180125-186955

^ [ANN] ParseExcel 0.4.0 released
180125 [hannes.wyss ] transparently converts its contents to this.

^ File.exist? svn2rss.rb
180129 [Bil.Kleb NAS] We're migrating from CVS to Subversion and I am looking
180181 [kou cozmixng] In <dt1kml$ebe$1@vilya.larc.nasa.gov>
180207 [Bil.Kleb NAS] I'll have another look at it, but I think it may be
+ 180212 [ruby-talk wh] Here you go.  This is exactly what you're looking for.  Hope you are
+ 180357 [kou cozmixng] In <dt2qce$msj$1@vilya.larc.nasa.gov>

^ [RUBY ON RAILS] Executing an action of a component _within_ a component !
180131 [ben-jamin.ca] In order to design a custom autocomplete field component, i need to be able,
180172 [steve waits.] Thanks for your message about Ruby on Rails.  I think you'll find
180267 [ben-jamin.ca] OK, thank you Steve :-)

^ Ruby Garden Spam
180135 [robert.mcgov] Been a while since I've been to Ruby Garden and just removed spam from
180148 [jim weirichh] Actually, this past week has been a slow week for spam.  Out of 731

^ Coroutines (Was: FasterGenerator (#66))
180136 [rossrt rosco] Well, I've snapped a string on my guitar and my computer won't play MP3s
180149 [jim weirichh] I've come to believe that having a backup set of guitar strings is
180245 [rossrt rosco] I've been lulled by living two minutes walk away from a well stocked

^ Windows shell commands
180137 [joergd pobox] Is there a way to run windwos shell commands from Ruby?
+ 180140 [mail koffein] `dir`
+ 180266 [musashi okog] This link

^ russian RUBY forum
180139 [codeby gmail] forum for Ruby programmers on russian
180171 [mike osdn.or] ...
180175 [pavel.s.soko] cheers ;)

^ rubygems and Config::CONFIG
180142 [g_ogata optu] I have two versions of ruby installed, rooted at different source
180173 [ara.t.howard] i have exactly the same issue here at work and i'm working with chad and jim to
180391 [g_ogata optu] I think that might be addressing a different issue.  That lets you

^ Forking an .rb script (or multi-threading)
180145 [joergd pobox] I am using rubyscript2exe on my rails app. tar2ubyscript uses an init.rb

^ 1.8.4 broke my Rinda app
180150 [jim crossley] At the bottom of this email is a contrived example of something I was

^ Ruby TK window size question
180153 [htruax stf.c] charset="us-ascii"
180162 [dperkins fri] You could try this to get the maximum screen size.

^ Newbie: how to dynamically add methods?
180170 [devlists-rub] The PickAxe doesn't seem to cover details of how to dynamically create
+ 180174 [wilsonb gmai] class << self is usually used for things that are a bit beyond a basic
| 180192 [r.mark.volkm] I wonder if the stiff server is down now. That URL isn't working, but
| 180215 [devlists-rub] And how does class_eval and instance_eval play a role here?
| 180320 [evahlis gmai] As far as I remember,
+ 180184 [dblack wobbl] The "<< obj" notation takes you into the singleton class of obj, which
  180187 [cameron.mcbr] It also might be worth pointing out that if 'a' is a class, you'll be

^ ruby-dev summary 28274-28333
180176 [ksaito uranu] This is a summary of ruby-dev mailing list.

^ [SUMMARY] FasterGenerator (#66)
180177 [james graypr] There were two kinds of solutions to this problem.  The first were Array-based
180188 [lukfugl gmai] One important thing: I've since realized that this implementation of

^ Forum search is broken
180180 [skolgan cox.] In the search text field enter 'win32ole'. Click Search button.

^ Eclipse RDT preferences page not error
180190 [pmrobinsonuk] When I try to install the Ruby RDT (v7) for Eclipse 3.1.1 by

^ recontextualizing a block (looking for deep magic)
180202 [ptkwt aracne] What I'm trying to do probably isn't possible, but maybe someone knows some
+ 180208 [shortcutter ] There is one way: you can use instance_eval with a block. This
| 180232 [ptkwt aracne] Right, that's why instance_eval doesn't work for this case either.
| + 180240 [lukfugl gmai] # body of define_behavior references 'count'
| | 180242 [lukfugl gmai] (Responding to myself...)
| + 180274 [bob.news gmx] And especially assigning to "count" would be useless.
| | 180326 [ptkwt aracne] I'd rather just go ahead and use the '@'.
| + 180278 [pit capitain] Phil, I don't understand the usage of variables. When should they be
|   180328 [ptkwt aracne] Well, it's a bit strange in the example above.  Really what I want is for it to
|   180851 [pit capitain] to understand why you can't use accessor methods for variables. Accessor
|   181302 [ptkwt aracne] class AndGate < RHDL
|   181502 [pit capitain] This is a nice looking compromise.
|   181505 [ptkwt aracne] Right.  I've considered that option, but for now I think it's better to make
|   181507 [pit capitain] class RHDL
|   181525 [ptkwt aracne] Oh, I like that!  I think I'll give it a try.
+ 180210 [jim freeze.o] This is interesting. For a while you had me thinking the Proc.new {} should
| 180222 [ptkwt aracne] Right. And 99% of the time that's what you want because they're closures.
+ 180246 [glen_ap yaho] suggested this yet, I assume that it is not what you are looking for.

