# Ruby **URL:** https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1838 [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:** 1839 --- ## [What must webhost have to support Ruby?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-must-webhost-have-to-support-ruby/56508)
**Author:** [@donna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/donna)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-must-webhost-have-to-support-ruby/56508 "2006-03-31T19:26:57Z")
I want to build a web site using Ruby, and then have it hosted. When you build a site in MS Frontpage, the webhost you use should offer FP extensions, to make your site fully functional. Similarly, what must my webhos… --- ## [Redef undef'ed methods?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redef-undefed-methods/56454)
**Author:** [@capnregex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capnregex)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redef-undefed-methods/56454 "2006-03-31T19:14:41Z")
How “final” is a call to undef\_method? Is there any way to get the method back, ie. hook it up to the class again? From my understanding of the C code it seems impossible since the function/method pointer is set to 0 … --- ## [Scheme Workshop 2006](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheme-workshop-2006/56506)
**Author:** [@Robby\_Findler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Robby_Findler)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheme-workshop-2006/56506 "2006-03-31T19:05:29Z")
Dear all, I’m writing to let you know about the upcoming Scheme and Functional Programming workshop – specifically that the submission deadline is June 9, about 2 months from now. The workshop will be held Portland O… --- ## [Re: Ruby and AOP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-aop/56503)
**Author:** [@Benjamin\_Alterauge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_Alterauge)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-aop/56503 "2006-03-31T19:02:27Z")
\*\* For those interested, yes a Ruby AOP project exists: http://aspectr.sourceforge.net/ I update aspectr for ruby 1.8.4. Benjamin CHANGELOG: \* Released version 0.3.6 \* aspectr.rb using Object#object\_id rather tha… --- ## [TLS in NET::SMTP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tls-in-net-smtp/56502)
**Author:** [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tls-in-net-smtp/56502 "2006-03-31T18:50:16Z")
What’s the word on TLS support in NET::SMTP? I recall hearing that it was in CVS at one point. Has it made it to RUby stable yet? Thanks, T. --- ## [Re: Windows Registry tool](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93362)
**Author:** [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93362 "2006-03-31T18:38:05Z")
\-----Original Message----- From: Gregory B. \[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:53 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Windows Registry tool. In that case, I would submit a… --- ## [B & e (#72)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/b-e-72/93325)
**Author:** [@bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bbazzarrakk)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/b-e-72/93325 "2006-03-31T18:25:57Z")
This quiz turned out to be surprisingly tough. Ross B. seemed to get the tighter solution and it’s not as big a difference as you might think. Here’s some output from running Ross’s solution: ### 4 digits, \[1,2,3\]… --- ## [RCRchive and DNS woes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcrchive-and-dns-woes/56499)
**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcrchive-and-dns-woes/56499 "2006-03-31T18:13:19Z")
Hi everyone – I’ve been making some DNS changes and happen to have hit a time when my DNS place is having nameserver troubles. (They told me to switch from their old NS names to their new ones to avoid problems; but … --- ## [Re: TrueClass/FalseClass vs. Boolean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trueclass-falseclass-vs-boolean/93359)
**Author:** [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trueclass-falseclass-vs-boolean/93359 "2006-03-31T18:07:14Z")
\-----Original Message----- From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid \[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:36 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: TrueClass/FalseClass vs. Boolean … --- ## [File deletion failed -- how to handle problem?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-deletion-failed-how-to-handle-problem/93306)
**Author:** [@richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/richard)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-deletion-failed-how-to-handle-problem/93306 "2006-03-31T18:04:10Z")
Hi All, I wrote a simple test a techiques I’ll apply in an app I’m going start shortly. One thing my test did is: – -- open a non-existent file for appending, – populate it – close it – open it for reading, expect… --- ## [Re: Windows Registry tool](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93360)
**Author:** [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93360 "2006-03-31T17:55:05Z")
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:12 AM Daniel, I had problems getting win32-registry to work right. It was complaining about not having write permissions. (Though I had admin rights). That’s where this steaming tu… --- ## [Re: Windows Registry tool](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93358)
**Author:** [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-windows-registry-tool/93358 "2006-03-31T17:42:49Z")
\-----Original Message----- From: Gregory B. \[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:12 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Windows Registry tool. The code: See win32-registry. Incl… --- ## [Re: TrueClass/FalseClass vs. Boolean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trueclass-falseclass-vs-boolean/56487)
**Author:** [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trueclass-falseclass-vs-boolean/56487 "2006-03-31T17:36:39Z")
when Boolean would undoubtably lead to some nice logical constructs that more closely parallel the way we think. Think ‘NULL’ in databases, where ‘NULL’ is may not mean true or false, but unknown. At the moment,… --- ## [Windows Registry tool](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-registry-tool/56485)
**Author:** [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-registry-tool/56485 "2006-03-31T17:15:13Z")
The code: require ‘win32ole’;class P;def initialize;@s=WIN32OLE.new “WScript.Shell”; @p="";end;def p p;@p=p;end;def sk k,v;@s.RegWrite “#{@p}\\#{k}”, v;end; def gk(k);@s.RegRead “#{@p}\\#{k}”;end;def i(file);regedit /s… --- ## [Net::HTTP to resume file download](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-http-to-resume-file-download/56475)
