182822-184753

^ blog
182822 [BPaatsch act] Hey Thad,
182826 [tsumeruby ts] And we care for this why?

^ bug in postgres-pr
182823 [ngoc yahoo.c] I think there is bug in postgres-pr for windows xp. I use command 'gem
182828 [Daniel.Berge] I suspect that's a bug in DBI.available_drivers, since that method was
183002 [jim weirichh] I don't know if this is in reference to the original DBI or Dan's

^ Re: GemPlugin 0.1 -- A Mongrel Spinoff
182827 [jim weirichh] The preferred way of requiring files is to use a plain require.  Unless
182884 [r.mark.volkm] The problem I have with this is that maybe all I know is that I want
183006 [jim weirichh] I suggest specifying standard practices when creating plugins.  Naming
183010 [r.mark.volkm] I like your first suggestion best ... main include has the same name as the gem.
183012 [halostatue g] Sort of. As far as I know, they're deprecating it and warning oncreation in CVS. It won't affect users any time soon, though. Iwouldn't be surprised if a future version released fails to create agem that specifies an autorequire.

^ Getting more descriptive ERB errors
182829 [listrecv gma] I see that Rails provides very useful and descriptive ERB errors,

^ Re: blog -- Sorry meant to send it to my coworker not the mailing list!
182830 [BPaatsch act] Sorry for the spam. I meant to send it to my coworker and ruby-talk and

^ Python looking better ...
182835 [james_b neur] They got rid of that fugly "ping-pong ball" text logo, too.
+ 182837 [lopexx autog] I've seen a new Ruby homepage proposal somewhere.... iirc
| 182924 [rsanheim gma] - Rob--http://www.robsanheim.com/http://www.ajaxian.com/
| + 182998 [james_b neur] ...>
| + 183628 [ml.chibbs gm] I can assure you that it is still progressing. It has been slowprogress, but much faster in recent months (thanks to John Long).Hopefully a few more months and it'll be all finished.
+ 182840 [ptkwt aracne] Speaking of improved language websites... wasn't there an effort afoot (more
| 182907 [Bil.Kleb NAS] The curious thing is that when I went to the success stories
| 182912 [doodpants ma] Search for "shuttle". Or just click on the photo on the front page.
| 182919 [Bil.Kleb NAS] Ah, so it's not NASA, but a NASA contractor...
+ 182905 [Bil.Kleb NAS] I feel left out.  Where's our "NASA uses Ruby" ad?
+ 183383 [steven lumos] IMO, the Ruby site redesign guys are on a much better track.  Who
  183408 [james_b neur] There's an argument to be made that language advocacy, and "selling"
  + 183409 [cameron.mcbr] James,
  | 183410 [cameron.mcbr] Which was supposed to be off-list.  My apologies for my blunding fingers.
  + 183528 [jesusrubsyou] I just have one question.
    + 183551 [logancapaldo] It's always a bus because the bus has a long and venerable tradition
    + 183561 [clvrmnky.inv] Because there is no such thing (yet) as hovercraft tricycle errors, but
    + 183614 [wilsonb gmai] I can't tell you how many projects I've seen fail due to
    | 183644 [benjohn fysh] *nods*
    + 183769 [danielbaird ] It's so you can use the phrase "bus error", which has an air of humerous

^ [ANN] ZenTest 3.0.0 Released
182839 [ryand-ruby z] ZenTest version 3.0.0 has been released!
+ 182844 [wilsonb gmai] This is awesome. Thanks, Ryan!
+ 182909 [Bil.Kleb NAS] Excellent news.
  183003 [drbrain segm] * small, focused pieces of behaviour

^ Help - just a few lines of code needed
182845 [lory88 gmail] I hope someone can help me out with a very SIMPLE program
+ 182854 [dharple gene] Follow the Python folks' suggestion[1], but go to ruby-lang.org
+ 182864 [w_a_x_man ya] =begin
  182865 [w_a_x_man ya] If your strings can contain spaces, change to

