# Ruby

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## [\[ANN\] Rake 0.8.2 Released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rake-0-8-2-released/148211)

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**Author:** [@jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimweirich)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rake-0-8-2-released/148211 "2008-09-10T13:34:12Z")

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= Rake 0.8.2 Released Rake version 0.8.2 is a new release of rake that includes a number of new features and numerous bug fixes. == Changes === New Features in Version 0.8.2 Switched from getoptlong to optparse (p…

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## [Problem in window service](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-window-service/148203)

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**Author:** [@slogeshwaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/slogeshwaran)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-window-service/148203 "2008-09-10T12:40:17Z")

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hi, Actually i am new for ruby, i done mail sending application in ruby and now i am trying to implement that mail application as a window service. But it always showing one error , i don’t know how to solve this er…

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## [Yield/block question](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yield-block-question/148172)

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**Author:** [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yield-block-question/148172 "2008-09-10T11:47:18Z")

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This is something I know how to do in Python, but it’s got me flummoxed in Ruby–I still haven’t fully gotten my head around the Ruby way. (“yield” means something very different in Python and in Ruby. Let’s say I have…

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## [URI::Parser](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uri-parser/145246)

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**Author:** [@akira\_yamada\_S\_SSB](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akira_yamada_S_SSB)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uri-parser/145246 "2008-09-10T11:44:23Z")

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URIe$B%b%8%e!\<%k$K\<j$r2C$($Fe(B e$B$A$g$C$H4V0c$C$F$$$k$N$@$1$I\<B:\]$K;H$o$l$F$7$^$C$F$$$ke(BURI e$B$r\<u$1F~$l$i$l$k$h$&$K$7$F$\_$^$7$?!#e(B e$B2a5n$K2?EY$+e(B\<\>e$B$H$+e(B\_e$B$H$+$,F~$C$F$$$k$He(B e$BNc30$K$J$k$H$$$&Js…

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## [About String.sub](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-string-sub/148183)

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**Author:** [@Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyung_won_C)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-string-sub/148183 "2008-09-10T10:48:59Z")

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in javascript var str = “aaa(xxx)bbb” str.replace(/aaa((.+))bbb/, ‘AAA(’ + ‘$1’ + ‘)BBB’) // “AAA(xxx)BBB” in ruby How???

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## [Open() weirdness](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-weirdness/148195)

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**Author:** [@S\_ai\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S_ai_S)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-weirdness/148195 "2008-09-10T10:08:54Z")

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Hi, Is this a bug or are there known limitations for open() in jruby? jruby 1.1.3 (ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 114) (2008-07-20 rev 7243) \[amd64-java\] Linux keter 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86\_6…

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## [Time slow by one hour](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-slow-by-one-hour/148192)

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**Author:** [@sunfish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sunfish)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-slow-by-one-hour/148192 "2008-09-10T09:42:29Z")

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Hi, In my application I have to correct the time stamp on event discussion posts. Perhaps they are not observing DST? In any case, they are slow by one hour. how to do this ? I have following type of code and I have…

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## [\[Bug #551\] SIZE\_MAX is not defined in VC++](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-551-size-max-is-not-defined-in-vc/147991)

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**Author:** [@Koichi\_Kimura](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Koichi_Kimura)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-551-size-max-is-not-defined-in-vc/147991 "2008-09-10T09:17:18Z")

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Bug #551: SIZE\_MAX is not defined in VC++ http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/551 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Koichi Kimura e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal transcode.c e$B$Ne(B allocate\_converted\_string e$BCf$Ge(…

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## [Re: Overriding CLS Virtuals](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148171)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148171 "2008-09-10T07:04:47Z")

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## [Rails/GlassFish in Rails Conf Europe 2008](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-glassfish-in-rails-conf-europe-2008/148177)

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**Author:** [@arung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arung)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-glassfish-in-rails-conf-europe-2008/148177 "2008-09-10T03:21:17Z")

