307462-345102

^ How to point to proper worksheet in excel
307462 [m.tyman inte] @xl = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application')
+ 307477 [pdanese Rib-] SSBoYXZlIGZvbGxvd2luZyBjb2RlOg0KDQpAeGwgPSBXSU4zMk9MRS5uZXcoJ0V4Y2VsLkFwcGxp
+ 307536 [david.mullet] As Paul mentioned, you had a typo, where "@xb" should be "@wb".
+ 307554 [lrlebron gma] Here's an exzmple that may help

^ Re: Counting the files in a directory....
307463 [clement.ow a] Yes, indeed, infact it's quite efficient according to the benchmark

^ Excel and charts
307465 [m.tyman inte] change series mode (in columns or rows)
307530 [david.mullet] David

^ Re: Why can't I return "Threads.list" Array in DRb?
307469 [b.candler po] This might be helpful: http://rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/DRbTutorial

^ Fetch 6 records from a table randomly
307471 [gananapragas] i have one table "documents" and i want to fetch 6 records randomly is
307479 [b.candler po] Yes, clearly there *is* a solution.
307482 [lloyd 2live4] Dang, Brian, you surely do not pull your punches.  I found what you said
307544 [lloyd 2live4] I have used this differently and found that it is not exactly as I said.

^ inheritance v passing object through the constructor
307475 [aidy.lewis g] Could anyone please tell me what the difference would be of inheriting
+ 307476 [b.candler po] That won't do anything as written; the two 'box' local variables are
| 307483 [jcoglan goog] If ErrorBox really is a more specialized kind of Box, then subclassing makes
+ 307478 [chris.hulan ] Try googling "inheritance vs delegation" and "inheritance vs

^ rubygems troubles
307481 [gethemant gm] In my rails app, i use several awesome gems. Gem X depends on 0.4
307528 [rogerpack200] impossible to 'deactivate' gems currently, AFAIK--you could, however,

^ Gnuplot with ruby - unset variable?
307484 [rubyforum m3] Seems like rgplot2.2 is inactive - is this correct?
+ 307492 [AEtzold gmx.] It seems that earlier versions of Gnuplot used to have the command
| 307513 [rubyforum m3] Thanks!
+ 307504 [vjoel path.b] I use an interface[1] that doesn't attempt to turn gnuplot commands into
| + 307506 [vjoel path.b] Well, minimal docs now.
| + 307514 [rubyforum m3] Thanks for your reply, Joel VanderWerf.
|   307518 [vjoel path.b] Ok. If you ever write a GUI that puts up graph windows that the user can
+ 308380 [phil quietth] FYI (I know this was days ago), but if you want to unset something like

^ advice needed on testing strategy
307489 [bill.walton ] charset="iso-8859-1"
307573 [fox nscl.msu] Make your wrapping capable of operating from a string.

^ Multiply elements in array
307491 [kylejc gmx.n] arr = ["abc", ["def", "def", "def"]]
307493 [AEtzold gmx.] Dear Chris,
+ 307494 [kylejc gmx.n] Wow, that's super! Thanks, Axel!
+ 307572 [reitinge in.] arr_final = arr[1].collect { |x| [arr[0], x] }

^ Hawthorne Press/IRHG site down?
307497 [znmeb cesmai] Is the IRHG site down? I'm getting 404s, etc.

^ Another logical precedence question
307498 [jrb562 drexe] value = ARGV.shift or usage
+ 307499 [micathom gma] irb(main):001:0> a = nil or 1
| 307503 [jrb562 drexe] I see.
+ 307500 [Rob AgileCon] If you choose to use 'or' rather than '||', you are not just getting
+ 307502 [ara.t.howard] it's always the *same* behavior, namely

^ [ANN] Vancouver.rb Open Ruby Hack Night #5 - Today 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee
307509 [geraldbauer2] Are you a Rubyist in the greater Vancouver metro in British Columbia

^ Meta_data from Raw  Image files and *.psd files
307510 [david vizion] I am needing to extract metadata from image files primarily canon *.CR2 and

^ Meta_data from Raw  Image files and *.psd files
307512 [david vizion] I am needing to extract metadata from image files primarily canon *.CR2 and
+ 307737 [kyleaschmitt] I'm not sure about the canons, but on my nikon I can grab the meta
+ 307762 [janfri.rubyf] Have a look at MiniExiftool. :)

^ File.open initialization error
307515 [MAwiniarski ] Greetings,
307516 [stefano.croc] Could you please post the whole error message?
307571 [MAwiniarski ] I've solve it.

