# Ruby **URL:** https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1110 [Latest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.ruby-forum.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.ruby-forum.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1111 --- ## [Re: ruby-ftp - directory vs file?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139550)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139550 "2008-06-04T23:39:04Z")
Here is the info: Address: 209.128.121.112 The user account is saic, the password is What@pain2 Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_add… --- ## [Re: Killing Win32 process](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-killing-win32-process/139561)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-killing-win32-process/139561 "2008-06-04T23:34:58Z")
Qq Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_addres… --- ## [Beginner: Read file](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-read-file/139531)
**Author:** [@jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jturney)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-read-file/139531 "2008-06-04T23:24:58Z")
report = File.open(‘ReportTxt.txt’, ‘r’) do |L| while line = L.gets report.getc.chr end end I’m quite lost…what I’m trying to do is read a file character by character until I’ve read every character. Thanks in ad… --- ## [Re: Safe sandbox for running untrusted code](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-safe-sandbox-for-running-untrusted-code/139556)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-safe-sandbox-for-running-untrusted-code/139556 "2008-06-04T23:24:23Z")
Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_address@do… --- ## [Re: general query about ruby libraries](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/139557)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/139557 "2008-06-04T23:22:03Z")
EW $ Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_add… --- ## [Re: Jruby in a service](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-jruby-in-a-service/139535)
**Author:** [@Jay\_McGaffigan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jay_McGaffigan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-jruby-in-a-service/139535 "2008-06-04T23:15:00Z")
Sure. For example I have a program that needs to run and act like a synchronization service between 2 systems. I am getting data from one system and it’s getting plugged into a database on my system. Then my servic… --- ## [Re: general query about ruby libraries](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/197080)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/197080 "2008-06-04T23:09:42Z")
Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_address@do… --- ## [Re: general query about ruby libraries](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/196701)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/196701 "2008-06-04T23:09:07Z")
Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_address@do… --- ## [Re: general query about ruby libraries](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/139553)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-general-query-about-ruby-libraries/139553 "2008-06-04T23:07:57Z")
Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_address@do… --- ## [Re: ruby-ftp - directory vs file?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139552)
**Author:** [@McLaughlinS\_James\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McLaughlinS_James_T)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139552 "2008-06-04T23:06:09Z")
Jamie McLaughlin SAIC Office: 703-292-6307 Mobile: 571-263-2528 ----- Original Message ----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid To: ruby-talk ML removed\_email\_address@do… --- ## [Vancouver.rb - Open Ruby Hack Night - Every Monday 7pm - Whenever (9ish) - Join Us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vancouver-rb-open-ruby-hack-night-every-monday-7pm-whenever-9ish-join-us/139551)
**Author:** [@gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gerald_b)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vancouver-rb-open-ruby-hack-night-every-monday-7pm-whenever-9ish-join-us/139551 "2008-06-04T23:04:57Z")
Hello, If you’re in or around Vancouver in British Columbia on Canada’s West Coast in the Americas you’re invited to join us for our kick off a new weekly informal Open Ruby Hack Night series starting Monday, June 9… --- ## [Code Review: GlobalScope](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-globalscope/139549)
**Author:** [@grujildo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/grujildo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-globalscope/139549 "2008-06-04T22:57:14Z")
tfpt review “/shelveset:GlobalScope;REDMOND\\tomat” Makes global constants visible in Runtime.Globals. Tomas --- ## [Ruby-ftp - directory vs file?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139526)
**Author:** [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ftp-directory-vs-file/139526 "2008-06-04T22:57:14Z")
How do I find out whether “foobar” is a remote directory, or a remote file? I don’t seem to find any trivial way to check this. Has this maybe been forgotten? --- ## [Module philosophy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/module-philosophy/139508)
**Author:** [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/module-philosophy/139508 "2008-06-04T22:55:28Z")
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but to confirm: the only way to mix a module into an already existing class it to reopen it with something (ugly) like this: class String; include Crc; end (1) Is that right? And then to … --- ## [Building Windows C Extension](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-windows-c-extension/139542)
**Author:** [@Scott\_Preston](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Scott_Preston)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-windows-c-extension/139542 "2008-06-04T22:25:26Z")
All, I am sure this has been brought up before but I am having problems writing a simple hello word C extension for Ruby in Windows. I am able to use nmake to build the library but get: a C++ popup with R6034 Load Er… --- ## [Ruby on zLinux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-zlinux/138749)
**Author:** [@Eric\_KSDickinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eric_KSDickinson)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-zlinux/138749 "2008-06-04T22:11:49Z")
We are trying to install the MySQL gem on RH51 running under zVM. Install MySQL gem as follows: gem install mysql – --with-mysql-config=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql\_config It errors out with cat /mysql-2.5.1/mkmf.log | less … --- ## [Download a file](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/download-a-file/139532)
