170787-176139

^ Is ruby dbi still in development?
170787 [capitain gma] The lastest version of ruby's dbi is build at 2003-09-07, 2 years ago
171137 [capitain gma] Thanks for your reply and I appreciate your work for providing this lib
171144 [gregory.t.br] I am running into a lot of issues with this too.
171157 [capitain gma] TIME column error
+ 171170 [gregory.t.br] Neat.
+ 171174 [khaines enig] There is a variety of broken time/date handling that I have completed or

^ Dynamically adding methods to a Ruby class
170798 [drjflam gmai] I just finished writing the first spike for my Ruby CLR bridge tonight, and
170808 [ruby-forum-r] Not really, except for using define_method (which has
170820 [brian.takita] This isn't quite as cool as a prototype, but here is another possible type
170823 [brian.takita] Oops...

^ Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_
170806 [ruby-forum-r] First, one more congratulatory note: congrats! :)

^ Re: can someone improve on this multiple inheritence methodo
170807 [ruby-forum-r] Well.. #include :)
170810 [ara.t.howard] i like mix!
170813 [dblack wobbl] But self.superclass == SomeModule won't be true, nor will anything
170815 [ara.t.howard] not sure about that... module appear in ancesors and work like everything

^ [ANN] Instant Rails 1.0 preview7 -- with Typo!
170816 [curt.hibbs g] My apologies to all who downloaded preview6, it did not contain Rails 1.0 a=
+ 170817 [ml.chibbs gm] Wait about an hour before trying to download. This will give the
+ 172413 [no spam.plea] Curt,
  172418 [ml.chibbs gm] I think this same problem is happenning with the cookbook app.

^ Re: iniciante
170826 [ricardo.dapa] O meu portugues nao e muito bom pois ja vivo no exterior a muitos anos.
171061 [eustaquioran] Oi!

^ (nessun oggetto)
170832 [spago_ok ema] Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f

^ Ruby Hash wierdness
170833 [kevin.jackso] I'm having problems with using a hash.  I put in a class and when I

^ treating 'string'+var as method
170837 [bmg2x yahoo.] I am a new Ruby recruit (thanks to *ahem*, Rails)..

^ Re: Did the numbers for this list get reset?
170950 [matz ruby-la] Somehow a file contains sequence number corrupted on 2005-12-15
171064 [nobuyoshi.na] Old articles 1-112 were lost?  Seems blade has lost them too.
171183 [mental rydia] Ugh... probably because they were "overwritten" by the mis-numbered
+ 171190 [gwtmp01 mac.] for the moment they are in the google cache...
| 171194 [nightphotos ] I should have backups of all these articles.  I can check when I get
| 171276 [nightphotos ] I do have backups of all these files, as .htm files that I used 'net/http'
+ 171229 [chneukirchen] .oO(can this be exploited by faking the X-Mail-Count number?)
  + 171234 [mental rydia] So long as this message doesn't have a Mail-Count of 10101010, we're OK.
  + 171236 [mental rydia] Possibly... it looks like the listserv doesn't strip existing
    171238 [mental rydia] (the archives are okay, since they ignore all but the first)

^ Re: Assigning a block to a variable in Ruby
170951 [erlercw gmai] It's a Kernel (which has a bunch of generally useful methods, like
+ 170995 [mreed theree] That's because there's no automatic correlation between the class Proc and the
| + 170997 [mreed theree] More specifically: in Ruby, unlike Python and JavaScript, methods are *not*
| | 171011 [martindemell] Actually, what I meant was that ruby does not store the source code of
| + 170999 [dblack wobbl] Except... they're not quite identical, and actually as of RubyConf
|   + 171000 [mental rydia] a = lambda { |p| WScript.Echo(p) }
|   + 171043 [gwtmp01 mac.] This is an area that has been a bit fuzzy for me.
|     171132 [dblack wobbl] And for many of us :-)
|     + 171141 [ajmayo my-de] Technically, Ruby is really an 'incremental compiler'. That there is no
|     | + 171177 [sethrasmusse] Then... possibly you should add such clarifications if yours are in
|     | | 171186 [gwtmp01 mac.] I assume you mean Ruby garden (http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby)?
|     | | 171201 [perrin apoth] "Possibly Wikipedia could benefit from some clarification in its
|     | + 171270 [jeff schwabc] Don't forget "dynamic translation," a la Smalltalk.  Code is compiled
|     + 171149 [gwtmp01 mac.] Thanks for the clarifications Dave.  I wonder if some sort of
+ 171076 [collinsj sea] This is a known issue with 1.8.3. The docs for Kernel are missing...

