144318-145748

^ Ruby references
144318 [Meino.Cramer] I would be very happy, if someone could give me a hint (or link ;)
144325 [assaph gmail] ...

^ Re: ANN: ShortURL 0.0.1
144324 [jeevan gmail] Just installed it and it works well. Nice work. :-)
144438 [vfoley gmail] I just released version 0.1.0.  See http://shorturl.rubyforge.org for

^ Suggestion: Add definition of "POLS" to FAQ
144335 [ jupp gmx.de] I broke the thread to avoid that this message is accidentally ignored

^ [rake] whishlist
144336 [dave.m email] hy,

^ [ANN] June 5 Toronto Ruby User Group meeting
144344 [mike stok.co] We will be having our monthly meeting on Sunday June 5 at Sushi Rock.

^ ruby-serialport crashes on ruby 1.8.2 under Windows
144345 [muellerix gm] I use the newest one-click-installer 1.8.2-15 and have a problem with a

^ How to use open uri or net/http class
144350 [sujeetkr gma] I am not able to access any http via Ruby program.I access internet
144353 [demerzel gma] HTH!
144355 [sujeetkr gma] I tried to run the code  of the site but it gives me error
144357 [demerzel gma] Could you try with an "http://" prefixed to that?

^ How to use access url using Ruby
144352 [sujeetkr gma] I am new to Ruby. I want to access http address using Ruby program .
144354 [bob.news gmx] See "Accessing via Proxy" on

^ Google Summer of Code: status of Ruby Central
144362 [dblack wobbl] There's a big buzz about the Google Summer of Code program
+ 144367 [florgro gmai] Even if chances don't look good at this time for Ruby Central to be
+ 144369 [james_b neur] Maybe someone here knows:  Just how did Google announce this Summer of
+ 144372 [tanner.burso] I believe there is an option for "Other" on the application.  If I was
| 144374 [dblack wobbl] See my previous post (crossed in the mail with yours) re the "other"
| 144383 [tanner.burso] If that's what it takes for me to get to apply this work towards
+ 144373 [dblack wobbl] I should add: it does seem that you can still fill in the "other
+ 144391 [ptkwt aracne] I'm not sure why Google was in such a hurry.  They just
  144396 [agorilla gma] To me, it sounds like the pre-selected the mentors, but forgot to

^ Where to discuss RubyGems feature
144363 [mailinglists] at the moment i'm writing a RubyGems frontend for my ArachnoRuby IDE.
144370 [agorilla gma] Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)

^ how to create a variable with eval - solved! [WAS] Re: binding, ObjectSpace._id2ref [WAS] Re: [ANN] parseargs-0.0.0
144368 [Ara.T.Howard] everyone is!  ;-)
144385 [pit capitain] def a; "ouch"; end
144388 [Ara.T.Howard] hmm.  i guess here
144398 [pit capitain] Yes, this is what I wanted to show. "Name clash" was the wrong term.
144400 [Ara.T.Howard] check.

^ Ruby equiv of Perltidy?
144379 [RubyLANG equ] Apologies if this has been covered already but is there, or is anyone
+ 144387 [halostatue g] What is Perltidy?
| 144394 [adrianh quie] Nope. For those who don't know perltidy is the Perl's code uber-
+ 144399 [marcel verni] marcel
+ 144402 [drbrain segm] refactoring tool (fixloops-demo.sh).

^ [Ann] RubyLexer 0.6.2
144380 [vikkous gmai] Announcing, release 0.6.2 of RubyLexer, a hyper-correct stand-alone

^ still compiling opengl on OSX
144381 [enrike alter] i am still trying to compile opengl on OSX 10.3.9
+ 144421 [trash philke] Well, the includes need to look like "#include <OpenGL/header.h>" and
+ 144447 [hramrach cen] You could also try the Fink rbogl package. It will compile against X11

^ still compiling opengl on OSX
144382 [enrike alter] i am still trying to compile opengl on OSX 10.3.9
144457 [hramrach cen] You got into problems because ruby extensions are compiled with

^ requiring files
144390 [joevandyk gm] If I start a Ruby application from a different directory than what the
+ 144393 [gfb tonesoft] $:.push File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
| 144434 [assaph gmail] ...
+ 144395 [drbrain segm] ruby -I /path/to/libs

^ net/http and Windows Authentication
144403 [brian.takita] Does anybody know how to send a request to a url using Windows
144426 [daniels pron] A) install Python and http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/ and use that as

