Ruby

ncurses-ruby install failing on OS X Snow Leopard
ncurses-ruby 1.2.4 is failing on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (ruby 1.9.1). I am downloading the tar file from berlios.de and doing the extconf+make routine. The problem has been documented elsewhere but no fix/solution. ncurses_wrap.c: In function 'rbncurshelper_nonblocking_wgetch': ncurses_wrap.c:818: error: derefere... 28 Apr 2010 01:46

Ruby to Python communication
People, I have written a little Ruby script to restore information on video/ audio files in a Miro dir structure to a Miro database - the main thing I can't do is to find the feed for particluar directories eg the dir: This-American-Life has a feed: http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast but... 23 Apr 2010 23:18

[ANN] ad_agency version 0.1.2 has been released
Announcing ad_agency version 0.1.2 An extension to Jeweler for generating announcements One of the facilities I missed in moving from hoe to jeweler was the ability to easily announce new versions of gems. ad_agency fills that hole. Changes: === v0.1.2 2010-04-21 Version bump to 0.1.2 update ... 23 Apr 2010 20:51

[ANN] clogger 0.4.0 - small cleanups
Clogger is Rack middleware for logging HTTP requests. The log format is customizable so you can specify exactly which fields to log. * http://clogger.rubyforge.org/ * clogger(a)librelist.com * git://git.bogomips.org/clogger.git Changes: Small cleanups and minor enhancements (mainly for the optional C extens... 23 Apr 2010 20:51

Function accepting argument list or array
How would I write a function that treats fn(:a, :b) the same as it does fn([:a, :b])? The only way I can do this right now is by checking if the first argument is an array, but I thought there was a simpler way to do this, involving the splat operator '*'. Thomas ... 23 Apr 2010 20:50

Ruby 1.9.1, Threads and "The handle is invalid."
Chuck Remes wrote: You might want to try the release from ruby-lang.org [1]. It is built differently than the version you are running (I assume you got it from rubyinstaller.org). Thanks for your reply. Going to give a try right now. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 23 Apr 2010 20:50

Ruby 1.9.1, Threads and "[BUG] The handle is invalid."
Hi! I am new to this forum so this is my first post. I have Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows 7 and I am trying to make a program that will do some jobs in threads. A simplified version of what I want to do would look like this: $threads_alowed = 700; $threads = [] $threads_alowed.times{|thread_id| $threads[thread_... 23 Apr 2010 20:50

cannot find header-files
I am working here on Solaris and i have ruby-installation. One installation is local, self-compiled and with that version everything is working fine. I also have a system-installation and with that ruby-version i cannot find header files. For example installing the gem sqlite3-ruby [code]gem install sqlite3-r... 23 Apr 2010 20:50

What is the difference build and new?
What is the difference between parent.children << child.new and parent.children.build(params[:child]) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ... 26 Apr 2010 00:27

Using metaprogramming to refactor many similar Rake tasks?
I inherited a project with a lot of badly-written Rake tasks that I need to clean up a bit. Because the Rakefiles are enormous and often prone to bizarre nonsensical dependencies, I'm simplifying and isolating things a bit by refactoring everything to classes. Specifically, that pattern is the following: n... 23 Apr 2010 20:50