172569-180298

^ fails to start webrick
172569 [voice10 gmai] I'm trying to setup ruby and rails. I've installed ruby and the rails
172602 [voice10 gmai] thx a lot. It worked.

^ Re: Making screenshots with Ruby
172573 [rubydevelopm] Cheers,
172624 [anne wjh.har] I think the rubycocoa example simpleapp does that, you could look at
172878 [guest guest.] Unfortunately cacao is for mac, and the RMagick function is for x
172882 [guest guest.] Oh and forgot to add - I'm using them later with RMagick, so I'd want
+ 173288 [bww00amdahl ] I would be interestde in how you solved this
+ 173313 [cyclists nc.] There are a couple of ways to construct an RMagick image without reading

^ Getting the color of a pixel
172581 [ruby-forum i] 1. How do I get the color of a specific pixel? (By giving it the
172582 [rubydevelopm] Image.crop(x, y, width, height)

^ Re: The Expert Ruby Programmer
172588 [csferrell gm] ...
172599 [basi_lio hot] Ruby for Rails looks like the book that will satisfy my current
172621 [gregory.t.br] Yes.
+ 172640 [basi_lio hot] Thanks. Got that book. David Black's book, as I gather, is about how to
| 172649 [bob.news gmx] It's not easy to answer: the easy part is the one about Ruby idioms (see
| 172684 [dan danshafe] I come out of the world of Smalltalk (with lots of frustrating stops
| 172729 [basi_lio hot] Dan,
| + 172737 [wilsonb gmai] That's the immanent quintessential property known as 'What The User
| | + 172742 [leavengood g] Hehehe, that is certainly true, but really I think when it comes to
| | | 172743 [james_b neur] Ah, but an 80-year-old who can *kick ass* in Ruby!
| | | 172753 [perrin apoth] . . . like O Sensei, aka Morihei Ueshiba.
| | | + 172759 [jeremy chaos] Ruby, the official language of Aikido?
| | | | 172875 [perrin apoth] That works for me.  I love 'em both.
| | | + 172765 [bob.news gmx] Didn't know O Sensei was doing Ruby...  If I'm not mistaken he died before
| | | | + 172774 [runlevel7 gm] I used to, and need to get back into it.  Might be a good New Year's
| | | | + 172777 [slitt earthl] I do Tai Kwon Code
| | | | | 172788 [bob.news gmx] Ts ts ts - these martial arts spring into existence like flowers on a
| | | | + 172793 [jason.sweat ] 4 years in college.  3 more years about 10 after that.  Our dojo shut
| | | | | 172838 [webbsj mac.c] 15 years here.  The dojo is a short walk from my house :)
| | | | | 172876 [perrin apoth] I've got a similar situation with a Krav Maga and Kapop studio near me.
| | | | + 172970 [jeremy chaos] I used to.  Reached blue belt.
| | | + 172786 [webbsj mac.c] Okay, now that is interesting.  I had no idea O'Sensei was a fan of
| | |   172877 [perrin apoth] Okay, that's twice so far I've seen someone say something like this.
| | |   172894 [perrin apoth] Now.  I now return you.  Sheesh.
| | + 172750 [dan danshafe] Yes, and the variation on that theme, "What the programmer saw at 3
| + 172749 [dan danshafe] Very kind of you to say, basi...and for that matter to remember me! I
+ 172690 [slitt earthl] I have a big problem with a few sentences in the preceding URL. Or at least as
  + 172695 [james graypr] One of the design points of Rails is, "Convention over
  + 172697 [ryansobol gm] I've actually used Rails in a few side projects and I have a
    172718 [slitt earthl] Thanks Ryan,
    172719 [dan danshafe] FWIW, I'm a newby to Ruby but I've worked with several other Web
    172722 [slitt earthl] With a recommendation like that I have only one option -- I ordered both the
    172727 [perrin apoth] I have the hardcopy.  I haven't navigated through the whole thing yet,

^ Re: global rb_funcall
172589 [ruby-forum-r] All of the global methods become singleton methods of
+ 172595 [SimonKroeger] I was thinking of that possibility and dismissed the thought because
+ 172610 [nobuyoshi.na] They are private instance methods of Object.

