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The Heart of Try Ruby (4 words)
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gem_mirror_only (4 words)
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Tell Me the Hashing Dangers (14 words)
def hash; to_s.
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Wrapping a C Function as a Block (101 words)
I had previously been using rb_iterate and a call to Proc.new to build a block in C.
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The Siphoning Splat (230 words)
I’m serious about this. The splat is such a wildly devious little asterisk.
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require_gem is Deprecated (51 words)
The require_gem command is gone. It’s just gem now. (RubyGems 0.9.0.8 and later.)
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More Splatters of Hpricot (313 words)
Element#siblings_at, Element#nodes_at
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Quick Conkeror Prefs (151 words)
No more SwitchProxy extension for switching MouseHoles. Added to ~/.
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New, Little Hpricot Pulps (114 words)
Element#css_path
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These Yelps and Squeals are Totally Valid (53 words)
Discovered by Jay Phillips, some syntactically correct interrobangling:
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EigenCharges (253 words)
A new sleight of syntax for ya:
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Speeding Up Net::HTTP, OpenURI or Any Other TCPSocket Offspring (116 words)
Only if you’re doing lots of requests amongst threads and you notice that the opening of the
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Stowing Yer Libraries Off in the Cut-n-Paste (156 words)
Starting with what we’ve seen before.
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How You Fake a Gem Server (150 words)
It’s odd that RubyGems doesn’t serve its own docs. See gem_server for yourself.
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Smircer, Clone of the Little Tcl IRC Client (127 words)
I saw the link floating around for the IRC client written in 38 lines of Tcl and I just wondered.
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Wonder of the When-Be-Splat (157 words)
Well, okay, yes, we already know Ruby is expressive.
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Showing Perfect Time [Perfect Plus Edition] (131 words)
Perfect has fallen out of favor. Mike West has gone beyond and I’m bailing as well.
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ary / 3 (111 words)
Sometimes I wish Array.partition could split into more than halves.
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Camping is a Microframework (1754 words)
First, as a mural. For friends here who like to pick at the weave.
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Revisiting the File-Sharing Paragraph (503 words)
RedHanded is just over a year old, designed as an exercise to help me flesh out some better code
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Using Hashes to Memoize (216 words)
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Koichi's Brief Ruby Certification (95 words)
Koichi Sasada says if you can predict the correct output of the following, you are a great Ruby
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Ruby for Windows in Under 1K (283 words)
If you enjoyed Rubyless Ruby, here’s a remix for Windows.
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Two-Hundred and Fifty-Two Ohs is Weak, Come On Now (147 words)
Ano… Scleepts from Japan!
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Putting a Class in Foster Care (98 words)
Maybe you could call it “duck classing,” who knows. I think it fits.
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Petty Theft from Python (142 words)
Lucas Carlson has lifted a few method ideas from Python: starts_with? and ends_withs?, as well as in?.
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Funked Out Java+Ruby Aggregator (148 words)
Tim Bray. What a newb.
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MUD in 15 Lines of Ruby (553 words)
This is great.
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Packet Too Chunky on Port 0xBAC0 (123 words)
8217;re in Firefox, you’ll want to Ctrl+- on murphy’s 0xCB server, which runs on port 203.
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YAML's Merge Key (141 words)
Some of you might find YAML’s merge key convenient, especially in your database.
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Simpler Ways (65 words)
1. Less explicit to_s.
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Hyperextended (217 words)
As you well know, mixins only copy plain instance methods into the target class.
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Derby: DRb Over YAML (91 words)
Here’s Derby:
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Block Terminator (198 words)
This entry is loose translation of matz blog 2005-06-07 .
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How Powerful Pathname Is (188 words)
How powerful Pathname is! Unfortunately I did not know.
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How Do You Parse Tab Separated Values (201 words)
How to parse tab separated values, values of which may be omitted and they should be recognized as
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Hal's if..each (166 words)
I’m contemplating putting a difficulty level on posts in the “bits” and
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Eval-less Metaprogramming (140 words)
I often find myself resorting to eval when writing class methods for metaprogramming, simply because
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Toogle In 35 Lines (134 words)
in 35 lines of Ruby. There’s some very succinct PHP in the comments as well.
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Hash#collect! (179 words)
It’s always bugged me that Hash#collect returns an Array. And Hash#collect!
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Matrixed-Out JARHs Not To Be Missed! (262 words)
A little discussion worth preserving: Sam Roberts brought up ruby -rtracer -rsocket -enil, which
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Choice Python Hack: Infix Operators (197 words)
Pencils down. Cool hack for Python right here. I guess this was up on LtU a few days ago.
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Re: haiku.rb (108 words)
We, Rubyist Magazine editors, chatted on IRC about a next article.
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haiku.rb (96 words)
catch( :in_the_wind ) { ?a.
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Undocumented Macro DATA_PTR (113 words)
I’ve really got to remember this one.
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Catapult Wiki Exoskeleton (294 words)
Here’s a fun library that’s gone under the radar.
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Dynamic VHosts One-liner for Rails (91 words)
So, how do Tada and Basecamp do dynamic virtual hosts to give each user their own subdomain?
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Klemme's Silent Hash (138 words)
I’m afraid the old skool weezzard Robert Klemme is trumping flgr this month on Ruby-Talk.
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Regenerative C (223 words)
Fzort on Advogato has a lovely little collection of C magic tricks and puzzles.
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In the Aftermath of Lamp Light (217 words)
Last week was big. -
Parens Down the Chute (84 words)
Robert Klemme used this inject on the Ruby-Talk list today to emulate Hash#values behavior:
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Fwding with RubyMail (181 words)
When it comes to e-mail manipulation, RubyMail has always been my answer.
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Parsing Ta-da Lists (253 words)
Ruby is becoming the language for conversion of idea-to-task, for recording and processing notes.
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Showin Up On Technorati (271 words)
Among the various news aggregation portals (Bloglines, Artima, etc.)
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HTML Filtering For RedCloth (271 words)
Oh, here’s a very bad habit for me to start.
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Comma-e (95 words)
Gorou’s 2nd Life is a blog from Ruby’s homeland (.jp) -
LCD Numbers Duke It Out (173 words)
This week’s Ruby Quiz (a capital effort by JEGII) was solved in less than 300 bytes.
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Forgiving Your Infidelize (184 words)
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Fancy Irb Buried In The Wiki (133 words)
Windozers, give ear.
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My Favorite Bad Practices (349 words)
I can’t truthfully say what level of coder I am. -
Holy Great CGI In Heaven! (245 words)
I know this is a dead simple library, but I’ve been wanting this forever and just not getting
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Google Search For Rails (97 words)
Buncha great stuff comin out at Technoblog.
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Batsman's 5-Line Wiki (139 words)
Drop the code below in a file called w7.cgi.
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A File-Sharing Paragraph (405 words)
Lately, the Ruby-Talk mailing list has been wonderful.
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