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^ is Ruby Development Tool still  active?
83564 [surrender_it] 6 months passed by from the latest release of RDT (the ruby plugin for
83565 [nathaniel NO] As far as I know, it's in limbo at this point. I'd guess the former

^ Looking for a charting library in Ruby...
83573 [tom infoethe] Is this what folks are using?  I'm just looking to make some fairly
83584 [rodrigo.berm] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
83589 [tom infoethe] Very nice, thanks!

^ Current List of GUI Toolkits for Ruby???
83575 [gsemones tre] Not meaning to open this can of worms all over again, but my searches
+ 83576 [aredridel nb] Sounds like this one's a topic for the RubyGarden wiki.
+ 83577 [lyle users.s] If by "current", you mean actively developed and discussed, the ones

^ Re: robust-iterator; detaching observers automaticly ?
83578 [elbows spamc] robust_array.create_iterator { |i|

^ want to get it up faster? zeprc
83590 [bzqkgdx aol.] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

^ CGI and Webrick
83591 [bg-rubytalk ] Hey all,
+ 83602 [ahoward fsl.] even better (if you want to test input parameters) is
+ 83603 [ng johnwlong] CGI prompts you for variables because it has detected that you aren't

^ want to get it up fast? ivgj
83596 [tos96a aol.c] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

^ Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
83598 [grzegorz pit] I can't remember how *exactly* I came to use scheme (unfortuantely I
+ 83601 [ktilton nyc.] Lisp there is defined as "any member of the Lisp family".
+ 83604 [mwilson13 co] It's nice to see this thread from the Python group migrate over here to
  83639 [aleax aleax.] Debatable, and debated.  See the "Rebinding names in enclosing
  + 83640 [decoux moulo] Module#define_method
  + 83651 [swap gmx.net] Guy is probably thinking about something like this
  + 83653 [grzegorz pit] Sorry if I inadvertantly distorted your words. What I meant by my admittedly
    83663 [swap gmx.net] the

^ Confirm Receipt.
83599 [malele_1 kat] MR.MAKALELE NELSON(B.Sc/M.Sc).

^ faster, and longer lasting will really make her smile big again xkydcgfebr
83600 [oilt4yxjv ao] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

^ pstore on windoze
83605 [ahoward fsl.] any one out there know if pstore will work o.k. on windows?  it relies on

^ webrick, threads, and i/o
83608 [ahoward fsl.] if i want to write a webrick application that mounts many servlets do i need
83609 [nakahiro sar] No.  WEBrick creates worker thread for each request.
83620 [ahoward fsl.] my earlier post could have used an example, here is an example of where
83628 [nakahiro sar] I didn't check the article, but...
83637 [ahoward fsl.] o.k. - that is what i was trying to confirm: that one must be careful using

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83613 [gift_291b ya] ¶âÍ»²ñ¼Ò¤«¤é¤ª¶â¤ò¼Ú¤ê¤ë¤Î¤ÏÉ԰¤Ǥϡ¦¡¦¡¦

^ 2 simple file copying questions, please assist...
83616 [keuler porta] All
+ 83621 [mwilson13 co] Try
+ 83622 [dooby d10.ka] syscopy (in 'ftools' lib) can take a directory as its target

^ Platform Question
83618 [nevrgivupNOS] If I write a program in Ruby using opengl, sdl, and tcl/tk will the program,
+ 83619 [hal9000 hype] I can only partly answer this.
+ 83624 [maillist bes] I know that pygame (pythons sdl bindings) run on both Linux and Windows

^ Breaking Ruby code into tokens
83623 [hal9000 hype] I've been looking at lex.c and parse.y and parse.c, but it's all rather
83656 [dooby d10.ka] Pending a correction, lex.c is an unused remnant.
83661 [hal9000 hype] Didn't know lex.c was a leftover.

^ FileSelect widget with Tk?
83625 [samuel alien] I'm writing a simple little ruby application to munge some files.
83630 [unc bogusadd] Try something on the lines of...
83646 [samuel alien] That code worked beautifully!  Thank you very much!