^ [ANN]  July 14 Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting
307517 [james.britt ] July Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting

^ one background process
307519 [colin_shield] I'm trying out bj in a rails environment running 6 mongrel instances.
307525 [ara.t.howard] it's a documentation flaw - sorry.  if you want to run only one
+ 307684 [colin_shield] if you want to run only one
| 309502 [scottmcmilli] I'm trying to get bj set up with Monit as well, but I can't seem to
+ 309500 [trevorturk y] Ara, I'd like to suggest mentioning this in the README. Everything I've

^ [ANN] MiniExiftool 0.7.0 released
307523 [janfri.rubyf] MiniExiftool version 0.7.0 released!

^ Emacs mode for Ruby?
307526 [circularfunc] Googling doesnt give a good answer, is there a good rubymode for lisp?
+ 307537 [ryand-ruby z] look on emacswiki.org or grab the latest tarball of ruby. it is
+ 307584 [chris.lowis ] Yes, it's distributed as part of Ruby in the /misc directory. You can

^ emacs-mode for ruby?
307527 [circularfunc] I dont find anything useful while googling.
307539 [ryand-ruby z] I'm assuming you're the same person as the previous email I just
307551 [jayeola gmai] apt-cache search  emacs | grep ruby
307556 [ben bleythin] Which is great if you're on Debian or Ubuntu, but nearly useless
307565 [jayeola gmai] ...

^ ruby gems doc indexer
307529 [rogerpack200] create an html index of the rdoc's of installed rubygems on your system.
+ 307531 [vjoel path.b] Nice to have direct links to the home page, as well as local docs.
+ 307533 [drbrain segm] How is this different from running `gem server` and navigating to that
  + 307538 [rogerpack200] In all honesty, I didn't know gem server existed, and, also honestly, it
  | + 307541 [rogerpack200] Also it has a link to the README, which is nice.  Typically maintainers
  | + 307608 [drbrain segm] `gem server` is already a well-known way to access documentation.  It
  |   + 307626 [nospam7272 m] For the single user at home, this is an ideal solution. I have no desire
  |   | 307627 [jeremymcanal] You do realize that gem server that serves up the docs is just a
  |   + 307629 [rogerpack200] Yeah that works too.  Either way is fine.  My personal preference is the
  |     316140 [rogerpack200] Twould be nice to have some access to any existing 'changelog', too,
  + 307540 [vjoel path.b] 20Mb of RSS to serve one static page.

^ XMLRPC Question
307532 [michaeltaras] I am working on a little project that requires me to interface with an
+ 307534 [drbrain segm] Alternately, a HEAD request was performed and the server dumped a
+ 307542 [mneumann nte] I think your analysis is correct. The server is returning the plain XML
| + 307557 [michaeltaras] Thank you very much for the response.
| + 307563 [drbrain segm] I encountered the HEAD problem running RubyGems against a gem
|   307568 [B.Candler po] That definitely isn't XMLRPC. The XMLRPC spec is very simple, see
+ 307583 [yermej gmail] That seems to be the case - XMLRPC uses HTTP for transport so a
  307729 [michaeltaras] Cool, thanks everyone so much for all the help.  So it looks like

^ The Greatest Man
307535 [o0o0ofh wind] Every body has someone who's admiring him. Whose do a greatest job

^ Patching ruby_1.8.6.p111
307543 [rubyforum kl] My thanks to all for such great work. I'm trying to figure out from the
307546 [rfunk funkne] I do believe that's the right patch.
307548 [rubyforum kl] Yup, that was it.
307552 [igal pragmat] Fedora, Gentoo and some others, you may want to consider using their

^ Where is the .rb for sockets?
307545 [jayeola gmai] Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. There's
307547 [vjoel path.b] $ ri Socket | head -n 20
307549 [jayeola gmai] yes that does work. I have those docs. where is the c code for io or tcp stuff? it it not this stuff...
307559 [wilsonb gmai] ...

^ listing methods within the debugger
307550 [jayeola gmai] Hey chaps,

^ [ANN][ADV] Ruby Hoedown 2008 - Hotel information, group/student discounts, and more!
307558 [jeremymcanal] The Ruby Hoedown (the southeastern regional Ruby conference, sponsored

^ Floating point calculation problem
307564 [paxcholy gma] i'm confused by float point calculation.
+ 307566 [zregvart gma] irb(main):001:0> require 'bigdecimal'
| 307567 [paxcholy gma] thank you, you're reply.
+ 307569 [AEtzold gmx.] If you want to do exact calculations, you can use fractions

^ Ruby-debug-ide for JRuby
307574 [Guillermo.Ac] I have installed jruby 1.1.2 and it works ok. I have added it to Eclipse
307641 [martin.kraus] ruby-debug-ide is not a native extension. But it depends on other gem -