^ [OT] credit card processing
170952 [sillewille g] Sorry this is so far off topic, but there are a lot of smart,
+ 170972 [perrin apoth] If you're starting from zero with low-traffic implementation, I'd say
| 170987 [sillewille g] Is your PayPal business account hooked to a personal checking account
| 170998 [perrin apoth] It's connected to a personal checking account.
+ 171003 [snacktime gm] Granted my opinion is biased as I work for a payment processor, but if

^ Re: challenge - regex which matches nothing
170955 [rforum gmail] %r/\z\A/ ?
+ 170956 [erlercw gmai] /\1/ seems to work.
| + 170960 [ara.t.howard] hmmm.  seems to work.  clever.
| + 170963 [ara.t.howard] you win the golf contest i think... that seems to be the shortest possible...
|   170964 [bob_showalte] /.^/
|   170965 [ara.t.howard] it's 'smaller' too...
|   170967 [perrin apoth] . . . and "cuter".
+ 170961 [ara.t.howard] close

^ Sub Hashes
170962 [jaco neottia] Say i have a hash representing a book index (keys are strings,

^ Sub Hashes
170966 [jaco neottia] Say i have a hash representing a book index (keys are strings,

^ Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_
170969 [ptkwt aracne] I'm not necessarily talking about 'learning programming for programming's
170973 [ptkwt aracne] Exactly, or different little books like the Pragmatic folks are doing.  GUI
170975 [ptkwt aracne] I guess I'm pushing for this shift of focus in The Ruby Way because it's
+ 170977 [ptkwt aracne] Sorry for replying twice, but I wanted to get to this idea of translating
| 170983 [gavri.fernan] The Pragmatic Programmers are doing it
+ 170980 [phurley gmai] Shifting the focus of the thread a little bit, but what would your
| + 170984 [agorilla gma] I _really_ like that list.
| | 171006 [james_b neur] I'm not arguing for Hal to change the direction of the book, just
| | + 171014 [gavri.fernan] The book is called "Ruby for Rails" and the subtitle is "The Ruby you
| | | 171036 [dblack wobbl] Hmmm... that subtitle is actually a bit off: it's "Ruby techniques for
| | | 171044 [hal9000 hype] Probably so. Those were longer than I intended in the first place.
| | + 171077 [hal9000 hype] Agreed! I am eager to get my hands on that. I think it will be a
| + 171128 [hgs dmu.ac.u] * Integration Testing
+ 171049 [hal9000 hype] I am very appreciative of your comments, but this isn't going to be that book.
  + 171054 [hal9000 hype] I don't think the publisher has any plan of such. In fact,
  | 171062 [agorilla gma] I'm sure you know all of this, but just the same...
  | + 171066 [pat.eyler gm] It might also be worth pointing out that other programmers are doing
  | | 171072 [ruby-ml magi] I would say the best approach would be to introduce ruby idioms
  | | 171126 [hal9000 hype] Haha... thanks for the vote of confidence, but I don't necessarily
  | + 171083 [james_b neur] * In contrast to offering a free online version (if even only prior to
  |   + 171090 [kevin.jackso] I think that the problem here is that with digital content of any kind,
  |   + 171139 [agorilla gma] Without a doubt, it would, but I think it would be a tough sell to
  |     + 171158 [james_b neur] I've had authors tell me they would never again offer a book for free
  |     | 171181 [adam.s covad] I find that having a print book does several things for me: It lets me
  |     + 171198 [perrin apoth] I tend to think that a reduction in future sales isn't so much what
  + 172797 [warrens actc] Here on the ruby-talk list we've all gone through the pickaxe book and I've gone through
    + 172803 [james_b neur] Doubtful.  There are newcomers on this list all the time, people who may
    | 172872 [perrin apoth] I second that -- especially since, though I've gone through most of the
    + 172823 [rosco roscop] Still waiting to get my hands on the print version though (just as soon as

