25268-26442

^ Looking for Ruby Parser
25268 [jim freeze.o] If I remember correctly, it was this list that someone
+ 25271 [feldt ce.cha] Sounds a bit like rockit, rockit.sf.net?
+ 25308 [phlip_cpp ya] Click here...

^ class SharedQueueThread feedback
25270 [chris.morris] Hope this isn't too long a post -- I was wanting some feedback on the
25273 [hgs dmu.ac.u] used for communicating between threads.
25278 [chris.morris] Excellent. Didn't know about that. Thanks. There's also SizedQueue in
25283 [Dave Pragmat] A 600 page limit :)

^ GC question
25276 [tony perforc] I'm trying to sort out the garbage collection in a C++ extension, and I keep
25279 [pbrannan atd] This is a known problem with the 1.6.x series.  It should be fixed in 1.7.
25282 [tony perforc] Thanks Paul!

^ Documentation strategy - was: Re:  Re: class SharedQueueThread feedback
25285 [hgs dmu.ac.u] So what is the strategy for 1.8.x?  Do we queue outside AWL demanding an
+ 25286 [dblack candl] Or maybe they can do what the OED did years ago: a fine print edition sold
+ 25287 [toddg foobox] I was hoping that we would make Ruby 1.8 of such elegance that 600 pages
+ 25290 [Dave Pragmat] possibly all the above :)
  25418 [kjana dm4lab] Uh, I would write the manual of ruby-1.6.x were available on

^ Topic ideas for an upcoming series of articles featuring Ruby?
25295 [colin colins] I've been asked to write a short series of articles (3-5ish) featuring
25298 [gnuvince yah] Depends who will most likely read these articles I guess.  If system
25299 [curt hibbs.c] That's a good point. Could you tell us who the target audience is going to
25321 [colin colins] The audience is a varied group of folks in the IT industry, including
+ 25334 [mikkel.bruun] One thing that still amazes me about ruby is the drb package....
| 25335 [curt hibbs.c] How do you get drb? the entry in RAA says "not available".
| + 25337 [rich infoeth] -rich
| + 25338 [    s xss.de] you might try for druby :-)
+ 25405 [hgs dmu.ac.u] On the basis of Ruby making it worth attempting things you wouldn't

^ ANN: Ruby Fractal Life Engine
25300 [phlip_cpp ya] Flea is a complete rewrite of the R3 Fractal engine LPARSER (based on the
25744 [phlip_cpp ya] This is a reply to a private e-mail; the addy bounced, but my reply is

^ BUG? Solaris select or poll does not recover correctly when signaled
25306 [mulperi iki.] But I want raise this issue again as I think that this really
25402 [decoux moulo] Apparently this is specific to Solaris.
25417 [mulperi iki.] I did this modification to rb_thread_select and Invalid socket
25543 [matz ruby-la] I will merge this modification.  Thank you, Guy.
25823 [mulperi iki.] Unfortunaly this modification does not fix the problem. I should have
+ 25824 [mulperi iki.] It's me again.
+ 25825 [matz ruby-la] Hmm, that's too bad.

^ ruby and XSLT4R and Rexml
25307 [mjais web.de] I just download xslt4r-0_0_1
+ 25323 [ser germane-] No, the xpathtree is a private class that isn't currently distributed with
+ 25357 [neumann s-di] There is a not yet released library xmlscan which is a XML parser
  25400 [tobiasreif p] are you planning on making it feature complete?
  25410 [neumann s-di] 1) there is a standardized parser interface

^ 1.6.5 and eRuby - a problem
25310 [YuriLeikind ] I have a problem with eRuby and I've been
25311 [kentda stud.] I noticed that you're going from 1.6.4 to 1.6.5. When I installed 1.6.5,
25312 [YuriLeikind ] I don't think so, by default most programs compiled
25314 [kentda stud.] * repeatedly hits head on wooden surface *

^ Re: ANN: REXML 1.1a3 (pre-encoded strings)
25326 [rich infoeth] What about defining a module as a "tag" and then using the obj.extend(module)

