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^ Fwd: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission (88)
205260 [james graypr] charset=US-ASCII;

^ Re: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission
205269 [james graypr] There's certainly nothing wrong with your solution and we thank you

^ Ruby hangs when executing a another program
205273 [crasch openk] If I run the following command on the command line, it executes
+ 205330 [nobu ruby-la] %x and `` wait until the command exits and read the output from
+ 205333 [wrecklass1 g] prc = fork

^ mysterious conf in irb
205276 [bitdoger2 ya] a huge amount of information prints out on the screen (at least on the
+ 205299 [drbrain segm] Its irb's configuration.
+ 205313 [wrecklass1 g] You've found the irb configuration class. You can configure a number

^ Ruby forum
205294 [leslieviljoe] Can anyone recommend good forum software written in Ruby?

^ UCS-2
205296 [csshsh gmail] Is there any way to decode a UCS-2 string with ruby?
+ 205324 [dido.sevilla] Decode to what? You're probably looking for iconv. There's a Ruby
+ 205347 [dave.burt gm] => true
  205375 [pbattley gma] Iconv.iconv("UTF-8", "UCS-2BE", "\0a\0b")
  205486 [tbray textua] In fact, if you want to be pedantic (and when it comes to character

^ Ruby2CExtension (Was: converting some autogenerated ruby code to C)
205302 [drbrain segm] I tried it, it doesn't work.
205306 [dbatml gmx.d] Thanks for the report.
205316 [drbrain segm] $ gdb `which ruby184`
205560 [dbatml gmx.d] OK, I have investigated a bit more and it seems that the libs, that I

^ check if 2 objects are equal
205319 [junkone roge] I havea a class with this structure. how do i check if 2 objects
205332 [wrecklass1 g] If you want to define equivalence for your classes, you really need to
205412 [sastph sas.c] def <=>(other)

^ Telnet Server in Ruby
205321 [devlists-rub] Does anyone know of a Telnet Server written purely in Ruby? It doesn't
+ 205335 [james graypr] It's super easy to get something going with GServer, but my new
| + 205404 [garbagecat10] I'd really like to see a telnet server capability built into and shipped
| | + 205428 [james graypr] You can use whatever you like.  Bill's stuff is much farther along
| | + 205598 [billk cts.co] No problem!
| |   205602 [garbagecat10] Thanks Bill. I took a look through your code and it's neat,
| |   205909 [billk cts.co] It accepts clients, and partitions the client's window into three regions.
| + 205445 [devlists-rub] I will. It sounds like EventMachine maybe the best way to proceed.
|   205452 [garbagecat10] If you go for it and need support, send me email (here or private).
+ 205349 [billk cts.co] For what it's worth... I have some ANSI/VT100 telnet libraries that support
  205454 [devlists-rub] Fantastic. This is beyond my original intent, but since this is

