# Ruby

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## [Latest News & Games & funny & Earn more Site(parttime & full time)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/latest-news-games-funny-earn-more-site-parttime-full-time/187403)

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**Author:** [@fair\_kalaivani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fair_kalaivani)\
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**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/latest-news-games-funny-earn-more-site-parttime-full-time/187403 "2010-04-22T16:31:25Z")

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Hi friends, Sania Mirza hot news & Download All software and Videos… World number one weightest person News updated… That Link is given Below : Earn Rs.2000 daily. no investment. wanted online internet job workers…

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## [\[Bug #2662\] BigDecimal#ceil, etc. should not return Integer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2662-bigdecimal-ceil-etc-should-not-return-integer/182339)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2662-bigdecimal-ceil-etc-should-not-return-integer/182339 "2010-04-22T16:19:42Z")

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Bug #2662: BigDecimal#ceil, etc. should not return Integer http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2662 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Yusuke E. e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal e$BC4Ev\<Te(B: Yukihiro M., e$B%+%F%4%je(B:…

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## [\[Bug #2425\](Closed) Kernel#public\_method $B$NNc30%a%C%;!\<%8(B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2425-closed-kernel-public-method-b-nnc30-a-c-8-b/187401)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2425-closed-kernel-public-method-b-nnc30-a-c-8-b/187401 "2010-04-22T16:17:57Z")

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e$B%A%1%C%He(B #2425 e$B$,99?7$5$l$^$7$?!#e(B (by Yusuke E.) e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B Assignede$B$+$ie(BClosede$B$KJQ99e(B e$B?JD=e(B % 0e$B$+$ie(B100e$B$KJQ99e(B This issue was solved with changeset r27446. \_, thank you for…

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## [\[Bug #2342\](Closed) bootstraptest/test\_thread.rb $B$,$^$l$K\<:GT$9$k(B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2342-closed-bootstraptest-test-thread-rb-b-l-k-gt-9-k-b/187400)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-2342-closed-bootstraptest-test-thread-rb-b-l-k-gt-9-k-b/187400 "2010-04-22T16:07:24Z")

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e$B%A%1%C%He(B #2342 e$B$,99?7$5$l$^$7$?!#e(B (by Yusuke E.) e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B Assignede$B$+$ie(BClosede$B$KJQ99e(B e$B?JD=e(B % 0e$B$+$ie(B100e$B$KJQ99e(B This issue was solved with changeset r27445. \_, thank you for…

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## [If-Else within a loop going through array elements](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/if-else-within-a-loop-going-through-array-elements/187394)

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**Author:** [@saeed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saeed)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/if-else-within-a-loop-going-through-array-elements/187394 "2010-04-22T15:39:08Z")

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Hi All, I’m having problems with a if-else statement within a loop which cycles through an array, the code; "require ‘rubygems’ require ‘pg’ require ‘hpricot’ require ‘open-uri’ @doc= Hpricot(open(“websiteURL”)) #…

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## [\[Bug #3182\] multi-irb may run parallelly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3182-multi-irb-may-run-parallelly/187302)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3182-multi-irb-may-run-parallelly/187302 "2010-04-22T14:57:42Z")

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Bug #3182: multi-irb may run parallelly http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3182 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Yusuke E. e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal e$BC4Ev\<Te(B: Keiju Ishitsuka, e$B%+%F%4%je(B: lib, Target ve…

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## [scRUBYt! Next Page e fill\_textfield... Who can help me?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scrubyt-next-page-e-fill-textfield-who-can-help-me/187381)

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**Author:** [@panthe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/panthe)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scrubyt-next-page-e-fill-textfield-who-can-help-me/187381 "2010-04-22T11:59:58Z")

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Hi, I don’t understand some thing with scRUBYt!. If I must fill two fields before a search why this command don’t work? fill\_textfield ‘Nome’, ‘Enry’ fill\_textfield ‘Cognome’, ‘Shuck’ submit I have this code that i…

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## [UTF-8 to MacRoman conversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-to-macroman-conversion/187378)

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**Author:** [@Une\_BSSSSvue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Une_BSSSSvue)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-to-macroman-conversion/187378 "2010-04-22T11:20:28Z")

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I need to convert a String from UTF-8 to MacRoman, MacRuby makes use of a “special” iconv.rb. When doing a Mac Roman to UTF-8 converions no prob however when doing reversal from UTF-8 to MacRoman the String is still i…

