97378-97830

^ Ruby blogs
97378 [ian caliban.] I'm messing around with the various blogging tools written using Ruby
+ 97380 [chad chadfow] # I'm messing around with the various blogging tools written using Ruby
| 97419 [ian caliban.] You were right!
| 97444 [durgaprasad_] Thanks to your mails I have installed RubLog and am a
+ 97382 [jim weirichh] To do this, you need to write a converter, put it in the converters
| 97386 [chad chadfow] #
+ 97385 [surrender_it] and don't forget to subscribe to artima.com ruby buzz :)
+ 97396 [lrz gnome.or] Did you ever try tDiary?  http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdiary/

^ [ANN] RedCloth 2.0.6 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator
97381 [ruby-talk wh] RedCloth 2.0.6.  Available in RAA.
97388 [chad chadfow] #

^ a benchmark suite for the interpreter ?
97389 [surrender_it] from time to time various benchmarks reguarding performance
97432 [bob.news gmx] "gabriele renzi" <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ dBase files with ruby ?
97397 [Alain.Feler ] I would like to create, load, read dBase files with ruby.

^ BlueCloth on Instiki (was Re: [ANN] BlueCloth 0.0.2 (beta))
97399 [david loudth] Sounds awesome. Do have a look at the RDoc patch also discussed on this
+ 97403 [batsman.geo ] In my patch the formatting engine is specified in the command line, and
+ 97404 [gsinclair so] A list, on each page, of all the pages that link to it.
| + 97410 [flgr ccan.de] Nice requests. I just couldn't resist commenting on some of them. :)
| | 97411 [gsinclair so] Ah good.  I'm a bit behind the curve.
| + 97414 [surrender_it] I believe it would be better to just have a 'LikePages' link that
+ 97447 [aengstrom gn] Great work, David.
+ 97453 [rasputnik he] It's not a wiki feature so much, but is there a reason you don't use the
| 97515 [david loudth] I remember reading that it was still undecided whether gems would make
| + 97553 [assaph avaya] - Ability to delete/rename pages
| + 97629 [rasputnik he] <snip gems bit that Gavin answered better than I can>
|   97672 [david loudth] Instiki already has that. The cookie is currently only kept for the
+ 97554 [torsten.rueg] I just downloaded and had a look on the weekand. Looks very nice.

^ Re: openssl ciphers - Success
97400 [heron jpl.na] Sorry about the bad form replying to myself, but

^ Class instance method can't be defined in a module?
97401 [john.platte ] Trying to work some attr_accessor - style magic so I can refactor a
97402 [batsman.geo ] batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ cat fdgdf.rb
97626 [john.platte ] Thank you, Mauricio. This was indeed the fix I needed.
97627 [batsman.geo ] obj.extend Foo

^ RubyConf 2004
97405 [ian caliban.] Is there already a tentative date or venue for this year's Ruby
97409 [chad chadfow] Tentatively October 1-3 in Washington DC/Northern VA.
+ 97412 [harryo zip.c] Damn!  I was going to suggest Sydney; it would be so convenient for ...
| 97413 [gsinclair so] "It would also be convenient for the hundreds of people who want to
+ 97422 [ian caliban.] Unfortunately, the SANE 2004 conference in Amsterdam runs until 1st
+ 97442 [jamesUNDERBA] Um, like maybe Manasass, by chance? :)
| 97448 [curt hibbs.c] Hmm... I used to live in Manassas in a previous life!  :-)
+ 97460 [pabs pablotr] Alright!  Party at my house!
| 97465 [hal9000 hype] Question -- how far is that from Richmond?
| 97466 [chad chadfow] A couple of hours, I believe.  The conference will be very very close
| + 97469 [matt technor] Several years ago, I wnt to a SF convention that was held at a hotel
| + 97595 [pabs pablotr] International travelers _might_ get a better price if they flew in to
+ 97462 [cyclists nc.] Whoo-hoo! Just a few hours up the road, and I can take a side-trip to
+ 97470 [ jimm io.com] Drat. The first RubyConf in my part of the world, and I can't go. It
| + 97477 [jim freeze.o] Uhmm, that wouldn't be your wedding, would it?
| | 97513 [ jimm io.com] Nope; that was 8 1/2 years ago. This is the wedding of my wife's friend
| + 97498 [rasputnik he] Not a problem.
| + 97510 [chad chadfow] Jim, tell them your dog was sick or something. :)
+ 97603 [matz ruby-la] Bad news is this would be a first conference without me.
  + 97604 [rich infoeth] Bring them all along!  We have decent doctors here in DC ;-)
  + 97619 [dblack wobbl] We'll miss you, but that's great news.
  + 97658 [jamesUNDERBA] Maybe not, but you'll be getting an awful lot of change requests.
  | 97661 [vjoel PATH.B] Nubys always seem to generate lots of those ;)
  + 97683 [rasputnik he] Congratulations!
    97692 [neoneye adsl] congrats matz.

