336164-345372

^ [ANN] wilson 1.1.0 Released!!! RAWR!
336164 [ryand-ruby z] wilson version 1.1.0 has been released!

^ NilClass and Comparable
336165 [RubyTalk gma] => false
336167 [adam.oddfell] irb(main):003:0> class NilClass
336170 [RubyTalk gma] Yes! Thats exactly what I was missing.  Why would someone write <=3D> for n=
336218 [shortcutter ] There is probably no good reason because nothing doesn't compare well to
336319 [b.candler po] It can be useful to have an ordering defined for mixed collections. For

^ Packing a UUID
336166 [yokabie yaho] How can I pack a UUID using the array.pack method? I need to send a UUID
336215 [spectra debi] Take a look how it's done here: http://github.com/spectra/ruby-uuid

^ ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior
336168 [gary.yngve g] ...If passed two Fixnum objects, returns a substring starting at the
+ 336169 [eleanor game] "foo"[0..0]			=> 'f'
| 336171 [sepp2k googl] You sure? I get "", same as the op. If it would return nil, I don't think the
| + 336172 [RubyTalk gma] Element Reference=97If passed a single Fixnum, returns the code of the
| | 336174 [eleanor game] The same result would occur with
| + 336173 [eleanor game] Sorry, typo on my part (I'm not having a good week for these it
|   336180 [gary.yngve g] On May 8, 4:47=A0pm, Eleanor McHugh <elea...@games-with-brains.com>
|   + 336183 [eleanor game] It's not the C implementation, it's the conceptual model of what a
|   + 336225 [shortcutter ] If we change perspective a bit, the behavior seems pretty naturally to
|     336259 [bbxx789_05ss] It doesn't to me.  I'll throw in with the op: that is stupid behavior
+ 336178 [gary.yngve g] => nil

^ Ruby 1.8.6 P368 windows binaries
336177 [caliwildman2] I currently have Ruby 1.8.5. After much discussion on another thread
+ 336186 [rogerpack200] you could still use it--just run gem update --system after you install
| 336221 [caliwildman2] @Roger thanks for the tip, wasn't aware of mingw but I'll check it out.
+ 336201 [  tvw s4r.de] if you do not need to use the installer, you can have several ruby

^ Re: ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior (RANT)
336182 [gary.yngve g] Are replies to this group always like this?
336184 [eleanor game] Yes. We all have our moron moments. After all, the String.[]
336198 [robert.dober] Speak for yourself, I am *always* a moron (luckily I have no idea what
336203 [eleanor game] I know exactly what you mean - let those who never write a bug throw
336204 [robert.dober] oh yes that is what it does, I cannot read, sorry (but I just proved

^ [ANN] faster_rubygems: speedup rubygems' load time
336188 [rogerpack200] pleased to announce release of faster_rubygems 0.0.1
336189 [drbrain segm] Why didn't you make a gem that does this automatically via a command

^ Re: faster_rubygems: speedup rubygems' load time
336191 [rogerpack200] great idea.

^ Ruby's Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old
336192 [winterheat g] Ruby's Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old... seems like, which
+ 336197 [robert.dober] That calls for a celebration!
+ 336234 [rogerpack200] I believe the one click guy(s) didn't want to have to deal with binary
+ 336241 [luislavena g] Sure it is 16 months?

^ [ANN] Rumai 2.1.0
336193 [sunaku gmail] Rumai 2.1.0

^ How To Find Cheap Web Hosting
336195 [hosting.club] How To Find Cheap Web Hosting

^ access a dll file from a RubyOnRails
336199 [sijo maxxion] Could anybody please suggest ways to access dll files from a rails
336232 [rogerpack200] ruby/dl might help.

^ ruby-ffi problem
336202 [blackapache5] ry), I have some trouble here too=0A=0AI will present a simple example wher=
336230 [charles.nutt] ...

^ converting UTF-8 to entities like &#x525B;
336205 [winterheat g] I was trying to convert UTF-8 content into a series of entities like
+ 336206 [robert.dober] sorry for a quite superficial answer, but can you use the unicode
| + 336207 [winterheat g] it really might be the 0 that is choking the regular expression match...
| | 336208 [winterheat g] but i am sure there are more elegant solutions.
| + 336210 [winterheat g] by the way... Robert... what is the regexen?  is it the regular
|   336211 [rick.denatal] I'm pretty sure that Robert used regexen as the geeky way of pluralizing re=
|   + 336212 [winterheat g] aha... here i just want to match 4 bytes at a time, no matter what the
|   | 336239 [bbxx789_05ss] So what's the problem?  A dot matches any byte (with the 'm' switch).
|   | 336240 [bbxx789_05ss] /..../m
|   | 336243 [winterheat g] the problem is that some characters are converted to the correct
|   | 336255 [bbxx789_05ss] Then why do you insist that you are trying to match any 4 bytes?
|   | 336256 [winterheat g] no... the program converts the UTF-8 string into UTF-32, so that each
|   + 336262 [robert.dober] I plead guilty your honor :)
+ 336448 [wisccal goog] If you are one 1.9, you could use String.codepoints. Something similar
  336455 [winterheat g] that's really cool...  Wisccal, how do you know Chinese?