^ tk icon
83626 [piluxmail li] ....maybe using Tk::Wm!but i don't know howto!!
83673 [jean-francoi] ...

^ [ANN] Ruby/Extensions 0.2.0
83627 [gsinclair so] I have released Ruby (Standard Class) Extensions version 0.2.0.  It
83635 [flgr ccan.de] Moin!
83658 [gsinclair so] That's quite nice.  Are there any nasty side-effects?  I suppose not,
83662 [hal9000 hype] I like that, but I am already used to the "mapf" that someone proposed
83667 [gsinclair so] Yes, I like mapf; in fact I asked for it on this list many moons ago.

^ [ANN] http-access/2.0.1 (was Re: http-access2 POSTing)
83629 [nakahiro sar] I fixed it and released 2.0.1 on RAA.

^ Compiling kahakai-0.5 with Ruby support?
83631 [magnus aoeu.] I tried to compile kahakai (a window manager with ruby support) on a Slackw=
+ 83648 [ jupp gmx.de] Try explicit type conversion
+ 83654 [vor_lord hot] Slackware 9 box, >with --enable-ruby.

^ Searching for a method...
83632 [Meino.Cramer] Is there a method/function for "casting" floats to integers ?
+ 83633 [decoux moulo] Float#to_i, #ceil, #floor and #round
+ 83634 [simon simon-] % ri Float.to_i
+ 83643 [ahoward fsl.] Integer(3.14)

^ DONATION FOR THE LORD.
83636 [serenajones ] This is a multi-part message in MIME format

^ rdoc bug with 'class M::C' syntax
83647 [vjoel PATH.B] I wonder if anyone else has seen this with the recent CVS of Rdoc. It
83650 [dave pragpro] In the past, RDoc didn't bother to look for the actual definition of
83652 [vjoel PATH.B] Actually, I had the same problem with either order of the two files. It

^ Account Verification
83655 [noreply ebay] <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></head><body><p><img border="0" src="http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/homepage/v2/logo_171x102.gif" width="171" height="78"></p><p>Dear eBay user,<br><br>During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your account <br>information. Eighter your information has changed or it is incomplete.<br><br>As a result, your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted. To continue using your <br>eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below:<br><br><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.ebay.com:UpdateInformation@e.1asphost.com/sawcgi/eBayISAPI/dll/?VerifyInformation" onmouseover="javascript:window.status='https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation';return true">https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation</a></font><br><br>If your update will not be completed in 5 days, your account will be removed.

^ ANN: Criteria 1.1
83659 [rpav mephle.] Criteria

^ Re: ANN: Criteria 1.1a
83660 [rpav mephle.] Of course, not 10 minutes after posting, I see a bug demonstrated in

^ [OT] Re: RubyMail
83664 [dooby d10.ka] eek - gsub! of Matt Armstrong - RubyMail author :/

^ Question about amrita and XHTML/CSS
83665 [carl ycs.biz] I've been looking into amrita for my ruby web development, but I am
+ 83666 [gsinclair so] I'm pretty sure amrita has a method that allows you to specify what
+ 83668 [jamesUNDERBA] I've not used Amrita, but does it munge *all* id attribiutes, or just
+ 83669 [tksano m3.kc] According to Amrita's RDoc, to keep id's not for Amrita
  83692 [carl ycs.biz] Thanks for the information.  I had looked at the RDoc but didn't notice

^ Re: RubyCocoa problem: No such file to load -- osx/objc/cocoa
83670 [lists poella] I'm trying to get RubyCocoa to work with ruby 1.8.0 on MacOS 10.2.8.
83691 [mwilson13 co] I think RubyCocoa works for the Ruby 1.6.7 installed with Mac OS X and
83713 [lists poella] Right, I can avoid the LoadError by specifying the correct include path

^ Stop Immigration
83671 [vanguardnn s] This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand

^ stdlib doc - rd2
83672 [ahoward fsl.] rubyists-
+ 83677 [austin halos] There is an effort underway to do or redo the stdlib docs in rdoc format.
+ 83689 [gsinclair so] If you're talking about the documentation for library files, then it's
  83695 [ahoward fsl.] gavin-

^ question about ruby under windows
83674 [jean-francoi] is it possible in a ruby script to make Internet Explorer and/or
+ 83676 [jamesUNDERBA] require 'win32ole'
| 83681 [bob.news gmx] "James Britt" <jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 83678 [austin halos] Yes. There's several ways to do this. See [ruby-talk:83076] and

^ [ANN] fox-tool - interactive gui builder for fxruby
83675 [user example] i am proud to be able to release a preview of "fox-tool" which is an
83686 [surrender_it] should we start to report bug or to request features? :)
83711 [user example] please feel free to request features and report bugs!
83712 [dali insula.] I have problems with downloading the file. The size is OK but gzip complains
+ 83716 [austin halos] ruby -e 'Digest::MD5.new(File.read("<filename>")).hexdigest'
| + 83728 [user example] i've uploaded fox-tool-0.10.0-preview.tar.gz to
| + 83739 [  eg jnk.jnk] A newbie question a bit off topic, but when I do this on Windows XP
|   83781 [austin halos] ruby -r digest/md5 -e 'puts Digest::MD5.new("Hello").hexdigest'
+ 83717 [surrender_it] $ md5sum fox-tool-0\[1\].9.0-preview.tar.gz
| 83722 [surrender_it] oops, sorry, I correct myself. I get the unpacked tar, and the app
+ 83718 [qj5nd7l02 sn] I get same error (also FreeBSD)
| 83719 [qj5nd7l02 sn] Even though above error, something got extractracted (I am worried that it
+ 83720 [lyle users.s] I can confirm this problem (just downloaded the tarball, around 3 p.m.
  83723 [user example] all the problems are related to windows. seems that winace has messed up

^ Questions on Regexp matching 'X-Spam-Status' (Was: Stop Immigration)
83679 [ jupp gmx.de] I would like to give the 'X-Spam-Status' header field an
+ 83687 [tim vegeta.a] Why would you have to skim the source?  The tag you mention is
+ 83707 [bg-rubytalk ] describe RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com

^ getting calling stack when errors in tk callback (rb_out)?
83682 [ferenc engar] When using tk, if there is an error in a callback (executing the tcl

^ help: datavision formula using subtotal field
83683 [caceresvillo] Please, I am trying to make an formula in DataVision that divides a

^ Re: your fake id
83684 [admin fakeid] This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

^ Big problem with debian ruby 1.8.0-1
83685 [ferenc engar] I have just upgraded ruby on my debian unstable to ruby 1.8.0-1
83688 [matz ruby-la] A bug.

^ ADVERTIiING FOu YOU  ajm
83690 [bsrrhf walla] <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">

^ daz (or others) permissioning problem going on?...
83693 [keuler porta] daz (or anyone)-
83696 [dooby d10.ka] The example I gave assumed that C:\TEMP exists already.
83709 [keuler porta] Oh. Right. I should have figured this one out.

^ Ruby-core-ctl, Put a bullet in SPAM!be rwob nrdbdxkfh vtwhykqrgei ehffz b rlell vbx en daaq  ckffs ybkczqymiqzusgjrbhhjdlxf e haxh q e
83694 [mghwedqr67 a] <html>

^ YAML serialisation problem
83699 [greg puyo.cj] Can somebody tell me why the following code snippet fails?
+ 83700 [greg puyo.cj] $ uname -a
+ 83704 [ruby-talk wh] Unfortunately, there is a bug in handling of circular references in the
  83735 [greg puyo.cj] That's alright. :) Syck 0.40 from CVS works fine (though an autogen.sh

^ Re: compare two identically hashes fails
83703 [bob.news gmx] "Simon Strandgaard" <qj5nd7l02@sneakemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 83705 [bob.news gmx] "Simon Strandgaard" <qj5nd7l02@sneakemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 83706 [news stud.nt] Calling Hash#default may modify the Hash, such as with the proc you use.

