136851-142734

^ How Ruby is positioned regarding Enterprise Solutions?
136851 [marco.campel] I'm starting to play with Ruby. So far I've installed cygwin+ruby,
+ 136855 [phlip_cpp ya] risk?
| + 136858 [marco.campel] The goal of my team is to implement System Integrations.
| | + 136862 [phlip_cpp ya] Dude, it's just us programmers here - no managers or executives. You don't
| | + 136868 [ruby-ml magi] Yes.
| | + 136869 [khaines enig] Which is incredibly vague.
| + 137515 [djberg96 hot] that
+ 136857 [james_b neur] Welcome!
+ 136883 [ news jay.fm] marco.campelo@gmail.com says...
| + 136887 [spoooq gmail] I cant remember the question after reading that. But I do
| | 136892 [cyclists nc.] Ied systems, at the end of the day, Ruby has the momentum to
| + 136891 [martin.anker] Wow... are these statements automatically generated?
| | 136896 [ news jay.fm] martin.ankerl@gmail.com says...
| | 136897 [Greg.Kujawa ] I thought you used something similar to
| + 136893 [phlip_cpp ya] I prostrate myself in honor...
| + 136899 [glenn.parker] If only this power could be harnessed for the good of mankind!
|   137015 [phlip_cpp ya] Do y'all suppose the original poster has gotten disgusted and gone back to
+ 136952 [john-mason s] Marco,
+ 137008 [aredridel nb] What, in your mind, is an "Enterprise Solution"?
  142216 [jlsysinc all] Photon torpedos immediately come to mind.
  142716 [radix_zero h] 1. Messaging Services
  142734 [surrender_it] did you took a look at the rest of the thread? This has already been

^ [UPDATE] One-click installer for win32utils
136853 [djberg96 hot] We've just released an updated version (0.0.4) of the Win32 Utils
136860 [botp delmont] Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@hotmail.com]

^ Re: [Rails] MuraveyWeb 0.2 -- tons of new stuff (Ruby on Rails CMS with a live demo)
136856 [lists zara.6] Also, what about FCKeditor? It seems nice too...
136870 [khaines enig] Having used all three....

^ Re: One-click installer for win32utils
136861 [djberg96 hot] It doesn't include sys-admin, nor will it, since that package is not
136865 [botp delmont] //> does it include the updated #Admin already?

^ seattle.rb hackfest 2005 planning list now online
136873 [ryand-ruby z] ALL planning traffic will go there. Summaries will come back to their

^ optparse to include no opt-args, invalid opt,...
136878 [botp delmont] OptParse is great to use and its opt#on is neatly structured.
136904 [nobu.nokada ] No for all, if I get what you mean by "in optparse structure",

^ How to handle Iconv errors (newbie question)
136882 [mhuggett zam] I have an array of arrays of strings, e.g.,
136884 [pbattley gma] Pehaps the best solution is just to tell iconv to skip over illegal
136886 [mhuggett zam] That did it.  Thanks a lot!

^ Re: alias to module methods or class methods
136895 [Geert.Fannes] Thank you, things are working now as they should

^ [EVALUATION] - E03b - The Ruby Object Model
136898 [ilias lazari] [EVALUATION] - E03 - jamLang Evaluation Case Applied to Ruby
+ 136909 [halostatue g] It's neither misleading nor wrong. It is complex.
| + 136937 [jim weirichh] Do all instances have their own metaclass?  I thought metaclasses (singleton
| | 136939 [halostatue g] That's my understanding, too. But since you can't look at a
| + 136941 [decoux moulo] Well, if ocObject is an instance of otherClass then you have a small
|   136946 [halostatue g] You're right. I just copied a part of the diagram without thinking.
|   136950 [decoux moulo] Well, write it like this
+ 136923 [lthiryidontw] Most of the time, everything goes in ruby as if there weren't any kind of
| 137419 [csaba phony_] Hmm, the rigor of the interpreter here is somewhat loose. You can
| 137420 [bob.news gmx] "Csaba Henk" <csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 137565 [csaba phony_] That's good to know, but this question is another question. What I was
+ 136945 [jim weirichh] [... ASCII art elided ...]
+ 137660 [ilias lazari] the documentation given via "ri Class" is definitely wrong.
| 137662 [chneukirchen] We call it... The Source.
| 137674 [ilias lazari] Ok, now I understand.
+ 137661 [ilias lazari] the documentation given via "ri Class" is definitely wrong.
+ 138259 [ilias lazari] The documentation is wrong.