^ Re: [(not so)OT] credit card processing
170971 [aredridel nb] Nothing but good experiences with authorize.net here.
170989 [sillewille g] What do you mean by "clearing with a ruby script shortly"?  What all

^ Re: system() failed with $?==32512
170979 [adam.shelly ] The exit codes are set by the program that you were called with

^ Re: rdoc -> pdf
170982 [gregory.t.br] Ugh. This sounds like something that may need to go into Ruport.  I

^ Re: setting serial port settings
170985 [adam.shelly ] I don't know if you can do it directly from ruby, but you can use a
170991 [levin grunde] `stty -echo raw ospeed 38400 ispeed 38400 < /dev/ttyS0`

^ Re: system() failed with $?==32512 <SOLVED>
170986 [bob_showalte] Note that 32512 is 127 << 8.

^ Advanced Ruby Book (was [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_)
170988 [pat.eyler gm] I can't speak to order either, but I'd love to see a chapter on
+ 170992 [martindemell] And one on distribution and IPC in the most general sense (Drb, shared
+ 171007 [ptkwt aracne] good list.
  171010 [pat.eyler gm] I'd love to see a more in-depth look at unit testing.   (In fact, it wouldn't
  171015 [james graypr] Yeah, the Prags have a Java and C# version of their volume don't
  171643 [dave pragpro] ...
  171843 [drosihn gmai] Well, that was succinct, but I'm not quite sure what you wanted

^ Re: Detect Browser Dimension
171005 [akonsu gmail] CGI is a code that executes on the server. the server does not know
171050 [collinsj sea] One way to do this would be to use Javascript's screen.width and
171073 [adam.s covad] A more modern approach would be to use an AJAX request to send the

^ Re: adding any <text/> to a rexml doc (bump)
171013 [clr10.10.ran] I am not sure, what you want to do, but perhaps
171035 [ara.t.howard] element.text =
+ 171070 [ruby-ml magi] Perhaps it is time to try Builder or htree? :)
| 171094 [ara.t.howard] i can't stand the builder api.  htree is good - but i'm not looking for a
| 171096 [ruby-ml magi] Very nice! (Well, sans underscores:)
| 171097 [ara.t.howard] glad you like the look of it.  i struggled with the underscore thing and
+ 171081 [ezra yakima-] Ahh thats what the non matching regex was for...
  171095 [ara.t.howard] caught in the act... mine worked.. but it wasn't nice looking ;-)

^ [SOLUTION] Kalah (#58)
171030 [horndude77 g] I know this is a bit late, but I've been trying to train my neural net.
+ 171065 [dbalmain.ml ] Dude, nice work. I really must take a closer look later on.
+ 171068 [ezra yakima-] Wow!

^ $-variables and regexp
171032 [akonsu gmail] if i indeed want to start using MatchData instead of the "warts" such
+ 171028 [neil hakubi.] puts 'a-b-c-'.gsub(/(.)-/) { |str| str + '_' }
| 171029 [akonsu gmail] i think this is incorrect. id appends an underscore. i need to replace
| 171027 [neil hakubi.] Ah, sorry, mis-read what yours did.
+ 171052 [james graypr] The MatchData object is also placed in a global variable, but I won't
+ 171058 [florgro gmai] puts 'a-b-c-'.gsub(/(.)-/) { Regexp.last_match[1] + '_' }

^ Hey Rubyistas!
171033 [rcs bgoark.n] Hey all Ruby folks!
171131 [zoso foton.e] htm

^ Re: repeated regular expressions -- Need addition to Matchdata
171048 [drosihn gmai] This does happen to solve my specific example, but...
171102 [w_a_x_man ya] Looks like a logical and natural extension.  Until it's added, perhaps

^ Re: LDAP from ruby
171053 [heron jpl.na] I've had no trouble with ruby, openldap libs and gcc from cygwin.