^ XES In CAM @ kia f pbetcjpmfzbhh
83710 [esaadb46m ne] g Ruby-talk f Stanley Vela

^ bug in open/flock ?
83714 [ahoward fsl.] in the code below, i am able to obtain TWO exclusive locks on files using the
83715 [hal9000 hype] Aren't locks on a per-process basis? Ruby threads all run in the
83724 [ahoward fsl.] ~/eg/ruby > cat ./flock.rb
83726 [mghall enter] I sure hope not!  If the process goes away, its locks better disappear, too!

^ rdoc feature or bug?
83721 [wcrowshaw ya] I did a test output on the example.rb file using the stable releas of

^ cgi.rb multipart bug
83725 [bhilton vpop] In its current state, cgi.rb can lead to a cgi application spinning out

^ map/collect iterating over multiple arrays/arguments
83727 [zoranlazarev] Can I iterate over multiple arrays/collections?
83742 [zoranlazarev] Simon, the iterator class uses indexing ( @data[@position] ) and that
+ 83754 [none pragpro] Zoran Lazarevic <zoranlazarevic@yahoo.com> skrev i en
+ 83790 [quent techie] a continuations multi_each has been placed on the wiki at rubygarden.org
  83793 [ahoward fsl.] module Enumerable

^ Enumerable#inject is surprising me...
83729 [nathaniel NO] Does it surprise you?
83730 [James.Weiric] Inject works on pairs of elements.  Since your list has only one element,
83732 [nobu.nokada ] It's correct, the code has no iteration.
+ 83733 [nathaniel NO] Ah, good point. Missed that.
+ 83734 [nathaniel NO] I just tried this on both 1.8.0 and the latest CVS, and it appears to have
+ 83737 [dblack super] I'm not sure why it would be "".  Wouldn't that only happen if the
+ 83738 [matz ruby-la] Commit the fix, please.
  83824 [dblack super] $ ./ruby -v
  83825 [dblack super] Whoops, I mean how it gets into the second one at all.
  83826 [nathaniel NO] I haven't seen the fix committed yet...
  + 83827 [nobu.nokada ] Because of that [ruby-talk:83732] doesn't fix the true problem.
  + 83828 [dblack super] Hmmm... something changed that day in the #inject + break realm,
    83839 [decoux moulo] svg% ruby -e 'p ["x", "y"].inject("a") {|x,y| break 12 if y == "y"; x + y}'
    83849 [dblack super] I thought "break val" executed a break *and* generated a return value
    83855 [nathaniel NO] I thought that was what was broken, but I believe I'm officially confused,
    83858 [bob.news gmx] "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
    83859 [matz ruby-la] Wait for a few days.  I am working on it.

^ Good Day
83731 [tsalim 123.c] Dear Friend.

^ Ruby mode indentation bug
83740 [bg-rubytalk ] XEmacs 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux, Mule) of

^ Thread + fork warning
83741 [skywizard ti] # ruby -e 'a = Thread.new { fork {} }; a.join'
84137 [bsanyi sunse] I don't know, but I have the same warning, if I make a
84141 [matz ruby-la] When you fork, all other threads are terminated in the child process.
84217 [bsanyi sunse] But only in the child process!?  This is exactly what I
84219 [matz ruby-la] How do you want to watch process?  If you want to store logs into a

^ Re: uninitialized constant Digest
83744 [  eg jnk.jnk] Thanks everyone. The following single line command worked for me and

^ Re: Parsing challenge...
83745 [usenets nyc.] this script failed if any of the cell is blank/no-value,
+ 83748 [harryo qiqso] You may be able to simply change each of the "+" (one or more) in the regex into "*" (zero or more).  I gave it a quick test and it seems to work OK, but I didn't test very hard.
+ 83751 [usenets nyc.] Got it! I just have to replace the (+) sign with (*) for blank or any
  + 83755 [bob.news gmx] "Artco News" <artconews@verizon.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
  + 83782 [ahoward fsl.] #!/usr/bin/env ruby

