33048-36083

^ Terminology (was: Soap4r/Webrick question)
33048 [james jamesb] Some thinking out loud ...
+ 33049 [Dave Pragmat] I have to admit I'm not a web programmer, so my view is not
| 33116 [james rubyxm] My deepest apologies. :)
+ 33050 [rich infoeth] Well, the term servlet came along to balance out what was being done on the

^ eval_wrap
33053 [shugo ruby-l] eruby-run uses load(file, true) because module_eval does not set
+ 33224 [Eugene.Scrip] I don't really understand what is ruby_wrapper... How my code (in
| 33225 [decoux moulo] Your code is evaluated in an anonymous module as toplevel
| 33226 [Eugene.Scrip] Is there any difference for my scripts to not be evaluated as
| 33227 [decoux moulo] pigeon% cat ff.rb
| 33234 [Eugene.Scrip] I don't really understand your example, why Array.instance_methods in
| 33247 [decoux moulo] Well, another example
| 33346 [Eugene.Scrip] Yeh, this example is more clear to me, in your example 'self' - is a
+ 36083 [gnhurst hurs] how about one of these?

^ Controlling access to (druby's) ExtServ#stop_service
33054 [ysantoso jen] I just realise that any one calling ExtServ#stop_service will cause
+ 33085 [m_seki mva.b] Can any one call ExtServ#stop_service?
| 33107 [ysantoso jen] What does this do (from drb package: sample/extserv_test.rb)?
| 33119 [m_seki mva.b] Ooops, he is too talkative.
+ 33086 [m_seki mva.b] Can any one call ExtServ#stop_service?

^ Tk documentation
33058 [peter semant] I've read the very thorough Learn Perl/Tk, and the pickaxe book and
+ 33079 [alwagner uar] I don't think so.  The best available is the Tcl/Tk
+ 33159 [sentinel_NO_] ...

^ ncurses wrapper released
33064 [tobias medi.] This is the announcement of an ruby ncurses extension.

^ http://www.loveruby.net/ with Netscape 4.79
33065 [Stephan.Kaem] just recently tried viewing
+ 33066 [decoux moulo] Try to disable javascript *OR* style sheets
+ 33067 [gehlker fast] On 2/4/02 5:57 AM, "Stephan K舂per" <Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de>
+ 33068 [tom.hurst cl] If you really must use such a crappy browser, turn off style sheet
| 33069 [stephan.schm] It works with mozilla/linux, too,
+ 33071 [sevillar tea] That's what you get for using a browser with broken standards
+ 33072 [aamine mx.ed] sorry. I'd put "h1{vertical-align:middle;}" in css by mistake.
+ 33074 [Laurent.Jull] Works fine with Mozilla 0.9.8 (I guess this means that Netscape 6.x
+ 33082 [Stephan.Kaem] Wow - what a response. Thank you all.

^ Win32Api and char ** functions
33070 [pierre.baill] I've recently discovered ruby and played a bit with it. I've now reached
+ 33115 [rafemonkey y] Good luck here... Win32API apears to be one of the black holes of ruby
+ 33121 [nobu.nokada ] I'm not sure about Win32API, what API do you mean?  And how do

^ Mixins and accessing earlier definitions.
33076 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Having read in the archives that super can be used to go back in the
33078 [decoux moulo] Yes, this is something like this. For example with
33080 [hgs dmu.ac.u] OK.
33081 [decoux moulo] Well, you want to do something strange :-)
33083 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Yes, that is what I tried -- it makes no difference, really, because it
33084 [decoux moulo] Try this
33087 [hgs dmu.ac.u] # OK this gets called when included in another module/class..
33088 [hgs dmu.ac.u] I should just use load (or require) to pull in the new definitions of my

^ CVS commit emails
33093 [Martin.Man s] Recently I've subscribed myself to the ruby-cvs mailing list to see
33122 [matz ruby-la] This is my fault;  I'm using pcl-cvs Emacs package, and it commits for
+ 33124 [Martin.Man s] fied=20
| 33199 [matz ruby-la] Could you send the information about this "magic scripts" to
| 33205 [akr m17n.org] I know a magic.  It is the combination of commitinfo and loginfo and
| 33233 [matz ruby-la] Hmm, so why did several mails come out from my commits?
| 33252 [akr m17n.org] Because it's not so magical.  The magic doesn't gather multiple cvs
+ 33127 [chris darkro] With ferite and enlightenment cvs emails we have the diffs attached - this

^ Ruby bug?  IO.close doesn't check for error
33094 [matt lickey.] It is possible for fclose() to fail (for example, when fclose() needs
33120 [matz ruby-la] "fptr_finalize" may be called from GC, in which case raising error is
33152 [matt lickey.] Yes, I agree.  I wondered about that.  ;-)
33154 [paul atdesk.] #include <stdio.h>