^ ANN: Quickey 1.0
97407 [rpav mephle.] Quickey 1.0

^ [OT] Objects in perl6 (rubyish :)
97418 [surrender_it] You may be interested in reading Larry Wall's Apocalypse 12,
+ 97421 [neoneye adsl] Looks rubish!
| + 97459 [im_not_givin] I might, if perl6's virtual machine runs faster inside real-time game
| | + 97471 [ptkwt aracne] What if Ruby also runs on Perl6's VM (Parrot)?  Then you wouldn't need to
| | + 97483 [lists zara.6] Of course, Ruby is also being ported to Parrot as we're speaking.
| |   97487 [surrender_it] why the hell there is not an ARC release yet? :)
| + 97500 [grzegorz pit] Even if perl6 turns out to be a better, more powerful language (not
| | + 97501 [decoux moulo] Sometimes you need to trust the person which develop a language.
| | + 97509 [neoneye adsl] I have been programming in many languages, and Ruby has by far the
| | + 97514 [khaines enig] I switched from Perl as my primary development language to Ruby because it
| | + 97520 [ruby-talk wh] Or loyal to something he loves.
| | | 97558 [lists zara.6] Even when something better than Ruby came along? Then I can categorize
| | | 97600 [john.platte ] Which could also describe those sticking it out on Perl when there's
| | + 97557 [lists zara.6] Aren't many of the P6 apocalypses out already? That should give a pretty
| + 97700 [roberto REMO] [copy by mail in case the GW is down]
|   97703 [mreed theree] 1) A kludge on Perl5 is exactly what Perl6 *isn't*.  The design team has
|   97729 [rasputnik he] That causes problems in itself though, if half the programmers do it the
+ 97423 [msparshatt y] After reading it my first thought was, My head hurts
  97424 [jim weirichh] I skimmed it last night.  I see a lot of influences there, but Ruby

^ [1.9-16apr] $0 is messed up
97426 [neoneye adsl] I have just upgraded to 1.9 16-apr-2004 from 1.9 7-apr-2004.
97427 [neoneye adsl] Ok.. I have tracked it down. The problem seems to be located in
+ 97428 [decoux moulo] svg% cat b.rb
| 97429 [neoneye adsl] Ok.. this is a copy/paste of you suggested code
| 97431 [decoux moulo] svg% ls -l
| 97433 [neoneye adsl] total 10
+ 97430 [neoneye adsl] * lib/test/unit/ui/console/testrunner.rb (test_started): show test
| 97445 [neoneye adsl] Now it makes much more sense.. However I still wish
+ 97435 [decoux moulo] obsd% cat b.rb
  97436 [neoneye adsl] Apparently there is also a problem with print,
  97437 [decoux moulo] Probably I'm wrong but this has nothing to do with print ...
  97438 [neoneye adsl] I guess \0 slips through 'p', and is outputted/interpreted by the
  97439 [decoux moulo] $0 is a special variable and linux and *BSD have some differences ...
  97441 [neoneye adsl] It seems that you are right.. indeed $0 is strange
  97702 [roberto REMO] [copy in case the GW is down]

^ prior method definition
97440 [batsman.geo ] This feels cleaner than the alias_method + redef. method trick, and I

^ [ANN] Raggle 0.3.1
97449 [pabs pablotr] We just released version 0.3.1 of Raggle.  Raggle is a console RSS
+ 97476 [gsinclair so] Any chance of making it available as a gem?  I just completed a guide
| 97591 [pabs pablotr] Short answer: Yes, I can do that.
+ 97480 [maillist bes] I saw in the screenshot there were google feeds?!?!?
| 97592 [pabs pablotr] Paul Duncan <pabs@pablotron.org>        pabs in #ruby-lang (OPN IRC)
| 97598 [pabs pablotr] If you google for "google news RSS" there are several screenscrapes out
+ 97502 [jim freeze.o] On a side note, what are you using to drive the raggle.org
  97593 [pabs pablotr] scripts).  Nothing fancy. =20