^ Methods as parameters to methods?
25327 [unet MOOMOOr] Would someone please tell me how to make methods that have
25329 [kentda stud.] You could pass the methods as explicit objects.
26054 [unet MOOMOOr] Thanks.  This does, however, require "preprocessing" the methods
26059 [kentda stud.] Well, AFAIK, this is part of the reason that some articles said that in

^ win32ole and ms outlook (OLE)
25328 [kkroculick h] Anyone have any difficulty creating a mail message via win32ole? It
25331 [chris.morris] Can you post the error(s) you're getting?
25754 [benoit.cerri] OK,
25845 [kkroculick h] Benoit,

^ Ruby 1.6.5 won't compile... suggestions?
25336 [backlund che] I'm trying to install Ruby 1.6.5 on a box running the Suse Linux
+ 25342 [armin approx] That is indeed weird;
| 25350 [backlund che] After submitting my question, I thought "what the heck...", and tried it
| 25358 [Dave Pragmat] If it were my box, I'd shut it down, wiggle the DIMMS, and run a memory test.
+ 25346 [pbrannan atd] "Fatal signal 11" is another word for a segfault.  Usually, when this
| 25348 [armin approx] - try to reinstall gcc via rpm
+ 25363 [ rik kde.org] #if Niklas Backlund

^ CGI beginner's trouble
25343 [backlund che] I'm failing with CGI on such a basic level, it's almost scary! So
+ 25351 [ned bike-nom] name1=value1
+ 25352 [mike_thomas ] You can test in interactive mode by entering the 'key value pairs' that
+ 25354 [alan digikat] what the cgi is asking for is the cgi paramters to send.  You can
+ 25355 [dblack candl] That result shouldn't actually show up, since it's after the closing
+ 25359 [niklas kagi.] [Niklas Backlund]
  25364 [backlund che] Thanks, that was just the little push I needed to get along in the right

^ more on [matz:"Human Oriented Programming"?]
25347 [henning ikso] During RubyConf, matz gave a keynote on "Human oriented Programming".
25390 [matz ruby-la] Rich Kilmer was taking video of the presentaion.  I'm not sure how
25420 [henning ikso] Programming"?]"
+ 25682 [mrchameleon ] A liberal translation of Occam's razor may be as follows ...
+ 25925 [matz ruby-la] In "real world", we always use this principle.  For example, even the

^ downloading pictures using 'net/http'
25349 [henning ikso] web-page, and
+ 25356 [niklas kagi.] [Henning von Rosen]
| 25360 [henning ikso] do I
+ 25391 [james rubyxm] If you're doing this on windows you need to specify that you're writing binary.

^ Photo's from JAOO
25353 [Dave Pragmat] The JAOO conference in Denmark put some photos up on their web site.

^ Bug in String.sub and friends?
25365 [1008460550.5] irb(main):001:0> s = "thestring"
25381 [nobu.nokada ] irb(main):006:0> '\\\1'
25442 [1008517103.2] Thanks.  My confusion was because '\1' == '\\1'.

^ SAGE/USENIX Book review
25366 [mps discomsy] All,
25377 [Dave Pragmat] Is there an online version?
25382 [mps discomsy] Not yet, they have up through August 2001 online.  So, it looks like

^ Arrays, iterators, and map/collect
25383 [hal9000 hype] This may be two or more questions.
+ 25384 [vjoel PATH.B] strings.select { |s| s[0]!=?a }.each { |s| s[/^/] = "pre." }
| 25385 [feldt ce.cha] I haven't followed this thread so may be out of line but there is also
| 25387 [hal9000 hype] Thanks for comments, both of you...
| 25393 [gotoken notw] When each member is a kind of container, `replace' works.
| 25397 [hal9000 hype] Thanks for replying. This is interesting. I will have to
| 25401 [gotoken notw] A problem may be we know C and "*ptr = x;" looks pretty intuitive,
+ 25403 [feldt ce.cha] I would do it like this but allow myself to shorten it to
  + 25430 [gotoken notw] Oh, Yes. It's natural.
  + 25604 [hal9000 hype] I'm having difficulty expressing myself.
    25686 [dblack candl] strings = %w[ alpha beta gamma ]
    25693 [feldt ce.cha] There are since this version creates a new Array and

