# Ruby

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## [Regarding migrations?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-migrations/142604)

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**Author:** [@ravikanth](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ravikanth)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-migrations/142604 "2008-07-09T20:20:52Z")

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Hi, I am using "review\_old" database in my rails app.i have 20 tables in “review\_old” database. some people already written some reviews on “review\_old” database. But i have changed one filed in one table.And i have …

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## [\[Bug:1.9\] $? is not thread scope](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-1-9-is-not-thread-scope/142624)

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**Author:** [@Tanaka\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tanaka_A)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-1-9-is-not-thread-scope/142624 "2008-07-09T20:07:53Z")

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1.9 e$B$G$Oe(B $? e$B$,%9%l%C%I%9%3!\<%W$G$J$/$J$C$F$$$k$h$&$G$9!#e(B e$B0J2\<$N$h$&$K!"B\>$N%9%l%C%I$GF0$+$7$?%3%^%s%I$N7k2L$,e(B $? e$B$KI=e(B e$B$l$^$9!#e(B % ./ruby -ve ’ t = Thread.new { system(“false”) } p $? t.…

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## [New RMagick4J release](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rmagick4j-release/142623)

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**Author:** [@Serabe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Serabe)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rmagick4j-release/142623 "2008-07-09T19:39:06Z")

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RMagick aims to implement the ImageMagick funcionality and the C portions of RMagick for make it works in JRuby. Current stable version: 0.3.5 Project URL: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Proje…

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## [Code Review: StringGsubEach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubeach/142447)

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**Author:** [@Dave\_Remy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Remy)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubeach/142447 "2008-07-09T19:19:47Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:StringGsubEach;REDMOND\\dremy” Comment : Changes to for string.gsub and string.each (and each\_line) to run clean. The most significant change is to track version in MutableString. This versi…

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## [(no subject)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/142618)

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**Author:** [@gaetan\_dubar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gaetan_dubar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/142618 "2008-07-09T19:08:05Z")

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## ['ab\\c' and 'ab\\\\c'](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ab-c-and-ab-c/142558)

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**Author:** [@subbu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subbu)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ab-c-and-ab-c/142558 "2008-07-09T18:23:12Z")

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I encountered a rather peculiar behavior of strings today. Here is my irb session: irb(main):001:0\> ‘ab\\c’ irb(main):002:0’ ’ SyntaxError: compile error (irb):2: unterminated string meets end of file from (irb):2 i…

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## [Re: Asynchronous job processing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-asynchronous-job-processing/142610)

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**Author:** [@gnufied](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gnufied)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-asynchronous-job-processing/142610 "2008-07-09T17:39:04Z")

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I have some plans for migrating BackgrounDRb plugin to JRuby, but it requires lot of work. Essentially all the fork has to be replaced by threads or different instances of vm. I was planning to avoid all that and hav…

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## [Asynchronous job processing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asynchronous-job-processing/142516)

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**Author:** [@Andres\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andres_K)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asynchronous-job-processing/142516 "2008-07-09T17:10:48Z")

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Hello, I’m currently looking for a way to spawn a long-running process in the background with some hooks to get the progress for instance. In MRI this can be done using backgrounDRb. How can I achievo such a thing in …

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## [String get domain name from web address](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/string-get-domain-name-from-web-address/142573)

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**Author:** [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/string-get-domain-name-from-web-address/142573 "2008-07-09T16:43:04Z")

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Hi, I could have a any web address, www.yahoo.com, http://yahoo.com/, http://www.yahoo.com/, http://www.yahoo.co.uk/ so i want i need is some ruby code that will always return the domain name “yahoo.com” Im not sure…

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## [Looking for JRuby Cookbook technical reviewers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-jruby-cookbook-technical-reviewers/142599)

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**Author:** [@Henry\_Liu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Henry_Liu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-jruby-cookbook-technical-reviewers/142599 "2008-07-09T16:31:03Z")

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Hi everyone. I’ve been co-writing the JRuby Cookbook for O’Reilly and we’re looking for few people who are interested in helping with a technical review of the book. It means reading through the recipes and making s…

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## [JRuby 1.1.2, Rails 2.1 Memory performance?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-2-rails-2-1-memory-performance/142120)