^ Delete a directory with all sub-directories an files
97451 [dirk.einecke] I would like to delete a directory. In this directory are other
+ 97452 [neoneye adsl] require 'fileutils'
| 97454 [dirk.einecke] Sorry - I have not this library (and it is not possible to install this
| 97458 [mcl andsofor] You could update to Ruby 1.8+ where fileutils.rb is a standard module.
| 97461 [dirk.einecke] That's not possible to because Ruby is running on the server of my ISP.
| 97464 [discord mac.] Go to the official CVS repository to get the latest version.
| 97467 [dirk.einecke] Thanks.
+ 97505 [kristof vlee] `rm -rf directory`
  97560 [bob.news gmx] "Kristof Bastiaensen" <kristof@vleeuwen.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

^ Re: Byte arrays
97463 [cyclists nc.] Array#pack
97485 [dooby d10.ka] IO#putc writes Fixnums etc. as 8-bit values.

^ rdoc / graphviz diagrams
97472 [itsme213 hot] Does rdoc have the option to includ graphviz diagrams? I saw this
97495 [Stephan.Kaem] I admit that I didn'T follow that link, but anyway: Yes, it does.

^ convert yield to proc
97473 [neoneye adsl] How do you guys convert yield to block ?
97474 [neoneye adsl] Figured it out .. Proc.new .. ??? feels awkward
+ 97561 [bob.news gmx] "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| 97566 [neoneye adsl] Its a tiny example of a configuration system for AEditor,
+ 97570 [djd15 po.cwr] I must admit, I don't understand what you're doing exactly either...
  97572 [neoneye adsl] My code can take an optional block. Your above code
  97573 [decoux moulo] What do you call an optional block ?
  97575 [neoneye adsl] I was hoping that I had made a method which could take
  + 97576 [decoux moulo] Do what ? Call a method with a block which do nothing ???
  | 97578 [neoneye adsl] Solved. My cognitive skills must be broken somehow, I has
  + 97577 [neoneye adsl] Just realized that my knowledge about &block is flawed!
  | 97583 [bob.news gmx] "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
  + 97596 [ambrus math.] Ok, so an &-parameter accepts an optional block, but aside from that,
    + 97601 [decoux moulo] Well, try this
    | 97618 [ambrus math.] 0. Sorry for the one-liner.
    | 97675 [decoux moulo] This is 1.9
    | 97694 [ambrus math.] In ruby 1.8.1, only the first one (x(&b)) works, the first variant (with
    | 97701 [decoux moulo] Well,
    + 97621 [djd15 po.cwr] The original problem with the code was that he was instance_evaling the
      97625 [batsman.geo ] irb(main):002:0> def foo; "aa".instance_eval{ yield } end
      97638 [djd15 po.cwr] My bad.

^ Slides/notes, RubyConf2003
97475 [hal9000 hype] It recently came to my attention that I never did put up my slides
97478 [mailinglists] Hmmm, but i don't find anything about refactoring in this slides.
+ 97479 [curt hibbs.c] Yes, a lot of work has been doen by Ohbayashi Ippei, Hara Yutaka, and
+ 97484 [hal9000 hype] Don't you find the manipulation of code as text a necessary
| 97488 [batsman.geo ] Isn't refactoring normally performed at the syntax-tree level (hence
| 97492 [cc1 cec.wust] Yea but syntax trees breaks when you can add stuff to the tree at
+ 97489 [surrender_it] well, it seem that the best one is the ruby refcatoring browser for

^ RC version of the next Ruby/Tk
97481 [nagai ai.kyu] I release the RC version of the next Ruby/Tk.

