281773-283311

^ Class Help - Accessing Parent Methods from Child
281773 [me michaelbo] some trouble with classes and inheritance and the like. I've got my main
+ 281795 [phrogz mac.c] class Reader
+ 281813 [dblack rubyp] The variables you've mentioned (@headers and @connection) are instance

^ Fwd: Please Forward A Ruby Quiz Submission
281778 [james graypr] ...

^ What are the differences between c++ and Ruby?
281779 [radhika.dudd] I would like implement multiple inheritance in java by using ruby
+ 281832 [caduceass gm] You do understand, of course, that to answer these questions, one
| + 281833 [caduceass gm] I should qualify ... I'm not sure this last statement of mine is
| + 281962 [john.carter ] Don't be so unhelpful... it's obvious that Ruby is like a writing desk
+ 281846 [sepp2k googl] 5.class #=> Integer
+ 281848 [coder68 yaho] Java does not support MI nor will it ever support MI.  In fact one of
| 281858 [shortcutter ] Mostly agree.  But: you can include any number of modules and thus
| 281867 [coder68 yaho] I stand corrected, thanks for the clarification Robert
+ 281986 [kevin.cline ] All three languages are Turing-complete, and consequently there are no
  282242 [dodecaphonic] QWxsIHBlb3BsZSBoYXZlIHRoZSBzYW1lIGJhc2ljIHBoeXNpY2FsIHRyYWl0cywgdGhlcmVmb3Jl
  282272 [vvangelovski] Why would you want to implement multiple inheritance in Java???
  282337 [shortcutter ] Actually you do not get *all* the benefits of MI, especially you are
  282360 [rlp1938 gmai] I'm in here late but not matter,

^ Fwd: Ruby Quiz #148
281787 [dave.pederso] Solution to quiz #148.
+ 281790 [me michaelbo] I've looked at a lot of solutions for this quiz today and I have to say
+ 281804 [kbloom gmail] postfix = 3 5 * 5 8 * /
  281817 [dave.pederso] Thanks for pointing that out.  I was trying to minimize parentheses...looks

^ Problem with Rails Installation
281794 [Gowrisankar.] I have downloaded Rails-1.2.6.zip manually as my proxy settings are

^ [ADV] Ruport Book Pre-orders now open
281796 [gregory.t.br] Though we've not quite hit the finish line yet, we're far enough along

^ Fwd: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission
281799 [james graypr] ...

^ Strange errors on Mac OS X.
281800 [gabrielbn ho] I was wondering if anyone could help out a newbie in need. So I've just
+ 281835 [has.temp3 vi] Might be that your code is using carriage returns instead of linefeeds
| 281932 [dangerwillro] No mac apps use CR as line endings now. That went away with OS9's
| 282027 [has.temp3 vi] On 4 Dec, 00:36, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
+ 281853 [phrogz mac.c] If you copy and paste text from a website, particularly when is has
  + 281918 [gabrielbn ho] Yes, yes I did. After seeing this, I tried copy-pasting a non-break
  | 281921 [florian.assm] Just replace
  | 281943 [gabrielbn ho] Just tried it, it's still giving me the error message.
  + 282726 [gabrielbn ho] Alright, thanks for helping me narrow it down. I managed to make it work
    282753 [m_goldberg a] You shouldn't have had to retype by hand. Your code editor should be
    282824 [gabrielbn ho] Textedit, in plain text mode, which isn't really a code editor, but has

^ Re: Ruby Quiz #148
281801 [james graypr] Since there was no name specified, I think all solvers should assume

^ "shoes" issues
281806 [schmode93 ya] So, i have been looking around for easy GUI's. I tried DL'ing TK but I
281862 [schmode93 ya] Ok i have messed around a bit more with this, and now its more
281872 [why ruby-lan] So, it sounds like you used the Shoes installer, right?  If you look
281873 [schmode93 ya] Yes, i used shoes installer, yes i have v. r315 ( and have tried other
281881 [why ruby-lan] Sure.
+ 281887 [mental rydia] Have you considered registering a .shoes extension?  "follow.shoes" and so on?
+ 281891 [schmode93 ya] Alright I think the 1st part works, but not the second part, take a look
  281892 [mental rydia] Try it all on one line (with spaces in place of line breaks).
  281894 [schmode93 ya] Ahha, thanks, i tried just combining the 2 that didn't work XD. Thanks a