^ Forwardable  -- :[]   -- :@what
172591 [warrens actc] Reading about Forwardable I was shocked to see strange symbol-looking notations I'd never
+ 172592 [james graypr] Symbols are really just immutable Strings.  Not too much magic
+ 172593 [ruby-forum-r] just like the quotes in 'something' indicates that variable

^ Q: easy raspell install under Windows?
172596 [mark.watson ] The raspell Ruby wrapper for the ASPELL utility is very easy to install

^ writing to a file converting it needs a thread ?
172597 [pere.noel la] i have a small script building an xml string and, afterwards, i need to
172601 [patrick.fern] From your snippet it looks like you need to be calling .close (if
172631 [pere.noel la] ok, it's flush doing the job in my case, many thanks ;-)

^ eBay4R availability announcement
172600 [gdolley gmai] I'd like to announce the availability of eBay4R v0.5.1 alpha, a

^ nntp-client
172604 [uwe.schmitt ] I'm looking for a nntp-client module. I used google but found
+ 172605 [ilias lazari] ...
+ 172606 [ilias lazari] ...

^ test from rforum
172608 [   no no.com] testing...
172609 [shadarach gm] it made it :P

^ Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners
172611 [pfharlock ya] This is probably something everyone in here already knows about, but I
+ 172613 [caldridge gm] that scenerio.
+ 172614 [pergesu gmai] Or you can use the tools designed for finding stuff :)
| + 172615 [botp delmont] Gary Watson [mailto:pfharlock@yahoo.com]
| + 172618 [pfharlock ya] I apologize for using a brain dead example.  I was more excited about the
| | 172620 [shadarach gm] I know Im a n00b, but I think more than anything, its good to see you so
| + 172622 [james_b neur] Assuming you are on a machine with find, xargs, and grep, as opposed to
| | 172710 [dca.gis gmai] Great!
| + 172646 [reinder verl] <810a540e0512262005s3e4c971bl2f2915954c34965f@mail.gmail.com>,
| | 172665 [chneukirchen] Know an OS where that is allowed?
| | 172666 [mail wbh.org] NT 4 kernel mode API is quite happy with \0 in filenames. But it *really*
| | 172691 [chneukirchen] So you need to pass the filename size all over?  Ugh. :P
| + 172663 [mail wbh.org] find . -regex '.*\.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1000 grep Hello
| + 172664 [stefan.walk ] et@adel:/tmp/rb$ touch 'foo bar.txt'
+ 172616 [nobuyoshi.na] ruby -ne 'BEGIN{ARGV.replace(Dir[ARGV.join("\0")])}; print if /Hello/' '**/*.txt'
+ 172617 [ara.t.howard] ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| e =~ /a.rb/}  '
  + 172619 [caldridge gm] Ara, I always love your examples! :-)  Please keep contributing to the
  + 172623 [phil pricom.] Ara,
  | 172677 [ara.t.howard] then you probably don't have any files named 'a.rb' under the current
  | 172681 [dblack wobbl] Or abrb, or acrb, or airbag, or....  :-)
  | 172683 [ara.t.howard] ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| test ?f, e and e =~ /^a\.rb$/}  '
  | 172686 [dblack wobbl] I was just obliquely pointing out the lack of ^ and \. and $ :-)  But
  + 172641 [dblack wobbl] We've strayed a little from the original thing, but along those lines
    172642 [m.fellinger ] charset="iso-8859-1"

^ The above solutions share a problem
172612 [elisabeth.ma] require 'date'

^ SOAP + HTTP Authentication
172625 [nodrew gmail] Hey,
178474 [nakahiro sar] Sorry for late reply.
178485 [oliver.andri] Well, if you have installed http-access2 it actually does basic auth.
180288 [nodrew gmail] Yeah, I ended up discovering http-access2 a little while back. It defintely
180298 [nodrew gmail] Just a quick follow up. I just noticed that it appears that Soap4r is

^ can't figure out what's wrong
172626 [ether.sa gma] I'm reading the why's ruby guide, and i've retyped a class in the guide

^ can't figure out what's wrong
172627 [ether.sa gma] I'm reading the why's ruby guide, and i've retyped a class in the guide
+ 172628 [ether.sa gma] class Rabbit < Creature
+ 172632 [pit capitain] Erik, there are some typos in your code. See below.
  172637 [ether.sa gma] Thank you for the help. Guess I'm just tired and didn't notice all the
  172734 [ronjeffries ] When typing in a program that has been provided, typos in Ruby can be

^ [ANN] ruby-dipus 0.1.2
172629 [ilmari.heikk] DIPUS - Distributed IPC by Proxying UNIX Sockets================================================Sockets with user authentication, file permissions, encryption,service discovery and network transparent addressing.
172635 [pgquiles elp] Wow, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
172705 [ilmari.heikk] Thank you for trying it out, let me know if / when you find bugs ;)

^ escape sequences for } { and $ in gsub
172630 [cryptoj yaho] I've found an older thread regarding escape sequences and gsub - but I
172633 [lists ramil.] is this what you need?