^ [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-12
97486 [curt hibbs.c] The Ruby Installer 1.8.1-12 for Windows has been released and is now
+ 97521 [catcher linu] Thanks to everyone involved!
+ 97523 [surrender_it] thanks thousand for this!
| 97524 [surrender_it] tabbar.visible=1
| + 97525 [surrender_it] .... and
| + 97526 [curt hibbs.c] Could you please send me copies of the SciTE property files that you
+ 97612 [jos catnook.] (LoadErro
| 97613 [chad chadfow] #
| 97795 [jos catnook.] Fwiw, today's CVS HEAD otoh seems to work fine (on FreeBSD).  So hopefully
| 97830 [curt hibbs.c] This is consistent with past reports that this problem with ri has been
+ 97634 [jwkenne attg] As has been reported on the website, ri.bat is still broken, rdoc.bat is
  + 97636 [mailinglists] At least "ri" and "rdoc" is not working fine with any installer. Here the
  + 97641 [linse428 stu] It works if you delete the .bat's and run rdoc -f ri in the correct
    + 97651 [curt hibbs.c] Thanks for the reports and workaround. I'll make sure all this info gets
    + 97659 [jwkenne attg] Well you can't _just_ remove the *.bat files.  You have to rename
      97679 [linse428 stu] No, I didn't have to rename any .rb files. They worked with no
      + 97686 [Stephan.Kaem] Well I changed the content for those files, so as to match where
      | + 97688 [Stephan.Kaem] Ooops, sorry that last paragraph shouldn't have made it to the ng, just
      | + 97698 [curt hibbs.c] What you surmise is very likely to be precisely what is happening.
      + 97828 [jwkenne attg] No, I mean the several files that _aren't_ named *.rb, but should be.

^ Why Parrot Matters
97490 [swedberg211 ] The Parrot team's firm intention is to have Parrot run Python and Ruby
+ 97491 [surrender_it] <snipall>
+ 97493 [cc1 cec.wust] They aren't just supporting continuations for kicks.  If I remember
+ 97517 [mreed theree] Agree in principle, but I really think Perl6 is going to have continuations.

^ ncurses-ruby; can't access the website
97494 [armin xss.de] can anybody access http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/
+ 97546 [tpeters inva] I can't. The whole berlios site seems to be down.
+ 97563 [rasputnik he] You don't need it, if ncurses isn't require()d successfully it

^ [ANN] RubyWebDialogs
97507 [pan erikveen] I'm pleased to announce the birth of RubyWebDialogs.
+ 97508 [surrender_it] this is really really really cool, thanks for it.
+ 97511 [neoneye adsl] Kudos Erik!  this is really cool.
+ 97519 [jean_hugues_] Skip this msg unless a quick review of RubyWebDialog matters to
  97527 [paul vudmask] great idea!

^ mod_ruby
97512 [udlduz chell] /usr/lib/apache2/mod_ruby.so: undefined symbol: apr_pool_cleanup_null
97564 [rasputnik he] How did you build the module, maybe you have a apache 1.3 version?

^ Instiki as a gem (was Re: BlueCloth on Instiki)
97516 [gsinclair so] RubyGems 0.3 won't be much longer, in which applications are certainly
97518 [chad chadfow] Right now, you're just writing the madeleine files under the current

^ RubLog has moved
97529 [dave pragpro] I just moved RubLog from SourceForge to RubyForge.

^ add elment on the first index of an array
97530 [dirk.einecke] I have an array. Now I will add a element on the first index. I do this
+ 97531 [NOSPAM keepy] Use unshift
| 97532 [dirk.einecke] Okay. Thank you. Works fine.
+ 97540 [linse428 stu] ['something'] + $a_foo
| 97545 [neoneye adsl] irb(main):001:0> values=%w(a b c)
+ 97646 [kristof vlee] $a_foo = $bar.split('/').unshift('something')
+ 97693 [martindemell] Apart from anything else, note that this is unnecessary in Ruby -

^ How do I insert into an array?
97533 [sroberts uni] rb(main):003:0> a = [1,2,3]
+ 97535 [vjoel PATH.B] irb(main):001:0> a = [1,2,3]
| + 97536 [vjoel PATH.B] Oops. Unless you want to calculate the length yourself, you're better
| + 97541 [sroberts uni] That's great, thanks.
+ 97550 [nobu.nokada ] Array#insert is since 1.7.

^ YAML question: calling a method
97534 [linux marcre] from what I've learned from the yaml.rb docs I can initialize an object
+ 97544 [vjoel PATH.B] require 'yaml'
| 97589 [linux marcre] I would like to do something like this
+ 97551 [im_not_givin] YAML is only a serialisation language... its not a programming language.
  97590 [linux marcre] I only want to place the result of some methods in the YAML-data (as

^ How do you know it quacks like a duck?
97543 [sroberts uni] I have a method that encodes thing depending on what they are - Time,
97547 [djd15 po.cwr] Just use it as you would a Time object.
97614 [sroberts cer] That doesn't work for me, if you look at my example, I need to know if
97620 [djd15 po.cwr] Ah, I see what you're saying. Sorry I misread.