78174-82478

^ Beijing Chinese Translation
78174 [translation1] <!-- saved from url=(0022)http://internet.e-mail -->

^ Ruby installation problem on UNIX
78175 [ihabmen nort] I have problem installing Ruby on a UNIX platform. I wonder if anyone can
78180 [brett_willia] You need to use the ANSI flags for cc (-Aa).  Alternatively you could use
78400 [kero chello.] I used cc on HPUX 11 for ruby 1.8.0, which is a bit more compatible: it

^ CONFIDENTIAL MATTER
78178 [sakotaylor n] EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL.

^ adding methods to an existing class
78195 [Mark.Volkman] This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
78204 [dblack super] def add_test_method(klass)
78219 [Mark.Volkman] This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
78222 [gfb tonesoft] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

^ OpenSSL/drb problem
78214 [nathaniel NO] Well, I have DRb and OpenSSL working together! I'm running in to a bit of
78216 [mgarriss ear] I can not help you but I would love to hear more about your experience

^ FREE - Your PAY-PER-VIEW, MOVIE CHANNELS, Adult Channels, SPORT EVENTS, and more.......... wli
78217 [whjh754ow ya] CABLE TV VIEWERS<br>

^ Re: jEdit ctags Windows
78221 [chrismo clab] Do you use this on Windows? If so, is it hassle to get going? What does
+ 78230 [lyle knology] I've only used it on Linux, so I can't guess what problems (if any) you
+ 82319 [lyle knology] I've only used it on Linux, so I can't guess what problems (if any) you
  78262 [gsinclair so] It is ported, and works fine.

^ rubynet-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2
78224 [rubynet-anno] Send rubynet-announce mailing list submissions to

^ rolling your own AOP
78225 [Mark.Volkman] This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand

^ Ruby and  MySQL Database...
78226 [REMOVE_THISu] I was wondering if there are updates for ruby modules for the lastest mysql
78229 [B.Candler po] Don't know about latest mysql 4.x, does ruby-mysql-2.4.4 not compile with

^ $: - where does it get its initial values?
78234 [tuanbui cray] Howdy,
78243 [B.Candler po] In ruby.c, look for rb_load_path and calls to ruby_incpush; it is set from a

^ Re: - where does it get its initial values?
78235 [gfb tonesoft] They are figured out during Ruby build by configure and then hardcoded into
+ 78236 [ben thingmag] This may have been the cause of problems I had when using ruby-mysql.  My Ruby
| + 78240 [madsen sjove] Couldn't you have solved that by symlinking
| | 78242 [ben thingmag] Sure, had I known that mysql-ruby's RPM was going to install into i686-linux
| | 78250 [madsen sjove] Ehrm, correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you just have moved the content of
| + 78244 [in6x059 publ] Even though you compile it for i686, the installer should know, that
+ 78237 [in6x059 publ] How do you know, all strings with /usr/local in the ruby-executable
  78238 [gfb tonesoft] into

^ [ANN] RubyConf 2003: Call for Presentation Proposals
78241 [dblack super] RUBY CONFERENCE 2003: Call for Presentation Proposals

^ More on DRB & OpenSSL
78251 [nathaniel NO] OK, I've tracked down my problem with DRb and OpenSSL a bit more; perhaps
+ 78253 [mgarriss ear] I've noticed that there is always a strange silence on DRb questions.  I
| + 78256 [aredridel nb] This is something we should change -- anyone want to work on an
| | + 78260 [nathaniel NO] I'd suggest starting with RDoc'ing the library. The folks over on the
| | + 78265 [hgs dmu.ac.u] but I don't think I got everything right.  Feel free to use this if
| | | 78270 [nathaniel ta] I know, and I've been referring to it heavily. Thanks!
| | | 78309 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Thanks, nice to know it is of some use.
| | | + 78310 [B.Candler po] I'm not sure why you want a nonce here; just a hash of (message + shared
| | | | 78311 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Initial authentication, and the nonce means they can't just forge
| | | | 78333 [B.Candler po] I think you may have misunderstood the purpose of this class.
| | | | 78348 [hgs dmu.ac.u] OK, right, I'm doing much the same, except where the data cannot be
| | | + 78330 [hgs dmu.ac.u] new revision: 1.12; previous revision: 1.11
| | | + 78331 [nathaniel ta] Ah... that isn't enough for me. I want information hiding as well.
| | |   78343 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Server generates nonce (as a function of whatever. ($$, time, current
| | |   78354 [B.Candler po] OK. That lets B authenticate A. The main weakness is that if the nonce and
| | |   78360 [hgs dmu.ac.u] (what was effectively a crayon sketch of CRAM MD5, roughly)
| | |   78368 [B.Candler po] No, that's not it. It's not a weakness of the hash, it's a weakness of your
| | |   78457 [hgs dmu.ac.u] Yes, I see what you mean.  Well, it's not my design really, I
| | |   78460 [B.Candler po] I guess you're right. Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" is a highly
| | |   78462 [hgs dmu.ac.u] That's what it is...
| | + 78315 [xlucid users] I think this'd be a very Good Thing, especially if it the DRB homepage
| + 78259 [nathaniel NO] You think docs are hard to come by for DRb, wait until you try using
+ 78279 [nahi keynaut] Reproduced on my cygwin box.
| 78318 [nathaniel NO] Excellent! It's great to have somebody looking at this.
+ 78295 [ruby-talk wh] For some reason the IO.select in openssl/buffering.rb is stalling.  It
  78320 [nathaniel NO] From looking at the code in ossl.c, I thought the problem might be in

