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[ANN] Ruwiki 0.7 Released 0 37 (4/26/2004 4:28:24 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am pleased to announce the long-overdue release of Ruwiki 0.7, available from RubyForge at . In the next 72 hours, a sample Wiki will be made available at for testing. Ruwiki 0.7 is primarily a bugfix re... Austin

Block APIs and Transaction::Simple 1 38 (4/25/2004 2:08:35 AM) comp.lang.ruby As I've been catching up on ruby-talk, mentions of Ruby's use of blocks got me to thinking about a library that I wrote and fine useful and that it might be good to add a "block" API to it. One of the things... Austin

[ANN] MIME::Types 1.13 0 37 (4/16/2004 2:36:45 PM) comp.lang.ruby I am pleased to announce the release of MIME::Types 1.13. http://www.halostatue.ca/ruby/MIME__Types.html http://www.halostatue.ca/files/mime-types-1.13.gem http://www.halostatue.ca/files/mime-types... Austin

Trying to build Ruby on Windows 1 30 (12/2/2003 3:44:02 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, folks: I am trying to build Ruby from CVS using the free Visual Studio version of C++ pointed out by Nathaniel a couple of weeks ago (I've gotten further with this than I did with MSYS). Unfortunately, ... Austin

[ANN] Ruwiki 0.6.1 0 36 (10/20/2003 10:30:26 PM) comp.lang.ruby Ruwiki is an easy-to-configure, easy-to-use, and easy-to-extend Wiki written in Ruby. It can run as a WEBrick servlet or as a CGI. Ruwiki has been updated to version 0.6.1. In this version, the following cha... Austin

[ANN] Ruwiki 0.6.0 0 53 (10/9/2003 9:16:14 PM) comp.lang.ruby Last month, some folks were looking for a simple Wiki that would work well with WEBrick. I did some work with Ruwiki, took some ideas wholesale from Dave Thomas's RDoc wiki and Chad Fowler's WEBrick servlet fo... Austin

Webrick & CGI programs on WinXP 5 61 (9/22/2003 5:09:47 PM) comp.lang.ruby I'm attempting to get ruwiki running under WEBrick on Windows XP. It's not working, so I am attempting with a very simple CGI script. Well, that isn't working, either. I'm starting WEBrick with: ------------... Austin

ruby -W0 bug? 1 61 (9/22/2003 5:04:55 AM) comp.lang.ruby I just tried: remus:~$ ruby -W0 -e 'warn "hello"' hello remus:~$ ruby -v -W0 -e 'warn "hello"' ruby 1.8.0 (2003-09-12) [i686-linux] hello I can understand if -v automatically overrides any instance of -W0, bu... Austin

[ANN] Text::Format 0.64, MIME::Types 1.07 1 51 (9/18/2003 4:26:36 AM) comp.lang.ruby I have released new versions of Text::Format and MIME::Types. Text::Format is a text formatting library with hyphenation support (if TeX::Hyphen is used) to format blocks of text using highly configurable ru... Austin

news gateway problem? 7 41 (9/17/2003 2:00:28 PM) comp.lang.ruby I've been getting a number of threads lately that appear to have originated on the newsgroup side, but the original message does not appear there. Is there a problem with the news gateway? -austin -- austin ... Austin

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Why initialize? 5 37 (1/14/2004 10:49:26 PM) comp.lang.ruby One thing I have often wondered is why the ruby constructor isn't called new? In my laziness I would rather type new than initialize. It seems clearer than initialize, and appears to work just fine. Perha... ralph.mason (15)

Anonymous CVS access 1 35 (1/10/2004 8:52:55 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hello. I can't make it past the first hurdle. What am I missing? $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src login Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:2401/src CVS password: (typed... Bil.Kleb (900)

Compression (besides Huffman) and Ruby 12 57 (1/7/2004 1:06:28 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi! I don't want to start a lenghty thread about wether that makes sense or not. My question is only if such a thing is known to exist. I did find Huffman but besides that rei, nada, rien, zero, nichts. Anythi... jupp (454)

Basic Syntax for Extending Instances 4 17 (1/5/2004 7:42:26 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hey everybody, Given the following extension to the Date class: class Date attr_accessor :date_precision class > DAY_OF_MONTH return old_civil(*args) end end date = Date.civil("DAY_OF_MONT... mlipper (8)

Loop/Iterator questions 8 28 (1/2/2004 4:55:54 AM) comp.lang.ruby 1) Is there anything like Perl's continue block available? This is not next, but a block that gets executed on each loop, before the condition is tested, similar to the third block of a for loop does. Ex: ... ggarramuno (206)

=?iso-8859-2?Q?Overriding_to=5Fs?= 5 25 (12/31/2003 2:25:01 PM) comp.lang.ruby All: This is probably going to seem a bit silly, however I will ask anyway. :) Is there a way to override the to_s method such that it takes a parameter? For example, if I wanted to provide a format specifi... BCoish (21)

ruby-dev summary 22273-22434 1 35 (12/30/2003 3:45:11 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hello, Here is a ruby-dev summary in these days. I would like to express my thanks to advisors and commenters on our activity in this year. I wish you good luck for the coming year. Thanks, [ruby-dev:22289]... ttate (60)

Defining/Deleting variables 2 36 (12/28/2003 9:49:50 AM) comp.lang.ruby Okay, I am trying to clarify the use of nil in Ruby. When you set a variable to nil, Ruby seems to make the variable a nil object. Now, is there a way to actually delete the variable from memory? Something s... ggarramuno (206)

Re: String.strip( string_to_strip ) 1 35 (12/22/2003 8:53:23 PM) comp.lang.ruby ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3C8CD.860CC06F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for the critique, Austin. Nice code. I also came across a thread fro... achou (25)

Yukihiro - Please ensure backwards compatibility 13 35 (12/18/2003 2:01:41 AM) comp.lang.ruby having recently migrated one of my machines from a 1.6 flavor to the new 1.8 i must say i was surprised to see problems with blah.gsub!("testing", ' ') i got a message that it was going to ignore(?) this s... jobeicus (1)