Ruby

Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S5 Support (IncludingBuilt-In Gradient Themes)
Gerald Bauer wrote: Hello, The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read now includes (experimental) support for S5 slide shows. Under what license is this released? It ... 6 Jul 2008 17:04

Need clarification about WIN32OLE.new
Hi All, is it possible or not ? Program: require "watir" ie = WATIR::IE.new ie.visible=false ie.goto("http://blahblah.com") When i run this program initially ie = WATIR::IE.new this line creating IE object. So i can able to see that window. After that only i can able to invisible the window.... 3 Jul 2008 12:30

[ANN] Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S5 Support (IncludingBuilt-In Gradient Themes)
Hello, The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read now includes (experimental) support for S5 slide shows. To create a S5 slide show instead of a FullerScreen slide show just flip the... 3 Jul 2008 02:16

Embedded usage message, ascii terminal output, markup
Hi everybody-- I'm trying to do something I thought would be simple. I'm trying to do what Perl's Pod::Usage can do. How do I embed a usage message and mark up a word I want to be bold, such that when it renders to a color/bold-capable ascii terminal, the word is actually in bold font? I've tried using rdoc/us... 3 Jul 2008 15:36

is it normal to be kicked out of irb?
Is it normal to be kicked off of irb when a Fatal error occurs ? I was kicked of of it while testing this (kicked off != code halt with an exception): $ irb irb(main):001:0> def is_prime?(n); ("1" * n) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ ; rescue NoMemoryError; puts "ouch"; end => nil irb(main):002:0> is_prime?(2) => true ... 3 Jul 2008 07:22

thoughts on a more generic Array#partition function
An experiment in a more generic partition function. The current Array#partition function takes a code block and interprets the result in a boolean way to create two lists. What if the user wants to create more than two lists? A common idea is to define a sort of indicator function that maps each element of the... 4 Jul 2008 12:03

require system
Was thinking about the way libraries are required, and the potential for load conflicts. Of course, if anyone has ever run into it this I'm sure they worked around it ASAP, but I think it's good take a look at these potential scenarios. What if someone created a project with their own version of smtp.rb, and in ... 2 Jul 2008 23:12

Install/Enable openssl for ruby 1.8.6?
I was trying to install Redmine on rails 2.0.2 (this is not a rails question) and I received the following error message: no such file to load -- openssl I went to /ruby-1.8.6/ext/openssl and typed make and received the following error message: make: Nothing to be done for `all'. My question is: How ca... 3 Jul 2008 14:34

Lost with OptionParser
I'm having a real problem understanding OptionParser -- the docs in pickaxe are rather cryptic, Ruby Way doesn't even talk about it, and all the Q&A I can find on the web doesn't clear it up for me. I've gotten this far: # test.rb --------- require 'optparse' commands = OptionParser.new commands.on("-h", "... 3 Jul 2008 15:36

need help for regular expression
Hi all, I wonder what is the regular expression for this line. What I try to do is to remove "(some text here)" from a long string. Thanks, Li string=......(some text here)....... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 2 Jul 2008 20:08