^ Re: Easy Duck-Typing
171071 [ruby-ml magi] The smallest set of methods that are required for a

^ Emacs mode question: backward-sexp & forward-sexp for begin..end
171074 [lists zara.6] Is there a Ruby Emacs mode where I can do M-C-b (backward-sexp) and
171297 [g_ogata optu] Does C-M-n / C-M-p do what you want?
171356 [lists zara.6] Why yes, thank you! I should've checked for ruby-* functions first, doh.

^ Ruby tail recursion
171075 [mark.ericson] In another thread someone mentioned tail recursion doesn't work right
171079 [ruby-ml magi] The current interpreter does not do tail-recursion optimization.
+ 171108 [johannes.fri] Here's a somewhat lengthy explanation. Well, you asked for it :)
| 171109 [johannes.fri] def tailrec_max(arr, i=0, best=-Infinity)
+ 171111 [collinsj sea] charset="iso-8859-1"
| + 171197 [mark.ericson] Thanks, I get it now!   Some languages will generate code that won't
| + 171199 [ruby-forum-r] I really only call it 'tail-recursion optimization'
| + 171205 [johannes.fri] I agree that it's not (just) optimization in the sense of 'runs
| + 171215 [kyosuke sezn] Well, what about this, for example?
|   + 171280 [collinsj sea] charset="iso-8859-1"
|   | 171303 [surrender_it] parser,
|   | 171311 [chneukirchen] IIRC, YARV already supports reusing the current stack frame for calls
|   + 171282 [neil hakubi.] Good point.  Tail-call recursion is just a form of recursion that's easy
|     + 171283 [hal9000 hype] Well, my take is this. If you happen to write recursive code, and it
|     + 171304 [surrender_it] well, but maybe it could be nice to write iterators in a recursive way, i.e
+ 171389 [justin.w.smi] The reason that tail recursion is "important" is that functional
  171399 [gwtmp01 mac.] I hope people do realize that they can change the
  + 171416 [surrender_it] IIRC ruby 1.9 even has Process.setrlimit as a builtin, not sure about
  + 171557 [pit capitain] @i = 0

^ Re: Help with fcgi installation
171098 [francisv.lis] I have XCode 2.1 installed already. Where do I find the location of
171188 [ruby-forum-r] I do not know how OSX works, so try the *x way;
171466 [francisv.lis] Thanks Eero, I was able to install it finally.

^ How come I get two e-mails?
171099 [francisv.lis] How come I get two e-mails everytime I post here?
171100 [mike.douglas] Gmail includes your sent message in the conversation view and theruby-talk mailing list daemon sends one to all list members (includingyou). Nothing to worry about.
+ 171101 [francisv.lis] Hmm.. I thought it was a mailing list "feature" of some sort. Thanks Mike!
+ 171107 [l.d.u.n.c.a.] should this question be added to the comp.lang.ruby FAQ do you think? it
  171125 [chrisgame ex] ....to which the answer would be, use the newsgroup not the mail
  + 171130 [gregory.t.br] That's a little... no... incredibly steep considering the situation.
  | 171241 [gdonald gmai] Nor is this issue present on all list serves.  I do not see this
  | 171244 [gregory.t.br] so is this an issue with USENET groups and Gmail?
  | 171267 [jonsmirl gma] I think this this is a problem in the FML mailer. I am subscribed to
  | 171269 [jonsmirl gma] I also don't think FML should be setting a Reply-To: header.  If it
  + 171200 [perrin apoth] No . . . to which the answer would be: "Use something other than Gmail,