^ $stdout.sync on windows
78258 [my.name.here] any .rbw file that contains the line
+ 78283 [dooby d10.ka] Windows & Ruby versions ?
+ 78286 [nobu.nokada ] Perhaps, you would associate .rbw with rubyw.exe.  rubyw.exe is
  78319 [my.name.here] yes that may be the case. it s no problem for me. but it is not a good
  78423 [dooby d10.ka] #<SST.RBW>
  78426 [nobu.nokada ] Usa reports it seems to be due to the difference between mswin
  78434 [dooby d10.ka] Euuhhh, hadn't noticed that.

^ Method test::unit::TestSuite#<<(test)
78264 [bob.news gmx] # Adds the test to the suite.
78267 [nathaniel NO] An excellent idea. Thanks.

^ Re: [Devculture] ruby question - try Python also (fwd)
78282 [pate eylerfa] hmmm, this doesn't mesh terribly well with my experience.  Anyone else car
+ 78296 [gsinclair so] You answered it well.  It doesn't mesh well with your experience.  The
| 78359 [drbrain segm] Try Webplayer[1] based on Borges[2].  While Borges isn't yet fully, or
+ 78307 [rasputin ido] <snip - lot of claims that make me wonder how he knows this when....>
  78717 [charleshixsn] Well, I have "some" familiarity with Ruby and Python.  Don't brush off
  + 78729 [mikkelfj-ant] A religous concept, but spaces are IMHO best when source is shared between
  | 78743 [alwagner tca] Just curious why you would think that.  A tab can be be equivalent to any number of spaces, per the reader's preference.  Spaces force the reader to accept your idea of proper indentation.
  | + 78747 [emschwar pob] Because tabs can vary widely, and indenting that looks reasonable on
  | | 78751 [alwagner tca] Sorry, I have been installing/swapping mail readers and didn't notice. It should wrap at 72 now.
  | + 78852 [mikkelfj-ant] between
  |   78887 [charleshixsn] For me a three space wide tab makes the indentation v. obvious.  I like
  + 78827 [austin halos] Actually, based on the comments by Anil, I would dismiss them almost
    78891 [charleshixsn] It sounds like the problems I had last time (about 8 months ago) may be

^ Working directory in thread
78284 [xrfang hotma] I have a question using Dir.chdir. Is the current working directory for
+ 78287 [hal9000 hype] An OS issue. The notion of the current directory
+ 78289 [nobu.nokada ] CWD is a process resource.  There is no "thread-safe" way, in

^ Ruby Query
78292 [srijit yahoo] Ruby is a nice and expressive language. Now my favourite Ruby site is
78302 [bob.news gmx] <srijit@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 78304 [seth cql.com] Quite true.  Plus, all the modern compilers for functional languages
+ 78305 [gsinclair so] I am out of my depth here, but calculating factorial recursively is not
| 78308 [bob.news gmx] "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 78317 [james_b neur] <snip/>
  78326 [nobu.nokada ] It's an OS issue.  On Unixes, it's done by ulimit command, but
  78345 [bob.news gmx] <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
  78349 [nobu.nokada ] Yes.  It is by setjmp()/longjmp(), read THREAD_SAVE_CONTEXT()
  78361 [bob.news gmx] <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ Ruby 1.8 download Problem (MS Windows)
78293 [srijit yahoo] Today I downloaded ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.0-i386-mswin32.zip,

^ Ruby-talk, ÝËÅÊÒÐÎÊÎÒËÛ - npvYYQNQjRzAXeCqBhqu
78297 [occitan astr] PE1FVEEgSFRUUC1FUVVJVj0iQ29udGVudC1UeXBlIiBDT05URU5UPSJ0ZXh0L2h0bWw7Y2hh