^ Everyone's favorite flow control: retry
281810 [charles.nutt] Today I was thinking about retry support in JRuby, and figured we've
+ 281855 [ruby anthrop] Okay, I disagree with that last point. Retry is very handy when
| + 281949 [MonkeeSage g] On Dec 3, 9:06 am, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+r...@anthropohedron.net>
| | 281952 [charles.nutt] void foo() { goto retry; }
| | 281955 [MonkeeSage g] On Dec 3, 8:22 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
| | 281963 [charles.nutt] It raises an exception, a LocalJumpError (which is how all non-local
| | + 281969 [MonkeeSage g] On Dec 3, 10:40 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
| | + 282071 [MonkeeSage g] On Dec 3, 10:40 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
| |   + 282080 [Thomas.Enebo] If Charlie did not mention this earlier in the thread we have in fact
| |   + 282332 [matz ruby-la] To share implementation with CALL.  We push the block stack then moves
| + 281967 [alexg kuicr.] I'm pretty sure Charles meant that nobody uses or understands retry
|   281971 [alexg kuicr.] [alexg@powerbook]/Users/alexg/Desktop(33): ruby retry2.rb
|   281973 [alexg kuicr.] Ignore that last message, I see now it's not even getting through one
|   281977 [charles.nutt] It's not callable because it's at the top level. It works if it's in a
+ 282333 [matz ruby-la] OK, even though I am not fully agreed with you in some edge corner, we
  + 282355 [ruby anthrop] Thank you, Matz! Even without it being an issue for JRuby, I would be in
  + 282433 [charles.nutt] I think removing a feature when there's no benefit to keeping it is
    282465 [matz ruby-la] I think it's just a matter of discussion focus, i.e. problems,

^ got problem in installing fedora
281811 [durezauberit] fedora core, i cannot open my monitor...is there a problem in my
281847 [rsteckly wha] SGkgRGlhbm5lLA0KDQpXaGVuIHlvdSBzYXkgeW91ciBtb25pdG9yIHdvbid0IG9wZW4sIHdoYXQg
282111 [durezauberit] Good day!

^ Everyone's favorite flow control: retry
281812 [charles.nutt] Today I was thinking about retry support in JRuby, and figured we've

^ program behavior differs when tracing function is set
281820 [timur xored.] I've been working on simple ruby debugger that is using

^ ruby source code
281821 [mzalendo90 y] greetings  to  all,
283311 [shawn42 gmai] Have you looked at InstantRails or Locomotive?

^ Re: Ruport Book Pre-orders now open
281823 [come.news fr] It seems ok to get from outside the US the PDF only version, right ?
281857 [gregory.t.br] Yes, absolutely.  You'd need to pay in USD, but other than that, it's

^ [QUIZ]
281829 [inuyasha.aka] This is reply to Quiz 148

^ Postfix to Infix (#148)
281831 [inuyasha.aka] Sorry, in previous post I forgot about parenthess in case of - and /.

^ how to use render & redirect_to together
281836 [advait.bellu] I needed to know a way or method of using render and reditect_to

^ Re: how to use render & redirect_to togethe
281837 [jameskilton ] What exactly are you trying to do and why?
281838 [jameskilton ] Oh, and next time please use the Rails mailing list.

