sure
here's the ruby page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
here's another ruby site: http://www.rubycentral.com/
there's also a really good book you can find info about here:
http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html
it's not really used much yet anywhere except japan, where it's
actually overtaken python in popularity!
later
lux
Josh G wrote:
> What's this ruby? Care to send the list a URL so we can go have a
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> look for ourselves?
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> Gfunk - http://www.gfunk007.com/
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> I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to
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> hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering.
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Lux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this a missing feature?
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>>> But the feature is useless :)
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>> Here, I removed the reference, so we can stop fussing over it (it wasn't
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>> question to begin with), and here's an example of a potential use for this
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>> (a stupid example, but still...). I'm not weighing out the benefits of
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>> references, I'm striving to achieve the cleanest and most elegant code I
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>> can, because the larger the project, the more code you have to read, and
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>> the uglier it can get.
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>> That's where a language like Ruby excels. There's less syntactical crap,
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>> it's very easy to read, and it's caused me to consider switching to eRuby
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>> (like mod_perl, allows <% ruby this, ruby that %> in your html) because it
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>> is structurally easier and more geared towards larger projects.
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>> (that last statement will probably get me murdered on a PHP list)
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>> But honestly, the only problem is finding a host running eRuby that I
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>> have to maintain myself. I'm lazy, after all.
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>> later,
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>> lux
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>> <?php
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>> function a ($hash, $text = "") {
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>> $attr_text = "";
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>> while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {
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>> $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";
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>> }
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>> return "<a$attr_text>$text</a>";
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>> }
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>> function img ($hash) {
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>> $attr_text = "";
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>> while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {
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>> $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";
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>> }
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>> return "<img$attr_text />";
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>> }
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>> // works this way
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>> $attrs = array (
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>> "href" => "http://www.google.com/",
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>> );
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>> echo a ($attrs, "Visit Google!");
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>> echo "\n\n";
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>> // also this way (thanx teodor!)
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>> echo a ($attrs = array (
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>> "href" => "http://www.google.com/",
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>> "target" => "_blank"
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>> ), "Visit Google!");
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>> // ideally, i'd like to say this though...
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>> // echo a (["href" => "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>
>> "_blank"], "Visit Google!");
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>> // what also doesn't work
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>> // echo a (array("href" => "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>
>> "_blank"), "Visit Google!");
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>> echo "\n\n";
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>> // another example
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>> echo a ($attrs = array ("href" => "http://www.google.com/"),
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>> img ($attrs = array (
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>> "src" => "http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif",
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>> "alt" => "Visit Google!",
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>> "border" => "0")
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>> )
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>> );
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>> /* now ideally, this could be written much more cleanly, perhaps...
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>> echo a(['href' => [http://www.google.com/'],
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>> img(['src' =>
>> 'http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif', 'alt' => 'Visit
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>> Google!', 'border' => '0'])
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>> );
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>> */
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>> ?>
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>> --
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>> John Luxford
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>> Simian Systems
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