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	IMPORTANT: Posting to the ruby-talk ML through Google Groups
	Important Notice for Google Group users. You will need to be subscribed to ruby-talk ML even when posting through the Google Groups web interface. If you aren't subscribed to the ML Google Groups will NOT warn you. Your mail will be lost. Detailed information on how to subscribe to ruby-talk without... more » By Trans - Apr 1 2008 - 1 new of 1 message

	Hangman Help
	How do I print the dashes and letters to represent the word to be guessed. The letters guessed by the player are properly put into the respective arrays. Whatever I try to do I either get all dashes back or the whole word back _ _ _ _ or f i s h, never f _ _ h My arrays are @correct_guesses and @incorrect_guesses... more » By Dylan Rodriguez - 10:48pm - 2 new of 2 messages

	XDG 1.0
	I released a new version of XDG this evening. This is a significant release b/c it changes the API. Instead of: XDG.config_dirs You now use: XDG.config.dirs or more directly: XDG::Config.dirs See [link] By Intransition - 9:54pm - 1 new of 1 message

	why_sandbox 1.9 support
	Greetings, I have begun the process of taking why's freaky freaky sandbox code and updating the c extensions in it to compile for ruby 1.9.1. It appears, looking through Google cache that why apparently had started working on a 1.9.1 version of the freaky freaky sandbox. Does anyone have this code locally by any remote chance?... more » By andrew mcelroy - 3:17pm - 1 new of 1 message

	Access Databases and ADODB
	For accessing Jet databases with ADODB, this is an interesting article: [link] However I can't find more complete information on the methods available. Can anyone suggest a good source? By Mike Stephens - 12:43pm - 2 new of 2 messages

	ANN: Sequel 3.7.0 Released
	Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby. * Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for constructing database queries and table schemas. * Sequel also includes a lightweight but comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.... more » By Jeremy Evans - 12:00pm - 4 new of 4 messages

Rake Environment variables gone missing

I posted this about six months ago but the form seems to have gone missing. Unfortunately, I have been sent back to work on the project from hell and am running into the same issue. The previous posts didn't produce much help as no one seems to be able to produce the problem but me. I am running on windows-xp machine with ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11... more »

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	How to use "eval" to create method parameters?
	Hi, let's imagine a method "my_method()" whic allows any number of parameters. And I need to create those parameters list in the following way: lalalala = false if lalalala params = ":user, 'alice', 1456" else params = ":user, 0000" end After it I must invoke the method with "params" string as parameters.... more » By Iñaki Baz Castillo - 5:45am - 4 new of 4 messages

	Float Arithmetic: Return A Fixnum When Float == Fixnum
	...=> 2.5 I'm fine with this ...=> 2.0 Useless precision -for me. I want 2! ...=> 2 Is there a "better" way? By MaggotChild - 3:45am - 6 new of 6 messages

	Pell's equation solver in Ruby
	Here is my "Pell's equation solver in Ruby". Can you make it shorter or faster? $ time ruby pell.rb 1 2 3 2 3 2 1 4 5 9 4 : 998 984076901 31150410 999 102688615 3248924 1000 39480499 1248483 real 0m5.415s user 0m5.403s sys 0m0.011s $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]... more » By Takeshi NISHIMATSU - 3:34am - 1 new of 1 message