176841-178586

^ event multiplexing and ruby threads (was Re: Mongrel 0.1.1 )
176841 [kellan gmail] I've been meaning to ask about this as well ever since I saw you killed

^ [ANN] xx-0.1.0 : xhtml and xml make it twice as dirty
176847 [ara.t.howard] NAME
176861 [mental rydia] Out of curiousity, how does this compare with markaby?
176867 [james_b neur] Or the XML Builder in Nitro, which has a similar syntax?
176880 [ara.t.howard] hmm.  i think the implimentation is better ;-)
176894 [james_b neur] Thanks for the details.  This looks really quite slick.

^ rubycocoa embedded ruby interpreter.
176857 [ezmobius gma] rubies-
+ 176908 [scott butler] I "spiked" on this a while back. You have several options, especially
+ 177234 [jp-www dcs.g] Also, try the rubycocoa mailing list for related questions.
  177241 [ezmobius gma] Jonathan-

^ Problems loading scripts using embedded Ruby interpreter
176860 [matt.mower g] I am trying to embed the Ruby interpreter into a Cocoa application and

^ Printing RFC3339 timezone?
176870 [cool_screen_] How can I print a valid RFC3339 time zone (used by Atom)? Presumably
+ 176968 [bob_showalte] ...
+ 176969 [halostatue g] Try using Time#xmlschema.

^ How to access a attributes from the parent class?
176871 [BPaatsch act] I am new to ruby and try to figure out how inheritance works.
+ 176873 [Gennady.Byst] You must call super in WacSubProfile#initialize to invoke
| 176874 [BPaatsch act] Great :), it works!
+ 176886 [ruby-forum-r] An extra 'end' there but I assume it is just a copy-paste error.

^ still having problems with exceptions in IMAP module
176882 [r.fulton auc] I have this method defined in a program I use for checking access to

^ postgres database
176883 [tallison tac] What is the file I need to require for connection to a postgres
176887 [pergesu gmai] You need to have the postgres adapter installed.  I made a blog
177137 [groups grand] A suggestion to the wider PostgreSQL-using Ruby populace; I was
+ 177141 [tsumeruby ts] Good suggestion, but it would be platform specific. Maybe this situation would
| 177152 [groups grand] Not necessarily, I think. I just installed Postgres 8, so I don't think
| 177172 [tsumeruby ts] Have you tried the postgres-pr library? The library was brought to my
| 177175 [groups grand] Yes, some months ago, but the installation failed utterly. I don't even
| 177191 [tsumeruby ts] I see it.. "postgres-ing? Too many choices!" I don't understand how one could
| 177195 [pergesu gmai] I asked Robby Russel, who really knows his stuff when it comes to
| 177201 [tsumeruby ts] The issue is not about wether one library works better than the other. As long
| 177203 [pergesu gmai] It's not an issue?  A native adapter is going to be faster than the
| + 177207 [tsumeruby ts] well yeah, the ruby version is going to be slower.
| + 177613 [groups grand] But he wasn't responding to the original question, but rather, to MY
+ 177167 [wilsonb gmai] Personally, I just use the postgres-pr adapter, which is pure Ruby.

^ Problems compiling Ruby extension in MSVC
176885 [sriyansa gma] I am trying to compile my ruby extension under Windows with the MSVC
+ 176896 [jussij zeuse] Jussi Jumppanen
+ 177231 [jes luretank] I too have spaces in my include path, and it works ok. I thought I had to

^ local variables and threads
176891 [r.fulton auc] Is there a way to ensure that a particular variable really is local to a
+ 176893 [ruby-forum-r] Only variables prefixed with $ are global ($var and so on).
+ 176935 [bob.news gmx] I.e. provide value(s) as arguments to Thread.new and receive them as block