^ newbie: Array element conversion
33096 [probertm nor] <html>
+ 33098 [mike stok.co] x, y, z = a.collect{ |s| s.to_i }
+ 33103 [list chromat] a = ["1", "2", "3"]
+ 33340 [moontoeki ao] a =["100", "487", "23"]
+ 33343 [moontoeki ao] use collect like

^ WEBrick test fails
33100 [ jimm io.com] On my Linux Red Hat 7.1 system, one WEBrick test fails with the following
33134 [gotoyuzo not] Sorry. Listening socket is not required for this test.
33137 [ jimm io.com] Thank you. I will try it as soon as I can get to my Linux box.

^ silly eruby question
33101 [pate network] ruby from other files.  The essential model is
33102 [sean chitten] You need to declare cgi in your included file... that or you need to
33113 [pate network] hmm, it's not actually a seperate function or object.   I made the
33114 [pate network] err, I humbly and abjectly withdraw my comments below.  (I should have

^ Modulo Operation
33106 [kanvas75 web] In Ruby version 1.6.6
33110 [matju sympat] you mean -9 % 5 gives 1; it does not give -4 because / and % together obey

^ Division Modulo Problem
33108 [kanvas75 web] Sorry a little failure.
+ 33109 [Dave Pragmat] (sorry about the table - it looks better in the printed book). The
+ 33111 [mcix gmx.net] Integers are very confusing, aren't them? ;-)

^ Weekly RCR Summary
33112 [RubyGarden t] This is an automatically generated list of Ruby Change Requests.

^ regexp for "MUD"ding
33117 [usenet.addic] ultimately, for fun or whatever, i'm thinking of using ruby as a "mud
33118 [elanthis awe] ^,^  You could help get the Ruby extensions for AweMUD up to par, that

^ implementing com interfaces
33123 [benoit.cerri] I think I saw a thread on this somewhere but can't find it anymore, is there
33133 [rich infoeth] Ralph Mason is working on this.  Alpha code right now.

^ Bugs corrected in DBD/ODBC/ODBC.rb and DBD/Proxy/Proxy.rb
33125 [ngawor lucen] Michael,

^ [ANN] SIE : Simple Inference Engine - Update 1.11
33126 [peter semant] My expert system shell has had a few tweaks and a whole new Tk based

^ Progress with Ruby/Tk
33128 [peter semant] Thanks for all the help and pointers that people have given me, as you
+ 33130 [Jean-Francoi] I use a TkText widget and set a fixed width font
+ 33136 [matju sympat] tkdialog.rb uses dialog.tcl which has hardcoded horiz packing. if you want
| 33140 [peter semant] Looks like I'm going to be quiet for some time then.
+ 33188 [nagai ai.kyu] For example,
  33217 [peter semant] Once again you ride to the rescue.

^ Ruby and Swig??
33129 [mjais web.de] according to swig.org Swig works also with Ruby.
+ 33131 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Yes it does. I have tried to improve the docs for 1.3.11 as there was
| 33132 [rich infoeth] This is excellent, thats for your work!
+ 33139 [ljohnson res] FXRuby (http://fxruby.sourceforge.net) uses SWIG extensively to generate its
+ 33141 [mjais web.de] thanks for all your answers.

^ some dbi questions (probably postres specific)
33135 [fastjack cam] I'm playing around with dbi and postgres. After a while two problems remained
+ 33155 [sean chitten] Eh...  I'd avoid these, but that's just may reaction as a long time
| 33204 [fastjack cam] But what happens when in the mean time somebody else inserts another
| 33206 [sean chitten] It's not something you have to worry about with PostgreSQL.  -sc
+ 33251 [neumann s-di] The result from select_all is an array of DBI::Row objects. Each

^ Re: Mysql Windows Binary
33138 [gulopine hot] Alright, I have the file in the ruby lib folder, and have explicityly
33142 [nobu.nokada ] I meant DLL of mysql, not a .so file which is ruby extension.

^ rdoc's dot_test.rb fails for dot v1.7?
33143 [W.L.Kleb LaR] dot_test.rb fails to produce dot'able output for dot v1.7.14
33147 [Dave Pragmat] Looks like a bug in the test. I'll fix it.
33148 [Dave Pragmat] Oops - no. 'twas a bug in a change I made to dot.rb.

^ A case where 1.7 is slower than 1.6
33153 [matt lickey.] It seems that File#readlines (and similar operations) got
33194 [matz ruby-la] It's due to a bug in Process.times.  It will be fixed soon.