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Thanks to everybody who contributed to “Rails powered by GlassFish” talk @ Rails Conf Europe. The talk was well received and we learned a lot as well. Let us know if you are using Rails/GlassFish in production and we’…

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## [How to get latest version of JRuby working with NetBeans?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-latest-version-of-jruby-working-with-netbeans/148155)

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**Author:** [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-latest-version-of-jruby-working-with-netbeans/148155 "2008-09-10T02:57:53Z")

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Just like the question says, I’d like to use the latest version of JRuby as the Ruby that runs under NetBeans, but I haven’t been able to get this to work. Advice most appreciated. Thanks, Ken To unsubscribe from t…

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## [Problem in popup handling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-popup-handling/144325)

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**Author:** [@karthicg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthicg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-in-popup-handling/144325 "2008-09-10T02:19:18Z")

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i have to handle the popup in my client page. this is my program: ie.button(:name,‘BtnSubmit’).click\_no\_wait dialog = Watir::Dialog.new dialog.button(“OK”).click ie.waitForIE but i got an error msg like, c:/ruby/l…

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## [Modal dialog handling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-handling/148170)

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**Author:** [@ythu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ythu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-handling/148170 "2008-09-10T02:16:46Z")

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Hi, I’m using watir 182(the version that supports modal dialog) to automate a test.there is this pop up modal dialog where I have to click on checkbox to choose an interval. rightnow seems it could not even detect th…

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## [How to handle popup dialog box](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-handle-popup-dialog-box/104396)

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**Author:** [@amruta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amruta)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-handle-popup-dialog-box/104396 "2008-09-10T02:05:27Z")

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Hi, I’am new to Ruby.Please help me to get this done. After clicking on a button a popup dialog box appears on the screen.Which is a login page having Username and Password text fields and Ok button.I’am not able to …

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## [Email backup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-backup/148167)

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**Author:** [@headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/headius)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-backup/148167 "2008-09-10T01:46:31Z")

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Sorry for the email list backup folks. I talked to Ben Walding at Codehaus and he told me the servers that run email got badly backloaded due to an apparent spam attack. It looks like things are starting to flow now, …

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## [More CLR interop questions - Generic Methods](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-clr-interop-questions-generic-methods/148164)

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**Author:** [@Orion\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Orion_E)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-clr-interop-questions-generic-methods/148164 "2008-09-10T01:37:09Z")

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## [Easy access to JDBC for JRuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-access-to-jdbc-for-jruby/148168)

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**Author:** [@Post-No-Reply\_TUDBC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Post-No-Reply_TUDBC)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-access-to-jdbc-for-jruby/148168 "2008-09-10T01:03:14Z")

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Dear JRuby U.: TUDBC will give you an easy and unified access to virtually any JDBC drivers in JRuby. Further more, the codes are fully compatible with Ruby and IronRuby, so that you don’t need to change the codes wh…

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## [How to access a method in the parent class](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-access-a-method-in-the-parent-class/148163)

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**Author:** [@ISSSSaki\_Baz\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ISSSSaki_Baz_C)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-access-a-method-in-the-parent-class/148163 "2008-09-10T00:49:46Z")

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Hi, I’ll explain my problem with an example code: module M def hello puts “hello !!!” B.new end class B def initialize puts “B instance initialized !!!” bye() \<— ERROR !!! end end end class A include M d…

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## [\[ANN\] Fast JRuby Debugger 0.10.2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-fast-jruby-debugger-0-10-2/148166)

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**Author:** [@mkrauskopf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mkrauskopf)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-fast-jruby-debugger-0-10-2/148166 "2008-09-10T00:49:11Z")

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Hi all, This is rather quick release since 0.10.1 does not work with JRuby 1.1.4. automatically provides features and bugfixes of the new version of CLI debugger (ruby-debug 0.10.2) implemented by ruby-debug-team (r…

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## [Rinda: random ECONNREFUSED error](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rinda-random-econnrefused-error/148080)