^ [ANN] locale-2.0.3, locale_rails-2.0.3
336213 [mutomasa gma] Ruby-Locale(locale-2.0.3) and

^ [ANN] gettext-2.0.3, gettext_activerecord-2.0.3, gettext_rails-2.0.3
336214 [mutomasa gma] Ruby-GetText-Package-2.0.3 and the families

^ Wait until a Singleton instantiated?
336220 [lavi.kfir gm] I have singleton class I want to observe with another class. The
336246 [rick.denatal] 1. The whole point of the observer pattern is that the observable

^ question to write \4 into file
336231 [happy.go.luc] I have problem with writng "\4" into a file, for example, I want to
+ 336235 [bbxx789_05ss] Use single quotes around your string?
| + 336236 [bbxx789_05ss] Otherwise, keeping adding slashes to your match while trying to replace
| | 336347 [happy.go.luc] Thanks. After puting 8 slashes, the path is correctely written in the
| | 336357 [b.candler po] Then there is something else which is doing a third level of dequoting.
| + 336341 [happy.go.luc] I tried '\4' '\\4' not luck at all
|   336342 [Rob AgileCon] as a literal string, you need to escape the \
+ 336343 [b.candler po] That's because \4 inside a double-quoted string is a single character,

^ File.copy for 1.9
336237 [rogerpack200] I am a little lost as to where to find File.copy for 1.9
+ 336242 [luislavena g] ftools has been deprecated in 1.9
+ 336244 [ruby net153.] require 'fileutils'

^ Tk Progress Bar color
336245 [ruby net153.] Anyone know how to change the color of the Tk progress bar?  Everything
336282 [nagai ai.kyu] Supported options depends on your version of BWidget libraries.
336365 [ruby net153.] Yes the foreground option worked.  Thank you

^ reading mp3 Tag
336252 [nope nothere] I am taking a free course on Ruby and encountered a behavior i don`t
336257 [phasis gmail] 11\222\312\025M\222\210\234v0V\002M^\324\226W\023mQ\311\037\242\305(XT\353\=
336293 [nope nothere] That worked thanks.

^ Problem install rmagick
336260 [gigatavu gma] # gem1.9 install rmagick
336265 [TimHunter nc] mkmf.rb is part of the standard library in Ruby. Either you don't have

^ computer language so easy
336261 [adnanhameed7] easy way to learn about computer visit www.glu007.blogspot.com

^ (mandriva) can I obtain kdevelop with ruby, already compiled?
336267 [lolveley yah] I would like if it is possible to obtain kdevelop without compile it
336269 [shevegen lin] But you are already using a distribution (mandriva), so you should ask

^ Re: ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior somewhat  explained
336268 [gary.yngve g] a = [ "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" ]

^ Newbie has trouble setting up redmine
336270 [jar.sconce m] I'm 100% new to anything related to ruby, and I'm trying to set up
336310 [mark thomasz] Redmine has an excellent forum for this type of question. I would ask

^ Communicate with a daemon
336272 [cyril.staff ] After daemonize a Ruby process (thanks Ruby version 1.9), it is possible
+ 336273 [billk cts.co] Perhaps http://localmemcache.rubyforge.org/
+ 336274 [james graypr] Sure.  In I daemon I've been working on, I just use SQLite as a queue
+ 336287 [shortcutter ] You have got the whole range of IPC at your fingertips
  336302 [b.candler po] Also XMLRPC (included in the Ruby standard library, at least it was for

^ gsub pattern substitution and ${...}
336276 [sarah ultras] I'm trying to escape a URI that is matched by a regular expression with
336278 [bbxx789_05ss] In double quoted strings escaped characters do not have literal
+ 336280 [sarah ultras] Eureka!
| 336288 [shortcutter ] even with proper escaping this won't work as the string interpolation
| 336311 [sarah ultras] really? so the ${...} gets evaluated before the param is passed to gsub,
| 336313 [shortcutter ] All method parameters are evaluated before method invocation - this is
| 336314 [sarah ultras] This are really important details to understand.  Thanks for pointing
+ 336292 [sepp2k googl] The character with ASCII value 1.