^ RE:  tree class library?
25392 [mdavis sevai] Sorry for the late response.  There is a nary tree or b*tree in ArunaDB at

^ Ruby API question
25394 [ralph.mason ] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+ 25395 [aleksei.guze] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+ 25396 [ralph.mason ] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+ 25406 [nobu.nokada ] Yes, it's right. In another way, if you have reference to

^ [ANN] ripper (was Re: Looking for Ruby Parser)
25404 [aamine mx.ed] Oh Dave, how did you find it?  :-)

^ [ANN] GraphR 0.1.9
25407 [feldt ce.cha] Many small updates to GraphR so if you haven't updated in a while it might

^ Redefining Fixnum.x(val)?
25412 [fujita uni-m] I'm new to Ruby and hav just tried out an example from "Programming Ruby" in
+ 25415 [henning ikso] in
| 25422 [harryo zipwo] The problem is that the second time, Fixnum#+() is already your new
+ 25416 [harryo zipwo] I cut and pasted your code into a file and it works fine with my
+ 25703 [fujita uni-m] Thanx much.

^ Ruby & SWIG
25428 [martin optus] I'm attempting to use SWIG to build a ruby module on w2k and VC6.0. After

^ [ANN] NQXML v1.0.1 (DOCTYPE output fix)
25431 [jimm eris.io] NQXML v1.0.1 addes a method missing to the Doctype tag that prevented it
25436 [tobiasreif p] good news!
25443 [tobiasreif p] How to get the elements' name of the node and its' parent?
25445 [tobiasreif p] (I'll stop now; sorry)

^ Why not xmlparser?  (was: Re: XML support in the standard lib;whatexactly?)
25432 [cboos bct-te] I may have missed something, but the original question that started the
25678 [james rubyxm] It does look good.
+ 25679 [julian-ml be] Except that it doesn't seem to allow multiple parsers to exist at one time... haven't looked into it much yet... it must be using global variables or something.
+ 25722 [ ser efn.org] Except that it is based on expat, which we don't control, and which are C
  + 25732 [james rubyxm] Why is C code more difficult to maintain? Isn't Ruby itself written in C?
  | + 25734 [dblack candl] And, on a less legalistic note, here's some possibly relevant language
  | + 25850 [ ser efn.org] You can assume everybody working with Ruby knows Ruby.  You can't assume
  |   + 25853 [dblack candl] Possibly, though Ruby programmers don't have to maintain Expat; it's
  |   | 26330 [ser germane-] Those other libraries aren't part of the "standard" Ruby distribution.  The
  |   | 26332 [dblack candl] I know, but I'm hoping that the whole notion of a standard distribution
  |   + 25871 [james rubyxm] Hm. I'd argue that's apples and oranges, but the main idea is that Ruby users would not *have* to know C to use Ruby features that
  |     26345 [ser germane-] Yeah :-)  Isn't that the test of a "non-trivial" programming language?
  |     + 26352 [benoit.cerri] That will change just as soon as you work on a project where
  |     + 26406 [hutch xampl.] Pardon me? I don't agree... at all. I could make a case that DOM is just a
  |       + 26407 [feldt ce.cha] (Background) Rockit is a parser generator framework in pure-Ruby I'm
  |       | 26409 [hutch xampl.] I think DOM is supposed to be a representation of the XML infoset -- that
  |       + 26442 [tobiasreif p] 1.
  + 25750 [benoit.cerri] You just said it was significantly faster when parsing as a stream. In my

^ cgi.rb cookie access
25434 [harryo zipwo] I recently began playing with mod_ruby, eruby and cgi.rb, which are all
+ 16668 [mike lepton.] variable
+ 16670 [harryo zipwo] Say I have two variables called "name" and "value".  Is the correct way
  16701 [mike lepton.] way