^ Nuby problem w/CSV, tab-delimited files & embedded double-quotes
144405 [rpardee comc] Hey All,
+ 144406 [contact maik] The problem is that there's no CSV standard. The Ruby CSV library
+ 144408 [Ara.T.Howard] i think that, to be legitimate, this file would have to be
  144410 [rpardee comc] Woah--you are giving me the freak-out with that code. 8^)
  144432 [rpardee gmai] Come to think of it--I don't really need CSV at all for this.  I can

^ Re: librend 0.0.1
144416 [Digikata gma] This is a really interesting library, I'm currently using
144443 [kig misfirin] Thanks for the interest and questions :)

^ Compiling under cygwin - make test fails
144424 [AnthonyF Bla] I'm trying to compile ruby 1.8.2 under Cygwin.  ./configure and make
144429 [nobu.nokada ] Try latest snapshort or compile under a directory which doesn't
144430 [AnthonyF Bla] Spaces were causing the problem.  Thanks for the quick response!

^ YAML loader Post-processors
144428 [mailing-list] Is there any way of altering the type of data being read from a YAML

^ WEBRick initialization
144433 [alex verk.in] I have some WEBRick server that I would like to run as WEBRick::Daemon
144442 [gotoyuzo not] How about calling WEBrick::Daemon.start directly?

^ [OT] requiring files
144435 [assaph gmail] $LOAD_PATH.push File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))

^ Google Summer of Code update
144436 [dblack wobbl] Unfortunately, it's official that the Google Summer of Code program is
+ 144451 [florgro gmai] Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into this. It is very welcome
| 144462 [surrender_it] I second the thanks from Florian, and also the "we're not out yet" :)
+ 145740 [belorion gma] *snip*
  145748 [agorilla gma] They're only expanding the students, not the mentors.  Our hope lies

^ How to write in a Text file
144439 [hasmukh aala] I am very new to Ruby. I have written some test case for my Web
144440 [dave burt.id] "Hasmukh K P" <hasmukh@aalayance.com> asked...

^ [ANN] AllInOneRuby 0.2.3
144448 [pan erikveen] I just released version 0.2.3 of AllInOneRuby.
+ 144456 [meteum yahoo] Nice, what modules included in the built?
| 144463 [pan erikveen] All subdirectories in the directory Config::CONFIG["libdir"]
+ 144526 [ptkwt aracne] So you used FreePascal to write AllInOneRuby?

^ [ANN] RubyScript2Exe 0.3.5
144449 [pan erikveen] I just released version 0.3.5 of RubyScript2Exe.

^ [ANN] newsstats 1.1.2 (pre-release) is released
144450 [bsd.SANSPAM ] ABSTRACT

^ [QUIZ] Whiteout (#34)
144452 [james graypr] 1.  Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until
144467 [dave burt.id] That means that a file that is just "require 'whiteout'" and then a bunch of
+ 144471 [florgro gmai] If you are allowed to alter the shebang then you can append -ryourlib
| 144473 [james graypr] #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -rwhiteout
+ 144472 [james graypr] Correct.
| 144475 [drbrain segm] I believe ParseTree can provide some of that for you.
+ 144549 [logancapaldo] The problem with doing source filters in ruby is that 'use' doesn't

^ RubyScript2Exe and GUI toolkits
144453 [pan erikveen] I know that some of you use RubyScript2Exe in combination with
+ 144454 [ruby-talk ba] I've used (some previous version of) RubyScript2Exe successfuly to bundle
+ 144455 [cribbsj oakw] I have used RubyScript2Exe in several FXRuby applications.  The latest
+ 144470 [florgro gmai] I've used RubyScript2Exe to bundle up my entry for the Ludum Dare 48
| + 144481 [greg.kujawa ] I have an employee survey application that I developed for my company
| | 144538 [pan erikveen] You probably only saw the Ruby bindings for TK, not TK itself.
| | 144715 [greg.kujawa ] I saw the tk83.dll file in the unzipped directories if I am not
| | 144712 [greg.kujawa ] This option did the trick. The application launches fine using
| + 144537 [pan erikveen] Which GUI toolkit did you use?
|   144578 [florgro gmai] None at all. I used the ruby-gosu gaming library which handles creating
+ 144533 [kentda pvv.o] I dabbeled with RubyScript2Exe and Tar2RubyScript on a weekend about a
| 144540 [pan erikveen] Almost... The cleanup is done by EEE, the bootstrapping program
+ 144671 [craig.m.mora] I have successfully used RubyScript2Exe to build simple FXRuby, Tk, and=20

^ Failure: test_verify(OpenSSL::TestX509Store)
144458 [ByrneJB Hart] I built ruby-1.8.2 stable from source (ruby-lang.org) on a CentOS4
144477 [gotoyuzo not] I guess the early version of libssl is installed with your
144479 [ByrneJB Hart] Many thanks for your prompt and informative reply.  I, sad to say,
144523 [gotoyuzo not] I think OpenSSL not to be so important for Rails.

