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698 Scott Schram
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Jul 1, 2008
6:10 pm
... I've used hpricot separately, and I'm mostly using Mechanize with its objects like page.body or page.links, and then using a regex to grab data. These are...
699 Ben Wyrosdick
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Jul 2, 2008
5:48 am
Just in case anyone here uses vim (besides Josh) I wrote a blackboard colorscheme. It is a clone of the textmate blackboard theme. There are still a few...
700 Greg Houston
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Jul 2, 2008
3:49 pm
I've started working on the presentation for TechMixerU. For my first example of ruby, I want to show a very simple String problem. I'm currently thinking of...
701 Yan Zhu
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Jul 2, 2008
3:54 pm
I forgot, what is the topic of your presentation? ... -- "Imagination is greater than knowledge." - Albert Einstein http://tweakmylife.blogspot.com/ ...
702 Greg Houston
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Jul 2, 2008
4:11 pm
I'm giving "Getting Started with Ruby". I hope to cover the basics for someone who has never seen ruby before. = Greg ... first...
703 Bill Abel
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Jul 2, 2008
4:11 pm
A common problem is to process a form. One example I might suggest would be to deal with phone numbers. Here's some code I wrote to break just about any number...
704 Malcolm Davis
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Jul 2, 2008
4:58 pm
Being a JavaBot, I don't think would excite me. It makes Ruby look so Perl like, it would turn me off. Secondly, this could most likely be done just as easy...
705 Greg Houston
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Jul 2, 2008
6:08 pm
Can you suggest something that would be better? ... so Perl ... String ... presentation. ... Behalf Of...
706 Josh Adams
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Jul 2, 2008
6:29 pm
Greg: I would think the block-handling of string.gsub is sufficiently non-perlish to provide some interest. I also think it shows off very quickly the value...
707 Bill Abel
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Jul 2, 2008
6:31 pm
Here's a more interesting case (or least interesting, I really have to work at it to figure this stuff out so I figured it might be interesting). Someone asked...
708 Greg Houston
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Jul 2, 2008
6:38 pm
Why do you use Ruby? Malcolm's prior post got me thinking... why do you like ruby? or what got you to dig deeper into ruby? Since I'm creating an intro to...
709 Bill Abel
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Jul 2, 2008
6:47 pm
Well. I use it because it enables me to get things done that I couldn't do otherwise. I usually can understand code written in Ruby, even though I know very...
710 Yan Zhu
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Jul 2, 2008
6:51 pm
Because of RoR. :) ... -- "Imagination is greater than knowledge." - Albert Einstein http://tweakmylife.blogspot.com/ http://buttkickingbooks.blogspot.com/ ...
711 Malcolm Davis
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Jul 2, 2008
6:56 pm
Sorry, I'm a JavaBot, not a Ruby guy (yet). I've been monitoring the discussion, and I'm little lost on the presentation. Is there going to be multiple...
712 Josh Adams
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Jul 2, 2008
7:00 pm
A nonexhaustive list of reasons, in arbitrary order: - RubyGems is very nice. Library availability and uniformity of distribution is a Good Thing in a...
713 Harris Reynolds
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Jul 2, 2008
7:00 pm
Yeah... I had similar reaction to that of Malcolm. Showing a bunch of regular expression code in an introduction to the language will likely leave most of...
714 Malcolm Davis
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Jul 2, 2008
7:02 pm
RoR is a good reason. I've heard many say Ruby was dead until RoR. However, there are equivalent RoR showing up in other languages. So, the RoR argument...
715 Doug Hall
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Jul 2, 2008
8:44 pm
While RoR is probably why a lot of us are using Ruby, the point should be made that without Ruby, there would not really BE Rails. At least not the Rails we...
716 Yan Zhu
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Jul 2, 2008
11:12 pm
Good balanced view Doug! ... -- "Imagination is greater than knowledge." - Albert Einstein http://tweakmylife.blogspot.com/ ...
717 Scott Schram
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Jul 3, 2008
12:57 am
It would be nice if the introduction to Ruby showed some of the Ruby magic. Perhaps a mini-Domain Specific Language, and some other metaprogramming magic. It...
718 Scott Schram
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Jul 3, 2008
1:19 am
... For some years, I've had an interest in scripting languages. They're closely tied to the OS, and can call other *nix tools. Very handy in system...
719 Scott Schram
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Jul 3, 2008
1:27 am
... I went to a presentation by Dave Thomas or Pragmatic Programmers on Ruby before there was a Ruby on Rails and I found it fascinating. The room was packed...
720 Scott Schram
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Jul 3, 2008
1:29 am
... I agree. You could arrive at better frameworks just by trying to clone the Java examples in Ruby. Struts, Spring, Hibernate. [Non-text portions of this...
721 Scott Schram
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Jul 3, 2008
1:31 am
ie: Don't teach them how to use Ruby, make them crave it :) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
722 Greg Houston
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Jul 3, 2008
2:13 am
That is the reason I asked the question Why Ruby?  If I can understand what is bringing people to Ruby, then I will include it in my presentation. My reasons...
723 Anthony Crumley
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Jul 3, 2008
1:42 pm
I think if the presentation consists of how to... use irb, define a variable, define a method, define a class, define a module, create an instance of a class, ...
724 Greg Houston
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Jul 3, 2008
4:18 pm
Mark your calenders, the next RubyHam lunch meeting is at the Cocina Superior, Monday, July 7th at 11:30am til 1:00pm or so. Please RSVP, so we know how many...
725 Kevin Russell
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Jul 3, 2008
4:25 pm
Unfortunately, I'll have to miss another. Kevin ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
726 Harris Reynolds
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Jul 3, 2008
4:40 pm
Anyone else up for pushing the lunch back a week? Given that it is a holiday weekend some (like me!) may be out of town. If we can push it I will definitely...
727 Josh Adams
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Jul 3, 2008
4:46 pm
I'll probably be there. I'm going on vacation next weekend so I may opt to work extra instead, but I'll tentatively RSVP. Josh Adams isotope11 ...
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