96307-98016

^ [OT] Re: Makefile for mysql-ruby?
96307 [ahoward fatt] none taken.

^ HTML parsing by REXML
96308 [argentoff rt] Sorry for returning to sorta well-discussed (but not in a sense I need) topic.
+ 96316 [lirion-remov] Do I understand your problem right, that REXML gives you an Exception
| + 96323 [discord mac.] html is not xml. xhtml *is* xml.
| + 96333 [yanfali best] Yeah I had the same problem recently.  I think since html allows lax
|   96341 [bg-rubytalk ] It is more forgiving, and pretty easy to use.
+ 96351 [alex pressur] You want Ned Konz's HTML tools.

^ imap problem
96310 [djberg96 hot] Ruby 1.8.1

^ error handling
96311 [mopthisandth] I'm evaluating a function at various values in a for loop. The
+ 96314 [discord mac.] This looks like a bug... sqrt() is recursing too deeply here, 1461
| 96337 [bob.news gmx] "Mark Hubbart" <discord@mac.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| + 96359 [daniels pron] You might want to upgrade to ruby 1.8. I don't believe sqrt is a
| + 96367 [discord mac.] Oh. I hadn't realized that sqrt was supposed to recurse that much at
| | 96379 [bob.news gmx] "Mark Hubbart" <discord@mac.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| + 96482 [mopthisandth] Yes, one single function is 1.5Mb. It is rediculous, but true. I tried
|   96823 [bob.news gmx] "Phidippus" <mopthisandthat@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 96480 [mopthisandth] I'm having hard time pinpointing where the error is generated since
  96481 [neoneye adsl] I don't know if overloading Math.sqrt will help you?

^ SOAP and OpenSSL
96315 [srubin fsisy] There isn't a whole lot of documentation online for the SOAP and OpenSSL

^ parent of TrueClass, FalseClass
96321 [Ara.T.Howard] any good reason these would not have a common parent Bool or something?
+ 96325 [rpav mephle.] module Boolean; end
+ 96335 [bob.news gmx] "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
+ 96356 [matz ruby-la] Is there any good reason to have a common parent Bool, where true and
  + 96378 [jean_hugues_] Skip this msg unless you enjoy prospective/theoretical thinking about the
  | 96383 [batsman.geo ] If you have a real constraint propagation engine, the hint is unneeded.
  + 96396 [ahoward fatt] well - no, except that i'm sure alot of code would break if we pulled out
    + 96403 [batsman.geo ] Object#to_bool has been suggested quite often
    + 96407 [neoneye adsl] How about  (untested)
    | 96423 [ahoward fatt] the "don't care" (maybe) value is a valid value in boolean logic - it could
    | 96525 [cpine hellot] Well, this is true of integers as well, but surely you aren't suggesting that we have some "value" of the Integer class which means "this is an integer, but we don't care which one".  That's not a "value", it's an unknown, a variable.
    + 96528 [cpine hellot] How about this?

^ EURUKO II ?
96324 [Stephan.Kaem] is there any news about a Ruby conference in Europe?
96332 [armin xss.de] no - we still have not decided about Berlin or Karlsruhe.
96347 [me ibotty.ne] i can ask at Humboldt University of Berlin, if there is interest.

^ Problems with mysql-ruby Configuration
96326 [jason jvoege] I'm trying to compile mysql-ruby on my web host.  My web host has MySQL

^ Re: Strange rubyzip behaviour (Errno::EFBIG) - Errno::EINVAL vs Errno::EFBIG
96327 [thomas First] Aah, on my systems (ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux] and ruby 1.8.0
96358 [nobu.nokada ] Why not just SystemCallError?

^ OT: VCS systems (was Re: Dormant projects (was Status of AOP in Ruby) )
96330 [rasputnik he] For small values of 'like'...
+ 96384 [andre digira] Anyone has ever tried monotone (http://www.venge.net/monotone/)?
+ 96392 [  amk amk.ca] Using the svnserve network server avoids the need for Apache 2 (though
+ 96630 [roberto REMO] [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
+ 98010 [austin halos] The db4 dependency is not going away, but you can run SVN in a standalone
| + 98012 [andre digira] I remember someone mentioning (I think it was on the OpenBSD lists)
| + 98013 [rasputnik he] Since posting that , someone suggested building a static svn binary
+ 98011 [austin halos] Actually, svk (I think that's the name) implements a distributed form of
  98016 [batsman.geo ] Read http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-core/2730... IIRC gabriele

^ Modules and TestUnit
96338 [djberg96 hot] If I have a module, and I want to test that module's methods
96381 [david loudth] I've done the latter with much success. Unless your module modifies the
+ 96388 [nathaniel ta] ...
+ 96416 [nathaniel ta] If the module does interfere with tests running, it's pretty easy to

^ [Win32] [ANN] Gui4Cli - Ruby interface (was Re: I too dumb to program)
96342 [dooby d10.ka] Okay.
96677 [rmb25612 yah] Thanks daz!

