Forum: Ruby

Dear Rubyists, foo.rb: class String def quote() "'"+self+"'" end end puts "blabla".quote ---

I rather like the type safe enum pattern in Java, and I was wonding how I might implement it in Ruby. Here is an example (based on the earlier OO...

I am using the ruby version from ruby-1.8.0-i386.mswin32.zip I am using windows xp btw. The problem I'm having is I installed soap4r. The...

hi,how to install on windows the module for opengl! sorry but i'm a beginner(and sorry for my english)!thank u! -pilu-

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Mark Wilson wrote: Well either that or ZERO!, NONE!, I mean it! Seems that that's what I find myself shouting at my 2 year old anyway. Scott

0! represents the number of possible permutations of 0 elements, which is 1. See: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Factorial.html Regards, ...

How do you do meta type stuff in Ruby? E.g. a_method = "to_str" an_attribute = "color" class Toad attr_accessor :color def initialize( c )...

hi,where can I find documentation for ruby game programming! thank u

I've written a natural order comparison funtion for the String class. This was based on Martin Pool's "Natural Order String Comparison" which was...

Hi all, I need to write a constructor-like method for a module. From the help I have found the Module#append_features method, which look like is...

Hi! Are the tutorials downloadable on sf.net or should I use wget? thx Gergo -- +----------+ | http://www.mcl.hu/~kgergely ...

Hello, This is a summary of ruby-dev mailing list last week. test/ruby/* NKAMURA, Hiroshi created a starter of adding test suites to...

OK, I've been thinking (always dangerous after 11 pm). Class-level entities can be accessed via a double-colon. No big mystery: ...

Hi ! I have been writing some unit tests with Test::Unit. I've noted that when an assertion fails in a test method, the remaining assertions...

Is there a built-in method in Ruby for checking whether a string starts with or ends with a pattern? e.g.: "Hello, world".start_with?("Hello") =>...

Hi, I just want to know, whether there is a way to accomplish things like "method redefinition" like in C++ (sorry, dont know the exact terminus...

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In the Method Redefinition thread, this explanation of Duck Typing is offered ... This is slightly different than my understanding of Duck...

Dear Ruby Community, One day I hope to learn your trade :) But before that ... A reasonably arrogant guy came out blasting in a web-forum...