^ [ANN] New Ruby Culture T-Shirts!
205350 [chiology gma] Ruby culture t-shirts are available for purchase right now!
+ 205351 [makenai gmai] Hmm..
+ 205352 [ben benatkin] ...but it appears to have a missing left square bracket.
| + 205353 [herbstwc gma] They look really cool, lol. Nice one.
| + 205356 [chiology gma] Fixed the elusive [ issue.
|   + 205365 [tdjordan gma] How about the Japanese Crane?
|   | + 205373 [asbradbury t] On that note, an Origami crane (to me) looks distinctly Japanese, and might
|   | | + 205441 [james graypr] I snapped a shot with my digital camera's "Digital Macro" mode (large
|   | | | 205449 [nobu ruby-la] FYI, there are some family crests featuring origami cranes.
|   | | + 205467 [ mfp acm.org] A Shinkansen train, with the Fujisan in the background.
|   | |   + 205469 [pixelnate gm] Why couldn't the mascot be a (ruby) red panda? White bits stay white,
|   | |   | + 205476 [M.B.Smillie ] One reason is because pandas are from Japan much like penguins are
|   | |   | | 205479 [pixelnate gm] Duh, pandas are from China. Sorry, just a little brain-dead today. Ok,
|   | |   | + 205477 [chiology gma] Nate, the problem is that Pandas aren't natively found in Japan, and,
|   | |   | | 205480 [pixelnate gm] Yeah, my bad. But have you heard of a Tanuki? It is a "Raccoon Dog"
|   | |   | | + 205539 [perrin apoth] I mentioned raccoon dogs in the same message in which I mentiond the
|   | |   | | | + 205550 [chiology gma] I'll work on that as well. I'm fond of the Tanuki as well. (Has anyone
|   | |   | | | + 205552 [pixelnate gm] Me too. According to wikipedia "Its testicles are notably large, which
|   | |   | | | + 205668 [nobu ruby-la] Sometimes Tanuki is considered green rather than red, whereas
|   | |   | | |   205688 [chiology gma] This is the design that I'm going to submit to SpreadShirt for their
|   | |   | | + 205690 [fprimus uxb.] Tom Robbins would probably like that.
|   | |   | |   205800 [chiology gma] == UPDATE
|   | |   | |   205826 [rubyvic gmai] Hey, great shirts, Matt!  There are some awesome ideas in there :-).
|   | |   | |   205971 [phurley gmai] I know the t-shirt I want is something Ruby-ish with a Thank You Matz
|   | |   | |   206006 [chiology gma] Hope you like...
|   | |   | |   206044 [schapht gmai] I don't know about anyone else, but I was hoping for some over-sized
|   | |   | |   206072 [chiology gma] I'll work on it. ;)
|   | |   | + 205481 [asbradbury t] While we're talking about mascots, I think I may as well reference a thread on
|   | |   + 205564 [tdjordan gma] Just browsing for cranes, I came across this graphic
|   | + 205374 [perrin apoth] Nah, I think a raccoon dog would be more appropriate.
|   |   205421 [schapht gmai] I'd wear a shirt with a big daikon on it.  I love daikon :)
|   |   205422 [chiology gma] Unfortunately, I'm pretty limited by the graphics that are already
|   + 205368 [paul iconopl] I really think you need to drop it. Do you have any idea how
|   + 205384 [hramrach cen] I cannot remember any animal. But what about a sakura tree? ;-)
|     205585 [Eric.Armstro] Mt. Fuji is the archetypal image of Japan.
+ 205355 [james.britt ] Consider adding the extra dollar or so and using it to support a Ruby
| 205358 [chiology gma] Considered and done.
+ 205362 [benjohn fysh] I'm intregued - have you actually made all of these, or are the images
+ 205387 [tirado.carlo] Also they state: "A third of the profits will be donated to RubyCentral"
  + 205415 [chiology gma] In regards to the panda: as you can imagine, it was never my intent to
  | + 205429 [paul iconopl] Of course - nobody means to cause offence, never does - I just
  | | 205538 [perrin apoth] I like this one:  "Just like a panda, Ruby is never a bear (to use)."
  | + 205586 [Eric.Armstro] That rocks. Says it all.
  |   205594 [luke madstop] It's Big in Japan".  It feels like an inside joke, even though I'm
  |   205599 [perrin apoth] It's probably because of the song, which is funny in and of itself.
  |   205606 [chiology gma] Ruby... It's Big In Japan
  |   205607 [luke madstop] Sweet!  Purchased, thanks.
  + 205613 [work ashleym] This one...

^ Detecting similar strings
205357 [dylan dylanm] Is there a way to take two strings, and decide if they are "similar."
+ 205359 [farrel.lifso] Here's a Perl module that does something similar. You might try
| 205360 [farrel.lifso] Farrel
| 205436 [w3gat nwlaga] Here is an implementation of levenstein distance.  It seems to me that
+ 205361 [alexandru gl] If by any chance you are using MySQL you could use the soundex function
| 205390 [helge.elvik ] The levenshtein algorithm basically gives you the "edit-distance"
+ 205437 [gene.tani gm] Interesting your name is almost "Markov" ;-}
  205440 [gene.tani gm] ...

^ Mini quiz (Was: Detecting similar strings)
205367 [benjohn fysh] You know, there are lots of implementations there, but the Ruby one
205376 [Nuralanur ao] there, but the >Ruby one seems to be missing :)
205377 [benjohn fysh] It's missing from wikipedia though.
205378 [Nuralanur ao] Does wikipedia provide the code for the implementations it lists?
+ 205424 [benjohn fysh] def lev(s1, s2)
+ 205631 [hal9000 hype] Ping me in a week and I will...
  205647 [andrewskegg ] A quick search on Google reveals a levenshtein ruby function has already been created.
  205716 [Nuralanur ao] compare it with the user >input, then pick the small distances and display  them

^ Default shell for Kernel::system() ?
205370 [ronaldf eml.] Ist it possible to kind of define a default shell which will be used
+ 205414 [logancapaldo] I'm pretty sure the "default" shell for system is /bin/sh on a *nix.
+ 205433 [nobu ruby-la] /bin/sh is hardcoded, like as make, cron and so on.

