222720-226869

^ Drb in depth ?
222720 [faivrem gmai] I can't find any in depth online article on Drb, presenting anything
+ 222733 [znmeb cesmai] I'm not sure anyone uses just drb ... it's more common to use drb via
| + 222738 [jcribbs netp] For a fairly simple example of how drb can be used to enable
| | 222740 [jcribbs netp] Oops, that should have been http://netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html!
| | 223247 [faivrem gmai] Thanks for the code.
| + 223248 [faivrem gmai] This site is indeed the best site on Drb but do not answer all my questions :)
| + 223631 [drbrain segm] sit on top of Rinda::TupleSpace.  Whenever you need communication
+ 223630 [drbrain segm] The basic idea is to remove the hassle of communication between

^ Uploading files with eruby & lighttpd?
222721 [comtuxaps gm] I am not sure if i should be asking this question here or lighttpd

^ Gettext of variables
222726 [matthauck gm] Greetings!

^ ruby libcurl maintainer?
222727 [just-for-new] I tried to contact Mr Hirotaka Matsuyuki,however his email address
222735 [rossrt rosco] I tried to contact him earlier this year, but to no avail - I think the

^ Re: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission
222732 [james graypr] Welcome to both!

^ Alias singleton method from C
222737 [rossrt rosco] I think I must have missed something obvious, but I can't see how to
222762 [djberg96 gma] #include <ruby.h>
222767 [tim.pease gm] rb_define_alias only works for instance methods.
222769 [djberg96 gma] It should work for either singletons or instance methods.  If it
+ 222779 [rossrt rosco] This is similar to what I was going to do - you just need to get the
| 222785 [djberg96 gma] Bingo.  That's what you want.  I was just getting the singleton wrong.
+ 222780 [tim.pease gm] Your line of code above that grabs the singleton class is incorrect.

^ true.to_i
222750 [leslieviljoe] I am processing database rows and I see that there are "bit" columns
+ 222752 [amos.l.king ] I don't see a problem with it.  There is no to_i for either class so
+ 222760 [invalid gmx.] It isn't really dumb, but you can get into problems when debugging code
+ 222764 [shortcutter ] Remember that a lot of other values are considered true so converting

^ Re: Fuzzy Time (#99)
222758 [camerooni gm] Thanks for the test and the quiz. Writing a solution wasn't very hard,
222788 [dan fluentra] Here is my script. This is my first entry to Ruby Quiz.
222861 [james graypr] Welcome!

^ Ruby performance on Windows XP
222765 [sambient gma] While I am working in Rails, I'm noticing that Ruby many times completely
+ 222768 [halostatue g] More details would be useful. Raising this on the Rails list would be
| 222771 [gustav rails] Hey,
| 222826 [sambient gma] I did raise this on the Rails list, yet it gathered little interest nor
| 222835 [znmeb cesmai] What are your criteria for choosing a Linux distro? There's actually a
| 222860 [sambient gma] I'll take a look around for that site.  I don't believe I have any
| 223318 [david vallne] For the sake of completeness, the only difference between Ubuntu,
+ 222776 [zedshaw zeds] Well, that's kind of just Ruby on Windows for ya.  My unofficial experience (which everyone constantly blasts me for, so I'm obviously wrong) is that Ruby on Win32 is about 1/10th the speed of Linux 2.6 on the same computer.  This is with the exact same non-rails Mongrel handler tests I run.  Cygwin is then about 1/2 the speed of that.
| 222839 [halostatue g] Zed, your wounded act is wearing thin, if it was ever amusing to begin
| 222850 [znmeb cesmai] Ah, but I am. :) Zed's numbers are *very* suspicious. Here's what I
| + 222853 [rob ocstech.] One-Click
| | 222855 [znmeb cesmai] Interesting ... have you posted your benchmark code? Do you have the
| | 222857 [rob ocstech.] I did post it a while back though during the first Cygwin/One-Click Holy War
| + 222964 [wilsonb gmai] My tests (looking for the benchmark code now.. without much luck thus
|   223085 [znmeb cesmai] In a related development, it took some doing, but I managed to get the
+ 222825 [znmeb cesmai] Hmmm ... lots of questions ... but the other posters are right ... this
  222828 [sambient gma] in  a development mode.
  222956 [sambient gma] 1- Someone from the Rails list has made a project of Rails (and Ruby) LiveCD
  223087 [znmeb cesmai] Yeah ... PC Linux is easy to make LiveCDs with. Almost any LiveCD Linux
  223208 [mtrier gmail] Michael