^ Call/CC and Ruby iterators.
33161 [olczyk inter] Reading about call/cc in Scheme I get the impression that it is very
+ 33167 [paul atdesk.] I am not a scheme programmer, but...
| 33173 [pcs3 mailhos] call/cc is not really used for simple iteration, but more for when you
+ 33176 [timsuth ihug] No. Ruby's ``iterators'' just call a closure repeatedly. The 'callcc' method
| + 33183 [olczyk inter] Oops.
| + 33258 [johannh ucli] No, this isn't quite true.  Ruby iterators define "break" (to stop the
|   33278 [pcs3 mailhos] CL-USER 11 > (dotimes (i 10 i)
+ 33179 [duchene main] "Thaddeus L Olczyk" <olczyk@interaccess.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 33182 [oleg pobox.c] call/cc is a _very_ general and powerful construction (some people
+ 33185 [foof synthco] Yes.  And bumblebees are like jumbo jets :)
  33202 [avi beta4.co] Yes - a good way might be with the callcc method or the Continuation

^ Ruby extension for IBM Via Voice TTS
33163 [mghall enter] I just put up a simple Ruby extension for IBM's Via Voice
+ 33165 [cboos bct-te] *> - make them look and act like instance variables?
+ 33181 [rokosm kloka] I use this. For example: .from_ary(array) is implemented in 'C'
+ 33193 [ser germane-] From the other responses to this, I'm thinking I don't understand what Mike
+ 33198 [jobeicus hot] Is there anyway you could provide a pre-compiled version of you lib
  33245 [mghall enter] Sorry, I don't have windows.

^ PocketPC Port of Ruby?
33169 [gsemones tre] I have seen mention of PocketPC ports of Ruby for the Ipaq in several
33348 [j1kwok yahoo] I really need feedback/comments from anyone who has tried out

^ [XML] generating Ruby libs from XML Schemas
33174 [tobiasreif p] I started working on
+ 33209 [tobiasreif p] On
+ 33311 [rshaw1961 ya] I have a requirement for a similar thing and would be happy to help you with
  33355 [tobiasreif p] Thanks a lot :)

^ ANN: TaskMaster 0.1.1
33175 [ptkwt shell1] TaskMaster 0.1.1 is released.  Mostly bug fixes, but some other stuff as

^ Change in latest net/http.rb
33177 [jdicioccio e] I noticed that in latest net/http.rb, connections default to "close"

^ revision control, arch and subversion
33180 [ptkwt shell1] There's a story on /. today about arch which is a revision control system
+ 33190 [tom.hurst cl] [arch]
| 33195 [ser germane-] I just posted a rebuttle on /. about this.  Tom's comparison of Arch to
| 33223 [tony perforc] I'm in violent agreement with you there Sean :-) Another misconception is
| 33271 [ser germane-] We-he-he-elll, now... does that mean that Perforce is hiring Ruby
| 33299 [tony perforc] following in Perforce, so one day...
+ 33473 [clr ifi.uio.] [Phil Tomson]

^ Gtk question
33184 [jacekpodkans] When I try to run my script, and then click on a CTree widget trying to get
33187 [nconway klam] You're reading the reference incorrectly: in C as in Ruby, this method

^ Gtk question 2
33191 [jacekpodkans] How do i get text from a CTree node? Following code shows my present
33282 [jacekpodkans] If anybody is interested i found nice tips about Ctree at

^ Parsing little languages in ruby...
33196 [caw cs.mu.OZ] What's the most sensible way to parse little languages in Ruby? Is there a lexer available?
+ 33232 [harald.gross] you may use
| 33237 [jeffp crusoe] But what about ruby-yacht?
+ 33239 [hgs dmu.ac.u] There is also Rockit at http://rockit.sourceforge.net/

^ WWW Library
33197 [ganesan-ml g] I am ganesan and a little new to ruby and regex;
33201 [nobu.nokada ] URI class is contained in 1.7 standard library.
+ 33207 [ganesan-ml g] Thanks for the help,
+ 33218 [r2d2 acc.umu] If you want to run 1.6, you can find a simple URL parser in the Ruby
  33236 [ganesan-ml g] thanks,