^ Rubuntu LiveCD I need vim/emacs configs!
180204 [ezmobius gma] Friends-
+ 180206 [alex.combas ] Awesome!I just use standard ruby-mode.el for emacs.
+ 180211 [badcherry ma] I'm sorry I can't offer my ruby vimrc file.  I lost it some time ago and
+ 180214 [ruby-forum-r] I run a really minimal config for vim. I really need a sensible
+ 180217 [wilsonb gmai] I'm mostly a vim noob, so I'm looking forward to hearing other
+ 180235 [lists hagelb] Awesome idea.
| + 180238 [ruby-forum-r] # Works both with constants and strings (ri Hash vs ri 'Hash')
| | 180243 [ezmobius gma] Cool, I have a killer .irbrc already with some really nice stuff in
| + 180318 [chneukirchen] I have no trouble with MMM-mode here, this is the relevant part of my
+ 180350 [gregory.t.br] set nobackup
+ 180903 [jonbaer gmai] Ive switched from emacs to the new RadRails IDE as it is pretty slick
| + 180914 [ezmobius gma] Jon-
| + 181013 [david vallne] sun-j2re from an unofficial Debian repository, 30 MB compressed, 90 MB
|   181043 [gregory.t.br] why not just use ubuntu's free-java-sdk which wraps around the GNUtools and acts as a replacement for sun's SDK.
|   181172 [david vallne] You don't need the SDK for eclipse, you need the JRE. It seems they got
|   181186 [botp delmont] On Behalf Of Pistos
+ 180964 [me_ncl hotma] <posted & mailed>
+ 181038 [pistosREMOVE] Well, I was about to toot my own horn, but it looks as though someone
| 181039 [pistosREMOVE] Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
+ 181105 [pfharlock ya] The only must have change I always make is to include some commands at
  182082 [joesavona gm] Just a thought - what about creating a VMware player appliance with all
  185813 [brandonhines] This topic has been dead for a few days...how's the project coming?
  185901 [ezmobius gma] It's actaully progressing quite well. The holdup is because I am in the
  + 185905 [gregory.t.br] Hehe. My quote! ;)
  + 185923 [mblondel gma] I would suggest "Ruby Live".
  + 186030 [brandonhines] Good to hear that the project is alive and kicking!
  | 186053 [gregory.t.br] Rubix
  | 186058 [gretlein gma] I was just about to say that the most obvious name for a Ruby-centric
  | 186118 [brandonhines] "RubyReady" rolls right of the tounge.  Slick.  ;0
  | 186622 [kris alterna] Is Rubuntu ready yet?
  + 186697 [jed.hurt gma] Have you considered adding SVN and Mongrel to the Distro?
    + 186705 [gregory.t.br] I'd like to see this, too.
    + 186955 [ezmobius gma] Yes these will be included for sure along with some nice