^ Re: Ice for Ruby Preview Release
222774 [mes zeroc.co] We have no plans for it at this time. Ice for Ruby is implemented as a
222790 [kevwil gmail] Sweeeet. I've been meaning to check out ICE for a long, long time. This
222791 [rtilley vt.e] I think the gateway to ruby-talk may be down. Perhaps that is why the

^ __FILE__ for requiring file
222793 [jim freeze.o] I keep wondering if there is a way to have __FILE__ be delayed
+ 222797 [shortcutter ] require 'test/unit'
+ 222798 [louis.j.scor] def __REQUIRING_FILE__; caller[1] =~ /([^:]*):/; $1 end
  222800 [shortcutter ] I played around already :-)
  + 222803 [louis.j.scor] Very nice.
  + 222805 [jim freeze.o] Thanks guys.
    222808 [louis.j.scor] Just make sure that you won't have any file names with a ':' in them =)
    222812 [jim freeze.o] Just make sure that you won't have any file names with a ':' in them =)

^ Picking a GUI toolkit for use with Ruby on windows
222794 [www blogging] I'm wondering which GUI toolkit I should use for experimenting with GUI
+ 222799 [mtrier gmail] RubyCLR will do what you need.  You can use the visual designer in VS
+ 222801 [znmeb cesmai] Ruby/Tk is probably your best bet to start with. Given that FreeRide is
| 222810 [vincent.four] Well, I'm not developping QtRuby, just packaging it (Debian), and I
| 222819 [znmeb cesmai] QT4? I know the QT3 Ruby interface is solid, but QT4 is the only usable
| 222831 [vincent.four] I speak about Qt4, which I'm using everyday (on Linux). Apart from a
+ 222806 [jcribbs netp] Ruby/Gtk2 meets all of these requirements.  :-)
+ 222845 [ml.chibbs gm] If you don't need cross platform, then you'll probably like VRuby
  222851 [david vallne] That page scares the heck out of me. Weird magical constants that are
  222965 [spoooq gmail] If you mean the sample scripts (

^ [ANN] QtRuby 1.4.7
222804 [richard.j.da] URIS
+ 222820 [znmeb cesmai] 1. Does all this magic work on Windows?
| + 222849 [david vallne] Seconded, mswin32 gem or bust. I'm not particularly in the mood for
| | 224011 [shea null.ne] I will second that.  I would love to use ruby and qt together.  But my
| | 224014 [shea null.ne] What are the legal issues of creating a rubygem for Qt (which included
| | 224018 [vincent.four] Qt4 and QtRuby are GPL, which means that if you distribute you project
| | 224092 [david vallne] uilt?
| + 222927 [caleb aei-te] I am, but I'm in the final stages of another book project at the
+ 222837 [pgquiles elp] Awesome!
+ 222838 [vincent.four] Great, that's exactly what was missing from 1.4.6 !! I'll make a new
+ 224200 [shea null.ne] The qtruby tarball I downloaded does not seem to have any of the

^ Active Record speed
222809 [alibby tange] I'm writing some code that loads data into a database on a
+ 222814 [shortcutter ] You probably just need to change the line above to
+ 222815 [lukfugl gmai] My guess is that prepared statements are indeed the source of your
  222830 [alibby tange] Robert, Jaccob you two nailed it.  Thanks a bunch.