^ asking for your co-operation
78298 [attorneyatla] Dear friend,

^ Ruby web testing framework?
78312 [george.marro] I'm doing some performance testing of our web server software. Is
78313 [rasputin ido] How about webunit? It's a unit testing framework for websites,

^ How to provide other content-type than text/html with modruby and eruby?
78314 [erik terpnet] Is it possible to provide a content-type other than text/html using
+ 78316 [news stud.nt] Does Apache.request#content_type= do what you want?
+ 82324 [news stud.nt] Does Apache.request#content_type= do what you want?
  + 78372 [erik terpnet] Probably, but how do I use it?
  + 78374 [erik terpnet] Probably, but how do I use it?
  + 82326 [erik terpnet] Probably, but how do I use it?
  | + 78376 [news stud.nt] Been a while since I last tried it, but if you are running your scripts
  | + 82328 [news stud.nt] Been a while since I last tried it, but if you are running your scripts
  + 82327 [erik terpnet] Probably, but how do I use it?

^ C's static equivalent
78321 [kgergely mla] Is there something similar to C's static keyword?
78324 [decoux moulo] Use a closure
78325 [kgergely mla] Could you be more verbose? Eg. how to print out how many times a
78327 [decoux moulo] in ruby, yes. in english, no :-)
+ 78329 [djd15 cwru.e] def make_closure
| 78335 [B.Candler po] A C 'static' variable is just a global variable with a lexically local
+ 78332 [kgergely mla] Woof. Thx. It works, but it's a bit too obscure hacking for a damned
+ 78356 [hal9000 hype] It would be worthwhile for all of us to
  78391 [ jupp gmx.de] Saluton!

^ Elegant solution for a loop-break problem
78328 [kgergely mla] I've tried to write a little program, which detect duplicate files.
+ 78334 [decoux moulo] You have catch, throw
+ 78337 [my.name.here] raising an Exception is an excellent way of escaping nested loops.
| + 78346 [bob.news gmx] "meinrad.recheis" <my.name.here@gmx.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| | 78384 [my.name.here] why not? (i dont understand your indignation) because something is intended
| | + 78387 [hal9000 hype] intended
| | | 78397 [my.name.here] Ok, i see. you could end up rescueing exceptions that should not be cought,
| | + 78392 [djd15 po.cwr] void foo()
| | + 78405 [in6x059 publ] I hope, we never program in java together.
| |   78514 [my.name.here] me too. i hate java.
| |   78532 [in6x059 publ] Great! Then we won't clash there.
| + 78353 [lone-star ho] throwing and catching is an excellent way of escaping nested loops,
+ 78339 [B.Candler po] h[key] = value           # replace it
| 78342 [kgergely mla] Oops. Sorry. The question was dumb. I mean: I want to iterate over a
| + 78347 [decoux moulo] break with a parameter work only with 1.8 (1.6 give an syntax error)
| + 78357 [B.Candler po] In Ruby you get the elements, not copies of the elements.
| | 78366 [denshimeiru-] use Data::Dumper;
| | 78378 [B.Candler po] l = %w{one two three}
| | + 78386 [denshimeiru-] Yes, that is exactly the problem.
| | | 78388 [hal9000 hype] 'elem'
| | + 78390 [mike ratdog.] That's not "bad magic," it's a feature - see the discussion of foreach
| + 78367 [androflux so] If I were you, I'd just use the #include? method to see if an array
| + 78829 [austin halos] if array.find { |e| e == element }
|   78832 [dblack super] puts "#{element}#{" not" unless array.include?(element)} found in array!"
+ 78351 [bob.news gmx] "KONTRA Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ ftools move bug on Windows
78341 [chrismo clab] ftools.rb

^ [DRb] Using DRb to implement object database
78352 [STUCKNER MUL] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+ 78364 [hgs dmu.ac.u] The short answer is that you might get on better looking at the
+ 78377 [B.Candler po] I don't know anything about pstore, but I do use DRb a lot, so I might be
| 78389 [STUCKNER MUL] I had some trouble understanding your solution, so I will attempt to explain
| + 78395 [B.Candler po] Sorry if I wasn't clear :-)
| | 78403 [STUCKNER MUL] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
| + 78398 [drbrain segm] Try doing something like this: (untested, no warranty :)
+ 78408 [m_seki mva.b] Do you want it?
  78486 [STUCKNER MUL] require "drb"

^ 99 days...
78365 [hal9000 hype] By my crude calculations, it is now 99 days until the
+ 78381 [markjreed ma] No need to be crude when you have Ruby. :)
+ 82329 [markjreed ma] No need to be crude when you have Ruby. :)
  78383 [hal9000 hype] Well, it's the same amount of time regardless of where you

