Ruby

C Extension rb_block_call Weirdness
I've already posted a description of my problem at Stackoverflow, but realized it might be most appropriate to post here as well, so I will summarize and then link. I am having this problem consistently with 1.9.1-p378 and with 1.9.2rc1. The short of it is that when I call rb_block_call, the called block funct... 11 Jul 2010 08:16

[ANN] Zbatery v0.3.0 - for newer Rainbows!
Rainbows! v0.95.0 is more awesome than v0.94.0, so we've updated ourselves to use it and be more awesome as well! Zbatery is an HTTP server for Rack applications on systems that either do not support fork(), or have no memory (nor need) to run the master/worker model. It is based on Rainbows! (which is based on ... 10 Jul 2010 06:13

if statements and case statements questions
I am fairly new to Ruby and programming and had a couple questions about if/else and case statements. I was wondering if there were benefits to using case statements instead of if/elsif/else type statements. Are case statements faster? If I am reading in a file line by line and doing something similar to lin... 12 Jul 2010 15:09

[ANN] sqlite3-ruby 1.3.1 Released
sqlite3-ruby version 1.3.1 has been released! * <http://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby> * <http://rubyforge.org/projects/sqlite-ruby> * <http://sqlite-ruby.rubyforge.org> * <http://groups.google.com/group/sqlite3-ruby> This module allows Ruby programs to interface with the SQLite3 database engine (http://... 9 Jul 2010 23:49

what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to which start?
On 09.07.2010 21:17, Ryan Davis wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:05 , Jan Lelis wrote: I've recently come across a pretty common situation in Ruby: end end end After those parts, you often don't know, where exactly you have to continue. So what about allowing to specify, which end b... 11 Jul 2010 08:16

what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to which start?
Hi Ruby mailing list, I've recently come across a pretty common situation in Ruby: end end end After those parts, you often don't know, where exactly you have to continue. So what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to which start? I've thought about something like this: ... 9 Jul 2010 16:05

what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to whichstart?
On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:05 , Jan Lelis wrote: I've recently come across a pretty common situation in Ruby: end end end After those parts, you often don't know, where exactly you have to continue. So what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to which start? I've... 13 Jul 2010 05:25

swapping regex libraries
I see there is a way in Ruby 1.9.1 to switch to the old regex library from the current Oniguruma library. Is it possible to switch to any others, such as PCRE? Iain ... 11 Jul 2010 11:33

FuseFS raw_write never call
I have the following problem: I am newbie use FuseFS and i make a little script to create a FS from a table in a database the FS is mounted ok but don't let me edit any file, when I treat to save de file raise "Permission denied" in my text editor I logging all the action made by the FS and never call raw_writ... 9 Jul 2010 13:51

RUBY_VERSION_* macros in C?
Hi there, I'm trying to create a C extension that compiles for both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. As far as I know, there should be the macros RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR, RUBY_VERSION_MINOR and RUBY_VERSION_TINY to check with which Ruby version we're compiling, and they should be defined in the header "ruby/version.h". But there's ... 9 Jul 2010 18:18