Ruby

change gem user agent
How do I change the gem user agent? We are behind a proxy server which does not allow the gem user agent. I checked /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/ on Ubuntu. Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 17 Jun 2010 18:59

Dear gem: still no zlib.
I really really regret ever installing SnowLeopard. I'm trying to build some HTML. I'd been using LibXML, but it's getting seriously anal-retentive on me, escaping stuff that I don't want escaped and complaining about not mixing documents. I figured I'd look for something that wouldn't keep interfering with me gett... 17 Jun 2010 18:59

Setting IRB Configurations using env variables?
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] Hi, Suppose I need to have IRB configurations before I invoke IRB like : IRB.conf[:IGNORE_EOF]=true IRB.conf[:VERBOSE]=false This can be set in config files such as ~/.irbrc etc.. and saved before irb is invoked. But are there *enviro... 18 Jun 2010 03:42

unicorn 1.0.0 - yes, this is a real project
> The Future: ...is going to be bright. Awesome work and fyi, I read unicorn source code to my kids before putting them to sleep. It's that good. :) ... 17 Jun 2010 12:17

method interface - hash argument vs. named parameters
I've never run into this issue before, but I'm working on a method interface that is quite 'dense', and I need to be able to differentiate between a hash passed to a method and named parameters. i.e. All of these are valid: foo(hash, :opt=>val) foo(hash) foo(:opt=>val) However, there seems to be no way... 17 Jun 2010 23:22

Module boundaries and classes within them (Was: Re: Placement ofrequire() and missing symbols)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kirk, On Tuesday 15 June 2010, Kirk Haines <wyhaines(a)gmail.com> wrote: The best practice is to put it where it makes sense to put it, bearing in mind you might have to read your code again in two years, or someone else might have to read your code. [...] ... 17 Jun 2010 11:08

[ANN] unicorn 1.0.0 - yes, this is a real project
Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in betw... 17 Jun 2010 06:46

nothing new in ruby_core for four days ?
The Ruby Core forum has no new entry since four days ago. Is it closed, broken ? _md -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 17 Jun 2010 14:30

WIN332Ole , pass by reference
Hi, I am trying to call a method in an ATL (C++ based) dll created by myself through WIN32OLE of Ruby The signature of the method in the idl file is something as follows [id(37), helpstring("method GetCustomArea")] HRESULT GetCustomArea([out] LONG* UpperLeft_XCord, [out] LONG* UpperLeft_YCord, [out] LONG* Wi... 17 Jun 2010 03:31

RegEx Tutorial?
I looked through the archives, but couldn't find a comprehensive tutorial on regular expressions -- could someone please point me to one? Specifically, I'm looking to extract all the words from a string that are capitalized, but can't find case-based match operators. Thanks, Siddarth ... 17 Jun 2010 08:56