^ I like the new ruby-doc.org!
176899 [james graypr] Hadn't seen this mentioned here, so just wanted to say that I feel
+ 176911 [dbalmain.ml ] +1
+ 176912 [ogilthorpe d] Absolutely!  I was pleasantly surprised to find the new look when I paid
| + 176915 [joevandyk gm] I did the exact same thing.  I clicked on standard library when I
| + 176919 [james_b neur] Sunday.
|   + 176947 [damphyr free] Yeap, let me add my +1 and congrats for the new layout.
|   + 176972 [martindemell] Thanks to both of you, then :) Very nice work.
|     176976 [james_b neur] Zapping? As in using a Firefox thingy to clear colors?
|     177083 [martindemell] Yeah, there's a little javascript bookmarklet[1] I use to remove background
+ 176914 [gwtmp01 mac.] This was my first thought also.  If it had always been that way I might
+ 176918 [gregory.t.br] Yes... Very cool!
+ 176926 [surrender_it] +1, it took some time but the result is really nice, thanks to James Britt!
| 176931 [heidegger101] very cool, indeed.
| + 176932 [m.fellinger ] Hehe, look at the bottom of the page ^^
| + 176933 [tsumeruby ts] Built using Nitro http://www.nitrohq.com/
| + 176938 [ptkwt aracne] Nope, not RoR.  It says on the page (lower right-hand side) that it's powered
| + 176974 [james_b neur] This is a Nitro site.
+ 176934 [jaco neottia] +1
+ 176964 [alang cronos] Agreed, it looks great!
| + 176975 [james_b neur] Thanks.   (And thank my partners at 30 Second Rule.)
| | 176979 [alang cronos] Sure -- Is it just a time-to-deploy issue or is there additional work
| | 177045 [james_b neur] Most of the immediate work is tracking down broken links.  The site had
| | + 177046 [james graypr] Just FYI, I'm currently reading Higher-Order Perl and one of the
| | | 177049 [james_b neur] Thanks.  You realize, of course, that all geeks feel compelled to first
| | + 177047 [rdm cfcl.com] For about the same amount of effort, you could install
| | | 177051 [james_b neur] Yeah, but there's this strong compulsion to eat my own dog food.  Or
| | + 177087 [rossrt rosco] I'm coming to this late, so maybe you already discussed this, but I
| + 177048 [ng johnwlong] It's coming. I'm working full time on the project right now. It may be a
+ 177102 [zdennis mkte] I agree. The new site looks amazing! Great job to whomever did the redesign!
  177116 [james_b neur] That would be Dan Ritz of 30 Second Rule.

^ Ruby Tk - embedding widgets
176900 [info jayeola] I'm looking for a way to embed a few list and combo boxes into a single

^ NURBS evaluation toolkit in Ruby
176901 [yue_nicholas] I wish to do some computational geometry prototyping using Ruby in
176952 [Nuralanur ao] splines being polynomials

^ Metaclass confusion
176902 [krishna.vive] can someone explain this.
+ 176905 [ruby-forum-r] The traditional response is 'magick' :) While it is useful to
| + 176936 [krishna.vive] One implication I have seen is that the class definition itself is an
| | 176943 [bob.news gmx] Umm, in usual terminology objects cannot be "executed".  You can "call" or
| + 176978 [dblack wobbl] I don't think any peril is involved (though lately all discussions
+ 176906 [logancapaldo] In ruby, everything is an object. Even classes. Class inherits from
| 177015 [levin grunde] <http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/lastlyTheSinkingSymphonyVideo.html>
+ 177004 [sam.s.kong g] The following doc helped me understand Ruby object model pretty well.
  177017 [julesjacobs ] A non-circular model would be prototype based inheritance. You just
  177026 [matthew.moss] Song = Object.clone

^ Can't rescue this (http-access2)
176904 [hsanson moeg] I have a code like this
177149 [stefan mahli] a simple

^ ActiveRecord automatic quoted identifiers
176909 [jeremy.borde] Is there a way to tell ActiveRecord to automatically quote all
176982 [chneukirchen] +1.  I was once bitten by using the PostgreSQL reserved word "user" as

^ running unit tests in graphical mode
176910 [navyaamerine] I have the following program written and  when I run It comes up saying zero tests.
+ 176930 [pit capitain] require 'test/unit'
+ 177107 [nagai ai.kyu] require 'test/unit'

^ Need help with soap timeout issue
176916 [wbohl racsa.] Have a Rails 1.0 based Web Service. This service exports many method.

^ Need help with soap timeout issue
176917 [wbohl racsa.] Have a Rails 1.0 based Web Service. This service exports many method.
178586 [nakahiro sar] Hmm.  I'm afraid there is almost nothing I can say about RoR side (RoR +

^ subsequence regular expression
176920 [dizraelus ya] I'm trying to extract a certain sequence from a
+ 176925 [ajohnson cpa] s =~ /(.*?)(ba){2,}/
+ 176927 [neoneye gmai] s = "5b300ba00260bababababababababababababababababa000bd1007bd10b810ba92"
  176942 [dizraelus ya] Thanks a lot for the suggestions. This is close to
  176944 [neoneye gmai] Hmm.. the many ba's is at an odd offset.. don't you want them only at