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**Author:** [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-1-2-rails-2-1-memory-performance/142120 "2008-07-09T15:48:56Z")

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Running Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 on fairly powerful machine (quad CPU’s etc etc) I have just setup JRuby + Rails. I had a question about memory consumption and I was curious if it’s on par with what should be expec…

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## [Any Plans for a StarterKit in IronRuby on CodePlex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-for-a-starterkit-in-ironruby-on-codeplex/128391)

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**Author:** [@softmind](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softmind)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-for-a-starterkit-in-ironruby-on-codeplex/128391 "2008-07-09T14:05:54Z")

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Hello, I am just curious to know about the plans to make IronRuby more reachable and just to inquire, whether there is any projects already announced on StarterKits in IronRuby. I think, converting an existing asp.ne…

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## [String matching/comparing, statistical similarity](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/string-matching-comparing-statistical-similarity/142504)

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**Author:** [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/string-matching-comparing-statistical-similarity/142504 "2008-07-09T13:25:00Z")

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Hi there, I am trying to find a solution for this problem: I am generating a large amount of data from different data feeds (CSV). I have a short Ruby program that parses all of the CSV files (input), manipulates the…

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## [Webgen 0.5.0 released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-0-released/142582)

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**Author:** [@tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tlockney)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-0-released/142582 "2008-07-09T12:13:51Z")

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Hey everybody! I just released a new webgen version and the ‘new’ is not overstated since it is really a complete rewrite of the 0.4.x series. The new 0.5.x series is not as feature rich as the 0.4.x series yet (most…

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## [Ruby support for XQuery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-support-for-xquery/142579)

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**Author:** [@William\_Candillon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/William_Candillon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-support-for-xquery/142579 "2008-07-09T11:55:54Z")

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We are pleased to announce you that the last release of Zorba (beta version 0.9.21) is providing a language binding to run Zorba from Ruby. Zorba is a general purpose XQuery processor implementing in C++ the W3C fami…

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## [Type specific operator](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/type-specific-operator/142563)

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**Author:** [@Amitraj\_singh\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Amitraj_singh_C)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/type-specific-operator/142563 "2008-07-09T11:55:42Z")

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Hi all, Ruby is a dynamically typed language so it checks at run time the type of the variable and calls corresponding operator. For example “x + y” will be checked for type of x and y if both will be fixnum then cor…

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## [Ruby-debug-ide for JRuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-ide-for-jruby/142487)

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**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-ide-for-jruby/142487 "2008-07-09T10:21:04Z")

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Hello guys, I have installed jruby 1.1.2 and it works ok. I have added it to Eclipse and I cannot install the ruby-debug-ide because it is a native C extension. How can I get the debug-ide for jruby 1.1.2? Thanks, G…

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## [About controller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-controller/142565)

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**Author:** [@sumantacaptain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumantacaptain)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-controller/142565 "2008-07-09T09:26:51Z")

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i have two problem can any body help me… i was using rails 2.0.2 but when i updated the version 2.1.0 my application is not running and showing the following error… C:\\xx\>ruby script/generate controller aa c:/ruby/…

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## [Code Review: fixes-2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-fixes-2/142556)

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**Author:** [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-fixes-2/142556 "2008-07-09T07:43:13Z")

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Ruby only. All local tests pass. tfpt review “/shelveset:fixes-2;REDMOND\\jflam” Comment : Added a ChildProcessExitStatus global variable ($?) which contains the exit code of a sub-process (used by system, backt…

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## [\[Ruby 1.8 - Bug #199\] (Open) Possible patches for critical segfaults and vulnerabilities available f](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-bug-199-open-possible-patches-for-critical-segfaults-and-vulnerabilities-available-f/141368)

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**Author:** [@anonymous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymous)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-bug-199-open-possible-patches-for-critical-segfaults-and-vulnerabilities-available-f/141368 "2008-07-09T07:06:43Z")

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e$B%A%1%C%He(B #199 e$B$,Js9p$5$l$^$7$?!#e(B (by Anonymous) Bug #199: Possible patches for critical segfaults and vulnerabilities available for review in ruby-talk http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/199 e$B5/I\<…

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## [Warble 0.9.9 issues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warble-0-9-9-issues/142508)

