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Need help finding a pithy corouting example 2 28 (11/9/2008 3:19:40 PM) comp.lang.ruby I'm looking for a concise but interesting example of corotuines to illustrate symmetrical fibers for the 1.9 edition of the PickAxe. Way back in the dim past, I remember a logic puzzle to do with laying do... Dave

Looking for an archive of pre 2000 ruby-talk 2 31 (10/24/2008 3:23:21 AM) comp.lang.ruby Mark-Logic goes back to 2002, and Google Groups to mid 2000. blade seems to start in 2005. Is there an archive of the older list anywhere? ... Dave

[ADV] New episodes of the Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming screencast are up... 2 32 (6/18/2008 5:10:24 AM) comp.lang.ruby Episode 4, on instance_ and class_eval, and episode 5, which shows 9 solutions to a simple problem using various metaprogramming techniques. http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-mod... Dave

[ADV] New Beta of PickAxe3 4 23 (5/28/2008 4:07:50 PM) comp.lang.ruby I've been thinking long and hard about the tutorial section of the PickAxe. It's the section of the book that seems to create the most emotion in readers: most folks seem to like the unconventional style ... Dave

[ADV] Announcing the beta of Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition 0 21 (4/23/2008 7:59:31 PM) comp.lang.ruby (I know this is the RUby list, and I won;t post here again about the =20 book. But I know many Rails developers who read this list but not the =20= Rails one...) If a dog year is 7 human years, then a Rails ... Dave

[ADV] Pushed a new beta of PickAxe 3 9 28 (3/19/2008 8:09:00 PM) comp.lang.ruby I've just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6 more classes and something like 200 new methods. A boatload of th... Dave

[ANN] B1.03 of Programming Ruby now available 5 34 (1/10/2008 11:55:23 PM) comp.lang.ruby I'll keep it brief :) * Updated through the end of "Ruby in its Setting". * Includes a new chapter on Ruby 1.9's character encoding support. * removed libraries no longer in 1.9 * Chapter One lists the major c... Dave

Embedding 1.9 6 46 (1/7/2008 9:44:08 PM) comp.lang.ruby Folks: I'm working on the "Extending Ruby" chapter (now an appendix) for the third PickAxe, and I'm finding a whole bunch of conflicting information. Reading the source, it seems like there's no canonical ... Dave

[Corrected][ANN] Third edition of "Programming Ruby" now in beta 3 30 (12/13/2007 11:08:02 PM) comp.lang.ruby Ruby 1.9 is just around the corner, so it looks like a good time to =20 create a new edition of Programming Ruby. So, I'm pleased to announce =20= that the Third Edition of the PickAxe has just entered beta. ... Dave

[ANN] Third edition of "Programming Ruby" now in beta 9 47 (12/13/2007 10:53:52 PM) comp.lang.ruby Ruby 1.9 is just around the corner, so it looks like a good time to =20 create a new edition of Programming Ruby. So, I'm pleased to announce =20= that the Third Edition of the PickAxe has just entered beta. ... Dave

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ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String 19 28 (12/14/2008 5:08:30 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, Right now, I'm not exactly thrilled by the way ruby 1.9 handles encodings. Could somebody please explain things or point me to some reference material: I have the following files: testEncoding.rb: #!/usr... micathom (296)

Buiding anamgrams 7 25 (12/26/2008 9:30:39 AM) comp.lang.ruby I'm studying ruby (and I really love it even more than python) and I want to do a little exercise. I want to create an efficient module to generate every possible anagrams of a word, of any given size... I al... kerny404 (114)

Regular Expression Trouble 4 36 (12/26/2008 4:41:20 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hey! I'm writing a little script to rename files with weird names but common bits to a common format. Here's the regular expression I use to extract the common data: /.*s?(\d?\d)x?e?(\d\d).*\.(\w{3})$/i It's... chris.webstar (4)

Syntax error I don't understand 10 33 (12/28/2008 10:28:33 AM) comp.lang.ruby (I'm using Ruby 1.8.6.) I'm trying to add a random number to an array. I do: a = [] a << rand 3 But ruby replies with "syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting kDO or '{' or '('" Why's that? When I... albertschlef (195)

[from Monkey Patching Thread]1.8 to 1.9 compatibility 2 50 (1/2/2009 9:28:20 PM) comp.lang.ruby As I said in the former thread, I have given some thoughts on this. But I am not a guru and I would like many more opinions on this. 90% of the possible things are quite trivial or easy, like using enumerator,... robert.dober (2193)

VERY simple question about "?" 24 25 (1/4/2009 11:58:07 AM) comp.lang.ruby I absolutely love Ruby, but...I've always found the subject of Ruby operators to be a small nightmare. First, it's hard to find a complete table - the best I've found says gleefully at its bottom "and there a... tomcloyd1 (337)

RD -> RDoc conversion 2 23 (1/8/2009 5:25:26 PM) comp.lang.ruby Good evening (at least in central Europe), does anybody know about a tool which converts RD documentation to RDoc? I mean inline documentation in source files. It doesn't have to have any advanced features - c... severus (19)

Implementing each and <=> 10 28 (1/13/2009 7:08:05 PM) comp.lang.ruby I have a data model and would like to let it be Enumerable. I want to confirm if this is the way of implementing each and : def each @list.each { |item| yield item } end def (other) @... sentinel.2001 (154)

Quizmaster Retiring: Revenge of the Sith 37 26 (1/14/2009 11:37:31 PM) comp.lang.ruby Sorry for the dorky subject line... A bit over a year ago, mid-November of 2007, James Gray announced he was retiring as the Ruby Quiz master. He had run the quiz for nearly three years, a wonderful achiev... matt9097 (95)

[ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 is released 49 30 (1/30/2009 4:38:35 PM) comp.lang.ruby -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, folks. I am proud to announce the release of Ruby 1.9.1. This is the first stable release of Ruby 1.9 series. Ruby 1.9 is a new series of Ruby. It is modern,... yugui (25)