^ Gems zlib problem
176923 [ryantate rya] I am going to echo posts scattered throughout the Internet here and say
176928 [mlbright gma] This is what worked for me.
+ 177189 [ryantate rya] Thanks, I'll give this a shot. I did install all three of those (zlibc,
| + 177192 [ryantate rya] No dice. Here's the relevant section from make, which appears to be
| | 177196 [ryantate rya] WTF? I go to compile my own zlib, so I am trying to remove zlib1g, when
| | 177202 [ryantate rya] Oh well, I'm throwing in the towel for tonight.
| | 177206 [ryantate rya] YES! Done. Done. Done!
| + 177211 [drbrain segm] Did you re-run configure?
|   177236 [ryantate rya] Most certainly. Every single time.
|   177237 [ryantate rya] Also, I ran 'make clean' each time to cleanup the prior install to make
|   177328 [vulgrin gmai] Ryan, you saved my bacon.  I was running into EXACTLY the same problem
|   177854 [rabbitblue g] ruby extconf.rb
+ 177227 [bob_showalte] Yikes! Makes me glad I run FreeBSD :-)

^ Trixy abbreviation
176937 [d00farre dte] There's a thing that's been bugging me for quite some time now. If you
176941 [jim weirichh] My guess is iv_tbl = "instance variable table"

^ String#de_inspect (and Kernel#suspicious)
176945 [pan erikveen] If you do an inspect on a collection of Ruby objects, like a
+ 176946 [bob.news gmx] A question: what is the advantage of this over YAML?
| 176953 [google erikv] 1) It's faster (see below). Probably because it uses the highly
| 176957 [bob.news gmx] That's quite an impressive list.  I'm glad I asked.
+ 176955 [ mfp acm.org] ### code by Mr. Evil
+ 177023 [vjoel path.b] For the object->string direction, it may be useful to use amarshal,
  177030 [google erikv] % ruby -ramarshal -e 'AMarshal.dump([1,2,3], STDOUT)'

^ Re: it is possible to unload a class?
176948 [Nuralanur ao] Dear sayoyo,

^ Re: IE Automation/Recorder - Watir/Wet
176950 [Nuralanur ao] Dear Asif,

^ threading sync
176951 [mage mage.hu] I was thinking of writing my first threaded app in Ruby. One thread
+ 176956 [bob.news gmx] In your case you probably better use a Queue which saves you the
| 176960 [mage mage.hu] Thank you. I see.
| 176963 [bob.news gmx] IMHO it's generally a bad idea to determine thread safety properties of
+ 176967 [pan erikveen] No, you don't.
| 177145 [drbrain segm] No, Thread.exclusive (which uses Thread.critical) does not prevent
+ 176971 [james graypr] In general, assume nothing is atomic in Ruby.  Even a simple

^ Howto suppress a warning "insecure world writeable .." in Ruby 1.8.4 ?
176954 [Nuralanur ao] Dear all,
+ 176966 [pan erikveen] You could delete line 4076 in file.c of Ruby 1.8.4... :)
+ 176981 [ara.t.howard] $VERBOSE=nil

^ Re: String#de_inspect (and not Kernel#suspicious)
176958 [google erikv] Okay, the block was defined in SAFE mode 0... :)

^ [ANN] Subversion Handy Backup (SHB)
176961 [neoneye gmai] create a repository backup, compress, encrypt and split
177111 [neoneye gmai] Simon Strandgaard

^ [OT] have to learn java
176977 [hawkman.gelo] i love ruby, i love it a lot, but me being a highschool student, i have to
176980 [james_b neur] There is a presentation on Ruby for Java Developers that I believe goes

^ Re: have to learn java
176983 [jim weirichh] I just gave this talk last weekend to the Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp.
+ 177002 [ghalsey yaho] years ago when i looked into java - bluej helped.
+ 177006 [ng johnwlong] That's hysterical. :-)
+ 177007 [tdjordan gma] 3 cheers for Jim !
  177010 [jim weirichh] Sorry, not for this one.
  177034 [usidoesit ya] This should help with your attitude
  177110 [james.herdma] Knowing multiple languages never hurts.  You'll find Java cumbersome,
  177161 [glenn.ruby g] Last year I got into Ruby in a big way, and was using Rails on a daily

^ Rails, how do people figure out how to use it?
176984 [anne wjh.har] Lately I have been trying various things and I am amazed at what all
+ 176988 [dblack wobbl] To answer the question in your subject line, on my own behalf: I was
+ 176989 [james_b neur] Many, if not most, open-source tools and libraries are written by geeks
+ 176992 [wilsonb gmai] If you think that's hard, get ready for what it takes to get a Java
  177050 [anne wjh.har] Thank you for your responses. To fix my problems with too much
  177066 [gene.tani gm] ...
  177097 [anne wjh.har] Thank you, in the end, the rails list is really busy! I followed the

^ Generating a WSDL descriptor for my SOAP service
176986 [glenatron gm] I'm a bit new here, so I apologise if this question is something that

^ AW: Generating a WSDL descriptor for my SOAP service
176991 [Roland.Schmi] actually soap4r can not generate WSDL.

