128532-131431

^ Methods names mangled with number of arguments
128532 [mystifier us] charset="us-ascii"
130365 [gavin refine] class A

^ [ANN] ruby-dl2-0.0
128533 [ttate ttsky.] It's my pleasure to inform you that Ruby/DL2 has come out.
128598 [timsuth ihug] Installing with ruby 1.9.0 (2005-01-27) [i686-linux],
128649 [ttate ttsky.] I think you run ruby-1.9 with the option '-d' or '--verbose'.
128759 [timsuth ihug] Yes, I have "RUBYOPT=-w".

^ ruby resources
128546 [jdavis-list ] I've been learning Ruby lately and I think it's a great language.
+ 128552 [dan eparklab] I've been working with Ruby for about 30 days. These are my links or
+ 128558 [ajohnson cpa] Docs on the built-ins can be brought up with ri (part of the included
+ 128597 [nospam nospa] Taken from http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnTheNet

^ Rails error [?] [was Re: Ten Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby]
128557 [ehames gmail] Thanks for the online list, Jim!

^ Re: Wee 0.5.0
128571 [cyberco gmai] Looks really interesting, and I'got it working, but I'm having trouble
128578 [mneumann nte] I'm currently working on "translating" the Onlamp turorial to Wee ;-)

^ More java folks learning Ruby
128572 [pat.eyler gm] This time the blog comes from deep in the bowels of Sun.
128574 [joaopedrosa ] That's good news even in small doses. Thanks. :-)

^ Re: Extending Ruby
128581 [cmills frees] underlying
128652 [asbjoert ifi] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,

^ [Ruby/Tk] Cannot close window
128583 [svenbauhan w] I'm quite new on Ruby. I tried to use Ruby/Tk to display messages in a
128607 [nagai ai.kyu] The block given to TkButton.new method is evaluated by instance_eval.
129017 [svenbauhan w] Thanks,

^ Good Ruby/LAMP Informational Sources
128585 [tom tompurl.] and Zope.  I've recently been attracted to Ruby On Rails, which has led me

^ [Mostly OT] Re: Good Ruby/LAMP Informational Sources
128591 [brianm apach] Well, LAMP is just [Linux|FreeBSD] Apache [MySQL|PostgreSQL] and
128601 [tom tompurl.] Thanks a ton for the information, Brian!  I wasn't specific enough with

^ check form parameters
128593 [mrmargolis w] What would be the best way to check if a user enters a value into a form

^ rake question
128594 [itsme213 hot] - zipping
128617 [jim weirichh] There are Ruby libraries for the above, but they are not Rake specific.

^ Re: [ANN] ruby-dl2-0.0 for Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9
128596 [nospam nospa] Thanks for giving this to ruby 1.8!

^ weird syntactic structures
128612 [sdate everes] module M; def a; puts "weird"; 1; end; end

^ SER ?
128616 [zdennis mkte] Anyone know what happened to Sean Russel(SER), Is he still around?
128621 [jamesUNDERBA] I think he's been hanging around with Mr. Curry ...
130279 [zdennis mkte] I forgot to ask this along time ago... who is Mr. Curry?

^ [Q]: How can I find the filename where a class is defined?
128668 [george.mosch] I would like to find the filename where a given class is defined.
128686 [pit capitain] Since a class can be spread over multiple files, you have to define which one(s)

^ Ruby Central Codefest Grants -- last call for proposals!
128669 [dblack wobbl] The deadline for proposals for the Ruby Central Codefest Grant program

^ zsh completion for ri
128677 [sheepman tcn] It also works well. But we are not certain about how to use zsh bullt-in functions.

^ [QUIZ] To Excel (#17)
128688 [james graypr] 1.  Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until
129310 [jason.sweat ] First of all, my apologies to the list for polluting it with PHP code,
129315 [lukfugl gmai] "Sanitized" ruby version follows :)

^ FAQ broken....
128690 [dblack wobbl] The FAQ site is broken.  We're working on it....
128691 [dblack wobbl] The FAQ is baq :-)  Thanks to Jim W. for talking me through a little
128736 [Stephan.Kaem] Thank you for this pun, Mr. Blaq. ;-)

