack ya] In the "civilized US42 mln people without any medical insurance. The government should be
| | | 118818 [mailinglists] "You think you are so clever, class less and free, but you are only
| | | 118819 [lunixlack ya] ...theory of Classes ...
| | | 118824 [tim vegeta.a] Next sodding bastard mentions a Lennon lyric gets a boot to the head.
| | | 118835 [mailinglists] Okay, one special for you, from Leonard Cohen. The Song for the Wim
| | + 118892 [sgallagher r] There is a significant difference between the system that Kerry was proposing
| + 118814 [jwkenne attg] Fifty years of propaganda saying that the US has to be
+ 118736 [peter semant] My hope was that this list could be free of the foreign election and
| 118750 [no-spam-uche] Lurker who never post but only this time :-)
| 118837 [hal9000 hype] Then you must post more often. We can't let your
+ 118743 [gavin refine] I'm voting Kerry because I'm strongly anti-Bush, though online polls
+ 118764 [tom infoethe] Vote for the pro-smokestack candidate - Nerf Hoffelmeyer!
+ 118767 [rubytalk gma] Bush
| + 118770 [roelandmoors] Confusing email address :-)
| + 118777 [transami run] The _mailing-list_ is going to vote? ;)
|   118787 [tim vegeta.a] You're totally the first person to mention that! ...  And I generally
+ 118769 [joaopedrosa ] In my mind it would have been much more courageous to not go into war
+ 118771 [djberg96 hot] I'm voting for myself.  Hail to the King, baby.
| 118775 [tom infoethe] Tom
+ 118786 [jd nospam.co] Well...the day isn't over yet.
| 118822 [fgp phlo.org] So, who is responsible?
| 118852 [jwkenne attg] It's not a question of not being a superman. He was warned repeatedly
| 118855 [zdennis mkte] This goes back to a central question....was it the President who had
| 118856 [rasputnik he] You say that as though there weren't literally millions of people around
+ 118791 [gianni one6i] I agree with the other posters who think this is perhaps an
| + 118805 [mailinglists] This week there was a tiny message in many major newsmagazines
| | 118811 [Ara.T.Howard] where i live, boulder colorado, this is not the case.  it __is__ the case that
| | 118850 [joey joeygib] This goes a long way to refuting the "100,000 dead civilians" claim
| | 118854 [mailinglists] On the given page i find the number of 183 deaths per day. This number
| + 118807 [gianni one6i] soldiers, many of them my own age. Like many GJ>Americans, I backed a
+ 118821 [transami run] Okay, now you've gone beyond rude. You are officially an Ass. But let me show
+ 118869 [kalaky gmail] I'm not a U.S. citizen, but I support Bush. The more he f*cks
+ 118943 [rob.02004 gm] I've lived in NYC for the past 3.5 years. Last week I brought one way
  118946 [jgb3 email.b] Well, you tied it back to Ruby, anyway. Which is more than I can say for