^ [ANN] scoped_require 0.0
171103 [twifkak comc] ... and from the substratum, it arises ...
171119 [ mfp acm.org] You also dislike alias_method, don't you? ;-)
171135 [twifkak comc] I tried to pollute the namespace as little as possible. (And then I

^ nonblocking TCPSocket in multithread software.
171112 [arto.pastine] Why this blocks?
+ 171115 [arto.pastine] It seems work if i lock thread.. funny.. :)
| 171117 [arto.pastine] pah.. now it just dont do nothing..
| 171129 [arto.pastine] .. sad .. huoh..
| 171176 [billk cts.co] My version of Ruby (1.8.2) doesn't have the #nonblock method.
| 171476 [arto.pastine] I try your example, and well it works little better but it is not what
| 171479 [akr m17n.org] How do you multiplex I/O?  IO.select?
| 171482 [arto.pastine] ah.. the magic select.. :)
+ 171256 [ysantoso-rub] I expect it to block. All IO's buffered I/O methods (puts, prints, read, write,
  171262 [akr m17n.org] Agreed.
  171266 [ara.t.howard] i respectfully suggest, to matz, that this should not stand in the way.  this
  171353 [akr m17n.org] matz?

^ Debugging intermittent FastCGI failure
171118 [pbattley gma] it's fast, responsive, and reasonably light on the processors.
171143 [ara.t.howard] when the processes begin to hang attach to them using stract/pstrace.  this
171247 [pbattley gma] Thanks for the ideas.  strace seems very helpful, and I'm trying it

^ how get data from xls document?
171120 [keal21 mail.] how get data from excel document (*.xls) without using win32ole?
+ 171136 [anne wjh.har] I used matlab. In my case the mac version could only read documents
+ 171148 [gene.tani gm] Haven't done it, google for
| 171185 [janchrister.] cheers
+ 171322 [dan eparklab] Keal,
| 171352 [dca.gis gmai] You could also try to port perl's excellent Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
+ 176139 [info jayeola] Hey, This is very useful :) What other output encodings are available.

^ (nessun oggetto)
171122 [spago_ok ema] unsubscribe francesco pugliese

^ (nessun oggetto)
171123 [spago_ok ema] unsubscribe

^ [QUIZ] RRobots (#59)
171134 [james graypr] 1.  Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until
+ 171147 [peter.thoman] Is there a limit on the amount of time the tick() method may take? I can
| + 171151 [novakps gmai] Are team entries permitted/forbidden?
| | 171152 [simon.kroege] Basically no, I would like to see the 'interesting stuff' and
| + 171153 [james graypr] We tried to talk these issues to death, and I knew we would still
|   171154 [simon.kroege] The tournament will be 1on1 only. If your robot has
|   171167 [ruby.brian g] I suspect he meant submitting a robot written by a team.
|   + 171191 [adam.shelly ] Figures this one comes out the day before I leave on 2 week vacation.
|   | 171193 [james graypr] James Edward Gray II
|   + 171226 [SimonKroeger] Ok, if you want to put some man weeks into a robot just go on!
+ 171294 [rretzbach go] I am so excited :>
+ 171635 [james graypr] I'm extending this date/time to 6 PM (GMT) on the 20th, to give
| 171638 [joevandyk gm] Gah, was out of town and just now saw this.  I think you should extend
| 171639 [james graypr] Simon can make the call on this.
| + 171640 [dbalmain.ml ] Sounds like someone needs to set up a league. I have no time for the
| + 171692 [james graypr] Simon gave us the green-light.  This quiz will be our first two-week
+ 171660 [ilmari.heikk] SGVyZSdzIG1pbmUsIGNvbXBsZXRlIHdpdGggbWVzc3kgYWQtaG9jIHNvbHV0aW9ucyBnYWxvcmUu
  + 171665 [botp delmont] #From: Ilmari Heikkinen [mailto:ilmari.heikkinen@gmail.com]
  + 171689 [james graypr] I think it's fine.