^ [rails] newby question on validation
144465 [corti inf.et] I am developing a small application with rails. I'll try to summarize my
144490 [joevandyk gm] You'll probably have better luck getting answers from the Rails mailing list...

^ erb/apache problem
144468 [hal9000 hype] I have an Apache server that I don't administer or configure. It
144469 [ruby-talk ba] You could write a shell script .cgi that invokes your problem cgi, and
144483 [hal9000 hype] A very reasonable idea, but it doesn't work for me. :(
+ 144513 [ruby.brian g] #!/usr/bin/ruby
+ 144517 [andre digira] You could install ethereal (www.ethereal.com) in your machine, and
| 144524 [paul__mcardl] This is how I got 1.6 to work on an unamed popular (read cheap) host.
+ 144551 [logancapaldo] Well that's the beginning of  your problem. Its getting EOF before

^ Read OpenStruct attribute name from variable
144478 [lispamateur ] Can't find that discussed anywhere, but maybe I just don't know how to
144510 [Ara.T.Howard] key = 'foo'
144692 [lispamateur ] A mathematics professor once told me that textbooks should contain

^ method_missing and assignment
144480 [clr5.10.rand] class A
+ 144482 [vjoel path.b] It's not particularly a property of method_missing--you can't even
+ 144496 [gavin refine] a.foo = ["bar","baz"];

^ Re: newby question on validation
144484 [greg.kujawa ] You should be able to access this text field's value by referring to
144488 [corti inf.et] if @params['a']['b'] != nil and @params['a']['b'].to_i < 100
144503 [ruby-ml magi] Does this work?

^ Re: * * * Please Read And/Or Print This! * * * Press [Ctrl][P] Keys On Your Keyb
144485 [porschefranz] I feel that censorship on the internet, by the C&A or whoever, is  * * * * *
144486 [porschefranz] Somehow i get the idea that there are people who try to establish censorship

^ Building a business case for Ruby
144487 [joevandyk gm] I asked this question a little bit ago, but wanted to bring it back up.
+ 144491 [bg-rubytalk ] "We don't need a Philips screwdriver, we already have a flathead".
| + 144492 [joevandyk gm] Thanks!
| | 144504 [mailinglists] They are almost the same.
| + 144498 [james_b neur] Not to be difficult, but this sort amounts to arguing that the
| + 144501 [mailinglists] You can add BMW here. Sorry if i tell you more i must shoot you.
+ 144493 [james_b neur] Mmmm.  Bias.  Not good.
| + 144497 [joevandyk gm] That would be fine, in my group.  And it would be one example when
| + 144500 [jim freeze.o] James, you seem to be right on.
+ 144499 [jim freeze.o] So, you're saying they are making judgements about Ruby without actually
| 145173 [ng johnwlong] Jim, this is a wonderful case for Ruby. Could you write it up somewhere
+ 144509 [dan eparklab] Joe,
| 144527 [dave.m email] You could try to do an experiment: ask or propose to your company a table
| 144528 [botp delmont] #Language Evaluation Table for a Test Project
+ 144531 [bob.news gmx] This indicates that for every supported technology there's quite some
+ 144532 [Stephan.Kaem] With one more language you have one more choice - which can be a good
+ 144787 [snail objmed] <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes
| + 144791 [glenn.parker] I have, and it was rather painful.  Getting the reference-counting of
| + 144802 [curt hibbs.c] I like the way that Ruby extensions appear (to a Ruby program) to be a
|   + 144821 [snail objmed] writes
|   | 144856 [surrender_it] well, but IIRC python's extensions have this bad thing that you have to
|   | 144866 [snail objmed] <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> writes
|   | 145102 [rick nooner.] I have written complex extensions for both Ruby and Python in both C and
|   + 145106 [nohmad gmail] Creating a PyTypeObject (C implementation of python class) in C needs
+ 144823 [lyndon.samso] You could, er, load ruby as a python extension...
  144830 [james_b neur] Or sneak it in with JRuby.

^ Working with WxGrid
144489 [paniagua pcm] I'm using WxGrid... Anyone knows if there is a way to eliminate the
144511 [camboris gma] you can use
144518 [paniagua pcm] Thanks! It worked just fine!

