Forum: Ruby

I'm running Ruby 1.6.8. Can anybody tell me why this line: Dir.chdir("/") results in the error "wrong argument type nil (expected String)"...

**Hobby-programmer alarm** Hello! I am trying to learn Ruby, but with the goal of understanding new elegant solutions, not to repeat the same...

Hi, There have been a few times in which I have wanted to destructively change the type of a variable, yet as fas I can determine there are only...

Hi folks, recently my NR often fails to put news threads together. Is it just my NR or is there still something wrong with the News <-> Mail...

Inspired by Steve's presentation at RubyConf-2003, ( thanks to zenspider, see: Steve Tuckner: Ruby World: (Not) Implemented www.zenspider.com...

Hi, This idea for the next generation of CGI has me thinking (see http://rubygarden.org/ruby?NextGenerationCGI). It seems that CGI would be best...

Should this be added? It would enable the creation of Time ranges like t1..t2 and so on. I'd assume that seconds would be the default resolution...

Hello! I am trying to create a new Ruby extension, which eventually will give to Ruby the functionality of a C++ project. So far, the...

Hello folks, does anyone know of any Ruby collection of classes / modules for decoding / encoding (maybe liblame bindings?) MP3 data? I...

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:07:13 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote: It certainly doesn't. That doesn't mean that there aren't times when name/ancestry...

> > you see we have a problem here. it doesn't matter what methods are My view is that neither testing for the presence of a method with a...

The HTML output from the RDoc comments from Gavin Sinclair's stdlib-doc project are online at www.ruby-doc.org . The pages have a nie index...

I am working on a regexp engine written entirely in Ruby. I wish to test it against the rubicon testsuite, its using $& and $1-$9 heavily. How...

Hi, -- On Thu, Nov 20, 2003, Christian Kruse wrote: Maybe you can have a look at the rbot source code (http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk) which has a...

Hi, I'd like to migrate an old Apache/PHP/Perl application to Ruby, and I do have some question: - PHP supports persistent MySQL connections,...

matz: you rejected my rcr on garden saying that retry already does it. but it does not. maybe there's a trick to it? but i could not read your...

ts wrote: ... Well technically they do not live in the same class, since the a:pre provided by B's inclusion lives in A's B-proxy class and not...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 O.K. I had enough of this warning. /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/doctype.rb:196: warning:...

I've just been offerred a 12 month contract in Boulder, Colorado so I'd like to get in touch with the local Ruby folks. Anyone? -- Matt Where...

Hi. I'm converting some of my ruby code to C extension for better perfomance. I ran into problems with executing methods that take blocks. I.e. in...