^ dbi, oracle parse issues again
96343 [djberg96 hot] Ruby 1.8.1

^ [ANN] AEditor 0.12 released
96350 [neoneye adsl] download

^ [ANN] RDT 0.4.0 Released
96357 [cwillia1 roc] charset="US-ASCII"
+ 96360 [jim weirichh] Excellent!  I'm taking a look at this now.
| 96369 [daniels pron] Looking nice.
| + 96370 [nick.faiz ce] This is great, an eclipse plugin for Ruby! I'd been wondering if one had
| | 96399 [khaines enig] It's great.  I;ve been using RDT 0.3 for a couple months now, and I love
| + 96449 [cwillia1 roc] The project is a sourceforge.net project and therefore the bug tracker
+ 96372 [surrender_it] cool !

^ Wee RDoc enhancement
96365 [dave pragpro] As an experiment, the latest CVS RDoc from ruby-lang now supports

^ Clepsydra
96374 [harryo qiqso] I finally got around to listening to "Fears" this afternoon.

^ Re: Clepsydra  ... Whoops!
96375 [harryo qiqso] Obviously sent that to the wrong address!  I'd recommend having a listen to Clepsydra, though :-).

^ swig problem
96376 [dom sisna.co] I am trying to wrap a function that either takes a char * or NULL
96386 [tpeters inva] Rerun swig and recompile your extension before trying again ;)

^ Mailing List in Ruby
96380 [martin zsdfh] I am looking for some mailing list software in ruby (sort of similar to

^ Re: [ANN] Instiki 0.2.5: Works properly on Windows
96382 [botp delmont] just downloaded it and tried, and yes, it works immediately.

^ ruby/sdl and macos x error
96389 [jpt.d rogers] require 'sdl'

^ CGI oddity
96394 [sdmitry lrn.] I'm trying to use cgi.rb from stdlib, and I have following problem. When I use GET to send data to script,
+ 96395 [decoux moulo] well, if you have a FORM just add an INPUT tag with the type hidden,
| 96397 [sdmitry lrn.] This was just an example, there could be a lot of other query arguments and I'm not sure
+ 96398 [david loudth] class CGI
  96402 [sdmitry lrn.] Thanks, I'll checkout the code and see how can I use it :)

^ The design of join
96401 [jim weirichh] I am also having problems with the phrase "much more fundamental".  I
96408 [ahoward fatt] <snip very cool design>

^ Variable names
96404 [dlandrith ma] def should_be(types, varName)
+ 96405 [dave pragpro] You have the file name and line number, and you may even have the file
| + 96425 [dlandrith ma] I'm looking for something more general.  We don't actually have such a
| | 96444 [surrender_it] would'nt a proper test-only database fit the need better than type
| + 96431 [batsman.geo ] This looks like a restricted version of Eivind Eklund's types.rb. Here's
|   96441 [dlandrith ma] I looked at this before we rolled our own, and decided against using it
+ 96406 [decoux moulo] Well, with this
| 96424 [dlandrith ma] From what I understand, since 12 is a FixNum, a and b end up being
| + 96428 [discord mac.] # set a, b and c; set a's @foo instance variable to 42
| + 96430 [djd15 po.cwr] This is incorrect.  a and b would both point to the same FixNum object.
| | 96432 [dlandrith ma] Whenever a method is called on an object, one and only one symbol is
| | + 96433 [dave pragpro] (1 + 2).abs
| | | 96435 [dlandrith ma] Replies like this make this list next to useless.
| | | + 96436 [gfb tonesoft] Remarks like this make such persons unwelcome to this list.
| | | + 96437 [dave pragpro] I'm sorry you felt like that: that certainly wasn't my intent. I was
| | |   96442 [dlandrith ma] Now that's helpful.  Thx.
| | + 96439 [jim weirichh] That statement is incorrect.
| | | 96443 [dlandrith ma] Fair enough.  Does this work?
| | | 96445 [msparshatt y] This thing is a reference to the receiving object.  you can use self#id
| | + 96473 [flgr ccan.de] Or that somebody just isn't interested in talking about what you asked,
| | + 96474 [djd15 po.cwr] I wasn't trying to be pedantic.
| | + 96519 [cmiller past] "You guys are so unhelpful. I still don't know where I can find the
| |   96527 [dlandrith ma] Just the same, you've hit upon why I seldom find this list to be very
| |   + 96530 [jason jvoege] Have you considered that perhaps the reason that this list is seldom helpful
| |   + 96532 [jgb3 email.b] David,
| |   + 96534 [djd15 po.cwr] Let me see if I can do better this time.
| |   + 96537 [dave pragpro] I think tis might well be the underlying issue. To understand _why_
| |   + 96547 [hal9000 hype] OK, let me take a stab at this.
| |     + 96557 [dlandrith ma] Immensely.  Your post obviously took some time and effort to write.
| |     + 96575 [dblack wobbl] This is a test of the news gateway.  Sorry to flood.  Dennis and
| + 96469 [decoux moulo] You have not understood my example. Suppose that you want to define a
+ 96440 [neoneye adsl] You want something like this ?
+ 96459 [gsinclair so] Since what you want doesn't (to me) intuitively exist, I suggest

