Forum: Ruby

Hi rubyists, How can i use tk 8.4 under ruby 1.8.0 (Win distribution) without building ruby from sources? Thanx Eric.

> I don't advocate type checking much in either case. It is a performance the programming language euphoria has an interesting approach to this....

any opinions one way or another? -a -- ATTN: please update your address books with address below! ...

Hi, I'm porting the Apache Jakarta Commons Digester (written in Java) to Ruby at the moment. This module processes xml in a rules-based manner....

Hi -- I have always loved this anonymous quote from an old Ruby Garden exchange (http://www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=222, about 1/3 down...

I like this, but can it be extended to work for replacing? irb(main):001:0> a="123-456-1239" => "123-456-1239" irb(main):002:0> a => "123"...

I'm experiencing the following behavior in the latest CVS copy of ruby on both Windows and Linux. I think it's a bug. $ cat test Goodbye Cruel...

Some general questiosn concerning interpreted lanaguages (and their JIT couterparts). How far do you think an interpreted language can go? In...

Hi, some time (years ;-) ago there was a discussion about multi line comments in ruby on this list. I didn't follow it completely, just found it...

Hi, I just wanted to remind mailing list (only) people that the News -> ML Gateway is still broken :-( /Christoph

take an ip packet apart and then send it to a different address. if anyone can help me find the tools I need to do this let me know.

Hi all, I searched the RAA, RubyForge, the ruby-talk list, comp.database.ingres and google in general, but I didn't find a Ruby driver for Ingres...

Hi all, Nope, not an attempt at a flame war. Just an interesting article I came across from Allison Randal's journal. There's an interesting...

what is this def? it is not a method...? it is not some sugar...? well might it be a lambda...? just what is this def? (funny we say def for...

Hi, I've suddenly developed an interest in populating an Excel worksheet from within a little simulation I'm running. I've Googled for docs &...

OK so it's late, I'm not thinking straight, and I thought I'd post this. Proposal for a new operator - .= ================================ ...

Has anyone compiled ruby with bcc32 under a windows environment( preferably win2000 ) successfully? I'm having troubles. Zach -----Original...

Hi, I am fascinated by the many new ideas presented by matz for Rite. Why not write the whole Ruby-to-Bytecode compiler in Ruby itself? As...

Hi, I was going through matz's slides from the Ruby Conference 2003, and was checking out what the slides claimed was the most regrettable behaviour...

I added a page to the garden for myself and others to add ideas about Ruby2/Rite, now that Matz has given his presentation. Go to ...