^ dbi:oci8 problems
307575 [magnellig ya] 1 require 'dbi'
307777 [magnellig ya] Now it's ok, you can view the solution on ruby-oci8 forum. Thanks to

^ Q: Remote installer
307576 [ grk usa.net] I am looking for a "remote installer" for ruby for Windows. I need to
+ 307577 [s.korteling ] Can I do an unattended install (no prompts)?
| + 307580 [ grk usa.net] ruby186-26.exe /S /D=d:\ruby
| + 307581 [ grk usa.net] Never mind. I should read more carefully. I did not realize t hat the optio=
+ 307579 [jan.svitok g] -copy c:/ruby contents from One-click installation
+ 307582 [fedzor gmail] Those errors are because you don't have all the files you need for

^ Q: remote installer
307578 [ grk usa.net] This is a multipart message in MIME format.

^ Threads: Different behavior under Linux and Windows
307585 [aarmbruster ] I've tried the sample code below on Ubuntu (7.04) as well as on a
307587 [ara.t.howard] it's well known - on windows *all* threads are blocked when the
+ 307590 [blackdrag un] that sure is not because of windows itself... so is there a page
| + 307592 [ara.t.howard] also, the pickaxe covers this in the 'threads and processes' chapter
| | 307606 [aarmbruster ] Thanks for your replies Ara.
| | 307607 [ara.t.howard] seems like a class case of using select?
| | + 307609 [aarmbruster ] Thanks again Ara,
| | + 309201 [aarmbruster ] this problem has been costing me some nerves now. I've tried various
| + 307634 [luislavena g] No, is not a Windows problem but MRI Ruby Implementation Issue.
+ 307610 [djberg96 gma] It's actually a bug in MRI. JRuby does not exhibit that behavior, for
  307708 [luislavena g] Hey Dan, can you confirm if that patches make Drb tests stall or pass?
  307765 [gthiesfeld g] Also, a recently added spec in Rubyspec is hanging when using threads.
  307768 [gthiesfeld g] There was a problem with the spec.  Sorry for the noise.

^ String matching/comparing, statistical similarity
307589 [kylejc gmx.n] I am generating a large amount of data from different data feeds (CSV).
+ 307593 [s.korteling ] I don't think this can be done. You may be able to come up with
+ 307601 [erikveen gma] There's a very fast C-implementation of the Levenshtein
+ 307656 [davebass mus] This is a major problem that search engines have to solve. There are no

^ JAXB  equivalent in Ruby?
307591 [bill.walton ] charset="iso-8859-1"
307597 [brabuhr gmai] I don't know if there is a (pure) Ruby equivalent, but I have used
307621 [bill.walton ] Thanks.  That's "plan B".

^ Ruby without rails?
307594 [shashank_hi ] I'm trying to develop a small website, and was planning to use Ruby
+ 307595 [tim.pease gm] If your intention is to generate static pages then I would recommend
| 307602 [james.britt ] I second that.  Webby is quite cool.
+ 307596 [martindemell] The simplest thing to do is use one of the (many excellent)
| 307611 [shashank_hi ] Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions. :). I've started looking
| + 307612 [shashank_hi ] Whoops, I meant screencasts
| + 307613 [jeremymcanal] Ramaze is an excellent choice.  You could also check out my little
| + 307623 [james.britt ] Drop by the #ramaze IRC channel on freenode; it's usually quite active
+ 307598 [damphyr free] There are quite a few ways to do web apps without rails.
  307599 [dangerwillro] What the OP is probably looking for is something more like the way PHP
  307603 [james.britt ] Or Ramaze or (I think) Merb, which easily allow you do create 1-file

^ Help!
307600 [johanna_gabr] install in my pc Ruby 1.8.6-26 Final Release but when i try to install rai=
+ 307604 [transfire gm] On Jul 8, 12:53=A0pm, Johanna Ferrer <johanna_gabri...@hotmail.com>
+ 307605 [cdemyanovich] "Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org" isn't
+ 307620 [bill.walton ] The simplest solution to your problem would be to use Instant Rails.  Just

^ face detection  in picture
307614 [therockhead ] Could any body could recommend any ruby library that has the ability to
307615 [ara.t.howard] you are talking about computer vision libs - some, like the ones

^ require 'socket' returns false in windows?
307617 [dmiller teco] I have two windows computers that return false when the following
307618 [vjoel path.b] $ RUBYOPT="" ruby -e 'p require("socket"); p require("socket")'
307619 [dmiller teco] That was it.