^ For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available
205379 [peter semant] The source code is available from
+ 205382 [perrin apoth] Great!  Thanks.
+ 205471 [igouy yahoo.] There are some details missing from the webpages
| 205474 [peter semant] [peterhickman]$ gcc -v
| + 205478 [headius head] Ok, so there's a bunch of problems with the Java version.
| | + 205487 [headius head] The Java code was broken in many different ways, such that any numbers
| | | + 205492 [headius head] And for the record, here are the single-run timings for Java 6 (rather than
| | | | 205499 [headius head] And the C version, which is quite a bit slower on my system than the Java
| | | | 205701 [peter semant] The output of my original C and Java versions are identical. If you
| | | + 205498 [enebo acm.or] IO can be noisy. I say avoid it for any benchmarking since it can
| | |   205508 [igouy yahoo.] As you're having so much fun, let me suggest you try converting the
| | + 205698 [peter semant] That was simple because I couldn't define the array when I declared it
| |   + 205700 [ola.bini ki.] The point Charles made with saying "but it sets off any Java devs
| |   | 205706 [peter semant] The question is the code itself, the names can always be renamed. Does
| |   | 205707 [headius head] I already said it wasn't a benchmark thing. Besides that, I think I've
| |   + 205831 [igouy yahoo.] 1) I made some changes to the jen.pl script you used to generate the
| |     205836 [headius head] That's pretty helpful...the old version was gigantic even for 5x5. A better
| |     205837 [headius head] BTW, I managed to resolve my speed issues for the C version. My machine
| + 205482 [igouy yahoo.] I recall someone stating "benchmarking without analysis is bogus".
|   205489 [headius head] Yes, that's one of the biggest problems with the code. The Java version uses
+ 205483 [csaba.henk g] Hmm, it would look much better for me if you had included Kristof
| 205502 [alex blackke] While I certainly appreciate the efforts that are going into this, I
| 205511 [headius head] My only purpose in battling these benchmarks is to help dispel the rumors
| + 205518 [ola.bini ki.] ... Which is extremely funny, since Common Lisp have had wicked fast
| | 205712 [chneukirchen] Sorry, but which CL has a "wicked fast" *virtual machine* and is on
| | 205763 [znmeb cesmai] I don't recall which of the "big four" open source CLs have virtual
| | 205868 [rosssd gmail] Actually SBCL is a fork from CMUCL (with a focus on maintanability) and
| + 205558 [perrin apoth] . . . but VMs actually are slow (to start, all else being equal).
+ 205797 [kristof vlee] Here is another version in Ruby.  It uses a more clever algorithm.
| 205802 [peter semant] [Latin]$ time ruby latin2.rb > r5
| 205988 [kristof vlee] Yes.  I was really suprised to see that your timings where longer than
| 205990 [peter semant] I will add it to the page.
+ 206215 [peter semant] Time for another update.
| + 206226 [w_a_x_man ya] I stole code and ideas from Jon Harrop, so this should be called
| | 206227 [w_a_x_man ya] I just noticed that your site doesn't have my last version (the 4th).
| | 206229 [peter semant] When I get home I'll time it and add it.
| | 206234 [w_a_x_man ya] In order to be fair to gcc, I'd like to point out one thing.
| | 206244 [peter semant] I changed the use of the bool data type (which is really an int) to char
| | 206270 [peter semant] Sorry but I have to retract these timings. They were from the tests to
| | 206352 [w_a_x_man ya] I wish that you would dump Perl and do everything in C.
| | 206407 [jon ffconsul] I posted an OCaml implementation that used an imperative, array-based
| + 206280 [igouy yahoo.] sub 9 seconds?
| | + 206303 [peter semant] This is a good point but in all the posts where I have mentioned the
| | | + 206306 [ara.t.howard] showing how it performs on a 2, 4, and 8 grid would show how it scaled...
| | | | + 206312 [peter semant] I'll test the 6 x 6 in Ocaml, C and Java but I'm not sure that I will be
| | | | + 206413 [igouy yahoo.] It scales badly
| | | | + 206414 [igouy yahoo.] It scales badly
| | | |   + 206415 [ara.t.howard] indeed - that's my point exactly.
| | | |   | + 206417 [igouy yahoo.] At last, something we can agree about - that makes all this silliness
| | | |   | + 206460 [kristof vlee] Did you actually run the 6x6 version?  I think my Ruby version might
| | | |   + 206425 [jsnell iki.f] Sure it would, though his web page implies that different algorithms
| | | |     206741 [peter semant] Actually this is a miss reading. The whole point of the first post was
| | | |     206840 [igouy yahoo.] What is a misreading?
| | | |     206957 [peter semant] That all the implementations had to use the same Perl pre compute phase.
| | | |     206977 [jon ffconsul] Even for such a simple task, the ability to use sophisticated data
| | | |     + 207039 [kristof vlee] For my and Simon Kroegers version you need the permutation.rb file, which
| | | |     + 207072 [igouy yahoo.] Will OCaml make the task of exhaustively generating 9x9 latin squares
| | | |       207113 [kristof vlee] And could anyone actually say what is the purpose of generating all
| | | |       207139 [igouy yahoo.] afaik it's intended to be a training-set for a program to evolve rules
| | | + 206411 [igouy yahoo.] Having repeatedly made a mistake in the past is no reason to continue
| | + 206397 [headius head] I'd be curious to see a python version, as long as we're so far off the ML
| + 206302 [tbray textua] That URL again? -Tim
|   206307 [peter semant] ...
+ 206958 [peter semant] New update to the web site. I have added the language versions to the
+ 209656 [oliver first] IMHO they all are fast.... or maybe your computer