**Author:** [@feras80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/feras80)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/download-a-file/139532 "2008-06-04T19:53:20Z")
Hello I have a file on the server and i want it to be downloadable by users when they press on a link. i tried send\_date, but it created a new file instead of grabbing the existing one. Here is the code def download … --- ## [Jruby in a service](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-in-a-service/139527)
**Author:** [@Jay\_McGaffigan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jay_McGaffigan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-in-a-service/139527 "2008-06-04T18:55:49Z")
Hi, My company is seriously looking at jruby for our latest product offerings. In addition to having a couple of rails apps we also have some back end services/daemons that we want to be written in ruby. Ideally we … --- ## [Mering an array of hashes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mering-an-array-of-hashes/139494)
**Author:** [@galeal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/galeal)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mering-an-array-of-hashes/139494 "2008-06-04T18:50:27Z")
I have two arrays of hashes and I would like to merge them. One array has the array of: {:id, :name} The other, an array of: {:name, :other\_attributes\*} I’ve been raking my brains for hours on this one. Is there any… --- ## [Trouble with Rails 2.1 RC + JRuby 1.1.1 +MS SQL Server 2005](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rails-2-1-rc-jruby-1-1-1-ms-sql-server-2005/138341)
**Author:** [@Neville\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Neville_B)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rails-2-1-rc-jruby-1-1-1-ms-sql-server-2005/138341 "2008-06-04T18:05:04Z")
Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask, and if not, that someone can point me to the right place. We have a working Rails app which I want to test with JRuby, but after following the JRuby Wiki I am stumped by the… --- ## [NNTP client Library ruby-net-nntp 1.0.0 released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nntp-client-library-ruby-net-nntp-1-0-0-released/139515)
**Author:** [@nomad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nomad)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nntp-client-library-ruby-net-nntp-1-0-0-released/139515 "2008-06-04T17:14:40Z")
ruby-net-nntp is a simple pure ruby NNTP client library. After some interface redesign, it should now be stable enough to warrant a stable release. Home page: http://forge.secure.at/projects/ruby-net-nntp Downloads: … --- ## [Commercial Calendar Calculations](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commercial-calendar-calculations/139431)
**Author:** [@sjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjames)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commercial-calendar-calculations/139431 "2008-06-04T17:08:46Z")
I’m interested in doing calculations with a commercial calendar. For example, “Find every 2nd business day of the month for 2008”. I’m feeling a little long on how to approach the topic. Does anyone know of a libra… --- ## [Wiki.rubyonrails.org (referral)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-referral/139511)
**Author:** [@mcmohd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mcmohd)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-referral/139511 "2008-06-04T17:03:00Z")
This tutorial gives you complete knowledge starting from basic to advance. It includes tutorial on Ruby Webservices, Ruby LDPA, Ruby XML, Ruby/Tk, Ruby/DBI and many more interesting subjects. If you like it please sha… --- ## [\[ANN\] Cachetastic 1.7.0 Released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-cachetastic-1-7-0-released/139510)
**Author:** [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-cachetastic-1-7-0-released/139510 "2008-06-04T17:01:52Z")
The simple, yet extremely powerful, Ruby caching framework, Cachetastic has been upgraded to 1.7.0. http://www.mackframework.com/2008/06/04/cachetastic-170-release Features: Flexible configuration. All caches have c… --- ## [Ruby Dictionary Lib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dictionary-lib/139497)
**Author:** [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dictionary-lib/139497 "2008-06-04T16:33:09Z")
Does anyone know of a dictionary API for Ruby that’s similar to Dictionary and Thesaurus API for Java (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jadt)? --- ## [JRuby Job](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-job/139468)
**Author:** [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-job/139468 "2008-06-04T16:16:38Z")
Please excuse the spam, but we are hiring if anyone is interested: http://www.csinitiative.com/employment.php A key part of our dev stack is JRuby. Mike – Mike H. Program Manager, Collaborative Software Initiative … --- ## [Instance\_eval, regexp with block : losing $1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instance-eval-regexp-with-block-losing-1/139441)
**Author:** [@cngump](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cngump)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instance-eval-regexp-with-block-losing-1/139441 "2008-06-04T16:14:52Z")
To build a wiki-like engine (or DSL) with dynamically generated methods, I do the following : class Base def self.match(name, regexp, &block) define\_method(name) do |text| text.gsub!(regexp) do puts “$1 in match me… --- ## [Fails to connect to gtalk (TLS)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fails-to-connect-to-gtalk-tls/139502)
**Author:** [@darren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/darren)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fails-to-connect-to-gtalk-tls/139502 "2008-06-04T14:31:19Z")
Platform : Debian GNU/Linux Unstable Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) \[i486-linux\] here is the sample code: require ‘openssl’ require ‘socket’ socket = TCPSocket.new(“talk.google.com”, 5223) ctx =… --- ## [Q: IDE and FAQ?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/q-ide-and-faq/138039)
**Author:** [@Darryl\_LSPierce](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Darryl_LSPierce)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/q-ide-and-faq/138039 "2008-06-04T14:21:10Z")
I’m sure this question’s been asked before, so I’ll just ask if there’s a FAQ for the group that answers the question: What’s a good IDE for cross-platform development? I use both Linux and Mac OS X for work and wou… --- ## [Image scraping from behind a proxy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-scraping-from-behind-a-proxy/139492)
**Author:** [@abhishek-gupta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/abhishek-gupta)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-scraping-from-behind-a-proxy/139492 "2008-06-04T13:11:34Z")
Hi, I was looking at this post in the forum for downloading image files from the www: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/133833 But it doesnt work for me, apparently because I am behind a proxy. For the above code(s) I… [Previous page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1109) [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1111)