^ Re: Mac OS Roma to UTF-8 (Kconv | Iconv]
172636 [pbattley gma] Not necessarily. Just make sure that the encoding is specified in your
172648 [pere.noel la] ok, thanks very much, that's working right nox !!!
172659 [chneukirchen] You got the encodings in the wrong order here.  It's TO, FROM.
172661 [pere.noel la] you're right thanks )))

^ [ANN] (Real) Primitive Ruby Generics support
172638 [isaac.devine] I have been hacking away to create a simple library that adds
+ 172643 [dblack wobbl] Call classes classes, not types :-)
| 172660 [james graypr] Just to be clear, the original post wasn't inventing terminology, it
+ 172673 [surrender_it] I think you could be intererested in the StrongTyping module
+ 172772 [florgro gmai] New ideas are very welcome.
  172923 [isaac.devine] Thanks! I've quickly looked at the ruby-doc for that. It's seems to
  + 172961 [bob.news gmx] That's not generics but overloading.  I'm sorry, but with these things it's
  | 173107 [ilmari.heikk] Maybe this is because these features are found to be useful.
  + 172963 [dblack wobbl] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
  + 172982 [florgro gmai] Hm, actually it provides a way of using unit tests for checking types,
    172989 [dblack wobbl] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
    173014 [florgro gmai] I guess I should have said static typing. Though that is not exclusive

^ rubygems win32 error with ruby 1.8.4 (final)
172639 [simonharriso] mentioned in the 'how to install' section. all seems fine except
+ 172755 [simonharriso] or does someone have a link to the preview3 of ruby 1.8.4? i'm pretty
| 172926 [tom infoethe] Yours,
+ 172758 [vanek acd.ne] you may just need to set a few environmental variables to
  172807 [simonharriso] well, it was a blasted dll issue. i love windows! long live microsuck

^ ruby command -- bash readline completion
172650 [dharple gene] I have put together some basic bash readline completion for ruby.

^ Blunyx game library for Ruby
172653 [setrodox use] I'm very new at Ruby, and I like it very much. :)
+ 172655 [hawkman.gelo] great!
| + 172656 [setrodox use] Thanks :)
| | 172657 [merkoth gmai] wow, I'm really looking forward to it. Good luck with your project Alexander n_n
| + 172903 [julian rasch] Hey,
|   + 173055 [setrodox use] np about going OT
|   + 173060 [james graypr] For me, it's native Mac OS X support.
|     173061 [julian rasch] ...which already works on the iBook I'm using right now, all that has to
|     173113 [james graypr] Ah great, I didn't know that.  Sounds like the docs are definitely
+ 172671 [setrodox use] Where should the coordinate (0,0) be? Like in many other 2d engines at
  172672 [hawkman.gelo] i'd say top-left, or center (which might be useful in sin/cos-drawings..)
  172678 [setrodox use] I'll let the user decide, standard is top-left now. Center as (0,0) is a

^ [MacOS X] RubyAEOSA and Address Book
172654 [pere.noel la] i'm trying RubyAEOSA with Address Book, it works great and much more

^ Setting the mouse position
172658 [guest guest.] How can I set the mouse position? So change the mouse to a specified
172688 [leavengood g] I assume you are asking about Microsoft Windows. This is a very

^ irb and tab key in Mac OS X
172668 [rjseagraves ] Not sure if this is a readline issue or an irb issue, so I'll venture
+ 172669 [rjseagraves ] Nevermind on the first question, just found the solution in the list archives.
+ 172679 [ryansobol gm] charset=US-ASCII;

^ RRobots (#59) [Solution]
172675 [horndude77 g] Here's my robot solution. I still have some problems that I couldn't

^ Last call for [QUIZ] RRobots (#59)
172676 [SimonKroeger] the very last deadline is getting close!

^ RRobots (#59) [Solution]
172680 [vacindak gma] Here's my solution for the RRobots challenge... kinda right down to

^ Fwd: RRobots (#59) [Solution]
172687 [jannis harde] charset=US-ASCII;

^ [QUIZ][SOLUTION] RRobots (#59)
172689 [warrenbrown ] charset="US-ASCII"

^ How do I sign up for the rails list?
172693 [slitt earthl] How do I sign up for the rails list?
172694 [marcel verni] (google: rails list)

^ (none)
172696 [stewartchen ] unsubscribe

^ Solution to quiz #59, since my post to the NG does not seem to have made it through
172703 [stefan.walk ] i posted my solution to the NG comp.lang.ruby and CC'ed Simon, but it
172704 [SimonKroeger] I can confirm that your robot reached my mailbox 8 minutes before deadline.