^ Re: : How can I find the filename where a class is defined?
128696 [george.mosch] which
+ 128698 [mneumann nte] Yes, that's what I needed last night, too (and some month ago where I
| + 128704 [george.mosch] Thank you very much!
| + 128717 [pit capitain] This is a nice idea!
| + 128724 [    v vsu.ru] Don't you forget
|   128729 [zdennis mkte] I dont' know what kind of performance you are looking for, but if you
|   128732 [zdennis mkte] If you need it to gooo real fast, we can write a c extension =) and add
+ 128700 [ruby-lists l] t.rb
+ 128712 [bob.news gmx] "George Moschovitis" <george.moschovitis@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ Running tests via rake. Plea for fix.
128702 [tobias.luetk] Currently when you are running tests with rake you will run in all sorts
+ 128730 [jim weirichh] Sorry, I wasn't really aware there were continuing issues with rake and
| 128733 [curt hibbs.c] Can you please keep me in the loop for the fix? I want to make a new release
+ 128818 [jim weirichh] I must be missing something.  I just created a new rails project, added a
  128834 [jamis_buck b] I confess I haven't been following this thread, so I don't know what

^ Why csv file processing is so slow?
128708 [   a agni.us] [root@taamportable GMS]#    cat x.py
+ 128714 [bob.news gmx] "mepython" <a@agni.us> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 128715 [   a agni.us] It is csv module: reading file seems like half the speed of python. So
| 128725 [bob.news gmx] "mepython" <a@agni.us> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 128760 [w_a_x_man ya] Regexps can
| 128794 [w_a_x_man ya] To test the method parse_csv, I created a 1 megabyte file consisting of
| 128821 [   a agni.us] I got similar result with your parse_csv. This brings another issue in
| 128893 [w_a_x_man ya] This should do it.  I found that not rebuilding the regular-expression
| 128899 [w_a_x_man ya] % # Record separator.
| 128933 [   a agni.us] I found an error in parse_csv if field is empty, it ignores it for
| + 128976 [w_a_x_man ya] 1,,2 now returns [1, "", 2]
| | 129073 [w_a_x_man ya] Now assumes a quotation mark within a field is represented as ""
| | 129221 [w_a_x_man ya] A small, fast, and (I think) complete csv parser.
| | 129226 [ryand-ruby z] There is test_csv.rb in the ruby tarball. Can you run your new code
| | 129238 [w_a_x_man ya] Wow. test_csv.rb is beyond my comprehension. I don't know how
| | 129262 [nakahiro sar] The second \r\n is a record separator.  Here's from test_csv.rb.
| | + 129288 [   a agni.us] time ruby regexCSV.rb
| | + 129314 [w_a_x_man ya] slowness).
| | + 129356 [w_a_x_man ya] foo  | "foo" | foo,bar | ""    |        |   | \r | \r\n |
| |   129591 [w_a_x_man ya] For speed fanatics only.
| |   129654 [w_a_x_man ya] The fast mode now parses an empty line exactly as the
| + 128985 [timsuth ihug] This assumes the input is an array of lines. (Where each line is an array.)
|   + 129008 [lists bertra] class Array
|   + 129234 [r_mueller im] #!/usr/bin/env ruby
+ 128716 [ajohnson cpa] Well, the python library csv.py uses the underlying _csv module which
  128719 [   a agni.us] Thanks andrew. I should have look into module before posting.

^ Gnupg and ruby
128710 [dwerder gmx.] I tried to use the command line gnu privacy guard with ruby.
+ 128720 [mneumann nte] Not sure about this either. Maybe it would work if you fork the process,
+ 128772 [sroberts cer] I just know how to do this in C, not ruby, but if no one has better
  128809 [dwerder gmx.] I think I found my problem..

^ Is there anything like matplotlib (Plotting library) in ruby?
128718 [   a agni.us] Python has a great plotting library http://matplotlib.sf.net It is very
+ 128721 [asbjoert ifi] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
+ 128726 [malte harder] I'm currently working on plotting library in ruby which uses rmagick as

^ SWIG: ruby proc->c function pointer
128734 [GGarramuno a] Sorry for the slightly off-topic question.  I am starting to use swig
128787 [kou cozmixng] I'm writing bindings to Subversion by SWIG. This has some
131431 [GGarramuno a] I finally got around to trying this.  Thanks.