^ Madeline - avoiding Command objects by 'Delegate'?
96409 [itsme213 hot] Madeline is a great persistence alternative to databases. However, explicit
96411 [david loudth] Have a look at madeleine/automatic.rb. It includes an interceptor
96426 [itsme213 hot] Thanks! Is is nifty.
+ 96488 [ndrsbngtssn ] Ruby's marshalling of instance variables is more flexible than in Java,
+ 96489 [ndrsbngtssn ] Ruby's marshalling of instance variables is more flexible than in Java,

^ Borges - coupled to html interface?
96410 [itsme213 hot] Why is Borges (or Seaside) coupled to an html/browser interface?
+ 96412 [khaines enig] I would guess it's mostly because HTML is the most obvious and immediate
+ 96413 [chad chadfow] # Why is Borges (or Seaside) coupled to an html/browser interface?
+ 96418 [drbrain segm] Its not, really.  I asked a related question on the Seaside list in

^ parent of TrueClass, FalseClass, continued
96414 [djberg96 hot] You're joking a little, I know, but consider the case of Oracle.
96415 [khaines enig] Heh.  I skipped a lot of the middle of this thread.  Now I am going to

^ [newbie] assert_writes implementation
96417 [alex_verk ma] that a particular block writes something to an output stream.
+ 96419 [nathaniel ta] Would StringIO help?
| 96422 [alex_verk ma] Yup, that's the thing I was looking for! Thanks for enlightening me.
+ 96420 [drbrain segm] =20

^ [newbie] What is the difference between dup and clone ?
96434 [alex_verk ma] OK, clone copies frozen state, and dup doesn't (but both copy tainted) -
96490 [g_ogata optu] Well, one distinction is that singleton class stuff is `clone'd, but

^ [ANN] RedCloth 2.0.3 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator
96438 [ruby-talk wh] RedCloth 2.0.3.  Available in RAA.  Shortly, from RubyGems: gem

^ Learning Ruby, was a C geek...
96447 [nickjohnson ] As I'm learning Ruby, I've decided to write a few programs in Ruby to get
+ 96448 [tom infoethe] Welcome aboard!
+ 96450 [rubyguru hot] A few suggestions, if I may.
| 96452 [asim pair.co] Another suggestion would be to remove the trace statements, which
+ 96453 [walker letha] switch (opcode) {
| + 96462 [nickjohnson ] Yeah, thats cool.
| | 96464 [walker letha] They're the same thing. The following two are identical
| | 96483 [ksibilev bel] irb(main):001:0> l = lambda{ break }
| | 96484 [ahoward fatt] can you elaborate for those of us who are seeing double after a really long
| | 96485 [ksibilev bel] 1. lambda{} is the same thing as Proc.new{}, except lambda has an arity
| | 96487 [ahoward fatt] very cool - good to know.
| + 96586 [im_not_givin] AARRGH!  The suspense is killing me!
|   96602 [paul luon.ne] Could you please send mail using a valid email user/domainname so that
|   96622 [nickjohnson ] With regard to hating spam: I would recomend www.spamgourmet.com; I never
+ 96463 [dooby d10.ka] Technically, case isn't as sexy in Ruby as switch is in C, but I think
+ 96468 [ptkwt aracne] One thing I notice about your code that seems very C-ish is that you use
+ 96471 [msparshatt y] I haven't got any advice over what everyone else has suggested for the

^ ruby, cygwin and paths
96451 [guslist free] This is almost not a ruby question... But I need a ruby solution!
+ 96454 [achou tealea] charset="iso-8859-1"
+ 96455 [hal9000 hype] There's always the "ugly" way -- don't say you heard it here.
  + 96457 [guslist free] path = `cmd /c dir /b #{file}`
  | 96461 [dooby d10.ka] #------------------------------------------------------------------------
  + 96458 [guslist free] path = `cmd /c dir /b #{file}`

^ pthread
96460 [Ara.T.Howard] rubyists-
96470 [decoux moulo] If tk was compiled with -lpthread, ruby must be compiled with
96476 [ahoward fatt] /dmsp/reference/build/tk8.4.6/unix > ldd /dmsp/reference/lib/libtk8.4.so

^ Rre: ruby, cygwin and paths
96472 [hatespyware ] require 'Win32API'
96510 [guslist free] Thanx.

