Ruby

Failed to build the native extension
I used ruby-1.8.7-p249-i386-mingw32.7z on the windows 7 x64, and have installed the devkit. But it failed to build the native extension of eventmachine with error message as follow: H:\study\fybjy\myoa>gem install eventmachine Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing event... 6 May 2010 09:38

ri on sqlite
What do others think of a creating a new ri tool which uses a SQLite database for storage instead of flat files? I figure doing that would make it easy to create dynamic documentation websites (using ones favorite web framework), not to mention that the ri command line tool should be pretty fast. ... 22 May 2010 10:31

Default Graph URI in Sparql Client
Hi everyone! May be i'm not clearly understand Sparql Client (http://github.com/bendiken/sparql-client), but i didn't find way how to define graph repository (or i'm blind) For example, i follow to http://dbpedia.org/sparql and define Default Graph URI http://tema.livejournal.com/data/foaf.rdf and Query text ... 5 May 2010 22:41

automated service
Hi I am new to Ruby and want to write one automation service which support windows/linux. This service will call some webservice and write the output data into files. What is the best approach to do it.Please advice me. Thanks, David -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 5 May 2010 19:22

rmagick install fail
I can't seem to install rmagic on ubuntu 9.10 using ruby 1.9, I have imagemagick installed but i keep seeing the following error yadav(a)VMLux:$ sudo gem install rmagick Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing rmagick: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ... 5 May 2010 18:15

Ruby Equivalent of "Pythonista"
A savvy and enthusiastic Python programmer is called a "Pythonista." What should I call a savvy and enthusiastic Ruby programmer? ... 5 May 2010 21:35

public_methods vs methods
Why? class X def self.yeah; 'yeah'; end end X.public_methods(false) => ["yaml_tag_subclasses?", "yeah", "superclass", "to_yaml", "allocate", "new"] X.methods(false) => ["yeah"] ... 5 May 2010 14:53

How to use Ruby portable?
I downloaded Ruby binaries, ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32.zip I' wondering if it's possible configure all package of Ruby environment as a "Portable App" , the idea is to have a fully-functional Ruby environment that executes entirely from hard drive (or USB stick) eaving no footprint whatsoever on the mach... 7 May 2010 07:48

do Rails/gems updates break applications?
Some time ago I started experimenting with Ruby on Rails. I stopped almost immediately, because after updating gems or Rails itself, I often ended up with non-working applications. I was not the only one with such problems. Recently I also saw a conference by the founder of Rails, who stated that revolutionary... 5 May 2010 13:45

Using array instead of hash and still have efficient cross-referencing
Have a look at this class: http://github.com/proutils/lemon/blob/master/lib/lemon/snapshot.rb I am storing a collection of OfModule instances in a hash (@modules) indexed by the modules they correspond to. I'd rather just use an array, since that is the basic intent. But I ran into difficulty when implementi... 5 May 2010 18:15