# Ruby

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## [Documenting Networking in Ruby. Any volunteer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documenting-networking-in-ruby-any-volunteer/140430)

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**Author:** [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documenting-networking-in-ruby-any-volunteer/140430 "2008-07-22T11:00:48Z")

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Team, Is there a good book exclusively devoted to Networking in Ruby? As I continue learning and struggling on my journey to become a Rubyst (is it Rubist?), I noticed that my suffering could be lessen if I could put …

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## [Implementing ruby webservice after having used wsdl2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-ruby-webservice-after-having-used-wsdl2ruby/196750)

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**Author:** [@vmvipin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vmvipin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-ruby-webservice-after-having-used-wsdl2ruby/196750 "2008-07-22T10:33:20Z")

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Hi All, One of our client had created a WSDL in ASP and sent it over asking us to implement the same structure in ruby. I created server and client files (4 files each) using these commands wsdl2ruby.rb â€“wsdl /home…

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## [Somebody up for an IM session on IronRuby and WPF?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/somebody-up-for-an-im-session-on-ironruby-and-wpf/143733)

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**Author:** [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/somebody-up-for-an-im-session-on-ironruby-and-wpf/143733 "2008-07-22T10:16:22Z")

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Hi I’d like to talk some ideas through about WPF and IronRuby is there anybody up for an IM session to quickly exchange some thoughts? Email me off list if you are :slight\_smile: Cheers Ivan

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## [Dokkit 0.4.0 released!](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dokkit-0-4-0-released/143727)

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**Author:** [@gendag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gendag)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dokkit-0-4-0-released/143727 "2008-07-22T09:48:16Z")

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Hi Folks, version 0.4.0 of dokkit has been released! 1 Changes from version 0.3.0 improved support for partials and nested layouts added cache support easy environment setup with the introduction of a configuration …

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## [IronRuby 1.0 Road Map Plans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-road-map-plans/143724)

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**Author:** [@webreservoir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webreservoir)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-road-map-plans/143724 "2008-07-22T09:08:05Z")

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Hi, Mr. John L. shall be discussing IronRuby Road Map Plans at Oscon 2008 on 24th Thursday. Information:- IronRuby: The Road to 1.0 4:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2008 Location: Portland 251 Speaker:- John L. (Microsoft) …

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## [Net::HTTP and post\_form](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-http-and-post-form/143723)

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**Author:** [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 8:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-http-and-post-form/143723 "2008-07-22T08:35:05Z")

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I expected this to work (since the #post\_form method is documented), but the method is not found: require ‘net/http’ Net::HTTP.start(‘127.0.0.1’, 4567) do |http| http.post\_form(’/foo’, “bar” =\> “baz”) end Here’s th…

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## [Protected members or explicit abstract classes?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/protected-members-or-explicit-abstract-classes/143637)

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**Author:** [@aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aidy)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/protected-members-or-explicit-abstract-classes/143637 "2008-07-22T07:47:03Z")

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Hi, I am reading a book on Java OO. Could anyone tell me why Ruby does not include protected members nor explicit abstract classes? Thank You Aidy

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## [Facing Segmentation Fault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/facing-segmentation-fault/143721)

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**Author:** [@darshana](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/darshana)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/facing-segmentation-fault/143721 "2008-07-22T07:27:10Z")

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Hi All, We are working on project running ruby 1.8.5 on UNIX. We have been getting segmentation faults \[BUG\] fairly consistently (but at unpredictable times) If anyone faced this kind of issue before or anyone can pr…

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## [Inserting data from an array into an ms access 2000 table](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inserting-data-from-an-array-into-an-ms-access-2000-table/143588)

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**Author:** [@cdeford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cdeford)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inserting-data-from-an-array-into-an-ms-access-2000-table/143588 "2008-07-22T04:57:33Z")

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Good Afternoon, I am trying to figure out how to get data from an array into an access table. On the rubyonwindows site I found the following code: db = AccessDb.new(‘c:\\Baseball\\lahman54.mdb’) db.opendb.query(“SELE…

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## [\[Ruby 1.9 - Bug #272\] (Open) test\_chdir failed when Dir.tmpdir is symlink](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-bug-272-open-test-chdir-failed-when-dir-tmpdir-is-symlink/142997)

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**Author:** [@Kazuhiro\_NISHIYAMA](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kazuhiro_NISHIYAMA)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-bug-272-open-test-chdir-failed-when-dir-tmpdir-is-symlink/142997 "2008-07-22T04:27:38Z")

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e$B%A%1%C%He(B #272 e$B$,Js9p$5$l$^$7$?!#e(B (by Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA) Bug #272: test\_chdir failed when Dir.tmpdir is symlink http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/272 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA e$B%9%F!\<%?%9…