^ threads and exceptions
182848 [railsinator ] I've built a small web service using webrick. The service runs on a separat=
182868 [shortcutter ] For debugging purposes you can use Thread.abort_on_exception=true

^ How to print stuff in RTHML embedded code (equiv to php "echo")??
182852 [john.wcl gma] things like this......
+ 182858 [nochoice xs4] <%= "hello world!" %>
| 182863 [john.wcl gma] hmmm
| + 182862 [john.wcl gma] A better example would be
| | 182870 [farrel.lifso] <%= @articles.join("<br\/>") %>
| + 182940 [logancapaldo] <p>
+ 182931 [sam.s.kong g] I'm not sure if this helps or even if it's good
+ 182991 [kwa kuwata-l] ERB doesn't allow you to use 'print' or 'puts' in eRuby script.

^ Searched: A *very* simple email program
182853 [Meino.Cramer] for an older person, who does not want to fiddle with all the bells
182867 [shortcutter ] What about GMail?  It has a simple and clean interface and sending

^ No documentation for modules on RubyForge?
182855 [aaronbecker1] My opinion is Ruby is doomed if it doesn't enforce some type of quality
+ 182857 [dharple gene] Run gem_server to see documentation for installed gems. reliable-msg
| + 182878 [aaronbecker1] You're right.  There is documentation there.
| | 182899 [dharple gene] You must require 'rubygems' first. This adds the gems to your
| + 182893 [geoff zorche] Along these lines, I've always wondered why 'ri' could not be used for
|   + 182896 [dharple gene] I believe a patch was submitted, and 'ri' documentation generation
|   + 182898 [james graypr] This is generally because those libraries are not yet documented.  If
|   + 183320 [jesusrubsyou] For "standard" Ruby, all I've ever needed is documentation for the core
+ 182902 [ara.t.howard] i would consider myself exetremely level headed and i disagree quite strongly
| + 182935 [chneukirchen] Two words: Thank you!
| + 183215 [rhkramer gma] I've attempted to write documentation for "products" which I've first had to
+ 182908 [james graypr] That's disappointing.  If you know you're out of line, you could fix
  182922 [james_b neur] I want to say "Thanks!" for what James has done, and continues to do,

^ Can REXML handle long XML
182856 [listrecv gma] I have a long chunk of XML - about 32k.  REXML::Document.new(x) gives
+ 182860 [dharple gene] That's just what a REXML::Document object returns when you call
+ 182886 [ news jay.fm] Definitely not the length.  I used REXML to load a 500K one-line (no CRs)

^ Ruby/ROR Free One-day Workshop
182859 [prakash.diby] PuneRuby  group in association with Reevik Technologies Pvt.Ltd,Pune,India =

^ Compiling Ruby 1.8.4 on AIX HOWTO and Binaries
182861 [gibbons sppc] Greetings!

^ Removing All Traces of Drawn Widgets From Ruby/Tk Canvas
182866 [david.bailey] RubyTk canvas' background "color" beneath it?  I'm having a tough time

^ hack to work around eval scoping?
182871 [steve waits.] I've learned that in 1.8 eval is scoped like a block.. I'm wondering how
182872 [bob.news gmx] g(c,b) eval(c,b) end; f'

^ best praxis to wrap methods?
182873 [meinrad.rech] is there an elegant way to define a singleton method from a given symbol
+ 182874 [meinrad.rech] sorry the  above code does not work, (needs to be done using
+ 182877 [bob.news gmx] Are you sure the code you presented actually works?  IMHO your code will
  182879 [meinrad.rech] afaik calling super in a singleton method calls the overridden method of

^ breaking out of self implemented each
182875 [Geert.Fannes] charset="us-ascii"
182876 [Geert.Fannes] SORRY,PLEASE IGNORE THIS MAIL. I MADE A MISTAKE, IT DOES WORK AS SHOULD

^ Ruby Weekly News 20th February - 5th March 2006
182880 [timsuth ihug] Ruby Weekly News 20th February - 5th March 2006

^ Hiring Ruby's
182881 [sjoerd hanne] for freelancers?
182882 [mtrier gmail] jobs.rubynow.com
182883 [sjoerd hanne] Thanks!