^ Re: - E03b - The Ruby Object Model
136911 [transfire gm] First it would appear that your repositioned diagram has an arrow
137174 [ilias lazari] I was not carefull whilst simplifying the diagramm.

^ [howto] pass a byte array to a web service
136922 [aastanti hot] I have a web service developed in java with axis and I'd like to invoke
+ 136924 [bob.news gmx] <aastanti@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 137007 [erne powerna] Check out this URL

^ Re: pass a byte array to a web service
136925 [aastanti hot] indicate
136930 [lyndon.samso] Run a HTTP monitor in between the client and server.
+ 137040 [aastanti hot] Unfortunately that doesn't work either, I always get the same error as
+ 137084 [aastanti hot] Ok, I have used an HTTP monitor to check what's going on. The result is
  + 137089 [lyndon.samso] Possibly something to do with the following
  | 137816 [lyndon.samso] Whys www.poignantguide.net/ruby/print.html says
  | 137823 [rampant gmai] a = "hello there"
  + 138417 [nakahiro sar] Sorry for the late reply.

^ accessing gmail account via POP3
136927 [ptkwt aracne] Has anyone written any Ruby code for accessing their gmail account that
+ 136953 [rampant gmai] Would this help?
| 136968 [pete petta-t] It doesn't support SSL, does it?  I couldn't find anything about it in
+ 136992 [doug beaver.] ruby-core#2703 and ruby-core#2745 include patches to add ssl support to
+ 137792 [eric afaik.u] I have a bit of code that might help. I briefly tried Kapsules since it

^ Benchmarking whole programs
136932 [surrender_it] I was playing with the  ruby programs in the alioth language shootout
136935 [Daniel.Berge] I don't know.  Does the benchmark package take startup time into
136936 [rasputnik he] For those who don't know -
+ 136940 [jeremy bitsw] The recently-posted ruby-prof extension by Shugo Maeda is absolutely
+ 136947 [surrender_it] yup, I was thinking of doing the same, but see later

^ [ANN] Utah Ruby Users Group
136944 [jamis 37sign] Just a quick note to announce the formation of the Utah Ruby Users
136955 [pat.eyler gm] any chance you could change the name to utah.rb?  The whole RUG thing
+ 136957 [jamis 37sign] Probably not. :) Yah, the "rug" thing is worn, but I think it fits the
| 136960 [jeff opendbm] utah.rb is a pretty cool name!
+ 136963 [james_b neur] I'm struck by this being a *Utah* group, not a Provo or Salt Lake City,
  + 136966 [pat.eyler gm] *sigh* I try an work the pun in and no one even groans.
  + 136973 [jamis 37sign] Haven't had a meeting yet, so I don't know. :) We're hoping to meeting

^ from my coworker (funny)
136951 [ummaycoc gma] I don't know if anyone has ever thought of this...
137012 [spoooq gmail] My brother reminded me of that quote yesterday, and its creepy. :P

^ Re: Utah Ruby Users Group
136954 [iorcc yahoo.] And if that wasn't enough, this group unknowingly contributed 2
136958 [jamis 37sign] Two? I found one of them. What was the other one? (Are the answers to

^ UDP socket delay
136959 [roelandmoors] I'm trying to recieve syslog messages under windows.

^ Re: [SOLUTION] Code Cleaning (#26)
136967 [james graypr] Here's my solution to the first script.  See Thursday's summary for how
137067 [james graypr] And here's my best attempt at the trickier second one.

^ [ANN] Boston Ruby Meetup
136970 [kellan gmail] I'm trying to get a regular Boston Ruby meetup going, maybe as the

^ looking for Houston meetup
136971 [binkley alum] Are they any rubyists in the Houston area interested in getting together?
+ 136980 [matt technor] I'm in Austin, but if you hold the meeting on a weekend, I may drive over.
| 136993 [belorion gma] Depending on the day/time (in the process of moving), I might be
| 137014 [binkley alum] I was hoping for a meet-and-greet unless someone has something
| 137208 [belorion gma] That makes sense.  I notice that you have a Rice email address.  Are
| 137212 [binkley alum] binkley@ALUMNI.rice.edu.  :D
| + 137213 [belorion gma] Sorry, my quick glance just saw the rice.edu, not the preceeding "alumni" :).
| + 137355 [martindemell] I was a grad student there from '97 to '01 :)
| + 138659 [binkley alum] Houston Rubyists!
+ 137229 [peter.kwangj] Yahoo!  I've been wondering about this!  Please drop me a line and I
| 137231 [binkley alum] Replying to the overwhelming market demand (well, it's a small market,
+ 137945 [binkley alum] I spoke with Peter Suk this morning, and he suggested the Stag's Head in