^ [ANN] Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S6 - Easier to Understand and Extend S5 Rewrite
307628 [geraldbauer2] The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and

^ 'ab\c' and 'ab\\c'
307631 [loveajax gma] I encountered a rather peculiar behavior of strings today.
307645 [toastkid.wil] I think you stumbled on another special character, \c, which seems to
+ 307647 [billk cts.co] control characters.
+ 307649 [calamitates ] In a double-quoted string, \c followed by another character forms a
  + 307658 [toastkid.wil] Ah...
  | 307664 [Rob AgileCon] String
  | 307677 [toastkid.wil] You would have to know what \c means to find this out, though!  That's
  + 307660 [loveajax gma] Interesting findings. Thanks all for the explanations.

^ type specific operator
307633 [chouhan.rj g] Ruby is a dynamically typed language so it checks at run time the type
+ 307635 [jcoglan goog] You can overload operators on specific classes if you want custom
+ 307636 [stefano.croc] I'm not sure I undestand correctly what you mean, but I think you have a wrong
  307642 [chouhan.rj g] Thanks for making me correct. But as in case of x + y it gets converted
  + 307644 [robert.dober] You can call x.class but believe me that will not give you an exact
  + 307646 [howardrobert] Why would you want to? Are you trying to solve a specific problem, or
    307651 [chouhan.rj g] Yes I would like to optimize the program, not any specific program but
    307666 [motoakira ma] Hajime-mashite > Amitraj-san

^ Piping data in on the command line
307637 [jcoglan goog] I know you can get command line args using ARGV, but is there a way to use
+ 307652 [sandor.szuec] AFAIK that's called I/O redirection.
+ 307665 [boesemar gmx] $stdin.each { |line| puts "Found: #{line}" }
  307873 [sandor.szuec] Maybe that's more readable, but my point wasn't the shell feature < .
  307876 [jcoglan goog] Thank you both. If anyone is the least bit interested I'm writing myself ye=
  307893 [ara.t.howard] you may be interested in

^ ABOUT CONTROLLER
307638 [sumantacapta] i have two problem can any body help me.....

^ Beast - stack too deep problem
307639 [simon.krollp] rails version: 2.1.0
307720 [rogerpack200] some thots: split the line up in two, see which one is causing the

^ String get domain name from web address
307643 [johnnybutler] I could have a any web address, www.yahoo.com, http://yahoo.com/,
+ 307657 [davebass mus] For the examples you've shown, doing a regexp match on "yahoo.co" would
+ 307670 [lloyd 2live4] First.  You could have one bit that removes the http:// or http://www.

^ class methods
307648 [clement.ow a] I have built my own ruby library where it contains my specific commands
+ 307655 [robert.dober] You did not define a class method, actually there are more ways to
| 307662 [davebass mus] To expand, what Robert means is that you defined an instance method. To
+ 307673 [rubynando ya] 1. The error already highlighted by other forum members.
  307736 [clement.ow a] Thanks for the replies, it makes Ruby learning so much easier! =)
  307756 [r.grosmann g] since your extended class is a MadDate, you should create a

^ Ruby support for XQuery
307650 [wcandillon g] We are pleased to announce you that the last release of Zorba (beta

^ [ANN] webgen 0.5.0 released
307653 [t_leitner gm] Hey everybody!

^ How to delete a file in Win XP
307654 [MAwiniarski ] Greetings,
+ 307659 [davebass mus] I've had a problem with deleting opened files on WinXP (using
+ 307661 [phlip2005 gm] unlink ?
+ 307663 [robyonrails ] That works to me.
+ 307679 [myEmailLists] When all else fails, try using the full path to the file.  You're
| 307685 [MAwiniarski ] 1. I'm in a proper directory (using: puts Dir.entries(Dir.pwd)
| + 307711 [luislavena g] File.chmod has no effect on Windows.
| | 307714 [paqs140482 g] `DEL #{file}`
| | 307742 [MAwiniarski ] output is: .The process cannot access the file because it is being
| | 307750 [luislavena g] Short answer: you can.
| | + 307751 [a99.googlegr] Or, perhabs unlocker  _shows, which_  process/application locks the
| | + 307755 [MAwiniarski ] I'm trying to delete normal file which I CAN delete with windows
| |   307758 [luislavena g] Ok, you're trying to delete the file from the same process?
| + 307749 [MAwiniarski ] deleting in windows explorer works fine in the same account
|   345040 [szymon dreje] Yes, it is true. However, if you run your script and forget to close the
|   345066 [karottenreib] open('jadzia', 'w+') { |file|
|   345099 [cidza tin.it] maybe the file name contains "\" instead of "/" ?
+ 345102 [ghalsey yaho] yourtarget="C:/Documents and Settings/greg/My Documents/targetfile.pdf"