^ Easiest way to determine OS?
222818 [weyus att.ne] What's the easiest way to figure out if you are on a Windows vs. UNIX
222824 [rtilley vt.e] irb(main):005:0> puts RUBY_PLATFORM
222829 [vshepelev im] Brad Tilley

^ Re: Welcome to our (ruby-talk ML) You are added automatically
222821 [cparticle gm] # help

^ <!-- foo --> in RDoc
222833 [christoffer.] Running [0] through RDoc raises the exception [1].
222836 [gavin.kistne] # Test

^ [ANN] XSPF for Ruby 0.4
222834 [pgquiles elp] charset="iso-8859-15"

^ net/http performance question
222858 [borud-news b] def fetch_into (uri, name)
222862 [jan.svitok g] there seems to be HTTPResponse#read_body, that can provide the chunks
222971 [borud-news b] ["Jan Svitok" <jan.svitok@gmail.com>]

^ [ANN] Phoenix Ruby Group Meeting for November
222859 [james.britt ] See http://www.rubyaz.org/groups/prug/ for a map and more information

^ Concerns about removal of continuations in Ruby 2.0
222907 [alder.green ] For instance, Ruby's generator implementation requires them[1].
+ 222910 [rossrt rosco] Not any more - check out generator.rb in 1.9 (though what'll happen if
+ 222958 [matz ruby-la] * Ruby 1.9.1 will not have continuation, since they have lowest
  + 222960 [charles.nutt] From a JRuby perspective, we could support continuations, but with the
  | 223018 [phurley gmai] I will agree that they are rarely used (at least in Ruby), but for a
  + 223282 [znmeb cesmai] An old saying in programming language design states that the toughest

^ Duck typing and the Standard Library
222908 [mikeharder g] I'm new to Ruby, so please excuse any ignorance on my part.  I read the
+ 222912 [shortcutter ] irb(main):003:0> def foo(s) s=s.to_set end
| 222917 [mikeharder g] Yes, there must be an exception of some kind if the parameter is
| 222926 [dblack wobbl] The way I've always looked at it is that the Ruby core and standard
| 222999 [Brian.Hartin] Why is it bad practice to check the type of a value at runtime?  I'm new
| 223004 [dblack wobbl] It depends what you mean by checking type.  In Ruby, class and type
+ 222916 [vidar.hoksta] def superset?(set)

^ String#split: unxepected result
222911 [k.shutemov g] irb(main):001:0> "aabbcc".split(/bb/)
+ 222913 [shortcutter ] #split returns matching groups of the split pattern if there are
+ 222914 [vincent.four] You have a capturing group in the last RE. In this case, split also
+ 222915 [jan.svitok g] If there are any groups in the delimiter, they are output as well.

^ Learning Ruby
222919 [Cristiano.Ma] learning Ruby. So forgive me for the stupid question.
222920 [peter rubyra] Could you provide the examples you have tried? I did not really get you,
222922 [Cristiano.Ma] I did not explain me too well.
+ 222923 [vincent.four] str.gsub!(Regexp.new(re), "#{st}\\&#{en}")
+ 222931 [m.fellinger ] ########## LOTSA CODE #########

^ Net::SMTP problems
222921 [nickblack1 g] I'm trying to use Net::SMTP to send an email from a webserver running

^ Difference between define_method and def method; end
222924 [rune snusket] It was suggested on the IRC channel that I try the ML for this
222957 [ara.t.howard] you are not redefining the method here, you are redefining the class.  if you
+ 222994 [rune snusket] That is actually the same output I had. My problem (and excuse me for
| 223092 [interfecus g] class Object
+ 223097 [robert.dober] Ara I am afraid that is not so :(, run this e.g.
  + 223108 [rune snusket] I don't necessarily prefer the first, I prefer them to behave the
  | 223151 [robert.dober] I agree, I think consistent behavior would be  preferable, not losing the
  | 223177 [rune snusket] I stumbled upon it by pure coincidence ... Should I report a RCR or
  + 223125 [ara.t.howard] huh - i'd sworn that was the case...  looks like you are right.