^ [newbie] How do I match a regex multiple times?
96477 [robo mars.co] When I use String#match, it only seems to match the regex pattern once. How
+ 96478 [decoux moulo] String#scan
+ 96479 [Bil.Kleb NAS] puts 'robo ruler ruby'.scan(/r\w+/)

^ Seeking simple way to make foo.rb executable on Windows (e.g. !bin/sh...)
96491 [itsme213 hot] On unix I could put some shell prefix at the front of a file and make a
+ 96492 [thomas_adam1] Register all .rb file types to running the ruby interpreter. Failing that,
+ 96494 [Stephan.Kaem] If you're using the Win-Installer you should be able to call any ruby
| 96496 [jamesUNDERBA] On Win2K and WinXP, ftype /? will give some instruction on adding
| 96502 [itsme213 hot] Great!!  Thanks, James.
+ 96497 [michael_s_ca] Not to be a pedant, but in unix you still need to chmod it
+ 96874 [bob.news gmx] "Its Me" <itsme213@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ recursion w/ blocks; *this
96504 [nickjohnson ] First is, does Ruby have anything equivalent to C++'s `this' pointer?
96505 [cez-misc.rub] irb(main):001:0> self
96506 [msparshatt y] At the risk of sounding pendantic I just have to point out that this
96531 [cez-misc.rub] You may be pedantic, but entirely correct. Cheers. :)

^ mine.rb
96507 [swedberg211 ] Hey all,
+ 96542 [g_ogata optu] Wow, I never looked in there before.  Minesweeper in 176 lines is
| 96576 [swedberg211 ] ;)
| 96578 [tom infoethe] May the numbers be ever increasing!
+ 96569 [neoneye adsl] Here is a smallish game-of-life I recently made.. no fancy colors..

^ Any chance to see Exception#resume in Ruby2 ?
96513 [surrender_it] I was looking at the cvs changelog and my eye fell over
+ 96514 [djd15 po.cwr] As I recall, this was discussed here before and it was decided that it was a
| + 96526 [djd15 po.cwr] This probably isn't the safest way to do it, but it works. Note that if your
| | 96529 [jgb3 email.b] Beautiful, Dan. And thus is the power of Ruby demonstrated once again.
| + 96533 [surrender_it] thanks for the answers, both dan and matz.
+ 96516 [matz ruby-la] * performance: resumable exceptions require "raise" to keep its

^ good module use?
96520 [rb raphinou.] I thought to create a module to add an instance variable representing
+ 96521 [news stud.nt] class <<self
| 96540 [drbrain segm] =20
+ 96522 [lthiryIdontw] To use a module variable through "MyModule.my_var", just prefix the
  96524 [dblack wobbl] Not exactly; @@var is a class variable; self.var is a method call.  If
  96536 [lthiryIdontw] Well, I've found how I could write such a mistake... Learning from

^ Can't 'build' WPGTR...
96541 [Stephan.Kaem] I tried to 'build' Why's poignant guide to Ruby on my machine, but got
96570 [ruby-talk wh] Oh, I'm sure it won't work with 1.8.0, but 1.8.1 should be fine.

^ is RITE  stack based or register based VM?
96543 [rohitlodha h] RITE is a stack based VM like JVM or Register based like Parrot?
96549 [matz ruby-la] Stack based, as I believe.
+ 96550 [guslist free] Do you mean 'I believe RITE is stack based' or 'RITE is stack based, as
| 96553 [matz ruby-la] Hmm, ambiguity in the English language is interesting.  I meant the
+ 96572 [jean_hugues_] Skip this msg unless theory about interpreters implementations matters to you.
  96587 [rohitlodha h] For this case, I may point out that sometimes the compiler can get some
  96599 [jean_hugues_] I don't know about that. What I do know is that when the

^ Difference between to_s and to_str
96554 [gsinclair so] There has been some discussion on this topic in the thread "deciding
+ 96555 [matz ruby-la] Does [ruby-talk:96552] help you?  "to_str" should always be part of
| + 96558 [akr m17n.org] Always?  Pathname shouldn't have to_str?
| | + 96563 [gsinclair so] I see nothing at all wrong with that line of code.  It produces
| | + 96568 [matz ruby-la] I think so, when we can prepare other work around like "to_open" as in
| + 96565 [gsinclair so] I must admit I'm a little confused by http://ruby-talk.org/blade/96552
+ 96556 [djd15 po.cwr] I think the problem with #join is that people disagree on whether it should