Ruby

freetds implementation in Ruby
Hi there, Do you guys know about any implementation of the freetds protocol in Ruby? If not, it's possible to implement i? Or there's some kind of constraints in doing it ? I've found this project, http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubytds/, but there's no activity there for quite sometime. Thank you. Be... 17 May 2010 22:23

Inverse of stream parser
I plan to parse a huge XML document (too big to fit into RAM) using a stream parser. I can divide the stream into logical chunks which can be processed individually. If a particular chunk fails, I want to append it to an output XML file, which will contain all the failed chunks, and can be patched up and retried. ... 5 May 2010 13:45

Need informations
I need some informations about the scripting with Ruby. Is it possible to do this feature directly (or indirectly) : - manage processus (start, get the status, stop), - get the return of a program, - get the program output, - the exploit of SQL's request is easy ? - access to COM component i... 30 Apr 2010 11:42

Encrypting files in Ruby
So far the tutorials I've seen are for encrypting text and then decrypting it back. So for example you have a plaintext = "some text" you encrypt it and the you decrypt it depending on how you encrypted it. What I am looking for is to encrypt a whole file and then store it. for example I allow my users to u... 30 Apr 2010 04:00

Code refactoring: request for comment
Hi all, I've just finished doing some pretty heavy refactoring on a method. I'd like to know if anyone can offer any suggestions or feedback. This is the old one: http://github.com/Trevoke/SGFParser/blob/2684c78738a0cc8cc8de0ad73f6a96efa7aa1101/lib/sgf/parser/tree_parse.rb This is the new one: http://github.c... 29 Apr 2010 19:12

Hijacking `super'
I know the following is probably impossible, but I just thought I'd ping the list to see if any adventurous meta programmer knows of a way to essentially change the binding of a block. Here's essentially what I'm trying to do: $ cat super.rb class A def call "A" end end class B < A def call(&b)... 30 Apr 2010 07:16

Ruby require local file problem
I have two files foo.rb and test.rb in the same folder. test.rb ------------------------------------ puts RUBY_VERSION require 'foo' ------------------------------------ foo.rb ------------------------------------ module Foo PATTT = "2323" class Foo2 def f puts 'hello world' end en... 29 Apr 2010 15:47

[ANN] Dfect 2.2.0
Dfect Assertion testing library for Ruby http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/dfect/ Dfect is an assertion testing library for Ruby that emphasizes a simple assertion vocabulary, instant debuggability of failures, and flexibility in composing ... 29 Apr 2010 01:18

Handling week numbers according to US Standard and ISO 8601
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] Hi ruby-lang list, Thank you all for reading this mail. I am struggling to handle week numbers properly on a web platform made in Ruby that is used across several countries. I have googled this for days trying to find a solution, but I have... 29 Apr 2010 12:22

LOGIN INTO YAHOO
hi all, Is there a way to login into yahoo programmatically i.e just providing "email" and "password" without making use of the yahoo login page. Thoughts? ... 4 May 2010 10:04