^ string to substring??
281841 [l3litzer hot] I have one string name
+ 281842 [coder68 yaho] irb(main):001:0> mesArray = "5x-2=18".split ""
+ 281844 [shortcutter ] irb(main):001:0> message = "5x-2=18"
  281851 [l3litzer hot] thank you robert :D

^ read file and print contents - beginner
281859 [stu_09 hotma] im new to ruby and i have a text file and want to read in the file
281860 [cvonkleist g] I would change
281861 [stu_09 hotma] I've changed my approach as i dont actually want to count the lines
+ 281865 [cvonkleist g] ARGV.each do |fn|
+ 281869 [andrei andre] ARGV.each will iterate through every parameter you pass. Since your

^ Re: NTLM authentication with httpclient - SOLVED
281868 [yermej gmail] It works now! I just made a stupid mistake in my testing. This is an
281882 [diegoslice g] Very cool and thank you!

^ help with  ? yield :
281874 [coder montx.] I'm new to Ruby and Rails, and I'm learning at the same time I'm reading
+ 281877 [ljjarvis gma] ? is the equivalent to 'if' kinda.. For example
+ 281878 [sepp2k googl] foo ? bar : baz
+ 281879 [noah.easterl] so ? : is normally called the trinary operator, and is common to a
  281880 [coder montx.] thanks to all !!

^ Redcloth ignore YouTube embeds?
281876 [dougal.s gma] I'm trying to process blog posts using RedCloth, stripping any html
281895 [dougal.s gma] t = t.gsub( /(<object(.|\n)+?<\/object>)/ ,
281957 [chiology gma] You could use that regexp to pull out the object/embed tags into a

^ Any success compiling ruby-odbc for Mac OS X Leopard?
281883 [carpeaqua gm] Has anyone had any luck compiling the ruby-odbc library on Mac OS X
281926 [nerdrew gmai] I installed ruby-odbc using MacPorts and it installed without any

^ Slightly odd Integer() behavior
281890 [danielsson.l] Integer(gets), works well if you enter any integer apart from 0, which
281893 [ed.odanow wo] For me (Windows2000) it works well for Ruby 1.8.6, but not for nightly

^ The Great Ruby Shootout
281897 [acangiano gm] I hope that you'll find it useful or interesting. :)
281931 [charles.nutt] Looks great Antonio :)

^ overriding SCITE warning
281902 [surjit.meite] I am using SCITE to run my ruby code. The output pane also displays all
281924 [raasdnil gma] Depends what your warning is. If it is "warning, your computer will explode
282024 [surjit.meite] Good Joke !!!!!!!!!!

^ Screen Scraping an Image
281904 [skenney26 gm] How do you screen scrape an image off of a web page?
281907 [phrogz mac.c] You find the URL of the image (possibly resolving a relative URL
281915 [robert.citek] I suspect Sean is asking, what's the ruby way of doing a wget?
281916 [skenney26 gm] Here's a script I found at http://www.rubynoob.com/articles/2006/8/21/how-to-download-files-with-a-ruby-script
282233 [dodecaphonic] require 'open-uri'

^ Starting ruby on rails with multiple applications
281911 [laredotornad] I'm using Fedora Core 5 Linux with the latest version of Ruby on
281925 [raasdnil gma] Dear Dave,

^ Getting input
281912 [schmode93 ya] I have been trying to get find a way to get input from the user, and be
281913 [justincollin] Shoes.app do

^ What is the best way to interact with a JDBC database
281917 [venkatesh.ma] I have a database that has only JDBC connectivity but I need to interact to
+ 281922 [dvohra09 yah] Which database is it?
| 281936 [venkatesh.ma] It's a science/research project called "MonetDB".
| + 281941 [dvohra09 yah] Use JRuby with JDBC driver.
| + 281945 [reid.thompso] from the website...There are application bindings for MonetDB/SQL using JDBC,
+ 281923 [ruby gmail.c] Just out of interest, what was your problem with JRuby?
| 281939 [venkatesh.ma] Actually, I haven't tried Jruby except reading about it. I am using Ruby as
| + 281950 [dvohra09 yah] Instead of the MySQL JDBC driver use the MonetDB JDBC driver.
| + 282038 [Thomas.Enebo] Out of personal interest...Which classes are missing for you in JRuby?
|   282085 [venkatesh.ma] I don't know if any classes are missing. I was just reading the
|   282089 [Thomas.Enebo] My main comment is that JRuby "is" Ruby in the sense that you can write
|   282101 [venkatesh.ma] - I am using the MySQL Driver which has one-to-one correspondence to "C"
|   282224 [Thomas.Enebo] Well the issue with using the MySQL Driver is that it requires a native
+ 282206 [kbloom gmail] Well, if you're going to have Ruby call a Java program and you can't port