^ Apache -> malformed header from script
128735 [rampant gmai] I'm on windows xp trying, playing with Ruby on Apache. I've put this
+ 128738 [ jimm io.com] Try just "\n" instead of "\r\n". Since you're on Windows, I think Ruby will
| 128746 [rampant gmai] #!ruby
| + 128749 [halostatue g] puts <<-EOS
| + 128896 [aredridel gm] Hehe. You send Status: 200 for setting the status line; you have to
+ 128739 [cschorn gmxp] This seems to be your Problem, Apache writes the status line by itself,

^ Tarfile library
128742 [lists bertra] I would like to build tarfiles from inside ruby.
+ 128745 [jim weirichh] "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
+ 129151 [google erikv] gegroet,

^ how do i turn an object into a binding?
128758 [bret pettich] foo.bar
128761 [flori nixe.p] foo.instance_eval do
128777 [halostatue g] Note that this won't work if you try to use assignment, because that
128825 [flori nixe.p] foo.instance_eval do

^ FYI: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?
128773 [petite.abeil] Cheers
+ 128792 [transfire gm] Nice. I look forward to the next installment.
| + 128793 [joaopedrosa ] I'm working with about 16k LoC of Ruby and I had to do some drastic
| + 128796 [matju sympat] But OOP is there to simplify things, not complicate them. If things become
| | 128802 [transfire gm] First off I'm wondering if you read the referenced post?
| | 128901 [matju sympat] If you mean the one from gmane.org, yes, and I think it misses a few
| | + 128902 [jamesUNDERBA] But that's the thing; it was apparently posted to comp.lang.*
| | | 129044 [matju sympat] Woops! I should have noticed that.
| | + 128911 [transfire gm] other
| |   129047 [matju sympat] And how is it terribly different in a program that carefully avoid using
| |   129053 [transfire gm] don't
| |   129054 [transfire gm] And I really wish they'd type for me. I'm such a sloppy typist!
| |   129058 [eero.saynatk] If you have such trouble with OOP even after trying for a long time,
| |   129103 [transfire gm] E,
| + 128805 [rff_rff remo] notice that the post is also a flamebait, crossposted to
| | 128858 [rampant gmai] Store two strings, a and b, in memory. Combine those two strings and
| | 128864 [flori nixe.p] public class test {
| | + 128866 [rampant gmai] That makes more sense, thanks.
| | + 128872 [transfire gm] Considering I took the criticism ernestly, I suppose I should infer
| | | 128874 [petite.abeil] "No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he
| | + 128919 [rampant gmai] I just did a quick google to see what these "refactoring tools" looked
| + 128815 [petite.abeil] Ditto :)
| + 128823 [petite.abeil] Cheers
+ 128801 [cmiller past] Nice article. I'd love to see it written without all the inaccuracies
  + 128816 [petite.abeil] Think of it as a "opinion piece". Plus, "inaccuracies" and "bias" are
  + 128832 [jamesUNDERBA] Nicely put.
    128833 [petite.abeil] Trolling trolls or not, is it not the case that everything in Java has
    + 128835 [transfire gm] Flambait? Trolls? If you think it so, why then do feed the fire?
    | + 128838 [jamesUNDERBA] Or not.
    | | 128843 [transfire gm] James!
    | | 128869 [jamesUNDERBA] As well as an ironic sense of the strange.
    | | 128940 [hal9000 hype] Of course, sometimes the worst troll is the unintentional troll. ;)
    | + 128839 [lyle.johnson] I am not taking a side on this particular post of Xah Lee's. I would
    |   128846 [transfire gm] Thankfully I didn't know that. So I took it for what it said. I have
    |   128852 [flori nixe.p] To quote from this article: "A frequent argument for OOP is it helps
    |   + 128859 [transfire gm] I didn't say what I thought of it, in fact I didn't find it a
    |   + 128861 [petite.abeil] Right... I have to admit that I never, never, never encountered any
    |   + 128903 [ruby-lists l] lol
    + 128837 [jamesUNDERBA] That's different from saying that "everything in the language are [sic]
    | + 128841 [transfire gm] Okay, it was a poorly written example, and perhaps done so to
    | + 128845 [petite.abeil] Bah. Same difference.
    + 128842 [rampant gmai] a = "a string";
      128847 [transfire gm] Great point Douglas. Ruby (especially) helps make OOP manageble. And I

^ Proc rebinding
128775 [csaba phony_] In ruby there is such a thing as rebinding a proc object, as the example
128776 [flgr ccan.de] Yes, EvilRuby has Proc#self= which will change the self-context of a

^ New Generator
128786 [garious gmai] Ruby gurus,
129106 [rubyzbibd ub] If you do not get any responses to your proposed modification of the