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## [Announcing IronEditor - An Editor for IronRuby, IronPython and other DLR languages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-ironeditor-an-editor-for-ironruby-ironpython-and-other-dlr-languages/143553)

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**Author:** [@benhiller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benhiller)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-ironeditor-an-editor-for-ironruby-ironpython-and-other-dlr-languages/143553 "2008-07-22T01:59:38Z")

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Hi everyone, Last night I uploaded an initial release of an application I’ve been working on - IronEditor. This is a simple application designed to make it easier to start coding against the DLR based languages, out o…

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## [Records and Arrays (#170)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/records-and-arrays-170/143448)

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**Author:** [@mansfiem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mansfiem)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/records-and-arrays-170/143448 "2008-07-22T01:58:28Z")

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\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The three rules of Ruby Q. 2: Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until 48 hours have passed from the time on th…

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## [Ruby/Java strings solved the Ruby way](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-java-strings-solved-the-ruby-way/143578)

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**Author:** [@headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/headius)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-java-strings-solved-the-ruby-way/143578 "2008-07-21T23:13:59Z")

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Hello all! I’m posting this here because it seem like a topic better discussed in the general Ruby community. JRuby allows you pretty seamless access to Java libraries through its Java integration layer. You can pull…

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## [Java/ruby build options (buildr)?)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/java-ruby-build-options-buildr/143692)

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**Author:** [@philswenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/philswenson)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/java-ruby-build-options-buildr/143692 "2008-07-21T23:04:37Z")

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I’ve been checking out buildr for building java & ruby applications… I need to build jruby on rails code, build wars, deploy using capistrano(?), build flex swfs etc anyone have any positive/negative experiences with…

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## [Get Owner of a file](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-owner-of-a-file/143695)

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**Author:** [@chastheone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chastheone)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-owner-of-a-file/143695 "2008-07-21T22:57:35Z")

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Hello, I’m fairly new to ruby, most of my scripting has been done in TCL and I decided to learn a new language. Anyways, I would like to know if there is an easay way to get the owner of a file For Example : o = fi…

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## [Thread-local global variables?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-local-global-variables/143689)

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**Author:** [@eclubb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eclubb)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-local-global-variables/143689 "2008-07-21T22:00:42Z")

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Is it possible to define a variable whose value is global within a particular each thread (including the main thread), yet distinct between threads? For example, I’ve tried this: $abc = 0 threads = \[\] 2.times do |i…

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## [How to invoke an external program and get anything the pgm returns back](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-invoke-an-external-program-and-get-anything-the-pgm-returns-back/143686)

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**Author:** [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-invoke-an-external-program-and-get-anything-the-pgm-returns-back/143686 "2008-07-21T21:50:42Z")

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Team, I have a Ruby script which might invoke an external program. The external program could be written in: Ruby, Perl, KSH, CSH, BSH, Etc. The invoked program might return a value in the the form of a return code. …

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## [Erb and rhtml templates?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-and-rhtml-templates/143176)

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**Author:** [@labyrinth](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/labyrinth)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-and-rhtml-templates/143176 "2008-07-21T21:19:01Z")

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I’ve got a website w/ lunarpages, and I’ve been using erb to do some things w/ my pages. Everything has worked well so far. My problem is, my main pages each call in header and footer templates, but I can’t figure out…

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## [Fwd: \[IronPython\] Announcing IronEditor - An Editor for IronRuby, IronPython and other DLR languages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-ironpython-announcing-ironeditor-an-editor-for-ironruby-ironpython-and-other-dlr-languages/143680)

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**Author:** [@stefan8107](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stefan8107)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-ironpython-announcing-ironeditor-an-editor-for-ironruby-ironpython-and-other-dlr-languages/143680 "2008-07-21T20:12:41Z")

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I have looked at the code. Some neat stuff. However my idea is that we can leverage as much as we can from the DLR platform itself. For example we can create our own editor and use the code sense and token infrastru…

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## [Where should I put the loops](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-should-i-put-the-loops/143350)

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**Author:** [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-should-i-put-the-loops/143350 "2008-07-21T18:50:37Z")

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Hi all, I try to write a script to fecth some webpages from the internet, parse the webpages and write them into csv format file. Here are the formats of webpages: website…A001 … website…A101 website…B001 … webs…

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## [Reading non-standard/custom attributes in Atom feeds with standard Ruby RSS Library - How?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-non-standard-custom-attributes-in-atom-feeds-with-standard-ruby-rss-library-how/143613)

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**Author:** [@gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gerald_b)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-non-standard-custom-attributes-in-atom-feeds-with-standard-ruby-rss-library-how/143613 "2008-07-21T18:02:53Z")

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Hello, Using the latest version of the standard web feed library (RSS::Parser) \[1\], that is, 0.2.4, I tried to configure or extend it so I can read/access non-standard (custom) feed attributes such as the Google Read…