^ Ruby regexp Match
281951 [contact thir] I am trying to convert some old Perl scripts to Ruby and am stuck at a
+ 281953 [botpena gmai] ruby gives more (objects), see http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/MatchData.html
+ 281954 [justincollin] Yes.
  281956 [contact thir] I got it!
  281959 [MonkeeSage g] You can also do like you would in perl...

^ converting Net::HTTPOK to String or ? to use with REXML::Document ?
281960 [elle.on.rail] (was Re: constructing an (xml) request properly for http post to an

^ Rubyisms wanted to shorten code in search program
281965 [RichardDummy] Search on WindowsXP/SP2 didn't seem to locate a file is looking for.
+ 281972 [phrogz mac.c] On Dec 3, 10:03 pm, RichardOnRails
| 282133 [RichardDummy] It's of course very much related.  It incorporates a number of nice
+ 282037 [shortcutter ] Just a quick hack without command line processing.
| 282136 [RichardDummy] Your algorithm's concept is excellent ... just what I hoped to learn
| 282149 [shortcutter ] Oh, yes.  Sorry for that. But then again, you should probably globally
| 282247 [RichardDummy] Please, no apologies.  Your few words of insight were worth
+ 282147 [m.fellinger ] On Dec 4, 2007 2:05 PM, RichardOnRails
  282459 [RichardDummy] Great code!  You interpreted my intent perfectly.  And your code
  282472 [m.fellinger ] On Dec 7, 2007 10:15 AM, RichardOnRails

^ captach data enty
281966 [ranjit_karma] i am work you captch. can you help me.
281974 [MonkeeSage g] Regards,

^ test_readline.rb hang in mingw32
281968 [luislavena g] I've tried running the tests for readline (make check) under mingw32.

^ IRB.load_modules Bug?
281970 [cjs cynic.ne] def IRB.load_modules
281976 [MonkeeSage g] I'm not sure of the intended behavior, but in 1.9 it has...

^ Re: Ruby idiom equivalent to Perl "$asdf = $ARGV[0] || die 'arg required'"?
281980 [justincollin] Are you saying you _do_ want something like the example you gave?
+ 281983 [justincollin] I guess you can get rid of the parentheses, too.
| 281993 [ryand-ruby z] abort "arguments are required" if ARGV.empty?
+ 282055 [james graypr] $ qri Kernel#abort
| 282056 [MonkeeSage g] On Dec 4, 11:30 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
+ 282060 [justincollin] Yeah, I just wasn't sure what you wanted. Like a more object-oriented
  282124 [botpena gmai] Ah, may i suggest Ara's main gem ...

^ Re: Ruby idiom equivalent to Perl "$asdf = $ARGV[0] || die 'arg required'"?]
281985 [cjs cynic.ne] Something like this, perhaps?
281987 [shortcutter ] Here's some more

^ changing a files' content
281992 [olifoxpaul g] i have a text file with various lines, and i want to alter some of these
+ 281997 [olifoxpaul g] thanks for the reply the -i flag looks like it'll be useful, but in my
+ 282028 [MonkeeSage g] patterns = { /some_pattern/ => "replacement text" }
+ 282617 [lrlebron gma] I did something similar using the rio library. Cleaned up some vb

^ How to make file_field tag readonly?
281994 [anilbhat21 g] I have provided the file upload option in a form and have to make the

^ printing from a file - beginner
281999 [stu_09 hotma] im new to ruby and ive got a bit of a problem
282003 [markonlinux ] new to this myself so take that into consideration ;-)

