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Re: [ORUG] Re: Natalie Portman Undies Peak

2008-09-06T19:31:22Z

This should inspire a plugin!

Re: [ORUG] Re: Another Code Question: Fixnum division

2008-09-06T16:50:26Z

Thanks so much guys. I read up a bit on integer division and like you said,
this behavior is following C. Some notable exceptions are Perl and LISP. A
good discussion on it here:
[link] .
Does that code look familiar?
Interestingly enough, my hack hasn't broken anything. Just out of curiosity

Re: [ORUG] Re: Another Code Question: Fixnum division

2008-09-06T11:35:42Z

Nate's absolutely correct. This actually stems from Ruby being a c-based
language. C operates this way and pretty much every c-based and non c-based
language that came afterwards has chosen to operate this way.
Using Nate's trick is how they taught us in school to get the answer they
wanted. I can't think of any examples of the top of my head, but I have

Re: [ORUG] Natalie Portman Undies Peak

2008-09-06T11:30:34Z

All right!!! Yeah! lol
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:04 AM, bristowcecilio1212 <

Re: [ORUG] Another Code Question: Fixnum division

2008-09-05T19:20:39Z

Hey Michael,
What you're describing isn't a problem with Ruby, but a normal result
in nearly all programming languages.
Ruby is (seemingly correctly) assuming that your 1 and 2 digits are
Integers, it then performs Integer-based division. In all languages,
integer division results in non-rounded, non-fractional components

Re: [ORUG] Another Code Question: Fixnum division

2008-09-05T19:17:23Z

Anytime you change the core functionality of Ruby you're delving into
dangerous territory as there's likely to be other code that depends on
that existing functionality. In this case, you're making an implicit
conversion of a Fixnum to a Float. This means that (4 / 2).class !=
Fixnum as would be expected.

Another Code Question: Fixnum division

2008-09-05T18:26:31Z

This always bothered me about Ruby:
irb(main):001:0> 1/2
=> 0
So in a Rails App, I've overriddden Divide in Fixnum:
class Fixnum
def /(denom)
self.to_f/denom
end
end
So now in script/console:
michael-blakes-computer:/rails apps/xxx michaelblake$script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.0.2)

Re: Code Question

2008-09-02T23:08:57Z

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: [ORUG] Code Question

2008-09-02T13:12:09Z

Your code looks fine [ I am not an expert :D ]. Really, once you add a
lot more code, you can get better answers.
Detecting browsers in Javascript by comparing UA strings is bad,
because browsers often fake things. However, in this case, I think
you'll be okay in sniffing OS strings.
In terms of your includes -- the code you've got is quite

Code Question

2008-09-02T03:09:37Z

I have a few ruby scripts that I use to make life a little easier at
work. Some of said scripts utilize the clipboard. Work is windows and
my laptop runs Ubuntu. I'm able to use the same scripts on both
computers but I have a few qualms with how I'm doing it.

Right now I've got classes for gnome and windows, a clipboard wrapper

Re: [ORUG] Izeafest

2008-08-28T13:17:45Z

Wow, this is a great deal, I just picked up 2 tickets for my wife and
I. Thanks!

Izeafest

2008-08-28T12:42:42Z

Hello fellow Orugians!

I wanted to invite you to join me at Izeafest in a few weeks.
[link] is an event about content creation, blogging
and social marketing. It's aimed at social marketers that want to
leverage the blogosphere and social media. I am fired up about the
lineup... 4 of the top 100 bloggers in the world are attending the

Re: [ORUG] iPhone Dev Group

2008-08-19T04:37:09Z

Yes. We had a meeting two weekends ago, and we'll be having another
soon. Anyone else who is interested should get in touch and I'll put
you on the mailing.
-- Tim
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Jason Cartwright

iPhone Dev Group

2008-08-19T03:38:25Z

There was talk at the last ORUG about forming an iPhone SDK group. Has
anyone made any effort to get this going? I would be interested, and I know
others that might be as well.
Jason

Re: has_many :through form issue

2008-08-18T16:50:01Z

Forgot to post the stack trace. It's huge so I've just posted the
bottom snippet below It just repeats the stuff below over and over
until I get the too deep error.

c:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/
active_record/associations/has _many_through_association.rb:1 33:in
`method_missing_without_pagina te'