^ Mail delivery to non-mbox?
78369 [ jupp gmx.de] Saluton!
+ 78370 [aredridel nb] I highly reccomend Maildir, though watch out for inode over-usage.
| 78380 [B.Candler po] Maildir++ works well for me.
| 78415 [jos catnook.] Jos Backus                       _/  _/_/_/      Sunnyvale, CA
+ 78490 [comp.lang.ru] - - I'm pretty sure the rmail library can do this. Look in RAA. or
+ 82330 [comp.lang.ru] - - I'm pretty sure the rmail library can do this. Look in RAA. or
  82395 [ jupp gmx.de] Saluton!
  82464 [comp.lang.ru] - - I sent that reply back in August via the newsgroup
  82478 [ jupp gmx.de] Saluton!

^ ruby-dev summary 20941-21133
78382 [maki rubycol] This is a summary of ruby-dev ML last week.

^ rubynet-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3
78385 [rubynet-anno] Send rubynet-announce mailing list submissions to

^ Apple recognizes Ruby on the Xserve product page
78393 [david loudth] I just spotted these two snippets of Ruby recognition on the Apple
+ 78394 [dave pragpro] Shouldn't that be "along the lines of Perl?" Along the veins implies
+ 78396 [dcarrera mat] Considering that it's a one-sentence introduction for people who might
+ 78431 [tim vegeta.a] [ snippage ]
  + 78441 [ben thingmag] Naah, it's more like how teenagers are so incredibly embarrassed to be
  | + 78464 [dan tastapod] That really put a smile on my face - thanks!
  | + 78494 [tim vegeta.a] Ok, yeah, I remember my dad in that get-up.  :)
  + 78459 [jcarbaut sai] Well, I'm just a ruby beginner (and perl beginner too), and I know C
    78565 [tim vegeta.a] Sounds like a good tactic to me! :)

^ Ducktype, right?
78401 [app1tam ups.] I checked out some of the new Ruby features at theluckystiff.net and saw
+ 78404 [martindemell] More elegantly in 1.8
| 78501 [flori nixe.p] Some time ago I came up with a very similiar idea to check the interface
+ 78406 [dblack super] Welcome to Ruby!
  78410 [hal9000 hype] Thanks for saying this so well, David. I was trying to
  78416 [mike ratdog.] I think he only just pre-dates Plato (427-347 B.C.) as some people put
  78479 [app1tam ups.] From my days as a LISP programmer, we could create objects at will just by
  78484 [dblack super] def talk
  + 78487 [app1tam ups.] I guess I'm not sure what duck typing is, then.  My example was assuming I
  | + 78496 [dblack super] The wisest answer would probably be: if it walks like duck typing and
  | + 78502 [dave pragpro] Duck typing is way of thinking about programming in Ruby.
  |   78505 [ben thingmag] The one thing that I think is underemphasized about the duck typing concept is
  |   + 78509 [djd15 cwru.e] Well, you can always check for more than one method
  |   + 78510 [ryan dlugosz] You're correct.  If you need an object to respond to, say, 3 different
  |   + 78511 [chrismo clab] I agree with Ryan's reply to you. If I only need the one method on the
  |   | + 78513 [ben thingmag] Ouch, this is one of the most difficult-to-understand sentences I've seen in a
  |   | | + 78518 [lyle users.s] This is a great summary of the kind of limits I place on relying on duck
  |   | | + 78520 [dblack super] No specific thing you or I do in a program is "duck typing".  As Dave
  |   | | | + 78521 [djd15 cwru.e] But if you have a Psychiatrist, why would you pass
  |   | | | | 78523 [djd15 cwru.e] My bad, you can do this with Object.extend (as
  |   | | | + 78567 [B.Candler po] Just as an aside, it's respond_to? not responds_to?
  |   | | |   78592 [jweirich one] I guess that shows how often I use it. :-)
  |   | | |   78605 [hal9000 hype] Likewise.
  |   | | |   78607 [B.Candler po] Nice thought, although it still doesn't read very well with "if" or
  |   | | + 78526 [chrismo clab] Wow ... you're right. That's ludicrous ... must be Friday :-)
  |   | | + 82332 [lyle users.s] This is a great summary of the kind of limits I place on relying on duck
  |   | + 78515 [olivier jama] (Hi I'm a new comer, just reading the first
  |   |   78529 [djd15 po.cwr] Someone suggested that the discussion of what duck typing is is getting
  |   |   78533 [dave pragpro] Great summary!
  |   |   78538 [tim bates.id] This is something like my approach to Duck Typing. The documentation of
  |   + 78516 [hal9000 hype] concept is
  + 78519 [mmirra liber] class Object