^ Win32 EventLog
25437 [mark iot.com] Are there any Ruby applications similar to the Win32 modules in Perl?
+ 16724 [ptkwt shell1] I've set up a project on SourceForge for Win32 modules/extensions for
| 16736 [sol123 msn.c] I'am currently working on an eventlog extension, and have already 90% com=
+ 25453 [ptkwt shell1] I've set up a project on SourceForge for Win32 modules/extensions for

^ Net::ProtoRetriableError: 302 Found
25439 [atsang hk.li] I try to retrieve some data from an internet site using
+ 16672 [jimm eris.io] 302 is the HTTP return code that means "Moved Temporarily". The return
+ 16720 [Dave Pragmat] This means you're been redirected from the page you tried to access to
| 16734 [hal9000 hype] This is just the sort of thing that drops out of my head for
+ 25440 [jimm eris.io] 302 is the HTTP return code that means "Moved Temporarily". The return
  + 25522 [chris.morris] I was just playing with this yesterday. The pickaxe book (p. 491) contains
  + 25555 [niklas kagi.] [Alan Tsang]

^ Tiny Test::Unit requirement
25444 [feldt ce.cha] I know this may go against common practice but I'd like to see a single
25456 [ntalbott rol] Based on feedback at the RubyConf, I've done this. You can now do
25458 [feldt ce.cha] Great! How is the merger coming along?
25529 [ntalbott rol] I haven't had a lot of opportunity to work on it over the last week or

^ Re: embedding C++
25448 [chris atdesk] Others have mentioned swig, and we've been using that successfully
25451 [chris atdesk] In reality, I think that just creating "local" variables on the heap

^ Re: ruby-mode.el
25449 [adam corelli] It gets distributed with ruby itself, I think.
17250 [lists.ruby-t] Anybody fiddle with any updates for XEmacs 21.5.1?

^ File#abspath extension and FindBin module
25450 [adam corelli] I have to agree with the other delurkers - ruby is a truly beautiful

^ Re: Fwd: Some quick benchmarks on scripting languages
25461 [matt sergean] Note that as usual with benchmarks, you often don't implement things the

^ Perl modules from ruby?
25462 [ggrothendiec] I am writing small programs to extract certain information from web
16772 [decoux moulo] There is a perl module at

^ accessing instance variables in ruby debugger
25463 [ianm actives] If I have an instance of small ruby class with 2 instance variables
+ 16803 [matz zetabit] It's a bug.
+ 16867 [ianm actives] thanks very much - thats working fine now.
+ 25471 [ianm actives] thanks very much - thats working fine now.

^ Getting a class object from a string containg its name
25464 [larsch cs.au] I need to get a reference to a class object from a string with the name of
+ 16807 [decoux moulo] Use #const_get see [ruby-talk:13414]
+ 25523 [feldt ce.cha] I kind of remember someone posting a good solution to this but I can't
+ 25524 [dblack candl] class String
+ 25547 [niklas kagi.] [Lars Christensen]
+ 25557 [dblack candl] You can use const_get.  Here's a somewhat overwritten example :-)
+ 25687 [list chromat] There was a discussion about this a while ago.

^ Re: Totally newbie seeks a bit of help
25465 [s_skroeder h] Thanks Martin....
+ 16835 [dennisdecker] Nice to see you here :-)
+ 25467 [dennisdecker] Nice to see you here :-)
  + 16940 [aryan global] I got the book only two days after finding Ruby!
  + 25480 [aryan global] I got the book only two days after finding Ruby!

^ Handling of 'national characters' in strings
25466 [s_skroeder h] This is something i'm working on....
16840 [Dave Pragmat] There does seem to be a RubyWin problem here.