^ Teaching Ruby
144494 [joevandyk gm] Somewhat related to the other thread I just started.  In order to get
+ 144506 [eustaquioran] I'll give some impressions some weeks later.
+ 144508 [bg-rubytalk ] "Teaching" works best when you're not actually "teaching", but enabling
| 144646 [Mail Jonas-H] This is totally true.
+ 144512 [ruby.brian g] But it may be that this is the wrong audience for it.
| 144648 [Mail Jonas-H] [snip]...[/snip]
+ 144643 [marcel verni] Blocks, blocks and more blocks.

^ multiple assignments (was: method_missing and assignment)
144495 [clr5.10.rand] I should have tested the obvoius, thanks for this out.
144502 [eric_mahurin] The above isn't valid syntax because it is being parsed as an
144514 [clr5.10.rand] OK, I see.

^ Disabling comment processing with rdoc in C extensions
144507 [djberg96 hot] How do you disable comment processing with rdoc in C extensions?  In
144515 [mailing-list] nikolai

^ ANN: ShortURL 0.2.0
144520 [vfoley gmail] Hey guys,
144635 [vfoley gmail] Version 0.3.0 is out the door!  gem update now!

^ Problem with building gem, require path
144521 [djberg96 gma] Windows XP
144633 [erazor mitoc] i found that rubygems copies the libraries in the first require_path,

^ Help, how to download a binary file through Net::HTTP
144522 [eric.wenbl g] I'm new to Ruby. I want to download a binary file by Net::HTTP or other=20
+ 144525 [discordantus] require 'net/http'
+ 144530 [pan erikveen] You can't download a file. But you can download the contents of
  144563 [martindemell] A #download(source, dest) might not be such a bad addition to the API,

^ Re: AllInOneRuby 0.2.3
144529 [google erikv] Shocked?...

^ ANN: eric3 3.7.0 released
144534 [detlev die-o] this is to let all of you know about the release of eric3 3.7.0. Next to
144590 [Richard_Dale] Very nice! I think this is a pretty good advertisment for the pyqt bindings.

^ ruby-dev summary 26128-26222
144535 [aamine lover] This is a summary of ruby-dev ML in these days.
144547 [aredridel nb] My first thought is that the optparse API is much nicer -- it could be
+ 144553 [michael.camp] ropt looks more like what I'm used to in the unix world; I think
+ 144554 [djberg96 gma] I concur.  Folks would do well to take a look at Perl's Getopt::Std and
| 144555 [michael.camp] ?  perl's getopt::Std looks pretty much like what ropt looks like... no?
+ 144556 [drbrain segm] What I like about optparse is that it is so simple to get a usage
| 144576 [lorisx gmail] I don't think so. It seems to me you can leave out a great quantity of
| 144582 [drbrain segm] $ cat x.rb
| 144585 [lorisx gmail] Sure, if -s is sufficient for your purposes.
| 144587 [drbrain segm] Exactly, when -s is sufficient, optparse is overkill.  When it is
+ 144744 [nobu.nokada ] ropts also is nice enough as OO-style, and closer to getopts,

^ [ANN] RubyWebDialogs 0.2.0
144536 [pan erikveen] I just released version 0.2.0 of RubyWebDialogs.
+ 144539 [dave.m email] uau!
+ 144550 [mvondung gma] Thanks for that, too. It's actually exactly what I needed for a tiny,

^ Converting variable-length binary value
144545 [B.Candler po] I'm sure there ought to be a Ruby function to do this, but I've been
+ 144546 [discordantus] You're on the right track... It looks like you're just doing too much
+ 144596 [B.Candler po] irb(main):006:0> 1234.to_s(16)

^ AllInOneRuby 0.2.3 on SunOS?
144548 [xeno eskimo.] Say, my ISP, Eskimo.com, is decidedly not into installing new software
144552 [mailinglists] Change your ISP !

^ Calling a procedure with dinamyc name
144557 [paniagua pcm] I'm using Kirbybase database and it has the peculiar way to access
+ 144558 [sera fhwang.] field = 'client_id'
| 144559 [paniagua pcm] For the the Kirbybase it seems like the right option.  As for the other
| 144561 [sera fhwang.] You could look at either Object#methods or Object#respond_to? depending
+ 144560 [mrcode netro] field = 'client_id'
  144562 [paniagua pcm] Thanks!  I think that for Kirbybase I will get the method using the

^ Question about string's in-place modification
144564 [sam.s.kong g] I wonder how destructive methods work in the behind.
+ 144566 [gfb tonesoft] Just look into string.c in Ruby distribution. It's open source, after
+ 144570 [dblack wobbl] The references aren't the same as memory pointers, though.  They're a
+ 144571 [cyclists nc.] Don't think of an object's id as a memory address. Think of it as a
+ 144575 [mailinglists] puts s #->>'12three45'