Forum: Ruby

Moin! This ruby one-liner ruby -ve "$SAFE = 5; system 'echo Was able to run an arbitrary command in safe mode.'" produces this scary...

Any convenient ways (without rolling my own) of formatting numbers to include thousands separators, e.g. 1199123 printed as "1,199,123" --...

Hello, Wondering about the place where to put files and why; irb> puts $: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8...

I am trying to learn Ruby (version 1.6.4) under OS2 (I have installed the necessary patches), and within IRB (Interactive ruby) I get core dumps...

You were right! Thank you Thank you Thank you :-) (I am smiling widely). For some reason the extconf.rb that comes with win32ole generates the...

opts = GetoptLong.new(_ ···, ) what if I don't actually want short options such as the -T? (running out of suitable letters, or something) ...

It would be awesome, if #inject could do splitting when arity > 2. For instance converting an array of pairs into a hash (arity==3): x=, ] p...

Hi all, I'm pretty new to Ruby, and I came across the Ruby bindings (http://pablotron.org/software/mb-ruby/) to the musicbrainz project...

BA-rb (Bay Area Ruby language Users Group) is pleased to announce that it will begin meeting again. The topic for the first meeting will be a...

I am having trouble trying to figure out what is wrong with the Win32ole extension when running on 1.8.0. I have narrowed it down to the calling...

This doesn't look right... vor-lord:scan_plan/scan_plan> ruby -e 'def next(); end; next()' -e:1: Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) ...

I'm trying to build a form that includes both regular form fields, such as text inputs and checkboxes, along with file uploading. It seems, though,...

Greetings, I'd like to announce the immediate availability of "OOoExtract" : ...

Hello, I have finished the first draft of "ooo_extract". A program to extract/search data from OpenOffice.org files. I am putting up a project...

Hello all, Yay! I'm now subscribed to this list. =) As I mentioned earlier, I'm working on a program to gather data from OpenOffice.org files....

I just posted a entry to my (new) weblog on building the latest CVS of Ruby on OS X Panther. It covers installing readline before Ruby to enable...

Hi all, Are there really so few wrappers for tk extensions, or just I miss them? Tix8.1 is not working (look my previous post about tcltk-ext and...

I have some class hierarchies located in different modules, but with clashing names, thus I cannot 'include' the modules. Basicly what im...

rubyists- am i the only one who finds the current NArray indexing order confusing: irb(main):001:0> na = NArray.to_na a=,] =>...

Hi, Am I the only who get the following error when trying to go step-by-step in the debugger in the optparse code? 469 ...