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something broke ruby floats 2 103 (11/28/2009 5:38:06 PM) comp.lang.ruby Noticed this after rebuilding ruby (with configure args --disable-pthread --enable-shared): ~/src/ruby> RUBYOPT='' ./ruby -e 'x=0.123; puts x' 123.0 ~/src/ruby> ldd ./ruby linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00b0... Joel

invalid date error when installing syntax gem 7 50 (11/4/2009 4:17:27 AM) comp.lang.ruby Anyone else getting this error? I didn't find any recent mention of it. gem install syntax --backtrace ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid date /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:727:in... Joel

[ANN] crown 1.0.0 5 42 (8/20/2009 3:21:29 AM) comp.lang.ruby Quoting the README at http://github.com/vjoel/crown/tree/master : The *crown* program gathers gem lib and bin files under one directory for fast loading and predictable behavior. For example: [~/tmp] crow... Joel

[ANN] tkar 0 61 (8/9/2009 5:15:06 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, all, Tkar aims to be the gnuplot of animation � a quick and dirty way to get data from a stream or file into a window to see what is happening. It is more suited to animating discrete objects rather tha... Joel

using git for projects with multiple gems on rubyforge 2 41 (8/1/2009 4:55:25 PM) comp.lang.ruby Some rubyforge projects release more than one sequence of gems. Has anyone found a way to manage the source for multiple gems in the unique git repository for the project? Is it better to use github, with a... Joel

[ANN] CGenerator is now a gem 0 41 (7/27/2009 5:47:08 AM) comp.lang.ruby CGenerator is a framework for dynamically generating and loading C extensions from Ruby programs. Includes CShadow module for defining classes in terms of C structs with accessors and inheritance. It's been... Joel

getting char from string as fixnum in 1.8 and 1.9 9 52 (7/20/2009 6:20:51 PM) comp.lang.ruby What's the best way to write this program so that it will run correctly on both 1.8 and 1.9? This works, but I'm just curious if there's anything better, preferably without the RUBY_VERSION test, without ad... Joel

ruby in 50 milliseconds or less 10 43 (7/18/2009 4:57:21 AM) comp.lang.ruby If you use ruby 1.8 for quick command line tasks, and you use gems, you may notice that the interpreter has an execution overhead that is small but noticeable and irritating when repeated often enough. $ ti... Joel

[ANN] bit-struct gem 3 42 (7/15/2009 11:59:33 PM) comp.lang.ruby Bit-struct is now a gem. It's for accessing binary data in strings. Thanks to several folks on this list, particularly Markus Fischer, for suggesting features. Examples and docs at: http://bit-struct.rubyfo... Joel

gem cleanup and "dependencies will not be met" 2 61 (7/13/2009 4:44:40 PM) comp.lang.ruby Is there a way to run 'gem cleanup' so that this question: If you remove this gems, one or more dependencies will not be met. Continue with Uninstall? [Yn] is automatically answered in the negative? Why is Y... Joel

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Boson 0.1 - Initial Release 5 60 (10/21/2009 6:21:41 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, I'm introducing Boson, a command/task framework similar to rake and thor which executes commands from the commandline and irb. To install: gem install boson Features: * Commands are just methods on main ... gabriel.horner (43)

Good term for "super-project" 3 53 (10/22/2009 7:05:30 PM) comp.lang.ruby Rather a minor thing, but it's been on my TODO list for too long. I'm looking for a good single word term to mean "super-project". That is, the grouping of a collection of sub-projects. RubyForge uses the ter... transfire (2969)

Desktop GUI apps in Ruby 34 44 (10/28/2009 3:33:16 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi folks! I'm an experienced Rails developer, but for once this is not a Rails question. Rather, I have a desktop app I'd like to create -- we're talking something like a spreadsheet-type app, though not quit... marnen (271)

Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ??? 149 69 (10/30/2009 1:18:27 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, In The Well Grounded Rubyist (which, along with The Ruby Way, I love), Dave Black presents a justification for the x++ omission in Ruby. I thought I'd see whether I could implement just the incrementing... RichardDummyMailbox58407 (349)

invalid date error when installing syntax gem 7 50 (11/4/2009 4:17:27 AM) comp.lang.ruby Anyone else getting this error? I didn't find any recent mention of it. gem install syntax --backtrace ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid date /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:727:in... vjoel (2600)

Executing one of several ruby objects 10 43 (11/5/2009 7:34:46 AM) comp.lang.ruby I am trying to write a program that will load a series of DSLs (ruby files) into it and then call the same class method in each one until one returns something other than nil. The current DSL is just a ruby cl... dhf0820 (8)

FileString - request for comments 14 39 (11/9/2009 1:47:20 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi there I just put FileString on github: http://github.com/apeiros/filestring FileString is a class that wraps a path on the filesystem (a file) and provides an exact copy of the String API. This means you ca... apeiros (266)

exception for program running on ruby code 4 45 (11/11/2009 10:40:57 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hello, I'm trying to get an output from /var/log/syslog for certain amount of time by executing %x[sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog] Is it possible to set a timer for the execution, and if the time end, the execu... ahmad.azizan (13)

NArray, How to install 4 52 (11/14/2009 5:38:19 PM) comp.lang.ruby I'm trying to install NArray so that irb can get access to its methods. Is there a blow by blow description on how to do this in a Windows environment? ... ralphs (104)

[ANN] kramdown 0.1.0 - first relase of fast, pure Ruby Markdown parser 3 23 (11/21/2009 8:05:28 AM) comp.lang.ruby ## kramdown 0.1.0 released This is the first release of kramdown, yet-another-Markdown parser/converter for Ruby, with the following features: * Written in pure Ruby, no need to compile an extension (lik... t_leitner (53)