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## [Glassfish gem alternatives in InfoQ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/glassfish-gem-alternatives-in-infoq/187372)

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**Author:** [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/glassfish-gem-alternatives-in-infoq/187372 "2010-04-22T08:56:28Z")

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InfoQ just published an article on glassfish gem alternatives, this is the url: Cheers

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## [Ruby scripting on waitr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-scripting-on-waitr/187370)

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**Author:** [@abhisunny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/abhisunny)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-scripting-on-waitr/187370 "2010-04-22T08:06:04Z")

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Hi All, I am starting this subject to discuss things related to ruby scripts on watir please add to the discussion

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## [How do I install gems on JRuby?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-install-gems-on-jruby/187328)

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**Author:** [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-install-gems-on-jruby/187328 "2010-04-22T07:39:46Z")

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How do I install gems on JRuby? Tried jgem install mysql jgem install mysqlplus and others and I get something like JRuby limited openssl loaded. http://jruby.org/openssl gem install jruby-openssl for full support. …

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## [Voronoi diagrams](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/voronoi-diagrams/187360)

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**Author:** [@jorgez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jorgez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/voronoi-diagrams/187360 "2010-04-22T05:49:36Z")

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Anyone know how to generate Voronoi diagrams with rubyvor library? … It would be helpful …

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## [Ad\_agency version 0.1.2 has been released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ad-agency-version-0-1-2-has-been-released/187354)

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**Author:** [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ad-agency-version-0-1-2-has-been-released/187354 "2010-04-22T03:07:33Z")

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Announcing ad\_agency version 0.1.2 An extension to Jeweler for generating announcements One of the facilities I missed in moving from hoe to jeweler was the ability to easily announce new versions of gems. ad\_agency…

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## [Clogger 0.4.0 - small cleanups](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clogger-0-4-0-small-cleanups/187350)

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**Author:** [@ericw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericw)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clogger-0-4-0-small-cleanups/187350 "2010-04-22T02:06:06Z")

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Clogger is Rack middleware for logging HTTP requests. The log format is customizable so you can specify exactly which fields to log. http://clogger.rubyforge.org/ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid git://git.bogomi…

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## [Ruby Summer of Code 2010](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-summer-of-code-2010/187250)

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**Author:** [@kirkhoward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirkhoward)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-summer-of-code-2010/187250 "2010-04-22T00:01:55Z")

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Ruby Summer of Code is still accepting student applications! Continuing in Google’s great tradition of encouraging student open source development, Ruby Central, Engine Y., and the Rails core team are teaming up to pr…

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## [Jruby "sometimes" executes external programs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-sometimes-executes-external-programs/187336)

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**Author:** [@christoforever](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoforever)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-sometimes-executes-external-programs/187336 "2010-04-21T22:42:40Z")

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Writing a jruby app and everything has gone fine until it needs to execute an external program … that being an ant file. So there are a few ant files in a list which need to be executed … however when I iterate throug…

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## [Ruby 1.9.1, Threads and "\[BUG\] The handle is invalid."](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-1-threads-and-bug-the-handle-is-invalid/187315)

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**Author:** [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-1-threads-and-bug-the-handle-is-invalid/187315 "2010-04-21T22:15:52Z")

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Hi! I am new to this forum so this is my first post. I have Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows 7 and I am trying to make a program that will do some jobs in threads. A simplified version of what I want to do would look like this: …

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## [\[Bug #595\] Fiber ignores ensure clause](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-595-fiber-ignores-ensure-clause/149396)

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**Author:** [@Koichi\_Sasada](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Koichi_Sasada)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-595-fiber-ignores-ensure-clause/149396 "2010-04-21T20:30:34Z")

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Bug #595: Fiber ignores ensure clause http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/595 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Koichi Sasada e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal e$BC4Ev\<Te(B: Koichi Sasada, e$B%+%F%4%je(B: core Ruby e$B%…

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## [Module "re-opening"](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/module-re-opening/187288)

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**Author:** [@tilde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tilde)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/module-re-opening/187288 "2010-04-21T20:15:56Z")

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Hi there, first time arond here for me, and first step with ruby ^^ well, i come with a simple (maybe stupid) question: http://sprunge.us/BjJP?rb why this simple source doesn’t do what is expected? (modify the visibi…

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## [Bug? variable changes without assignment](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-variable-changes-without-assignment/187321)

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**Author:** [@efilm66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/efilm66)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-variable-changes-without-assignment/187321 "2010-04-21T19:12:07Z")

