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2-4 inch Color LCD's 3 48 (7/10/2004 4:49:30 AM) comp.arch.embedded Can anyone here tell me how much LCD's should cost in low volumes (5k per year?) Currently we are looking for somthing either palm sized (160 X 160 res 50mm X 50mm) or Ipaq type size (320 X 200, 100mm *50mm) ... Ralph

gsub oddity? 7 30 (1/21/2004 9:57:22 PM) comp.lang.ruby What am I missing here. I am trying to replace a single quote with the string \' irb(main):032:0> "replace 'quotes'.".gsub(/'/,"\\'") => "replace quotes'.quotes.." should be "replace \'quotes\'." Thanks R... Ralph

Metadata 4 40 (1/20/2004 4:05:51 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am playing with dynamicaly creating proxy ruby objects, but need more data than can be provided by a class or function name. And so am wondering if anyone has a way to do this? eg - something like class M... Ralph

Why initialize? 5 39 (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

Rockit & Ruby 1.8 1 28 (1/14/2004 1:20:33 AM) comp.lang.ruby Has anyone been successful making rockit work with ruby 1.8? This looks like a very nice bit of work, but I have some problems with install. /token.rb:87: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#cla... Ralph

REXML & Extended characters - newbie question 2 38 (1/12/2004 8:28:51 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am doing a quick and dirty automatic translation from English to spanish of some text in an xml document. However the translation returns characters outsize the 7 bit range, which seems to creates ain inv... Ralph

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=24=A3_Kills_IRB?= 1 27 (1/5/2004 7:36:37 AM) comp.lang.ruby I noticed that $� will kill irb (that is the UK pound symbol) Does anyone know why? Ralph ... Ralph

TEA 3 44 (1/3/2004 1:39:01 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hello group, It's been a couple of years since I posted here so hello to old friends. It seems I am back on the ruby band wagon (driven by a move from Windows to Linux) I am wondering if anyone has ported ... Ralph

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Re: block delimiting 15 28 (1/8/2004 8:24:28 PM) comp.lang.ruby >From: Pete Yadlowsky >Hi, > >I'm a Perl -> Python -> Ruby convert and new to this mailing list. > >I like Ruby very much except for one thing: all those "end" tokens >scattered >everywhere. For my style of ... wmwilson011 (16)

REXML & Extended characters - newbie question 2 38 (1/12/2004 8:28:51 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am doing a quick and dirty automatic translation from English to spanish of some text in an xml document. However the translation returns characters outsize the 7 bit range, which seems to creates ain inv... ralph.mason (15)

Getting the tail of a list? 18 30 (1/12/2004 11:42:54 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi everybody, I have spent the night reading about the wonders of Scheme at http://www.teach-scheme.org and have stumbled over a small demo program. This function checks whether a guest is on the guest list ... careck (19)

Ruby OS mentioned on /. 7 26 (1/13/2004 7:18:39 PM) comp.lang.ruby http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/01/13/0123250.shtml?tid=185&tid=190 ... intc_ctor (35)

Metadata 4 40 (1/20/2004 4:05:51 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am playing with dynamicaly creating proxy ruby objects, but need more data than can be provided by a class or function name. And so am wondering if anyone has a way to do this? eg - something like class M... ralph.mason (15)