^ Rescue on do end blocks
182885 [farrel.lifso] I've been playing around with rescue expressions and besides being put
+ 182889 [lopexx autog] rescue must be enclosed in begin/end
| 182891 [farrel.lifso] def test  raiserescue  puts "Error"end
| 182895 [lopexx autog] Because do/end is another form of { } (the difference is associativity)
| + 182897 [farrel.lifso] Okay that kinda makes sense... kinda.
| | 182900 [lopexx autog] Maybe somebody else will explain this better later on, but I'm sure that
| | 182903 [farrel.lifso] Ah if that's the case then I can understand a bit more clearly why.Still it would be a nice thing to have.
| + 184473 [ null void.0] what about this
+ 183000 [drbrain segm] This will make blocks much more expensive to call because you'll have

^ Is the key delaying interpretation of a variable?
182887 [anne wjh.har] I am modifying robot.rb in opengl's sample directory,
182920 [anne wjh.har] To clarify the question
+ 182951 [lopexx autog] Maybe something like this... but dont know whether it is going to be
+ 183381 [g_ogata optu] @rotation = [$shoulder, 0, 0, 1]
  184753 [anne wjh.har] Thank you so much for your response. I had tried Marcin's suggestion,

^ How to capture eval's stdout in 1.8?
182888 [steve waits.] My searches have come up empty, and most of what I found refers to 1.6
+ 182945 [logancapaldo] charset=US-ASCII;
| 182953 [steve waits.] Shame on me.  I followed the docs too closely, which all say assignment
+ 182946 [steve waits.] Hmm.. I still haven't found the right solution.  I'm starting to worry

^ fastcgi or mod_ruby?
182894 [13thmonkey a] Does anybody know whether mod_ruby or fastcgi is the superior way of
+ 182934 [info johnale] Two comments and I am sure others will comment.
+ 182960 [rcoder gmail] The two are fairly different: mod_ruby gives you access to the full

^ getoptlong question
182904 [mattrose fol] This has been bugging me for weeks now, intermittently.
+ 182911 [shortcutter ] Insert a "p a" in the second opts.each block and see what happens. :-)
+ 182914 [ara.t.howard] @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| 182917 [mattrose fol] Oh, fer cryin' out loud I'm an idiot.
| 182918 [ara.t.howard] welcome to the club!  ;-)
+ 182916 [heimdall uni] the first opts.each{..} your opts are emtpy.

^ Manipulating large audio files.
182910 [notmyprivate] I'm looking for a ruby library to manipulate large audio files (>
182915 [ara.t.howard] check out gridflow.

^ pointer to c array in Ruby
182921 [progml ishka] Beginner's question: I'm creating a large C array using ALLOC_N and I
183068 [interfecus g] This explains how to use Data_Wrap_Struct and how to manage garbage

^ [ANN] Nitro + Og 0.29.0: R operator, Improve error handling, routing, template overloafing, memcached store and more
182923 [george.mosch] Dear devs,

^ Re: [Nitro] [ANN] Nitro + Og 0.29.0: R operator, Improve error handling, routing, template overloafing, memcached store and more
182928 [james_b neur] Outstanding.  Thanks to George and the Og/Nitro dev team.

^ Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs for Ruby
182929 [zeljko gmail] in cool Perl there are a bunch of libraries that process html files and
+ 182930 [rossrt rosco] Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk
| 182947 [zeljko gmail] Thank you guys. RubyfulSoup looks like what I am after.
+ 182932 [lopexx autog] You meant something like this ? (quite dirty but works)
| 182933 [james graypr] No, it doesn't, trust me.  ;)  Toss a simple "\n" in there and you're
| + 182952 [lopexx autog] Yep, I realized that after seeing xerces sources :D
| + 182958 [billk cts.co] with regexps was pretty easy.  Well, lexing HTML into tokens, I mean.
|   + 182968 [james graypr] There's a lot of pretty darn ugly HTML out there my friend.  Here's a
|   + 183142 [chneukirchen] Lex, yes.  Scrape in general, no.
+ 183020 [w_a_x_man ya] class String
| 183082 [james graypr] <a href="if (my_var > 5) { whatever() }">Javascript Link</a>
| 183479 [w_a_x_man ya] class String
+ 183051 [gk cutcopy.c] gem install mechanize
  183052 [gk cutcopy.c] or do a gem search html ;)

^ to_proc
182938 [briankbuckle] require 'facet/symbol/to_proc'
+ 182943 [matthew.moss] I get the error "wrong argument type Symbol (expected Proc)
| 182944 [matthew.moss] Ack, nevermind. I'm a silly person, ignore me.
+ 182948 [dblack wobbl] I'm only guessing but could it be flattening the outer array?
+ 182987 [logancapaldo] I figured it out! I figured it out!

^ [SOLUTION] The Golden Fibonacci Ratio (#69)
182950 [email55555 g] A PDF version "translate" from Christian Neukirchen's Postscript Code.

^ Valid email address from CGI input?
182954 [info johnale] Is there any Ruby package that will check a input email for validity?  I
+ 182984 [collinsj sea] You could possibly use the socket library for simple domain verification...
| 182999 [info johnale] Justin,
+ 182986 [logancapaldo] Yech. What if your DNS happens to be down when you "validate" the
| 182996 [info johnale] Logan
| 183013 [rtilley vt.e] Good luck with it John... I think that's about as good as you'll get...
+ 182989 [rtilley vt.e] I don't think this is possible in any language as the RFC basically says
| 183022 [steve fishar] =20
| 183028 [rtilley vt.e] Yes, I agree. It's as accurate as we'll get. I'm not critizing it. Just
+ 183026 [julian.kamil] def email_valid?(email_address)
+ 183032 [julian.kamil] def email_valid?(email_address)
  183111 [info johnale] Julian,
  183117 [julian.kamil] John, from the above if there is anything missing from the

^ StackError: stack level too deep
182955 [sebastian fe] i'm currently learning Ruby. So, while learning about code blocks and
182964 [brian.matter] If I'm not mistaken, the "for foo in bar" construct uses the each method. (It

^ RubyCocoa and libxml-ruby-0.3.6
182956 [pere.noel la] i have two versions of Ruby with my computer, the default Tiger one
182962 [info johnale] Use DarwinPorts to install ruby which will put yet another ruby
+ 182966 [pere.noel la] obviously we could also rubygems with darwinports ?
| 182971 [demmer12 fas] I do, and it has worked very well.... Although, I haven't been able to
| + 182974 [dharple gene] I made a libxml-ruby portfile for DarwinPorts. It has been in
| + 182976 [pere.noel la] unfortunately, this isn't my case ;-)
|   + 182982 [pere.noel la] rm -rf /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems
|   + 182995 [info johnale] Une,
|     183044 [pere.noel la] no, only those related to ruby.
|     + 183047 [groups grand] Nope. It only affects what you get when you type "ruby" at the command
|     | 183048 [pere.noel la] i agree very much with you, the ruby Darwinports install is worst than
|     | 183096 [dharple gene] The DP ruby applies several patches to ruby so you get a full working
|     | + 183107 [pere.noel la] ruby ext/xml/extconf.rb --with-iconv-dir=/usr
|     | + 183110 [info johnale] Both from a thread on the DP list and the experience of at least two fellow
|     | + 183164 [info johnale] Daniel,
|     |   + 183277 [pere.noel la] the reason i didn't use dp at first time is because i had really bad
|     |   + 183297 [dharple gene] They accepted the port. You may now install ruby-libxml with "port
|     |     + 183304 [info johnale] Did you tell them to include this in the dependencies for RubyCocoa?
|     |     | 183340 [pere.noel la] why ? this is not a rubycocoa dependency ?
|     |     + 183341 [pere.noel la] ok thanks very much.
|     |       183345 [dharple gene] Maybe, did you install using DP ruby? If DP complains remove /opt/
|     |       183353 [pere.noel la] yes, it appears first in my PATH.
|     |       183361 [dharple gene] The latest Apple security update broke rsync. Do a port install rsync
|     |       183365 [pere.noel la] ok done that works right now
|     + 183085 [info johnale] Your making this much harder then needed.  If you use DP to install
|       183102 [pere.noel la] i didn't said the contrary...
+ 182990 [pere.noel la] i not sure about that, having done a complete re-install of ruby,