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I seem to have uncovered a bug. The program below defines a series of variables, named constant, modify, and variable. The constant should remain constant, but instead, it changes - even without an assignment. How doe…

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## [Cannot find header-files](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-find-header-files/187313)

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**Author:** [@mike343](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike343)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-find-header-files/187313 "2010-04-21T19:03:55Z")

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I am working here on Solaris and i have ruby-installation. One installation is local, self-compiled and with that version everything is working fine. I also have a system-installation and with that ruby-version i cann…

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## [Proxying method calls](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxying-method-calls/187277)

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**Author:** [@tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomuhs)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxying-method-calls/187277 "2010-04-21T18:28:12Z")

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How do I safely proxy method calls from one class to another, as a fallback for when the main class doesn’t respond to the call in question? Is my implementation of respond\_to? and method\_missing below correct (passin…

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## [Function accepting argument list or array](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/function-accepting-argument-list-or-array/187320)

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**Author:** [@tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomuhs)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/function-accepting-argument-list-or-array/187320 "2010-04-21T18:20:35Z")

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How would I write a function that treats fn(:a, :b) the same as it does fn(\[:a, :b\])? The only way I can do this right now is by checking if the first argument is an array, but I thought there was a simpler way to do …

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## [\[Bug #821\] uninitialized constant Test::Unit::AutoRunner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-821-uninitialized-constant-test-autorunner/154851)

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**Author:** [@Naohisa\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Naohisa_G)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-821-uninitialized-constant-test-autorunner/154851 "2010-04-21T17:10:20Z")

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Bug #821: uninitialized constant Test::Unit::AutoRunner http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/821 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Naohisa G. e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal Target version: 1.9.1 require ‘test/unit’ T…

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## [\[Bug #3179\] getc with text mode returns ASCII-8BIT](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3179-getc-with-text-mode-returns-ascii-8bit/187246)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3179-getc-with-text-mode-returns-ascii-8bit/187246 "2010-04-21T15:29:02Z")

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Bug #3179: getc with text mode returns ASCII-8BIT http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3179 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Yusuke E. e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal e$BC4Ev\<Te(B: Yui NARUSE, e$B%+%F%4%je(B: M17N, Tar…

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## [\[ANN\] JRuby 1.5.0RC1 Released](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-jruby-1-5-0rc1-released/187026)

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**Author:** [@Thomas\_E\_Enebo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E_Enebo)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-jruby-1-5-0rc1-released/187026 "2010-04-21T11:21:22Z")

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The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.5.0.RC1 Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/ Download: Downloads — JRuby.org This development cycle has been our longest cycle yet (nearly 5 months), bu…

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## [\[Bug #3180\] getc with text mode breaks incomplete character immediately before EOF](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3180-getc-with-text-mode-breaks-incomplete-character-immediately-before-eof/187247)

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**Author:** [@Yusuke\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yusuke_E)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-3180-getc-with-text-mode-breaks-incomplete-character-immediately-before-eof/187247 "2010-04-21T08:47:23Z")

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Bug #3180: getc with text mode breaks incomplete character immediately before EOF http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3180 e$B5/I\<\<Te(B: Yusuke E. e$B%9%F!\<%?%9e(B: Open, e$BM%@hEYe(B: Normal e$BC4Ev\<Te(B: Yui …

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## [\[ANN\] Ember 0.1.1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ember-0-1-1/187287)

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**Author:** [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ember-0-1-1/187287 "2010-04-21T07:38:12Z")

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Ember eRuby template processor http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/ember/ Ember (EMBEdded Ruby) is an \[1\]eRuby template processor that allows debugging, reduces markup…

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## [Scrap data from jsp with Nokogiri?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scrap-data-from-jsp-with-nokogiri/187286)

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**Author:** [@luofeiyu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luofeiyu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scrap-data-from-jsp-with-nokogiri/187286 "2010-04-21T07:07:59Z")

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there is jsp web: http://xbrl.cninfo.com.cn/XBRL/allinfo.jsp?stkid=000002&getyear=2005&nowpage=Info.jsp&reportType=GB0110 can i scrap data from it with Nokogiri or other tools?

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## [Ruby-doc.org server move](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-server-move/187281)

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**Author:** [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-server-move/187281 "2010-04-21T03:21:21Z")

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I’m relocating ruby-doc.org. It’s mainly a matter of copying files from one machine to another, which is done. But I’ve updated the DNS record. If you have trouble connecting to the site please check that you’ve cl…

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