definitely not a ruby-core dev here, so hope this is ok to post.
my cygwin compile for latest ruby is failing with the ff msg...

file.o:file.c:(.text+0x4342): undefined reference to `_wcsicmp'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I just hope ruby-core is not abandoning cygwin env since cygwin is my only
link to win environs..

thanks and best regards to ruby team,
-botp

Hi all, subject says all. am looking a ruby equivalent of python's ply
(lex-yacc). cant google it, so hoping it's just hidden somewhere...

thanks and best regards -botp

Hi All,

am looking for a ruby idiom on the ff

# some code here....

r=foo
return r if r

# some code here..

tried it w

return r if (r=foo)

but ruby complains w undefined r

so ended up w

if r=foo
return r
end

would be nice if modifiers can act like normal if

thanks for the read

kind regards -botp

Issue #6445 has been reported by botp (bot pena).

Author: botp (bot pena)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version: 2.0.0

would be nice if ruby has default for "rest or up to end of string"

eg

"hello"[2,] => should default to "hello"[2..-1]
or
"hello"[2..] => should default to "hello"[2..-1]

Issue #6444 has been reported by botp (bot pena).

Author: botp (bot pena)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version: 2.0.0

would be nice if there is an alias for String#index

possible names:

String#find
String#search
String#pos

Hi,

would be nice if rubygem updates itself (first) if needed before any
gem is updated or downloaded..

eg,
gem update

would be equiv to

gem update --system
gem update

thanks for rubygems
kind regards -botp

Issue #6287 has been reported by botp (bot pena).

Author: botp (bot pena)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0

Hi ,

would be nice if nested methods are made private for the nesting
method only, eg

def test1
def test2
p "i am test2"
end
test2
end

test1
test2 <== this one should fail; ie only test1 should see test2

maybe to invoke test2 from outside, we may need to do test1::test2

kind regards -botp

$ gem install redcloth
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'redcloth' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: Possible alternatives: RedCloth

thank you gem builders
kind regards -botp

can any ruby-talk admin unsub <a href="mailto:luca. ... at email dot it">luca. ... at email dot it</a>
for a while while the subscriber has yet to fix his/her email..

thanks
-botp

while updating gems, i got the ff...

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rdoc-3.9.4/lib/rdoc/markup/attribute_manager.rb:190:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [i686-linux]

c:0059 p:0028 s:0241 b:0241 l:000240 d:000240 METHOD
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rdoc-3.9.4/lib/rdoc/markup/attribute_manager.rb:190
c:0058 p:0103 s:0238 b:0238 l:000237 d:000237 METHOD
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rdoc-3.9.4/lib/rdoc/markup/attribute_manager.rb:250
c:0057 p:0018 s:0234 b:0232 l:000231 d:000231 METHOD
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9

installing 1.8.6 using rvm fails on rubygems part.
would be nice if rvm just just skips the rubygems part for 1.8.6, or
maybe just display "note: skipping rubygems >1.4 is not supported.."
or something along that line..

best regards -botp

ps: long live 1.8.6, you served us well..

Hi All,

sorry for this dumb question, but i'm getting zero iq as of this moment :)

i cannot seem to run properly an rvm command inside a script file. my
objective is to run a ruby script on all rvm versions installed.

eg, the ff runs fine when run thru the cli,

for i in `rvm list strings`; do rvm use "$i"; ruby -v; done

but when the above code is placed inside a script file, and then the
script is run, you wont get the expected output.

Hi, just trying my luck to daniel's group & friends.
Is someone working on a wmi client gem that runs on *nix, similar to
python or zens wmi client?
just found out the ubuntu has remove the wmi client in its 10.04 repository :(
thanks -botp

why are gem names case sensitive?

ie, gem rubyinline != gem RubyInline ??

if it's an os/arch limitation, then i'd suggest they'd be all downcased :)

eg,

$ gem list --remote | grep -i rubyinline
rogerdpack-RubyInline (3.8.2.1 ruby)
RubyInline (3.8.6)
RubyInlineAcceleration (0.0.1)
scottmotte-RubyInline (3.8.1 ruby)

botp@bg-mis-u10:~
$ sudo gem install rubyinline
[sudo] password for botp:
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rubyinline' (>= 0) in any repository
botp@bg-mis-u10:~
$ sudo gem install rubyinline
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rubyinline' (>= 0) in any repository
botp@bg-mi

Hi,

in ruby there is __END__, and one can put data after that line. now
what if i want to put non-data related info thereafter..

my request would be that ruby use __DATA__ as complement to __END__
. DATA word is very easy to remember.

if __DATA__ is placed before __END__, it will not usurp __END__ and
lines below it. very handy. no clashing.

thank you and best regards
-botp

Title says all.
This q is mainly for LuisL, but maybe someone has encountered it already...
I plan to modify gem.bat, but maybe there is a better way, so the q...

many thanks to Luis for a great ruby package for windows.

best regards -botp

sample run...

C:\downloads>gem list --remote

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

ERROR: While executing gem ...

Hi all, this is rubygems specific question.