^ string extraction
128795 [navindra cs.] string='.///root/1068663688//1068824962/1068836207//1068932537///'
+ 128797 [contact_us h] class String
+ 128798 [Ephaeton gmx] string[%r|/(\d+)/+$|, 1] ?
| 128844 [navindra cs.] Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.  The zero-width positive
+ 128811 [dblack wobbl] string[/(\d*)(?=\/*$)/]
| 128812 [dblack wobbl] Sorry, too little coffee.  That's zero-width lookahead :-)
+ 128894 [lists bertra] Maybe you simply need to say

^ Monitor the sites one visits.
128803 [transfire gm] Any ideas on how to capture client-side web site surfing habits?
+ 128814 [dave burt.id] Most browsers keep a history. What platform are the clients going to be?
| 128829 [transfire gm] No telling. I though about using the browser history btu I fear that
+ 128817 [mneumann nte] Not sure what you exactly mean with client-side (should it run on the
  128828 [transfire gm] SmallWorld...

^ Canvas Controls?
128824 [   a agni.us] I like to create an application which allows users to add different
+ 128836 [tilman code-] You could also have a look at Evas, the Enlightenment project's canvas.
+ 128850 [martindemell] If your application is essentially a canvas and some supporting code,
  128875 [   a agni.us] I heard a lot of good things about Tk canvas but it doesn't have good

^ Simulation libraries in Ruby?
128827 [   a agni.us] I did some search to find availability of discrete event simulation
128930 [vjoel PATH.B] ...

^ Ruwiki - where's the edit link?
128849 [itsme213 hot] I installed Ruwiki (gem) and like the looks of it, but cannot seem to find
+ 128879 [jamesUNDERBA] My copy (which is pretty standard) has the link at the top of the page,
+ 128928 [halostatue g] If you are running "ruwiki_servlet --central", there will be no edit
  + 128953 [itsme213 hot] That was it. Thanks!
  | 128977 [halostatue g] Not at this point. There are some issues (perhaps) with supporting
  + 129032 [itsme213 hot] Is this also the way to have multiple separate wikis? Maybe make one wiki
    129048 [halostatue g] ruwiki install cgi --to <destination>

^ Bangalore rubyists?
128851 [martindemell] Stand up and be counted :)
128910 [demerzel gma] Count one. I dabble in Redness, whenever I get a chance.

^ Enumerable Procs?
128853 [joe.edelman ] Is there any way to get something like this to work?
+ 128865 [flgr ccan.de] Not in Ruby 1.8, because Procs don't have a block slot there. E.g. you
+ 128868 [transfire gm] T.

^ Run-time parameterized modules - ruby style?
128870 [itsme213 hot] I think I want to use this design in a few places in my code, to write a
+ 128885 [kig misfirin] Don't know much about Ruby style, but I'll open my trap anyhow.
| 128955 [itsme213 hot] It is related, but not by inclusion e.g. the generated module may put
+ 128900 [pit capitain] require "delegate"

^ [ANN] Logtails 0.4 : the time saving release
128890 [rb raphinou.] Logtails 0.4 has arrived ( http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=500 ), and
+ 128956 [Richard_Dale] Good to see the app progressing rapidly - 4 releases with lots of extra
| + 128957 [ruby-lists l] richard i hope you don't mind me suggesting that you
| | 128961 [Richard_Dale] I'd like to allow both sort of builds/releases. So it should be possible to
| | 128999 [ruby-lists l] there is a cons based kde specific script available. *somewhere* ;)
| + 128992 [rb raphinou.] Not sure I'll have much time, but it's clearly real fun to program with
+ 128960 [vjoel PATH.B] This is the first qt ruby app I've tried to get working, and I'm having
  128962 [vjoel PATH.B] $ make -f Makefile.cvs
  128987 [Richard_Dale] Yes it does - you only need to download either qtruby or korundum, but not

^ Current state of Ruby i18n?
128904 [jamesUNDERBA] What's the current state of i18n in Ruby?
128906 [drbrain segm] $KCODE = 'u'
128912 [jamesUNDERBA] Thanks!

^ gem question
128909 [itsme213 hot] require 'extensions/kernel'
128914 [jim weirichh] Does the following do what you want?
128954 [itsme213 hot] Yes it does. Does this work different from require_gem?
128981 [jim weirichh] Evidently :)