^ Regexp::Parser ported to Ruby...?
33200 [jeffp crusoe] I'm writing a Perl module for the parsing and handling of regexes.  It's
+ 33203 [ptkwt shell1] Sounds good (well, not the kick to the head part :).  The more modules we
+ 33240 [matju sympat] Please do. It will help the MetaRuby project eventually. I'd need a regexp
+ 33248 [STUCKNER MUL] This would be very interesting and a way to play with RegExp's in Ruby in
  33265 [jeffp crusoe] [posted & mailed]
  33266 [tobiasreif p] irb(main):003:0> "japhy".gsub(/./)do print "<#{$&}>" end
  + 33267 [tobiasreif p] 'a1b2c3'.scan(/\d/).each do |match| print "<#{match}>" end
  + 33268 [Dave Pragmat] Or
  | 33269 [dempsejn geo] anyone know if using $& in ruby gives the same penalty as in perl?
  | 33275 [jeffp crusoe] No, it doesn't -- that's one of their strong points.  I believe Ruby uses
  + 33276 [jeffp crusoe] [posted & mailed]
    33370 [rjp browser.] That's pretty funky, so I did some fiddling and now Ruby lets you do

^ expanding variables in strings
33208 [fastjack cam] I have a long list of variables that gets used at several places in
33219 [r2d2 acc.umu] You could use  eval("%Q{#{str}}")  to eval str as a quoted string

^ JXTA
33210 [stephan.schm] there is a ruby binding project for JXTA at jxta.org, but there are no

^ SQL Connection Via MSW
33213 [nsoden court] Could someone be kind enough to direct me were I can get the
33298 [ngawor lucen] What? sqlsh.rb runs fine under windows(NT),
33411 [nsoden court] oops.. back to the drawing board for me... thx.

^ ネットショップテナント募集
33222 [nana ming21.] 突然の書き込み失礼します。

^ bdb performance
33228 [aerpenbe uos] Dear all!
33229 [decoux moulo] The best is to send me your script in a private email

^ ANN: 'OpenSSL for Ruby' 0.1.1 released
33230 [rokosm kloka] 'OpenSSL for Ruby' ossl-0.1.1 has been released.

^ ruby-mda
33235 [tom.hurst cl] After seeing the huge ugly mess of procmail's code, I'm feeling a
33246 [matt lickey.] my part.  It is a work in progress.
33255 [tom.hurst cl] Um, no, the idea is the MDA queues incoming messages (up to 20 messages,

^ mkmf, extconf.rb
33238 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Further to my suggestions in Ruby-Talk:31391, about adding methods to
33254 [nobu.nokada ] I guess you can do it with `depend' file.
33301 [hgs dmu.ac.u] depend = File.join(srcdir, "depend")
33333 [nobu.nokada ] It's sure not to be designed for general purpose.
33341 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Yes, I like the idea of using a block
33393 [nobu.nokada ] Finally, is it enough?
33408 [hgs dmu.ac.u] self.thwack!(self)

^ Inter/multi-nationalization
33241 [Dave Pragmat] Jah and I have been discussing internationalizing RDoc. It seems to us

^ favicon.ico
33242 [Dave Pragmat] I was wondering if someone with an artistic bent could come up with a
+ 33244 [stephan.schm] Why not scale ruby.gif from rubycentral to 16x16 ?
+ 33256 [leon ugcs.ca] I'm unable to change PNG to ICO though. 'convert' gives a 'no encode
| 33257 [leon ugcs.ca] Found a `convert' that works. ICO versions are up.
| 33259 [Dave Pragmat] Thank you! I used favicon3_3, and now RubyGarden now looks quite
| 33261 [tom.hurst cl] Um, It looks more like a tomato to me :)
| + 33262 [Dave Pragmat] Better versions always welcome... :)
| + 33263 [leon ugcs.ca] Then I propose we rename Ruby to Tomato. :-)
| + 33290 [kentda stud.] Yeah, I always envisioned Ruby as being rather rectangular than round,
|   + 33293 [Dave Pragmat] ...
|   | 33349 [vruz ruby-es] Just for fun I tried to create a favicon.ico
|   + 33297 [tom.hurst cl] Well, at that size it at least remains plausably something non-edible :)
|     33362 [leon ugcs.ca] Really, the only things that look good at this size are toonish icons. :)
|     + 33364 [tom.hurst cl] You mean like http://freak.aagh.net/aagh.net/images/icon.png ? :)
|     + 33394 [curt hibbs.c] Maybe I should be embarrassed to admit this, but until this series of
|       + 33406 [ms iastate.e] Not a hot air balloon?
|       | 33413 [nobu.nokada ] I say as a balloonist, it lacks a bascket.
|       + 33407 [jweirich one] I thought so too for a long time.  I have a guitar pick the same shape
+ 33424 [lafor arraki] ...

^ Added a 'dist' rule to mkmf.rb Makefile
33249 [mghall enter] Is there any thought of adding a 'dist' rule (to the Makefile

^ Re: mkmf, extconf.rb (tested more fully)
33250 [hgs dmu.ac.u] I have now done the tests: it works for arrays or strings in the targets