^ OK.rb's First Meeting Reminder--One Week From Today
182957 [james graypr] Just a quick reminder here.

^ ruby and database connection
182959 [seidma hotma] any body know how to connect to mysql database in ruby?
+ 182969 [jesusrubsyou] Enjoy.
| 182977 [collinsj sea] -Justin
+ 182970 [r.mark.volkm] There are many ways to do this ... DBI, Og, ActiveRecord.
+ 183535 [info johnale] If you want to do anything more then connect, such as move data and present

^ Accessing variables/constants from another file
182961 [saudaziz gma] How can i access "myvariable" in the provided code from
182979 [dblack wobbl] The whole idea of "local" variables is to be local :-)  If you want

^ libxml utf-8 locale
182963 [mage mage.hu] honestly if I was to select two things I hate about computers, they
182981 [logancapaldo] Have you tried putting
183137 [mage mage.hu] Didn't help.

^ Re: Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs
182967 [jesusrubsyou] Rubyful Soup looks great!  I'm going to give it a whirl.  And I've been
182972 [jesusrubsyou] I see what you're getting at: If you're trying to do
182973 [james graypr] Or you can load RubyfulSoup and call find() a few times.  About they

^ YARV 0.4.0 and ActiveRecord 1.13.2 rubygem
182975 [corbanbrook ] Did some initial speed tests with YARV 0.4.0 and ActiveRecord 1.13.2rubygem=
182978 [f andreas-s.] I'm surprised that YARV is even ready to run ActiveRecord yet. Did you

^ [ANN] Phoenix Ruby Users Group March Meeting
182980 [james_b neur] The Phoenix Ruby Users Group will hold its monthly meeting on March 13,

^ wired text_field and text_area
182988 [michaelaugus] I need to return some values to the form

^ Running windows shell command
182992 [dfaroi gmail] Sorry for my english, I'm french.
+ 182994 [logancapaldo] You may be 'over-escaping'. You shouldn't need to escape double-
+ 183004 [agorilla gma] It's better than my french ;)
  + 183046 [dfaroi gmail] Actually I'm at working.
  + 183216 [dfaroi gmail] Thanks for your help.
    + 183223 [vanek acd.ne] If you just want to synchronize 2 directories, in my experience
    | 183287 [dfaroi gmail] Commercial license for using rsync is too expensive.
    | 183300 [chneukirchen] rsync is GPL, you don't need a license to use it in any way.
    | 183504 [dfaroi gmail] Are you sure you can package rsync with a commercial product under GPL
    | 183506 [dave.m email] 1: It's not part of your work.
    | 183645 [dfaroi gmail] Thanks for your answer.
    | 183955 [polyergic gm] T24gMy8xMS8wNiwgeWVtYW4xMyA8ZGZhcm9pQGdtYWlsLmNvbT4gd3JvdGU6Cj4KPiBUaGFua3Mg
    + 183326 [barbaros ptm] You may want to have a look at
      183505 [dfaroi gmail] Thanks for the link. I will give a look this week end.