^ Re: Nitro + Og 0.15.0, Localization, Parametrized mixins, Morphing, SQLServer
136976 [george.mosch] Does it allow duck-typing?
136977 [mneumann nte] class Posting
+ 137000 [itsme213 hot] George,
| 137041 [george.mosch] even though I cannot see why this is so useful, I 'll try to add this
+ 137042 [george.mosch] Hmm,

^ Ruby and Bioinformatics
136979 [ptkwt aracne] A couple of people mentioned in various threads here recently that they
+ 136982 [daniel.amela] I don't have time at the moment to go into a full answer to this
| 136986 [Daniel.Berge] "Design philosophy of the BioRuby library is KISS (keep it simple and
+ 136989 [belorion gma] I am a graduate student doing bioinformatics.  We use Ruby whenever
| 137030 [daniel.amela] Ok, I've got a sec now to expand on my previous post.
| 137076 [sroberts cer] Its interesting to hear about what people are doing with ruby, thanks
| 137156 [daniel.amela] I forgot to mention in my last post that the absolute *best* way to
+ 136995 [belorion gma] Interesting timing ... there was just an article posted on Slashdot in

^ reading/writing Excel formats (or CSV)
136983 [ptkwt aracne] I'm supposed to put together an Excel spreadsheet.  I've always been the
+ 136984 [Daniel.Berge] See spreadsheet-excel, available on the RAA.  Note that this is the
+ 136985 [caleb aei-te] What you have here is perfect.  Excel is pretty flexible - you can delimit
| 136987 [caleb aei-te] Make that "don't use" commas.
| 136988 [hal9000 hype] Funny, I thought you typed "have" instead of "save."
| 136990 [caleb aei-te] You're right.  I guess that's what I get for multitasking, and typing
+ 136991 [belorion gma] Check out Win32OLE for Ruby.  You can actually interface directly with
| 136994 [aero6dof gma] If you go the OLE route, this link will also save you some time..
| 137055 [avik.sengupt] And if you dont want to go the OLE route, or want to do this on Mac or
+ 136998 [horacio.lope] No need for extra modules if you don't need formulas or visual styling.
+ 137049 [dave.baldwin] I have had some success generating html files and importing these into
  137050 [lyndon.samso] Excel as source code control? :-)
  137063 [djberg96 hot] Sure.  Managers have been doing it for years. ;)

^ Error using csv.rb -  (Errno::ENOENT)
136996 [kohljonathan] I keep running into this error "(Errno::ENOENT)" when using csv.rb.
136999 [ryand-ruby z] Nope. Your code works fine for me w/ your data.
137024 [kohljonathan] Thanks. The Line 228 thing was really throwing me off as well. I found

^ Ruby Users Group - Eugene, Oregon?
136997 [kent darkwin] Any one in Eugene that would like to meet as a Ruby Users Group?

^ [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?
137002 [lthiryidontw] class MyClass
+ 137003 [hal9000 hype] I've seen this discussed... I think it's just historical reasons
+ 137004 [billk cts.co] (MyClass ||= Class.new) do
| 137021 [dave burt.id] "MyClass do ..." looks like a syntax error to me.
| 137066 [florgro gmai] That would not work though as the block can not bind to the | operator.
| 137163 [dave burt.id] I know that. I was thinking, "what if you could add all the methods defined
+ 137005 [nobu.nokada ] class hides outer scope, so this causes an error.
+ 137016 [ruby-ml magi] I, I think that is a good idea. On the other hand, I also think that
  137339 [cjs cynic.ne] Nah, your suggestion is much better. [(let f (lambda ...))]
  137342 [jonraphaelso] Both of those will produce the output
  + 137612 [dbatml gmx.d] No, they won't ;-)
  | 138037 [cjs cynic.ne] Oops! Shoulda read your post first. Anyway, so what's going on with this,
  | 138052 [pit capitain] This defines a private instance method of Object. You define the method
  + 138036 [cjs cynic.ne] $ cat z.rb

^ flawfinder in ruby?
137013 [botp delmont] anyone doing something like this in ruby?
137103 [ryand-ruby z] I'm not, but I'm working on similar tools using ParseTree and my