^ class is converting fixnum to array!?!
205394 [stuart serve] I have made a class to return a value of either 1 or 0 depending on
+ 205396 [vincent.four] <BR>  Hello !<BR><BR>> user = 0<BR>> <BR>> puts user.class # -> fixnum<BR>> user = My_class.test(name)<BR>> puts user.class # -> Array<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> class My_class<BR>> <BR>>   self.test(name)<BR>>     if name == name then<BR>>       return 1<BR>>     else<BR>>       return 0<BR>>      end<BR>> <BR>>   end<BR>> <BR>> end<BR><BR>  There are few things missing in you code, as is, it doesn't run. It tried to modify it, and then I get the expected results (not the ones you point out).<BR><BR>  Could you please provide us with a minimum working example ?<BR><BR>  Cheers !<BR><BR>      Vince
+ 205403 [shortcutter ] That's exactly the reason why we cannot possibly help you here.  The
  205405 [stuart serve] this is the full class and code to call it, it  out puts fixnum then
  205408 [angus quovad] What if you never enter that block, because ldap.search never found
  205411 [stuart serve] Thats it, thanks very much :)

^ Using Win32OLE library for DAO
205426 [jatinder.sau] I am trying to do something like following to connect to a MS Access db from
+ 205447 [jatinder.sau] I could use Database class of DAO by writing following code,
| 205457 [patrick pksp] Just out of curosity... *why* do you want to use DAO?
| 205685 [jatinder.sau] To read Microsoft Access tables data like TableDefs, Tables etc from Ruby.
+ 205738 [masaki.suket] I have not used DAO, but I hope that DAO.DBEngine is what you want.
  205807 [jatinder.sau] I am trying to get an instance of DAO.DataTypeEnum class using Win32OLE but

^ XMLBuilder: no such file to load -- builder
205430 [matthew.eich] I'm trying to use the XML builder package, but the require is not working.
205434 [farrel.lifso] require 'rubygems'
205448 [matthew.eich] Farrel,
+ 205450 [dharple gene] Only use require_gem if you need a specific gem version and if you
| 205453 [matthew.eich] Daniel,
| 205456 [matthew.eich] require 'rubygems'
+ 205451 [matthew.eich] Sorry, I posted too fast.  The it works now on Fedora but not on CygWin,

^ Proxy Authentication
205432 [nayakk gmail] I'm behind an authenticated proxy and want to install few plugins (for
205459 [jgbailey gma] credentials. It is Win32 only.
205691 [nayakk gmail] Hey Justin,
205786 [jgbailey gma] Try ruby -rspa script/plugin
205963 [nayakk gmail] Thanks Justin,

^ ActiveRecord: find_or_create with has_and_belongs_to_many -- unexpected behavior
205442 [reddaly repl] I am attempting to use find_or_create on a foreign table with a
205443 [logancapaldo] If you don't want to deal with lots of email traffic, there a web

^ Enumerable
205458 [michael trai] Am new to Ruby and have the folloiwng Question.
+ 205464 [martindemell] Assuming you want to iterate over @array,
+ 205466 [asbradbury t] It depends what you want each to do? Just to wrap @array.each? In that case,
| 205473 [asbradbury t] user     system      total        real
+ 205470 [shortcutter ] class Collect

^ Log4r
205461 [patrick pksp] The following code is throwing errors below. It looks like the wrong
205484 [codeblogger ] Logger.new() takes only three (not 4) parameters.
205490 [patrick pksp] This is what threw me off...

^ Rubyforge svn import
205463 [transfire gm] How to do an initial svn import to Rubyforge? Is it possible to use
205650 [tom infoethe] Nope, not at this time...
205860 [transfire gm] Thanks, I looked at that but it isn't very clear. It's says nothing of
+ 205865 [transfire gm] transaction '26-1', path 'trunk'
| + 205946 [zimba.tm gma] Do you already have some files in your repo ? I don't think you can
| + 205995 [tom infoethe] Hm, are you importing from an existing repo?  Is that how Svn does it,
|   206017 [transfire gm] Just a directory tree of files like CVS.
+ 205994 [tom infoethe] Yup, I'm not sure how much detail to put there... and actually, I'm not