Ruby

custom rbconfig.rb
On my system some settings for the compiler (Solaris) are wrong and i want to modify these. But since i dont have root access, i cannot modify that file directly. Is it possible to put a copy of that file like in .gem/ or something so ruby/mkmf can access the settings from there and the system-settings get overwri... 28 Apr 2010 03:56

Hpricot files ------
Hi all, I need to make use of "Hpricot gem" files. I don't want to install it as a gem. I copied lib/hpricot/*{all files} and lib/hpricot.rb to my application. below is lib/hpricot.rb begin require 'encoding/character/utf-8' rescue LoadError end #require 'hpricot_scan' require 'hpricot/tag' requi... 27 Apr 2010 15:37

Client server
Hi, in our family, we often play a strongly modified version of Monopoly. But since this sometimes needs a lot of calculations, I'm programming this for Computers with brother. We intended to use a server which handles the game logic and clients which are basically just user interfaces. I never did anything wit... 27 Apr 2010 14:27

local install of sqlite3-ruby
Michael Myers wrote: Hi, i want to install sqlite3-ruby without root on my system. I can compile it and i know how to set a custom path for install but how can my ruby-installation find it? Think sqlite3-ruby puts the native files into the site_ruby folder. How can i have a "local" site_ruby folde... 27 Apr 2010 13:18

Variable number of arguments for methods called with "send"
Hi there, I have a (soooo) dummy class : # -- class Main < XXXXX def time 'Il est ' + Time.now.to_s end def salut ['salut', 'les', 'musclés'] end def test_with_args(arg1, arg2) [arg1, arg2] end def test_with_multiple_args(*args) args end end # /-- ... 27 Apr 2010 11:00

RUBY EVAL FUNCTION
On Apr 27, 8:01 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...(a)pobox.com> wrote: It's pretty reasonable to use eval in the code you provide. I think the method it defines will be faster because there is no closure created. +1 In cases like this, when you can use a string eval, it is usually the best approach. There are ... 27 Apr 2010 15:37

Missing base64 library in Ruby1.9, cannot run cloudkit
Output: require 'base64' LoadError: no such file to load -- base64 from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 from /usr/bin/irb1.9:12:in `<main>' RUBY_DESCRIPTION => "ruby 1.9.0 (2008-06-20 revision 17482) [i486-linux]" I have installed ruby1.9 from debian lenny repositories, it's ... 27 Apr 2010 08:44

Ruby Assocations
Hi in my project i have 2 tables logins and sentitems. these 2 have 1-many relation ship. The primay key in login table is cust_id and i have defined the relational key other than conventional name which is login_id. i want to count the no of records in sentitems which have the cust_id equalled how to ... 27 Apr 2010 08:44

Net::HTTP and numerical adress
if i use : Net::HTTP.start('http://88.183.xyz.uvw') with numerical (i don't have a domain name) i get an error : essais/download_files.rb:16: no .<digit> floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot http://88.183.xyz.uvw ^ does it mean Net:HTTP wants to translate the numbers given ? being someh... 27 Apr 2010 09:52

[ANN] Ember 0.3.0
Ember eRuby template processor http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/ember/ Ember (EMBEdded Ruby) is an [1]eRuby template processor that allows debugging, reduces markup, and improves composability of eRuby templates. Version 0.3.0 (2... 26 Apr 2010 21:43