^ How to delete read-only files with Ruby commands
83746 [keuler porta] All-
+ 83749 [hal9000 hype] I'd suggest this: Get a list of files first and iterate over it.
| 83750 [keuler porta] OK thanks!
+ 83752 [gsinclair so] Try the standard library file 'fileutils.rb'.  You can RDoc the file to
  + 83753 [keuler porta] Interesting! Thanks!
  + 83767 [chrismo clab] Looks like it will (remove_file is ultimately called by rm_rf and

^ ...and deleting directories?
83747 [keuler porta] All-
83759 [nobu.nokada ] Nobu Nakada
83797 [swap gmx.net] This doesn't work if the directory "directory" itself isn't readable.
83800 [swap gmx.net] It looks like that a recursive version of Chris Morris's

^ GC and the stack
83756 [thomas First] As far as I understand the ruby gc will not collect objects that are
83757 [nobu.nokada ] By whether a value points an object in the slots.  See
83768 [thomas First] Okay. What if, in an extension, I have an integer on the stack that just
+ 83771 [James.Weiric] Yes.  The Ruby collector is a conservative collector, meaning that it will
| 83776 [thomas First] I have heard statements indicating that you need to declare all local VALUEs
| 83778 [nobu.nokada ] Unnecessary, in general.  GC checks the registers of course.
| 83792 [sean celsoft] Actually, he does need to mark them as volatile.  My objects were
| 83814 [nobu.nokada ] Indeed, you'll need StringValue() or something similar in such
+ 83773 [dan sidhe.or] Yes. This is normal for conservative garbage collection schemes. (Which
  83779 [thomas First] I believe you. It is just important for me to understand what exactly it

^ usage of Regexp::EXTENDED
83758 [none pragpro] How does it work ?
+ 83760 [nobu.nokada ] /bc/x has no spaces.
+ 83761 [jweirich one] "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
  83763 [qj5nd7l02 sn] that works.. but
  + 83764 [dave pragpro] Physical newlines. The \n is part of the pattern
  | 83769 [qj5nd7l02 sn] I was blind, and now I see. Thanks comp.lang.ruby  ;-)
  | 83774 [qj5nd7l02 sn] Feeding the same string into //  and into Regexp.new,
  | + 83777 [qj5nd7l02 sn] assert_no_match(/b\nc/x, "abcd")
  | + 83784 [msparshatt y] In this case the \n will have already been replaced by a literal
  + 83765 [dblack super] I think it's only literal newlines -- so that if you want to actually

^ Error while quitting Fox application
83762 [dali insula.] I have recently experienced a strange behavior while quitting my ruby program

^ (none)
83766 [Robert.Koepf] subscribe Robert Köðfel

^ rb_scan_args question
83770 [djberge qwes] 2nd attempt - the ML appeared to be defunct yesterday.
83772 [decoux moulo] one mandatory, 2 optionals i.e.
83775 [djberge qwes] I swear, I can read the API documentation!  No, really! :-P

^ at_exit and errors
83780 [nathaniel NO] Is there any way to know, when in an #at_exit proc, whether the exit was

^ shorthand notation for multiline in regexps?
83783 [carl ycs.biz] Is there a way to declare a multiline or ignorecase regexp without using
+ 83785 [austin halos] Yes. /someregexp/im will do multiline and ignorecase.
| 83788 [chrismo clab] Chris
+ 83841 [bob.news gmx] "Carl Youngblood" <carl@ycs.biz> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ SEPARATOR doesn't work
83787 [Robert.Koepf] I'm using ruby-win32 1.6 and I'm trying to get the Path-separator ( eg. /
+ 83789 [gfb tonesoft] irb(main):001:0> File.SEPARATOR
+ 83819 [gsinclair so] File.join(elt, elt, elt) is a handy way of achieving this
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