^ gem and ruby extension
172708 [guslist free] I created a gem for a ruby C extension. Compiling the gem and
172712 [jim weirichh] Ruby is able to find libraries installed via RubyGems only after the
172717 [guslist free] Thanks for you quick answer. But I forgot to mention that I already have
+ 172725 [guslist free] My fault. rb_mark doesn't exists, rb_gc_mark is want I wanted. What
+ 172726 [pere.noel la] export RUBYOPT=rubygems
  172728 [guslist free] Actually, both work. AFAIK, rubygems is the official name of the library
  172751 [pere.noel la] thanks for your input that makes my setup clearer to me ))

^ Variable Dump
172709 [dsmorey gmai] I'd like to know how to grab a dump of all variable associated with a
+ 172713 [bob.news gmx] You would have to walk up the call stack to get locals of surrounding
+ 172723 [vanek acd.ne] this clumsy script gets you part of the way there.

^ Medical APIs
172711 [tdjordan gma] Are there any ruby libraries or hooks into the medial apis out there?
+ 173347 [ammon.christ] What are the medical apis for.  I might be interested.
| 173411 [tdjordan gma] DICOM is the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
+ 173619 [daniel voelk] interested in such libraries too. If I had some more sparetime, I'll try

^ Embed ruby inside rubycocoa app?
172715 [ezmobius gma] Hey there list-

^ dl/loader ptr issue
172716 [bmc shmoo.co] charset=US-ASCII;
172763 [ttate ttsky.] How about using "ptr" instead of "ptr.ref"?
172785 [bmc shmoo.co] Thanks!

^ Command-line option parsing
172721 [sdn.girths00] Greetings,
+ 172724 [vanek acd.ne] i like CommandLine::OptionParser
| 172771 [jim freeze.o] Yikes.
| 172791 [bob.news gmx] Will there be stunt scenes with options and a high speed car chase?
| 172795 [jim freeze.o] It will be action packed. There will be trains, rubies
+ 172739 [meta pobox.c] Well, what do you expect from an options parser?  It's pretty much a
| 172879 [sdn.girths00] Well... that's not *bad*, but I guess I had expected something a bit more
| 172943 [gsinclair gm] That's a good expectation to have.
+ 172764 [bob.news gmx] I used to use GetopLong in the beginning but switched to OptionParser.
  + 172776 [slitt earthl] Does OptionParser come with standard Ruby?
  + 172883 [sdn.girths00] I disagree about the example being all you need.
    + 172897 [jim freeze.o] You may want to give CommandLine a try.
    + 172945 [gsinclair gm] Please disregard my other reply in this thread.  Your points are
    | 172951 [djberg96 gma] How's that shell documentation coming along?
    | 172964 [gsinclair gm] Not too well, just yet!
    + 172957 [bob.news gmx] It seems to me that your posting pretty much confirms what I said: I didn't

^ Is there an easy way to extend an object?
172730 [cohen.jeff g] Given an object, is there a clean way of creating a new object that
+ 172731 [dblack wobbl] def obj.new_method
| 172733 [cohen.jeff g] That worked great!  Thanks.
| 172768 [bob.news gmx] Just for the sake of completeness: if you are not allowed to modify the
| 172781 [cohen.jeff g] Now that is also really cool.  Ruby is my first "dynamic" language and
+ 172748 [dan danshafe] Jeff.....

^ [OT] Latin! (was Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby)
172732 [pabs pablotr] [snipped]
172745 [slitt earthl] E rubimus codimus
172752 [perrin apoth] Carpe rubium.
172761 [alang cronos] Quondo Omni Flunkus Utor Ruby

^ How to upgrade Ruby
172746 [slitt earthl] My Mandrake 10.0 (don't laugh, I've been slow to upgrade) has Ruby 1.8.1. I
172747 [collinsj sea] charset="iso-8859-1"

^ Ruby Weekly News 19th - 25th December 2005
172756 [timsuth ihug] Ruby Weekly News 19th - 25th December 2005

^ for cms based website
172757 [gouthamsidar] can anybody know whether ruby scripts can be used for cms based website
+ 172760 [m.fellinger ] charset="iso-8859-1"
+ 172769 [twifkak comc] and somewhat relatedly: http://atomicobject.com/systir.page