^ Don't let this happen to Ruby, pleeeeease?
180213 [glenn.ruby g] This is quite a good article I just read via a link on artima (I think).
+ 180216 [james_b neur] I tried reading it, but it went on and on, and seemed basically to
| 180471 [glenn.ruby g] Sorry, posted my rant, then disappeared for two days!
| + 180478 [james_b neur] <elided amount='scads' />
| | 180482 [glenn.ruby g] I have seen the mock-ups of the new website - they sure is purrrdee.
| + 180556 [david vallne] Noone's stopping you.
|   180566 [glenn.ruby g] SWYgSSByZXByZXNlbnQgaGFsZiBvZiBSdWJ5J3MgdXNlcnMgKG90aGVyIFdpbmRvd3MgdXNlcnMg
|   + 180568 [rossrt rosco] <thinking aloud>
|   + 180595 [david vallne] You don't represent any significant majority of Ruby users on any platform in
|   | 180615 [glenn.ruby g] RGF2aWQgLSB3ZSBjYW4gc3RhcnQgYSBmbGFtZSB3YXIsIGFsbCByYXRoZXIgcG9pbnRsZXNzIGFu
|   | + 180622 [james_b neur] Be careful what you wish for.
|   | + 180707 [groups grand] Or you could ignore him. *I* certainly found comments like "It takes at
|   |   + 180724 [james_b neur] To be fair, though, most people have little trouble getting Ruby
|   |   | 181147 [groups grand] I know. I cannot believe my setups differ in some fundamental manner
|   |   + 180730 [tanner.burso] Did you document this struggle (for success or failure)?  To complain about
|   |   | 181152 [groups grand] Well, the last time I had a problem with the Ruby core itself, I just
|   |   + 180746 [gregory.t.br] Ruby is not about being very good.  It's about world domination.
|   |   + 180781 [glenn.ruby g] Thanks for your words of support Dave - I was beginning to think I was in a
|   + 180599 [james_b neur] I don't think your experiences are representative of that large a group,
+ 180226 [alex.combas ] I agree, road maps are nice. Are they necessary? I dont think so.
| + 180230 [james_b neur] Who should write the docs, if not the people writing the code?
| | 180239 [alex.combas ] Linus has not written any documentation. Ok, bad example.
| + 180279 [dblack wobbl] I don't think turning something into a wiki is a way to clean it up --
|   180340 [alex.combas ] Well I hate being contradictory, but I think a wiki-faq would bea great idea. It would require a few key elements, but the goodnews is that all of key elements a wiki-faq would require are alreadyrequired by a regular faq.
+ 180229 [david vallne] Not really. Different language. I took a brief look at Groovy hoping it could
+ 180277 [anne wjh.har] I think the key of this text is that groovy had a big community making

^ Rails application failed to start properly
180218 [michaelaugus] my settings
+ 180219 [michaelaugus] ok I del $1 option from .htaccess
+ 180221 [halostatue g] -austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
  180241 [michaelaugus] yeah never mind it works

^ no such file to load
180223 [michaelaugus] I need to load lib/geocoder
180297 [gdprasad gma] If you have installed geocoder via rubygems try
180410 [david vallne] Rails is only distributed via gems to my knowledge, so that should be already

^ dot-product operators and strides for linear algebra
180228 [jam5238-001 ] I am looking for the suitability of ruby for  numerical applications. I am currently using MATLAB and Octave for this  purpose (see www.octave.org, www.mathworks.com).
+ 180236 [logancapaldo] charset=US-ASCII;
| 180271 [jam5238-001 ] 1) Operator/Method Abiguity: Clearly, this is a problem. I don't think  ".*" or the like operators would hurt too much though. It would be  necessary to forbid "class.*method" style of methods and therefore a  major design issue.
| 180293 [logancapaldo] charset=US-ASCII;
+ 180418 [znmeb cesmai] I guess a lot depends on what your performance requirements are. Octave

^ [BUG] cross-thread violation
180233 [rakaur gmail] /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:218: [BUG] cross-thread violation on
180248 [tsumeruby ts] Heh, well okay. I received the exact same error on NetBSD 2.0.2 yesterday

^ Re: cross-thread violation
180251 [rakaur gmail] Apparently this was caused when I did something along the lines of.
180258 [matz ruby-la] It is possible to show us a script to reproduce your problem?
180268 [rakaur gmail] require 'timeout'
180269 [rakaur gmail] Sorry, I should clarify "kills it." It doesn't actually kill the

^ Mr. Guid (Ruby GUI Debugger)
180257 [ffsnoopy gma] Mr. Guid 0.1.4 is out!

^ SystemStackError when rb_define_module_function() * 3
180265 [skurapat ucs] I'm getting a "test.rb:46: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)"

^ NWS-NOAA: accessing attributes with SOAP4R
180270 [hombre gmail] I've successfully retrieved data from the NWS weather server with the
180272 [hszillat gma] Hey,
180339 [hombre gmail] Thanks for the pointers. Unfortunately, it seems that I'm dealing with

^ Some error happends when I use SDL model..
180276 [zusocfc gmai] I've get some problem..
180317 [david vallne] Well, first questions first - do you have SDL and the Ruby binding installed

