Ruby

newbie question
In perl, one is able to sort of 'declare' variables by mentioning them in 'my' statements. Then, if you say 'use strict;', no variables that weren't previously thus 'declared' are allowed. This is useful in that it catches typos that might be difficult to detect in testing. Does ruby have an equivalent mechanis... 8 Jun 2010 20:36

Upflickr v0.1.6
Upflickr is a ruby gem that wraps the Flickr API, making it easy to add basic image uploading and organizing functionality to ruby scripts or apps. For installation and usage documentation, please visit the project homepage: bitsynthesis.com/upflickr -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 8 Jun 2010 17:11

Errno::ENOEXEC
I have the following line in my code: puts `bundle install` This gives me the following error: C:/../<abc>.rb:11:in ``': Exec format error - bundle install (Errno::ENOEXEC) Im using a windows machine. What could be wrong? Have anyone faced this issue? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 30 Jun 2010 15:20

ssleay32.dll, postgresql, extension problem
Sethupathi Asokan wrote: Daniel Berger wrote: Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: library SSLEAY32.DLL". Maybe, INCLUDE and LIB environment variables are set for PostgreSQL? I tried setting both LIB and LIBDIR to C:\ruby\bin, both in the shell itself and via ENV, but it didn't work. ... 9 Jun 2010 10:50

How can I use Ruby with MS Excel?
As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft Excel is here to stay and will continue to be the most popular tool among engineers and scientists. When I say engineers, I mean mechanical, civil, environmental, chemical engineers. The new version of Excel has some very nice graphical capability. I love Ruby and hate Visu... 9 Jun 2010 20:55

[ANN] kramdown 0.8.0 released
## About kramdown kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free* GPL-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various extensions that have been made p... 8 Jun 2010 10:16

Win32::Screenshot (old name win32screenshot) 0.0.4
Hi, I'm trying to download this gem but now it's not possible anymore. Do you know where could I find it? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 8 Jun 2010 11:25

Difference between puts and print?
Difference between puts and print, please? Thanks much! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 8 Jun 2010 03:38

Rubyzip - `dup': can't dup NilClass (TypeError)
Hello. I've trying to figure out rubyzip. Here's the code I had: require 'rubygems' require 'zip/zip' zf = Zip::ZipFile.open('616910.zip') However, when I run it, it throws an error /Users/lukastolyarov/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rubyzip-0.9.4/lib/zip/zip.rb:1163:in `dup': can't dup NilClass (TypeError) ... 8 Jun 2010 13:42

Passenger Crashes, It needs an old version of rack
Passenger Crashes, It needs rack 1.0.0 and my system only has rack 1.1.0 How do I get the old version? gem install --version '=1.0.0' rack does not work? ... 8 Jun 2010 01:28