^ Ruby tools for managing static websites?
222925 [chrispearl g] Are there Ruby tools to help webmasters manage static websites?
+ 222928 [vincent.four] webgen.rubyforge.org.
| 223252 [martindemell] I have one fairly serious problem with webgen - there's no way to just
| + 223296 [ryand-ruby z] Does it do the whole site? ZenTest does incremental builds as
| | 223404 [martindemell] Yeah :( http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=7986&forum_id=1268
| | 223525 [ryand-ruby z] While ZenWeb is site-based, it has a ton of functionality at the page-
| + 223307 [rossrt rosco] Rote takes care of that thanks to Rake, with your pages as file tasks -
+ 222929 [Bil.Kleb NAS] Don't know if it fits, but take a look at: http://radiantcms.org
+ 222939 [rosco roscop] Check out Rote - sounds like it's custom-designed for your needs :)
+ 222941 [farrel.lifso] There's also Hobix (http:.//www.hobix.com) although it doesn't look
+ 222955 [ara.t.howard] i'm not quite clear why you wouldn't just setup a rails site and crawl it to
| + 222974 [khaines enig] You can do that with a relatively new IOWA feature, too (introduced in
| + 223088 [chrispearl g] For the needs I described, Rails integrates a lot of features that
|   + 223095 [ara.t.howard] can't you elaborate a bit?  ;-)
|   + 223106 [rosco roscop] <hard-sell>
|   | 223171 [alder.green ] Thanks a lot for the information. Rote is among the handful of tools I
|   | 223224 [craigbeck lu] Okay, I have a similar problem and I'm curious as to the other
|   | 226869 [chrispearl g] I posted the same message to the relevant Python ML. Python has *a
|   + 223109 [rimantas gma] Some static sites are dynamic but with slow dinamics :). For these it is very
+ 223173 [ryand-ruby z] ZenWeb http://rubyforge.org/projects/zenweb
+ 223174 [GENIE prodig] Article from Martin Fowler about using rake (ruby's version of
+ 223379 [aglarond gma] Have you seen Yurt (http://yurtcms.roberthahn.ca/)?  It has a small,

^ Re: QtRuby 1.4.7
222930 [richard.j.da] Yes, once you get it built - I'm not sure whether QtDBus works on

^ Re: [ANN] bfts 1.0.0 Released
222932 [s450r1 gmail] This is excellent news!
+ 222972 [ryand-ruby z] Thanks! I just bought a new mac mini to replace an old loud freebsd
+ 222973 [ryand-ruby z] thanks
  + 222978 [binary42 gma] Myself being one of those people who are stubborn about using
  | 222982 [ryand-ruby z] *nod* I'll poke at this. I suspect I need less than 30 lines of ruby
  + 222979 [ben bleythin] I don't think it's too high a hurdle, it's just an unnecessary one.  I'm
    222983 [ryand-ruby z] how about: subversion blows multicolored chunks?
    + 222987 [ben bleythin] plz elaborate?  It works fine for me and lots of other folks.  Again,
    | 222989 [ryand-ruby z] hrmmm... to start: slow as dirt, user unfriendly, merging is a bitch,
    | 222991 [ben bleythin] I've not noticed it to be slow or unfriendly, but I learned version
    | + 222993 [tim.pease gm] Ryan, is this going to be a one developer project? You have already
    | | 223003 [ryand-ruby z] Oh hell no.
    | | 223034 [charles.nutt] I understand SCM preference, but this is probably the primary reason
    | | 223075 [znmeb cesmai] I'd be happy if the CVS and SVN folks would settle their war so I don't
    | | 223098 [charles.nutt] I can't say I'm a huge fan of either, but they're no-brainers to use for
    | | 223132 [cdcarter gma] Who/Where should I contact with failing test information?
    | | 223162 [ryand-ruby z] file a bug pls. that way we can track em.
    | + 222995 [ryand-ruby z] Try to figure out how to emulate 'p4 describe' and make it just as
    | | + 223001 [ben bleythin] granted
    | | + 223145 [halostatue g] It isn't an issue with p4. We use it at work. Even if Perforce didn't
    | | + 225337 [ben bleythin] As it turns out, this apparently is a hurdle.  The day this thread was
    | + 223000 [tom infoethe] FWIW, all the RubyForge svn repos are fsfs.
    + 222990 [tomp earthli] Sure, ruby-talk generates a lot of traffic, but I stay subscribed to