^ borked stuff on ruby-doc.org
176994 [joevandyk gm] That page is linked from the site's main page, and there are a number
177000 [james_b neur] A work in progress. :)
+ 177013 [cohen.jeff g] James,
+ 177044 [surrender_it] emh... while we're at it: we have a bit of documentation (translated and

^ ANN: Ottawa Group of  Ruby Enthusiasts (OGRE) 2nd Meeting
176998 [chris.hulan ] Ottawa Group of  Ruby Enthusiasts, affectionately known as OGRE are

^ DRb and ActiveRecord
177001 [ezmobius gma] Friends-
+ 177005 [joevandyk gm] Just a shot in the dark:  does
+ 177008 [bob_showalte] Advance warning: I am not a drb or ActiveRecord expert. I'm not much of
  177009 [ezmobius gma] Bob-

^ Oniguruma and 1.8.x
177014 [rubyhacker g] I have started playing with Oniguruma a little.
177094 [sndgk393 ybb] I have checked today Oniguruma 2.5.2
+ 177105 [hal9000 hype] No, I have not tried it on Windows at all. I have
| + 177120 [sndgk393 ybb] Sorry,  I have to check on Linux.
| + 177226 [sndgk393 ybb] Today I have checked on Linux (Fedora Core 4).
+ 177109 [james graypr] I have a hard time seeing an option as a bad thing, as long as it's

^ irb parser error?
177018 [jzakiya mail] I'm using Ruby 1.8.4.
+ 177019 [jzakiya mail] irb(main):001:0> require "~/'Ruby Stuff'/fibtimes.rb"
+ 177020 [rforum gmail] The single quotes are necessary to prevent the shell from interpreting
  177063 [jzakiya mail] Perfecto!! That solved it.

^ [OT] Job opportunity
177021 [Gennady.Byst] charset="us-ascii"
177075 [xeno eskimo.] Please forward my resume:  http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno/dev3.html

^ OS X 1.2 gems install problems
177027 [far_neil yah] If this is the wrong list, please let me know which list I should use.

^ 1.8.4 on HP/UX
177028 [sigzero gmai] We are running HP/UX 11i at work (or some such). Has anyone using this
177036 [mental rydia] I installed Ruby 1.8.4 on HP-UX 11i once recently.  It's entirely

^ Ruby on linux: How to check (username,password) ?
177032 [carmine askm] I'm writing some code to check that a password is the correct one for a

^ Please give me suggestion for directory layout
177033 [leopardus.vu] I generate website from templates. I use rake to generate it. My

^ CGI::Cookie.parse problem?
177037 [billk cts.co] I'm interfacing with a site that is sending me back a cookie like
177215 [billk cts.co] [replying to my own post]

^ How to handle errors thrown by Shell.rb
177040 [nick.snels g] I have this very simple code

^ ensure statement and signals
177041 [tsuraan gmai] I have a program (currently written in python, but that could change
+ 177043 [tsuraan gmai] Wow, I'm not smart.  I had print in my actual test code, which doesn't
| 177085 [rossrt rosco] Doh, sorry for the reply to the noise :)
+ 177084 [rossrt rosco] Running your code and hitting Ctrl-C does give the expected behaviour,

^ simple newbie question
177053 [kieran.kirwa] I have a piece of code below in which I;
+ 177055 [dblack wobbl] That's why they're the same: by doing this assignment, you're storing
+ 177095 [jaco neottia] See <http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Make_A_Deep_Copy_Of_An_Object>

^ class variable weirdness
177056 [alex.combas ] I was fooling around with class variables tonight, and I know this is
177057 [dblack wobbl] You need an array there: [C.up, C.foo=10].  The way you've got it,
177059 [alex.combas ] Thanks I appreciate the quick reply, I think the () was a bit of
177060 [dblack wobbl] Instances of A don't have a foo method, so you would indeed have to
177062 [alex.combas ] Yes I see I can not have it both ways now, either a class.method or a
177065 [Gennady.Byst] charset="iso-8859-1"
177079 [alex.combas ] This is exactly what I was looking for, and

^ Help with Apache cgi
177058 [erne powerna] I'm trying to port a cgi program that runs fine under windows.  But I
177096 [erne powerna] I've figured it out.

^ [QUIZ.SUMMARY] Grid Folding (#63)
177067 [matthew.moss] I love mathematics. I love to see problems explored, patterns emerge,
+ 177124 [adudzik gmai] I think that this is true, and that it follows from Bill Dolinar's solution
| 177140 [bdolinar xmi] When I was testing my solution for check_fold I found that it was
+ 177125 [james graypr] Are there pills for that?!