Ruby

listing methods within the debugger
Hey chaps, I have this line within ~/.irbrc, IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE] = true that starts the debugger. Very handy for me. but check this out; (rdb:1) var local ap_path => "/usr/bin/irb" k => #<TCPSocket:0xb7f572d0> (rdb:1) k.methods ["methods", "respond_to?", "reject", ... ... extract ... "to_i"] (r... 7 Jul 2008 20:44

Where is the .rb for sockets?
Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. There's also the ruby library, (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8), as there are some goodies and clues in the comments. `locate foo.rb` normally does it but in the case for TCPSocket, Socket and IPSocket there's nothing to be found. Where is it hidden? Socket.ancest... 8 Jul 2008 01:50

Patching ruby_1.8.6.p111
Hi, My thanks to all for such great work. I'm trying to figure out from the msgs which is the right patch for ruby_1.8.6.p111 It seems that it would be Posted by Hongli Lai on 23.06.2008 15:40 I've made an updated patch set: http://blog.phusion.nl/assets/r8ee-security-patch-20080623-2.txt But whe... 7 Jul 2008 20:44

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XMLRPC Question
I am working on a little project that requires me to interface with an XMLRPC server they have to grab some data. To first test it, I just telneted into the server and ran their test function, which was "ping". It returned a response like so (the server_response area had some private data so I left it out): <?x... 9 Jul 2008 21:57

ruby gems doc indexer
Don't know if this would be useful for anyone, but I wrote a utility to create an html index of the rdoc's of installed rubygems on your system. I.e. ruby gem_rdoc_indexer.rb creates file all_gems_rdocs.html with contents --------------- All installed gems: (core) abstract-1.0.0: homepage (no rdoc) ... 8 Jul 2008 23:22

emacs-mode for ruby?
I dont find anything useful while googling. is there an emacsmode for ruby? i want syntaxhighlighting and be able to run the interpreter under emacs. ... 8 Jul 2008 04:53

Emacs mode for Ruby?
Googling doesnt give a good answer, is there a good rubymode for lisp? syntax-highlighting and being able to run the interpreter inside emacs. ... 8 Jul 2008 11:02

[ANN] MiniExiftool 0.7.0 released
MiniExiftool version 0.7.0 released! http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/ MiniExiftool is a wrapper library for the Exiftool command-line application (www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) written by Phil Harvay. One of the completest tool for reading and writing meta informations (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) on image fi... 7 Jul 2008 16:37

one background process
I'm trying out bj in a rails environment running 6 mongrel instances. I'm seeing 6 bj processes running. One for each mongrel. The pid of the mongrel is included in the running bj command --ppid=99999. I've tried to start a bj process by hand. Following the docs I did: ruby script/bj run --forever --rails_env=... 29 Jul 2008 13:40