^ array of integers
222933 [rtilley vt.e] What is the best way to get determine the largest and smallest int in an
+ 222934 [thomas.adam2] [n6tadam@workstation fvwm]% irb
+ 222937 [rforum gmail] puts x.max

^ Re: Modes of operation OAEP RSA
222935 [rikrose gmai] Not really the right forum. sci.crypt is probably better. You will also

^ GEM Problem
222936 [george.rafae] but i set it to work from the command line. So i really don't know
223246 [shiwei1.zhan] Actually I think the command line is the better way. The command
+ 223258 [george.rafae] Well im using gem in a Microsoft Windows cmd, i don't know if its have
| 223376 [shiwei1.zhan] 1) Did you use a firewall that might block gem's communication? You can turn
| 223411 [george.rafae] I don't have a local firewall.
| 223437 [david vallne] When all else fails (your local proxying scheme is convoluted, some
| 223441 [george.rafae] Thanks, i'll do that.
+ 223540 [david vallne] work

^ button_to style class
222943 [frunny gmail] *is this the correct usergroup for ruby on rails?* mhhh...
222949 [logancapaldo] No.

^ Getting emails with IMAP generates BadResponseError
222951 [ruby diekenn] I have a problem with getting emails from a special account when I will
222954 [ara.t.howard] this is bascially telling you the server does nothing for this accnt... which
223236 [ruby diekenn] IMAP4REV1

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^ Class inheriting from class within the namespace
222963 [gavin.kistne] Tree structures are interesting. Often the root of the tree is used as a
222967 [matt tidbits] Why wouldn't you do this?
222968 [gavin.kistne] Only because it's an annoying namespace level that the user would need

^ Re: How can I populate header values in SOAP document?
222966 [Brian.Hartin] I was able to get the namespace abbreviations right by returning a hash

^ Syntax q on ActiveRecord
222977 [rxv hotmail.] In my model, if I have a field, that contains the id to another table, twice
+ 222980 [ryand-ruby z] this question should go to the rubyonrails mailing list.
+ 222986 [matt tidbits] Just RTFM.
| + 222988 [rxv hotmail.] Jesus H. Christ.....it's a TYPO as I was copying by hand, with from the code
| | 223009 [matt tidbits] Sorry, I must have misunderstand the question. I apologize. m.
| + 222996 [nwiger scea.] Hah, that post was *so* Tom Christiansen like, 10 years ago, on the Perl
+ 222998 [GENIE prodig] You probably could have looked it up, and it should go on the rails
  + 223002 [rxv hotmail.] Thanks Mike,
  | 223130 [GENIE prodig] I just changed the names of the columns in my example cause I felt like
  + 223007 [ryand-ruby z] BZZZZZT. This is the ruby-talk mailing list, not the rails mailing
    + 223013 [_mwryder wor] This is also a newsgroup and I haven't noticed any news groups for
    | 223014 [jeff schwabc] Wow, this is getting almost as exciting as C++ land.
    | 223016 [gavin.kistne] For posterity, I feel the need to note (for posterity and archives) that
    + 223127 [GENIE prodig] Ryan, you weren't the rude one, saying "go to the rails mailing list"