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## [Finding the date of an event based on related events](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-the-date-of-an-event-based-on-related-events/143449)

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**Author:** [@Kaldrenon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kaldrenon)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-the-date-of-an-event-based-on-related-events/143449 "2008-07-21T16:10:54Z")

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Hi all, I’m doing some planning to write a simple utility program for maintaining my schedule. The basic scenario is that, in my job, I have a series of multi-stage procedures to perform, and for each instance of the…

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## [Simple program with a simple(?) error -- what's wrong?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-program-with-a-simple-error-whats-wrong/143538)

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**Author:** [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-program-with-a-simple-error-whats-wrong/143538 "2008-07-21T15:30:54Z")

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Hi, I put together to exercise simple Ruby constructs. It’s posted at http://www.pastie.org/237288. Before I introduced the “indx” variable it worked fine. The statement incrementing indx in the def causes the erro…

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## [JRuby 1.1.3 performance improvement](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-3-performance-improvement/143600)

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**Author:** [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-3-performance-improvement/143600 "2008-07-21T12:46:12Z")

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Not terribly scientific, but notable I think. Our Hudson CI based build had a substantial improvement on 1.1.3: 6m 46s on JRuby 1.1.1 4m 31 secons on JRuby 1.1.3 The build does the following: svn co of source tree m…

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## [IronRuby 1.0 and Asp.Net MVC preview 4 Questions](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-and-asp-net-mvc-preview-4-questions/142559)

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**Author:** [@webreservoir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webreservoir)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-and-asp-net-mvc-preview-4-questions/142559 "2008-07-21T12:34:04Z")

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Hi, May i know, how many months are we still far from IronRuby 1.0…? I understand Asp.Net MVC preview 4 will support IronRuby. What type of support will it be… Beta 1.0 or just a simple working solution with not much…

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## [Does "rescue" wihtour argument handle any kind of Exception or not?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-rescue-wihtour-argument-handle-any-kind-of-exception-or-not/143567)

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**Author:** [@ISSSSaki\_Baz\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ISSSSaki_Baz_C)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-rescue-wihtour-argument-handle-any-kind-of-exception-or-not/143567 "2008-07-21T12:24:09Z")

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Hi, I read in this article: Ruby rant: Timeout::Error - Jerith online — LiveJournal that: Exception StandardError RuntimeError ZeroDivisionError ScriptError SyntaxError SystemExit SignalException Interrupt …

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## [Rb\_filesystem\_encoding on Unix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rb-filesystem-encoding-on-unix/143625)

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**Author:** [@Tanaka\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tanaka_A)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rb-filesystem-encoding-on-unix/143625 "2008-07-21T10:13:19Z")

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Unix e$B$G!“C10l$Ne(B locale e$B$K=\>$C$F1?MQ$7$F$$$k\>l9g$O!”%(%s%3!\<e(B e$B%G%#%s%0$r$J$K$b;X\<($7$J$/$F$bE,@Z$KJ8;z$r07$($k$h$&F0:n$9$ke(B e$B$N$,$h$$$H;W$$$^$9!#e(B e$B$D$^$j!"e(B % date \> xyze$B$O$O$Oe(B % ./ruby …

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## [More descriptive aliases of rb\_str\_new\[2-5\] (Re: \[request\]C API$B$N3HD%(B)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-descriptive-aliases-of-rb-str-new-2-5-re-request-c-api-b-n3hd-b/143623)

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**Author:** [@nobu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nobu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-descriptive-aliases-of-rb-str-new-2-5-re-request-c-api-b-n3hd-b/143623 "2008-07-21T09:46:19Z")

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e$B$J$+$@$G$9!#e(B At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:31:02 +0900, Nobuyoshi N. wrote in \[ruby-dev:35614\]: print()e$B$He(Bprintf()e$B$N0c$$$,e(Bfe$B$@$1$J$N$G$=$l$G==J,$+$H;W$C$F$7$^$$e(B e$B$^$7$?!#L\>A0$K$D$$$F$OFC$K$3$@$o$j$…

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## [Stop thin webserver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stop-thin-webserver/143619)

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**Author:** [@ganana\_srishti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ganana_srishti)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stop-thin-webserver/143619 "2008-07-21T08:55:17Z")

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Hi, How to stop thin server i have tried the following command but it is giving error $\>thin stop Error:Can’t stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.pid plz reply

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## [A server and client application implementation using wsdl2ru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-server-and-client-application-implementation-using-wsdl2ru/143611)

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**Author:** [@vmvipin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vmvipin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-server-and-client-application-implementation-using-wsdl2ru/143611 "2008-07-21T07:26:40Z")

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Hi All, One of our client had created a WSDL in ASP and sent it over asking us to implement the same structure in ruby. I created server and client files (4 files each) using these commands wsdl2ruby.rb â€“wsdl /home…

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