^ [QUIZ] metakoans.rb (#67)
180280 [james graypr] 1.  Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until
+ 180283 [matthew.moss] Wow...  I feel somewhat enlighted just reading the quiz...
+ 180287 [GENIE prodig] Beautiful.  I have aggravating work to do today, and a billion
+ 180300 [ezmobius gma] This quiz is way cool.
| 180307 [james graypr] I know.  When Ara originally sent it to me, I couldn't stop fiddling
+ 180309 [lerno dragon] A most excellent quiz.
| 180311 [ara.t.howard] they wouldn't be koans otherwise!  ;-)
| 180333 [sander.land ] Very interesting quiz :)
| 180336 [ara.t.howard] since only false and nil are failed predicates in ruby i find it quite uesful
+ 180334 [phurley gmai] <pedantic>
| 180335 [ara.t.howard] i generally make a block the winner because it's bigger visually and harder to
| 180337 [phurley gmai] Thanks ok last question (probalby), if remove_instance_variable is
| 180338 [ara.t.howard] good question.  my version does not - the default is set once only.  i would
| + 180341 [wilsonb gmai] Awesome quiz. For a while there, I didn't think I was going to
| | 180345 [lukfugl gmai] Amen, I ran into that too :)
| | 180346 [wilsonb gmai] Just got mine down to 30.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the
| | + 180347 [lukfugl gmai] Ah, but you see, the number 42 is intricately related to the Zen of
| | + 180349 [mental rydia] 23, with copious whitespace.
| | | 180392 [chneukirchen] 23 here too, I could go <20 easily, but this way it's nice to read.
| | | 180481 [ptkwt aracne] I've got a very readable 18 lines.
| | + 180352 [ara.t.howard] 42 is the clear winner - regardless of who goes shorter ;-)
| |   180355 [wilsonb gmai] I got it down to 15, but I can pad it to 42 with some haiku. Heh.
| |   180393 [sylvain.joye] I'm at 13
| |   + 180404 [phurley gmai] I also have 13; however, two lines exceed 80 columns. Additionally, I
| |   | + 180421 [sander.land ] 14 lines here, with no really long lines.
| |   | + 180451 [mental rydia] 13 seems to be the lower limit without seriously golfing.  My "best"
| |   |   + 180496 [kero chello.] Dunno about golfing, been snowboarding the whole week.
| |   |   + 180538 [ruby-talk le] Mine's at 9 without any real golfing. No newlines though. Maximum line
| |   |   + 180545 [GENIE prodig] Yea, I don't usually golf, so I'm torn as to what's reasonable and
| |   + 180473 [peter.thoman] My current attribute method is just 8 lines, but the whole solution is
| + 180342 [mental rydia] Depends.  If you think of it in terms of the default value being
|   180351 [ara.t.howard] per-object - where object may be a class (singleton method).
|   180353 [mental rydia] Hmm, would semantics like Hash's default block be acceptable?
+ 180573 [rossrt rosco] It's 18 lines when you strip comments. The only thing with it is that
+ 180706 [grddev gmail] here is my solution,
+ 180850 [michael.ulm ] Awesome quiz! Here is my solution, quite ugly I'm afraid.

^ Ruby TK GUI question
180281 [htruax stf.c] charset="us-ascii"
+ 180292 [zhengyi anar] Cheers,
+ 180316 [gbulmer gmai] require 'tk'

^ Re: Python for Fortran Programmers
180284 [d454d web.de] I think Ruby is getting quite popular in SC now. Btw: Is there something
180285 [ara.t.howard] better still - ruby/dl can call into fortan libs directory : no binding
+ 180294 [pat.eyler gm] If there are any fortran gurus out here, I've long thought that a
| 181341 [ryand-ruby z] I'm willing to help with this, but I don't know squat about fortran
| 181382 [pat.eyler gm] Just to pull things together, I created
+ 180440 [d454d web.de] I guess you are right. Tried it with gfortran and all I get is a
| 180490 [d454d web.de] Ooops, this seems to be a problem with the way I pass over parameters
| + 180500 [deanwampler ] Fortran compilers pass arguments in the opposite order compared to C
| | 180502 [jwkenne attg] Certain Fortran compilers on certain operating systems on certain
| + 180581 [d454d web.de] Got it working now with Ruby 1.8.4 and gfortran-4.0. Thumbs up and thanks
|   180919 [Bil.Kleb NAS] Steph, can you post an example somewhere?
|   181319 [d454d web.de] Sure. Sorry for the delay. The link from Ara shows all you need. Compile
+ 180492 [ jupp gmx.de] Many people actually do not need Fortran 90+ support. What they need

^ Subversion bindings in Windows?
180286 [tanner.burso] I've recently run upon a need to get at the ruby subversion bindings in
180304 [rossrt rosco] I'm not on Windows, but I assume you can compile Subversion from source

^ A dotnet UI on top of a Ruby code, anyone ?
180289 [thibaut.barr] I'm currently investigating how to create nice non-web UI on top of
+ 180301 [none none.co] If you want to use .Net you might want to have a look at BOO.
| 180305 [huw DELTHISB] You may be interested to take a look at our Ruby In Steel IDE for Visual
+ 180303 [jgbailey gma] Check out the work John Lam is doing on a Ruby-CLR bridge. It's not
| 180864 [thibaut.barr] thanks! I looks indeed promising.
+ 180306 [heimdall uni] No, sorry. But if you search for "dotnet" at rubyforge.org you'll find