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**Author:** [@andreas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreas)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 10, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rinda-random-econnrefused-error/148080 "2008-09-10T00:21:15Z")

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I was following rinda examples from http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html and randomly got ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) error from running the list\_services code. I tried a var…

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## [Re: Overriding CLS Virtuals](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148152)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148152 "2008-09-09T23:28:59Z")

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I saw a presentation that (if I remember correctly) showed methods like doFoo becoming do\_foo. So I think they mangle method names. I don’t know if they do this for interface methods, which is closer to this problem. J…

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## [Extending standard library by priority queue or search tree](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extending-standard-library-by-priority-queue-or-search-tree/148109)

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**Author:** [@Artem\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Artem_V)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extending-standard-library-by-priority-queue-or-search-tree/148109 "2008-09-09T22:42:02Z")

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I’d like to have guide for C++ programmers who wants to learn Ruby. This guide should explain how to do things in Ruby they used to do in C++, STL. STL has container map which allows us to do the following insert(key…

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## [Recommended upgrade method](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-upgrade-method/147344)

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**Author:** [@Hirotsugu\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hirotsugu_A)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommended-upgrade-method/147344 "2008-09-09T21:53:23Z")

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I have JRuby 1.1.3 with about 20 gems. It’s sitting somewhere under $HOME, which I prepend to $PATH in order to invoke jruby. Now, I want to upgrade to 1.1.4, but I do not want to re-install all the gems that I have …

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## [Saving UTF-8 characters to YAML problem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-utf-8-characters-to-yaml-problem/134116)

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**Author:** [@PaweSSSSSRadecki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PaweSSSSSRadecki)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-utf-8-characters-to-yaml-problem/134116 "2008-09-09T21:52:05Z")

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Hi there, I’m trying to save multinational data to YAML with following simple program: require ‘yaml’ show “James B. 007: Nightfire in Chinese” text in YAML form puts ‘詹姆斯邦德007：暗夜之火’.to\_yaml and …

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## [MacRuby 0.3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macruby-0-3/148099)

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**Author:** [@Laurent\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Laurent_S)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/macruby-0-3/148099 "2008-09-09T21:42:15Z")

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Hi, It is a great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of MacRuby 0.3! Check it out while it’s still hot! MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such …

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## [Unsubscribe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/148151)

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**Author:** [@Dipen\_Narendra\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dipen_Narendra_K)\
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**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/148151 "2008-09-09T20:34:08Z")

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## [Packaging Ruby as JAR Library](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/packaging-ruby-as-jar-library/146286)

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**Author:** [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/packaging-ruby-as-jar-library/146286 "2008-09-09T19:57:40Z")

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Sorry for the beginner question. Does JRuby current have the ability to package ruby code as a JAR that can be used by standard Java applications? Thank you. Mike H. To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: ht…

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## [Open4 : undefined method \`spawn'](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open4-undefined-method-spawn/147594)

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**Author:** [@Une\_BSSSSvS\_ue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Une_BSSSSvS_ue)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open4-undefined-method-spawn/147594 "2008-09-09T19:50:38Z")

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I’m trying some samples of open4-0.9.6 : #! /usr/bin/env ruby require ‘rubygems’ require ‘open4’ include Open4 cat = ‘ruby -e" ARGF.each{|line| STDOUT \<\< line} "’ stdout, stderr = ‘’, ‘’ status = spawn cat, ‘st…

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## [Re: Overriding CLS Virtuals](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148137)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-overriding-cls-virtuals/148137 "2008-09-09T18:45:16Z")

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I know their naming convention is different, but lets see what JRuby does too. JD

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## [Why is Ruby dynamic?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-ruby-dynamic/147858)

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**Author:** [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-ruby-dynamic/147858 "2008-09-09T17:41:12Z")

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People say Ruby is a dynamic language. I don’t understand what the "dynamic"　mean here. Does this mean Ruby can dynamic change itself at run-time?

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