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**Author:** [@Ryan\_LSBell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryan_LSBell)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/warble-0-9-9-issues/142508 "2008-07-09T06:55:36Z")

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I had a couple problems using warbler 0.9.9 to deploy a rails application to tomcat. The rest of my team is using 0.9.5 and does not seem to have any problems. First, we have a snippet in the web.xml.erb that looks l…

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## [Eval bug?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eval-bug/139855)

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**Author:** [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eval-bug/139855 "2008-07-09T06:53:18Z")

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I have this code to do timing tests: def tm(code); s=Time.now; eval code; Time.now-s end I use it like this: tm ‘some code’ I have this function that can take two inputs. When I run it with just one input like this…

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## [Fork -\> PID -\> Array -\> Process.kill, help!](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fork-pid-array-process-kill-help/142555)

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**Author:** [@fizzbang](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fizzbang)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fork-pid-array-process-kill-help/142555 "2008-07-09T06:19:42Z")

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Hi Complete “noob” to writing my own scripts, I thought I would give Ruby a try and I surprised myself with how far i have completed in 1 day. Alas I seem to have put my brain into a infinite loop with the following …

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## [\[Ruby 1.9 - Bug #245\] (Open) IPAddr#to\_range raise ArgumentError](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-bug-245-open-ipaddr-to-range-raise-argumenterror/142554)

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**Author:** [@okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/okkezSS)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-bug-245-open-ipaddr-to-range-raise-argumenterror/142554 "2008-07-09T06:05:16Z")

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e$B%A%1%C%He(B #245 e$B$,Js9p$5$l$^$7$?!#e(B (by okkez \_) Bug #245: IPAddr#to\_range raise ArgumentError http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/245 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: okkez \_ e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal …

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## [IPAddr#to\_range raise ArgumentError](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ipaddr-to-range-raise-argumenterror/140368)

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**Author:** [@okkez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/okkez)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ipaddr-to-range-raise-argumenterror/140368 "2008-07-09T05:30:11Z")

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okkez e$B$G$9!#e(B ipaddr e$B$Ge(B IPv4 e$B%"%I%l%9$r0J2\<$NJ}K!$G:n@.$7$?\>l9g$Ke(B IPAddr#to\_range e$B$9$k$He(B ArgumentError e$B$,H/@8$7$^$9!#e(B % ruby-1.8.x -ripaddr -ve “IPAddr.new(‘192.168.1.1’).to\_range” ruby …

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## [Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S6 - Easier to Understand and Extend S5 Rewrite](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slide-show-s9-gem-now-includes-s6-easier-to-understand-and-extend-s5-rewrite/142551)

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**Author:** [@gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gerald_b)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slide-show-s9-gem-now-includes-s6-easier-to-understand-and-extend-s5-rewrite/142551 "2008-07-09T03:41:10Z")

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Hello, The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that’s easy-to-write and easy-to-read has switched the default S9-generated slid…

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## [Ruby without rails?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-without-rails/142513)

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**Author:** [@shashank\_hi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shashank_hi)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-without-rails/142513 "2008-07-09T01:06:26Z")

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I’m trying to develop a small website, and was planning to use Ruby alone (I don’t know much Rails, and wasn’t planning on learning it for the project). Is there a way to run .rb files under a webserver. I’m developin…

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## [Implementing a simple and efficient index system](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-a-simple-and-efficient-index-system/142322)

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**Author:** [@janus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/janus)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-a-simple-and-efficient-index-system/142322 "2008-07-09T00:13:58Z")

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Hello everyone, I’m pretty new to Ruby and programming in general. Here’s my problem: I’m writing a program that will automatically download protein sequences from a server and write them into the corresponding file. …

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## [JAXB equivalent in Ruby?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jaxb-equivalent-in-ruby/142509)

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**Author:** [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jaxb-equivalent-in-ruby/142509 "2008-07-09T00:08:42Z")

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Is there an equivalent library to Java’s JAXB for Ruby? Thanks, Bill

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## [Help!](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/196739)

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**Author:** [@Johanna\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Johanna_F)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/196739 "2008-07-09T00:07:31Z")

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Hi i want install Ruby on Rails in Windows XP but i have a problem: I have install in my pc Ruby 1.8.6-26 Final Release but when i try to install rails with this command: gem install rails –include-dependencies the…

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