Ruby

[ANN] mcbean 0.1.1 Released
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] mcbean version 0.1.1 has been released! * <http://github.com/flavorjones/mcbean> McBean transforms HTML into Markdown with the help of Loofah and Nokogiri. The vision is to eventually be able to transform (with the help of other relevant ... 9 Mar 2010 23:44

Compile/Close Ruby Code
I write scripts under Linux using Ruby. It wouldn't matter releasing the code as long as the code is MINE. However, if I develop software for a company, and if a rival gets a hold of the code; you can consider me fired. So what are the options? I believe JRuby or IronRuby hide the code right? I haven't used ... 10 Mar 2010 10:47

Testing Symlinks
I probably should know the answers to these, but it's never come up before. How to check if a symbolic link exists and already points to where you expect it to point? And how to check for dead symbolic links? Thanks. ... 9 Mar 2010 14:37

Getting Constructor Not Found (Ruby Java Bridge, RJB)
Hi, I am a newbie to using RJB gem, and this is the issue I am facing. Following is my code: require 'rjb' classpath = "<jar file path>" Rjb::load(classpath, ["-DMC_HOME=<dir>"]) selenium_import = Rjb::import('com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium') selenium_obj = selenium_import.new_with_sig("Lj... 9 Mar 2010 12:19

Rufus Sheduler, Dinamic timing changing
Hi! In my app, i'm using Rufus Sheduler to shedule some automatic tasks, my problem is that i want to set the frecuency of this task from an external VAR. Actually i have something like this: (simplify) repeat = Rufus::Scheduler::PlainScheduler.start_new # create a shedule process blabla... repeat.ever... 9 Mar 2010 05:37

Shortest code
hi i'm a newbie in ruby and was test out some interesting problems in ruby, i came across a small one to print the sum of positive numbers from a list of n numbers... with the shortest code possible.. well the best i could do was, puts gets.split(' ').inject(0){|sum,x| x.to_i>0?sum+x.to_i : sum} is there a ... 10 Mar 2010 05:17

Login Prompt - how to?
Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me how I can login to a web page using a login prompt? http://oit.pdx.edu/files/myfiles1.png or please point me to a gem or what to study in order to be able to do this. I have used Watir until now for normal login pages, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle prompts. -- ... 8 Mar 2010 10:47

win32console 1.3.0.beta2 Released
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena(a)gmail.com> wrote: win32console version 1.3.0.beta2 has been released! Hi Luis, thanks for this gem. I've been waiting something like this. Quick q: does it implement all the features listed here http://www.xav.com/perl/site/lib/Win32/Console.html ? ... 19 Mar 2010 15:29

Machinist with Plain Old Ruby Objects
Does anyone have experience with this? Specifically, I want to use a blueprint for a class that takes an argument to new, but calling make (even with an argument) causes an error. Example: class MyClass def initialize(str) ... end end MyClass.make #or MyClass.make('a string') #or MyClass.mak... 8 Mar 2010 23:07

[ANN] mongrel_service 0.4.beta3 Released
mongrel_service version 0.4.beta3 has been released! * <http://github.com/fauna/mongrel_service> This plugin offer native win32 services for rails. This replace mongrel_rails_service. Since this is a pre-release gem, you can install it with: gem install mongrel_service --prerelease If no bug is found, e... 7 Mar 2010 09:35