^ Eliminar envio de correo a mi direccion
282000 [jfmorales ho] <html><div style='background-color:'><P>Mis Saludos, por favor entre en la pagina ruby para que me enviaran informacion referente al producto, pero el servidor me envia los comentarios de todos y me estan llenando el correo,&nbsp;me di de baja pero no resulta si me puedes orientar por favor. gracias<BR><BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
282008 [fxn hashref.] Esta es una lista de discusion cuyo proposito es conversar acerca del
282357 [rbarrile b-v] Hola Xavier, me dir=EDas por favor a donde tengo que entrar para

^ Eliminar / Unsubscribe
282002 [rbarrile b-v] charset="iso-8859-1"
282010 [fmvsoma gmai] habeis probado de enviar un email a ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org

^ web service client
282015 [ochomoz gmai] I have a simple web-service that i quickly generated using netbeans java
282073 [s.korteling ] Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
282162 [ochomoz gmai] I have done a small ruby app to consume a web service on SUN App Server.

^ how to get the root of a web application with watir/firewati
282016 [mario betwar] Somebody knows how to get the root of the web application.
282152 [mario betwar] I'm going to give you more information that can be useful for the

^ [ANN] CGIExt 0.0.3 released - re-implementation of cgi.rb in C  extension
282017 [kwa kuwata-l] I have released CGIExt 0.0.3.
282125 [ara.t.howard] creating Makefile

^ Queries regarding signal usage in Ruby 1.9 implementation
282021 [chirag80bece] We have gone through the code of Ruby 1.9 implementation. I have some

^ Fwd: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission (#148)
282023 [james graypr] ...

^ Ruby App Distribution
282025 [superist_joe] I was wondering what are the options for distributing a ruby application.  Java has the jar and C++ you can compile to an exe.  What options does Ruby provide?  I'm not looking to distribute anything before the next release.  I don't know if something is being added with Yarv to aide in distribution.  Any info would be great.
+ 282031 [rubytraining] Take a look at: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html .
+ 282063 [james.britt ] Using JRuby you can package up a Ruby app and distribute it as a
  + 282072 [jari.william] Is that feature available inside JRuby? How do you do it? I was under
  | 282099 [superist_joe] I don't see how RubyScript2Exe would work when it's a virtual machine.  Would it package the entire virtual machine inside the exe?
  | 282102 [adam.shelly ] I don't know all the internals, but essentially, yes.  It collects
  | 282107 [superist_joe] I should have mentioned this in the last email.  I'd like to find something platform independent too.  I use Linux personally, but I'd like it to work on Windows, Mac OS X, and of course Linux.
  | 282188 [jari.william] If you want one single distribution that works on all platforms without
  | 282290 [superist_joe] I guess there really aren't many options right now.  A cool solution would be an executable format like jar that worked on all platforms that was ruby specific.
  | + 282300 [dangerwillro] If you want it to be available to those who don't already have
  | + 282310 [ara.t.howard] gems ships with ruby now.  might as well join the fun.
  | + 282316 [charles.nutt] JRuby is Ruby. It's just implemented in a different language and runs on
  |   282386 [hramrach cen] It is ruby running on top of JVM. And the JVM is pretty good, I have
  |   282401 [charles.nutt] OS X is one version behind, and will probably have a full Java 6 release
  |   282473 [hramrach cen] Free if you happen to have the right platform ..
  |   282482 [charles.nutt] Yeah, if your platform is Linux, Windows, or Solaris...that's a pretty
  + 282103 [superist_joe] <Excerpt>
    + 282314 [charles.nutt] That's old, thanks for calling my attention to it. The JRuby compiler
    | 282403 [superist_joe] Is it possible to use wxRuby or FXRuby with JRuby?  I'm just asking because I was hoping to use one of them.
    | + 282405 [charles.nutt] There's no JRuby-compatible version of the gem, but there is a wxWidgets
    | + 282408 [jari.william] No, both these are platform-specific, C-based implementations.
    + 282315 [charles.nutt] Actually, it's also worth mentioning that JRuby's had an interpreted