^ win32console problem
336279 [jakejohnson2] I looked around and couldn't find a topic on this, but if I missed it,

^ Amazon Product API hmac signature?
336281 [rochkind jhu] So, starting August 15th, the Amazon product web service API (the one
+ 336283 [ben bleythin] Both RightAWS and AWS::S3 have code to sign requests.  I'd start there.
+ 343546 [elchesa hotm] Have you found some solution to this issue? I am using ruby/aws and I
  345372 [rochkind jhu] I am not using ruby/aws, however. I guess ruby/aws needs to be updated

^ =?windows-1252?Q?Intel=AE_Core=992_Duo_Processor?=
336289 [whatnextur g] With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop PC you'll get

^ Popup handling in FireWatir
336294 [sullattupara] I am working on firewatir.and i tried using

^ [ANN] Rumai 3.0.0
336295 [sunaku gmail] Rumai 3.0.0

^ Including Module
336296 [thangappanmo] I am new to Ruby.
+ 336298 [benjamin.lov] require "Test"
+ 336299 [b.candler po] require 'Test'
+ 336300 [stefano.croc] require 'Test'

^ Initialization of class when inhereted
336301 [ponomarchuk ] class BaseClass
336305 [b.candler po] Yes. ri Class#inherited

^ gem uninstall activesupport specific version - how to?
336308 [yourstruly.v] I have 3 versions of activesupport installed on my machine (2.2.2,
336322 [lists groll.] -v, --version VERSION            Specify version of gem to uninstall

^ how to get rdoc documentation with merb_generator?
336309 [gernot NOTE0] Our company spent a year programming with hardly any documentation. I've

^ How To Choose A Web Hosting Service
336315 [hosting.club] How To Choose A Web Hosting Service

^ Looking for fast local RPC or transparent reloading of embedded ruby
336316 [elven swordc] ...

^ Regexp simple question
336321 [arunkumar in] I'm using the following regexp to capture a particular string from a
+ 336323 [bbxx789_05ss] In words, describe what just the regex part does.
| 336326 [bbxx789_05ss] I mean the part between the <li> tags.
+ 336325 [srijayanth g] Your boss doesn't like gsub?
+ 336328 [phlip2005 gm] Parsing HTML with Regexp makes certain baby dieties cry.
  336340 [srijayanth g] That bugle's been blown to death mate.

^ File.basename bug?
336324 [reid.thompso] How often do people get bitten by this?
336334 [lasitha.rana] $: cd /tmp; touch by.touch
+ 336335 [reid.thompso] example 1 -> processInputFile("pp_a_test_file_name")
| 336338 [shortcutter ] $ irb19
+ 336336 [shortcutter ] This can be combined as
  336339 [reid.thompso] Not sure what you mean -- this output did come from the above code.
  336344 [shortcutter ] You are right.  It's an aliasing problem not present in 1.9.1 which I am

^ Help with   <<-EOF
336329 [tcblues gmai] xmlData=<<-EOF
336330 [eleanor game] Are you escaping all double quotes in the string?
336331 [tcblues gmai] There are no double quotes...
+ 336332 [tcblues gmai] Ok... I did it.
+ 336333 [eleanor game] Well I guess there's no accounting for clients lol
  336337 [shortcutter ] I'd be curios to hear the reason for this requirement.

^ (mandriva,eclipse,Qt) elementary problem : signals and slots
336346 [lolveley yah] I would like to make a little program using Qt : it's a displayer /
336352 [stefano.croc] I don't know why it doesn't work, as I never used the designer to make
+ 336364 [richard.j.da] nd
| 336377 [lolveley yah] thank you richard and stefano for your answers.
| 336387 [richard.j.da] You could emit a signal from the intermediate 'converter' Qt::Widget
+ 336402 [lolveley yah] I tried your example and it works fine, but I find this is not very
  336454 [stefano.croc] The concept is quite simple: you want to do something when the value of the=

^ [QUIZ][SUMMARY] One Die Game (#203)
336348 [yahivin gmai] Luke Cowell and Chris Cacciatore both submitted solutions for this

^ How to Face an Interview?
336350 [jaggubn gmai] Introduction

^ nil object error during integration test.
336351 [vikasg aflat] I have a simple test case that load home page.
336355 [b.candler po] It seems that somewhere in your code you are doing something.downcase,