^ new!
137043 [robert none.] dear all, i'm very new to the Ruby lang: could you suggest me a good web
+ 137044 [bob.news gmx] "Robert" <robert@none.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 137048 [botp delmont] //
| + 137051 [demerzel gma] Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Great utility.
| | 137052 [glenn.ruby g] This isn't complete (which is a shame) but is an excellent tutorial to
| | 137273 [B.Candler po] And don't forget the grandaddy,
| + 137068 [james_b neur] The latest version is up on RubyForge, but has not been updated lately.
+ 137075 [robert none.] thanks a lot.
| + 137081 [peter semant] The first question is how well you know C++?
| + 137088 [phlip_cpp ya] C++ is designed to compile to the most efficient machine code possible. All
| | 137095 [steven.jenki] I hesitate to feed language comparison threads, but this is wrong. The
| | 137102 [phlip_cpp ya] No advocacy is needed to discuss this - it's an axiom of C++'s design. If
| | 137120 [billk cts.co] Agreed.  Reading Stroustrup, "You don't pay for what you
| + 137117 [boris boris-] If you program ruby, you spend all your energy in solving your problem and not
|   + 137121 [lukfugl gmai] While I won't dispute the relative slowness of scripting languages
|   | 137124 [lukfugl gmai] Ok, so maybe I'm not that lazy. Just too lazy to write true to life
|   + 137168 [bob.news gmx] "Boris Glawe" <boris@boris-glawe.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 137280 [ jupp gmx.de] I am unsure if you want the tutorial to be available on the web (and for
+ 137334 [glyconis gma] so, a lot of programmers of other languages have found it useful.)

^ win32ole VARIANT limitations?
137054 [jfc segonet.] I'm wondering if it's posible to call OpenSchema with more complex
+ 137105 [drbrain segm] Please don't hijack threads by using your reply button and replacing
+ 137647 [masaki.suket] The current Win32OLE converts nil to VT_ERROR of OLE.

^ Net::SMTP/mod_ruby SecurityError
137059 [richard.turn] I have an application that uses mod_ruby and I need to be able to have
137070 [richard.turn] Apologies for replying to myself :)
137316 [aamine lover] smtp.send_messages from.untaint, to.map {|a| a.untaint }, str
137362 [richard.turn] Ah, I see! Thanks for that. I confess I was quite surprised when I

^ extconf.rb and dyld problem
137071 [dpc davidcas] just trying to use extconf.rb script using mkmf to compile a bundle for
+ 137077 [peter njini.] From your mail it looks as if you doing your best to use the C++
| 137082 [dpc davidcas] The libraries I'm trying to compile/link are C++, so I thought I -had-
| + 137087 [peter njini.] Apologies, I should have been more specific. Where you mix C and C++
| | 137093 [dpc davidcas] I'm sorry if this is a waste of your time (I mean that I may not even
| + 137092 [dpc davidcas] #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
+ 137078 [nobu.nokada ] If you need libstdc++, using have_library instead would be best
| 137086 [dpc davidcas] I included have_library("stdc++") in extconf.rb and took out the LDFLAG
| 137091 [lucsky mac.c] These furiously look like Carbon calls. You should try to link against
| 137094 [dpc davidcas] Do you mean like this?
| 137097 [dpc davidcas] Oh MY. That worked, I think!
+ 137079 [sroberts cer] Could you include some of the symbols?

^ Regular expression mismatch ?
137080 [han.holl gma] s = "aaa aaa\n\n\nbbb bbb"
+ 137083 [james graypr] ^ means the beginning a line (right after \n)
| 137085 [warrenb Time] Han,
| 137164 [han.holl gma] [ cut ]
| 137167 [B.Candler po] str.untaint if str =~ /\A[a-z0-9]*\z/     # good
| 137170 [han.holl gma] Which leaves the question: what is the meaning if the m suffix in ruby ?
| + 137171 [neil hakubi.] Well, too late now, since not breaking existing scripts is good reason to
| + 137172 [dblack wobbl] The /m suffix means that \n is included in . (dot).
|   137192 [han.holl gma] On Apr 7, 2005 12:34 PM, David A. Black
|   137194 [dblack wobbl] Not if you use Ruby more and more :-)
|   + 137197 [Greg.Kujawa ] Good point. Anyone who has worked with regexes in the various languages can
|   | 137205 [dblack wobbl] That's the thing... for better or worse, there's no single model for
|   + 137201 [han.holl gma] This problem occurred while porting nasty old Perl program
|     + 137203 [dblack wobbl] I don't think they ever have been, at least not in the treatment of
|     | 137223 [han.holl gma] Kind of interesting, and mightily adding to the confusion: Pickaxe2
|     | 137356 [B.Candler po] /m   Treat string as multiple lines.  That is, change "^" and "$" from
|     + 137222 [neil hakubi.] And I'm sure people who have relied on Perl REs being compatible with its
+ 137090 [glenn.parker] puts(s =~ /\A\s+\Z/) => nil