Ruby

algorithm to truncate date to beginning of week?
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Chuck Remes wrote: I need to be able to take any date after Jan 1, 1980 and truncate it to the nearest week. Example: Wed Jan 09 17:53:23 -0600 1980 should truncate to Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 -0600 1980 Tue Feb 09 12:29:51 -0600 2010 should truncate to Sun Feb 07 00:0... 9 Feb 2010 16:15

[Q] algorithm to truncate date to beginning of week?
I need to be able to take any date after Jan 1, 1980 and truncate it to the nearest week. Example: Wed Jan 09 17:53:23 -0600 1980 should truncate to Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 -0600 1980 Tue Feb 09 12:29:51 -0600 2010 should truncate to Sun Feb 07 00:00:00 -0600 2010 I've tried all sorts of tricks with modulus (% ... 9 Feb 2010 13:58

Recommendations for a PostgreSQL driver for Ruby that supports bytea types correctly?
Can anyone recommend a PostgreSQL driver for Ruby that supports selecting and inserting bytea types? I'm not looking to write server functions in Ruby, just client applications. Thank you Eric. ... 9 Feb 2010 10:33

Problems using the 'extensions' gem - can anyone help?
I'm running Ruby 1.9.1-p378 (RC2) on windows, installed from the RubyInstaller.org site. I've installed 'extensions' gem ("gem install -r extensions"). When I run irb and try and "require 'extensions/all" I get the following error: C:\Windows\System32>irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => false irb(mai... 9 Feb 2010 10:33

Ruby 'C' Extensions and Unicode
Hi, I am working on enhancing the IBM_DB Ruby driver (database driver for DB2 and Informix) by providing unicode support. I tried googling with no luck to find any documents or links which talk about the Ruby C extension API's that can be used to unleash the unicode support of Ruby-1.9 to 1) Convert Ruby st... 22 Mar 2010 10:29

ANN: toamqp 0.3.1
toamqp 0.3.1 has been released today. toamqp will allow you to transport thrift[1] messages via an AMQP broker. The interface makes this really super-easy - allowing you to concentrate on your stuff, as usual. Changes in this version are: * Interface rehaul - now more idiomatic * Ruby 1.9 compatible ... 9 Feb 2010 05:05

"Code must be Chunkable"
I watched Part 1 of this great lecture, and I just had to share: http://architects.dzone.com/videos/dci-architecture-trygve You can read my brief post on it here: http://proutils.github.com/2010/02/dci-architecture/index.html I love the line "Code must be Chunkable". Reminds me of _why. Also some int... 19 Feb 2010 15:29

Ruby equivalent for php openssl_pkey_get_public
Hello all I have the php script where the password encoding done using the openssl: $key = openssl_get_publickey($certificate); openssl_public_encrypt($pass,$userPassCrypted, $key,OPENSSL_PKCS1_PADDING); openssl_free_key($key); Now I trying to make the same with ruby require 'openssl' cert = OpenSSL::X... 8 Feb 2010 17:57

Recursive mkdir
So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist. Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I expected it because the language I used m... 9 Feb 2010 09:27

Issue during multiple calls to C embedded Ruby with dlopen
Hi, I try to embed a Ruby interpreter into an application through a shared library. This application can call more than one time Ruby interpreter. In the attached testcase, first call works as expected but next calls create a segmentation fault. Any idea of what is wrong in my code or is it really a Ruby bug? ... 8 Feb 2010 14:30