^ Re: curses window + scroll
25468 [maverick ido] Nevermind, I figured it out. I had to add a scrollok wrapper into

^ [ANN] NQXML v1.0.2 (bug fix)
25470 [jimm fnord.i] NQXML version 1.0.2 fixes errors in the DOCTYPE public identifier strings

^ Writting a profiler / line coverager / debugger for ruby
25472 [llothar mail] I just looked in the ruby reference and didn't find something like the
+ 16864 [Dave Pragmat] It's called "set_trace_func", in the Kernel module
| 16872 [matz zetabit] And it may be useful to check out debug.rb (debugger), profile.rb
+ 25537 [hgs dmu.ac.u] This doesn't seem to be in the FAQ.  There is a profiler for Ruby,
| 25603 [mchahn facel] There is a trace callback in python.  Cannot look it up at the moment, but
+ 25546 [feldt ce.cha] $ ri set_trace
+ 25563 [ned bike-nom] see set_trace_func

^ Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism
25473 [jaco teaser.] As Ruby beginner, i try some "canonical" OO scripts. Doing so, I've
+ 16873 [aleksei.guze] I'm afraid Eric Jacoboni wishes Ruby intrpreter perform strong type
| 16879 [matju sympat] Have you seen type-inference? Some languages actually analyze your code
| 16880 [aleksei.guze] # -----Original Message-----
| + 16885 [jaco teaser.] That's exactly my problem : A is a subset of B. A subset of objects: a
| + 16890 [Dave Pragmat] Are there any studies that actually show that?
| + 16894 [marick visib] Many Lisp and Smalltalk programmers would disagree.
| + 16925 [matju sympat] Those characteristics are those of 386 assembler. 486 and Pentium
| + 17175 [ford_prefect] Consider the weakly type functional programming language Erlang used by
| + 25516 [ford_prefect] Consider the weakly type functional programming language Erlang used by
|   17176 [aleksei.guze] I didn't want ot discuss techonologies at this mailing list.
+ 16876 [patrickdloga] anEmployee is just a variable name that appears to resemble a class name.
+ 25492 [patrickdloga] anEmployee is just a variable name that appears to resemble a class name.

^ Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism
25474 [jaco teaser.] As Ruby beginner, i try some "canonical" OO scripts. Doing so, I've
+ 16870 [matju sympat] It's a "non-feature". Names are not references, they are keys in a hash of
+ 16871 [alwagner tca] Just curious, what did you expect to happen?  What model do you hold in your
+ 16875 [matz zetabit] aManager = anEmployee
+ 16886 [jaco teaser.] Educationnal purpose, not efficiency...
+ 25475 [jaco teaser.] That's exactly my problem : A is a subset of B. A subset of objects: a
| + 16901 [patrickdloga] There are two things that make Ruby different from previous languages
| | 16907 [luigi.ballab] class ObjectOne {
| + 17033 [matju sympat] Unlike SmallTalk, Ruby does not have Object#become, or anything. You can't
| | 17060 [jaco teaser.] Yep. It seems it's something like that. As far as i used to consider,
| + 17174 [ford_prefect] In a strongly type language, you very often end up creating a reference to a
| + 25482 [jaco teaser.] Yep. It seems it's something like that. As far as i used to consider,
| + 25519 [ford_prefect] In a strongly type language, you very often end up creating a reference to a
| + 25549 [ned bike-nom] No. An A object is going to remain an instance of A (or very closely related
| + 25572 [billk cts.co] As 'Eliza' might say, "Why do you think that the OOP is ok as long as
+ 25489 [jaco teaser.] Educationnal purpose, not efficiency...
| + 16891 [decoux moulo] a = b = "abc"
| + 16895 [hgs dmu.ac.u] But you don't assign a class to another class. You assign it to a name.
| + 16899 [luigi.ballab] That's because you're thinking of C++ and its copy semantics (i.e., when
| + 25566 [eric badtux.] Uhm, objects cannot be assigned to each other in Ruby. You are confusing the
| + 25688 [list chromat] There are no two objects being assigned to each other in your example,
+ 25658 [alwagner uar] No, aManager is just assigned to a variable named "anEmployee";