**Author:** [@gonzalo\_g](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gonzalo_g)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-http-to-resume-file-download/56475 "2006-03-31T15:55:25Z")
I am using Net::HTTP to download http files. All is working fine. However, I would like to also allow interrupted downloads to continue using the HTTP Range header, similar to what wget or what urllib2 in python can … --- ## [Marshaling Decimal types from .NET](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshaling-decimal-types-from-net/56397)
**Author:** [@johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnlester)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshaling-decimal-types-from-net/56397 "2006-03-31T15:21:28Z")
Decimal numbers in .NET are 128 bit values that avoid the rounding errors that can arise from floating point calcs: My question is: when marshaling a .NET decimal type to Ruby, what should I do? Should I marshal it… --- ## [Ldap as part of ruby std lib + sample ldaps for windows acti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ldap-as-part-of-ruby-std-lib-sample-ldaps-for-windows-acti/56462)
**Author:** [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ldap-as-part-of-ruby-std-lib-sample-ldaps-for-windows-acti/56462 "2006-03-31T13:09:12Z")
Hi, (First of all, I’m slow when it comes to mswindows stuff, so pls be gentle :slight\_smile: 1 Is there a plan to incorporate LDAP into ruby’s std lib? LDAP seems so ubiquitous nowadays… 2 Is it possible to access … --- ## [Re: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-learn-to-program-by-chris-pine/56446)
**Author:** [@William\_SBillS\_Froe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/William_SBillS_Froe)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-learn-to-program-by-chris-pine/56446 "2006-03-31T10:41:46Z")
How’s this for a solution. Note I tried to only use constructs covered up to the point of the exercise in the book. numBottles = 99 while numBottles \> 2 puts numBottles.to\_s + " bottles of beer on the wall, " + num… --- ## [Win32ole in compiled ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-in-compiled-ruby/93335)
**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-in-compiled-ruby/93335 "2006-03-31T09:47:00Z")
I am having a problem with getting the win32ole extension to work for my ruby-1.8.4, which I compiled from source. After I had compiled it I found out you need to comment out the ext from ext/Setup. I did that and r… --- ## [New Optimization idea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-optimization-idea/56073)
**Author:** [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 8:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-optimization-idea/56073 "2006-03-31T08:32:36Z")
I have a couple of classes like so… class Foo def step1 @mine = Hash.new # Perhaps stuff things into @mine end def step2 @mine.each\_pair do |key,value| # Do stuff end end end Profiling with my “new” profiler … --- ## [Ruby and AOP](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-aop/93333)
**Author:** [@sjames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjames)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-aop/93333 "2006-03-31T08:29:35Z")
I’m reading “The Pragmattic Programmer” right now and I’m at the part about orthogonality. The authors mention AOP and give an example involving log writing wherein you can “weave in” some AOP (“Aspect Oriented Progr… --- ## [File.mtime: Bug on Windows?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-mtime-bug-on-windows/56445)
**Author:** [@worldfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/worldfox)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-mtime-bug-on-windows/56445 "2006-03-31T08:14:22Z")
Hello, I think, there is a bug in File.mtime, unfortunately: Using: ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) \[i386-mswin32\] Windows XP with NTFS filesystem When reading File.mtime( ‘any existing filename’), the result is different … --- ## [Rubuntu LiveCD I need vim/emacs configs!](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubuntu-livecd-i-need-vim-emacs-configs/69420)
**Author:** [@ezra\_z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ezra_z)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubuntu-livecd-i-need-vim-emacs-configs/69420 "2006-03-31T08:11:17Z")
Friends- I am working on a linux distro liveCD called Rubuntu. Which is, you guessed it, a ruby/raisl centric ubuntu livecd that has the option to install to your HD if your so inclined. I hope to have my build syste… --- ## [\<%\>\<%\>\<%\>\<%\>how to be funny!\<%\>\<%\>\<%\>\<%\>](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-be-funny/93346)
**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-be-funny/93346 "2006-03-31T07:59:08Z")
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**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-more-chicks-learn-guitar/93345 "2006-03-31T07:34:49Z")
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**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-will-not-happen-this-time/93340 "2006-03-31T06:49:27Z")
Our politicians lead the league in all talk, no action. Is blowing us some sunshine good enough? Read what The Expert thinks: http://www.ExpertHumor.com/ \*\*\* Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com \*\*\* \*\*\* Encrypt yo… --- ## [Will illegal immigrants get deported?.........Of course not](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-illegal-immigrants-get-deported-of-course-not/93339)
**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-illegal-immigrants-get-deported-of-course-not/93339 "2006-03-31T06:30:55Z")
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**Author:** [@Meino\_Christian\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Meino_Christian_C)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/93329 "2006-03-31T06:18:44Z")
Hi; I am looking for an algorithm, which spread all 26 letters of the alphabet over an array of 26 places randomly. All letters should be statistically equally handled. Thank you very much for any helpful reply ! :sl… --- ## [Unintentional hype of Ruby irb and ri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unintentional-hype-of-ruby-irb-and-ri/93324)
**Author:** [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unintentional-hype-of-ruby-irb-and-ri/93324 "2006-03-31T06:06:39Z")
Perhaps an inflamatory title - but it answers some simple questions. Having looked at the Pixaxe book and visited various websites with Ruby tutorials, I think there is an unintentional hype of certain Ruby features. … --- ## [Rails + SVN generation script](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-svn-generation-script/56430)
**Author:** [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-svn-generation-script/56430 "2006-03-31T05:42:17Z")
Anyone got a script to share that: Creates a trunk directory Creates a trunk/vendor directory Adds the above to svn Modifies trunk/vendor to use a certain rails revision (i.e. trunk or 1.1) Runs trunk/vendor/rails/…/b… [Previous page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1837) [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/c/ruby/7.md?page=1839)