^ Ruby 1.9.1-p128 is out
336353 [yugui yugui.] Good afternoon (JST). Ruby 1.9.1-p128 just has been released.
+ 336358 [gethemant gm] Shouldn't there be *at least* a link to Changelog?
| 336406 [justincollin] * ext/dl/lib/dl/func.rb (DL::Function#call): prevents
+ 336401 [tom infoethe] Yours,

^ "Re: Ruby 1.9.1-p128 is out".gsub('p128', 'p129')
336354 [yugui yugui.] The patch level of the release is p129. "Ruby 1.9.1-p129 just has been

^ inheritance in ruby
336361 [jarodzz gmai] class Page
+ 336362 [rick.denatal] It the url is fixed for all instances of each class I wouldn't use a
+ 336371 [matt tidbits] The problem is that the @url mentioned in the first line of each class
  336372 [shortcutter ] Right!
  336439 [jarodzz gmai] thanks all.

^ [ANN/ADV] "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" now out in paperback
336363 [dblack rubyp] I'm delighted to announce that my new book "The Well-Grounded Rubyist"
+ 336376 [eleanor game] My copy arrived in the post this morning - full marks to Manning for
+ 336381 [shortcutter ] Congratulations!  I believe people will make good use of the book.

^ Want some information....
336366 [arunkumar in] I want to know about authentication in ruby. Is it possible to scrap
336367 [shortcutter ] I am not a native speaker but for all I know "want" is considered
336368 [arunkumar in] Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry for the impolite statement.
336370 [rick.denatal] o scrap
336447 [arunkumar in] Thanks for the reply.

^ On the Niceties of Asking For what You Want (was Re: Want some  information....)
336369 [rick.denatal] I wouldn't say so.  To want carries the same basic connotation as
+ 336378 [eleanor game] I can only speak from a British perspective, but 'want' does sound
| 336389 [rick.denatal] ly
| 336392 [eleanor game] Oh definitely.
| 336395 [srijayanth g] I wonder how much of this discussion is colored by the poster's history :)
+ 336399 [robert.dober] Let us see, you just enter the boulangerie and are in front of a very

^ Question on redefining the File.join mechanism
336373 [RichardDummy] I'm running Ruby over WindowsXP-Pro/SP2.  So I wanted File.join to use
+ 336375 [shevegen lin] I believe one culprit is probably
| 336441 [RichardDummy] Must have been in a dream :-)  Please see my solution in my reply to
+ 336382 [shortcutter ] super.gsub(/\//, '\\')
  + 336442 [RichardDummy] ractices.com/
  + 336445 [RichardDummy] ractices.com/
    336482 [shortcutter ] Exactly.
    336579 [RichardDummy] That has been my experience,  but I don't like relying on that and

^ Re: "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" now out in paperback
336374 [RichardDummy] .envycasts.com
336379 [dblack rubyp] Thanks! I've been a bit less active on the lists lately... though
+ 336383 [eleanor game] I have to admit I've only made the switch myself in the last month or
+ 336440 [RichardDummy] [2].
  336521 [kidguko gmai] David,
  336710 [dblack rubyp] Not all in one program. It's more a sequential set of topics, with

^ Any current preprocessor/Ruby language add-ons?
336385 [c-soc-rubyfo] This is kind of a wide-ranging question but for some fairly specific
+ 336388 [shortcutter ] There are also
| 336394 [c-soc-rubyfo] Thanks for those links - it is interesting to me that they wanted to
| + 336443 [shortcutter ] You're welcome!
| | + 336486 [c-soc-rubyfo] I don't have time for a full reply, but I definitely wanted to say some
| | | + 336488 [martindemell] Of the languages I've looked at, scala is likely to come closest to
| | | | 336621 [Usenet Googl] Interesting trivia: Scala is actually short for "scalable language".
| | | + 336601 [shortcutter ] Oha, what might a full reply have looked like? :-)
| | + 336696 [Usenet Googl] I would say it depends on where you are. While certainly far from
| |   336738 [Usenet Googl] Essentials of Programming Languages
| + 336693 [Usenet Googl] AFAIK, Eiffel only enforces contracts at runtime. But Micosoft
+ 336396 [vikkous gmai] syntax tree based macros to ruby. I've got a simple assert macro in my
| 336620 [Usenet Googl] AFAIU, that's not the primary use case for Diamondback Ruby, though.
+ 336691 [Usenet Googl] Maybe you are interested in the Cobra Programming Language
  336695 [shevegen lin] Cobra sounds interesting.
  336697 [Usenet Googl] Well, this is a very philosophic question that goes to the very heart