Re: Can't get method to accept username/password

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Hulan
string interpolation (the #{...} syntax) only works inside double quotes On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Pierre-Andre M. wrote: > I'm new to Ruby... > > Trying to write a method that accepts username and password string. > > # My method > def getRepos(username, password) > github = Github.new

Re: Looking for a Ruby Demo That is Database Heavy

2012-12-01 Thread Robert Klemme
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Buck wrote: > Ideally the demo should wow customers when we show off our performance > capabilities, in the 1 million-plus transactions per second. Application > ideas that could benefit from a database capable of running in the 1 > million-plus transaction

Re: Newbie question: (free) on-line courses?

2012-12-01 Thread Robert Klemme
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hello, all. There's a bunch of free on-line training for Javascript, CSS, > etc., etc., but I haven't found anything of the sort for Ruby. I *assume* > I'm just looking in the wrong places. But I've really enjoyed the little > exposure I'v

Re: An example in Exception Handling with Ruby.

2012-12-01 Thread Robert Klemme
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Nathan Mr. wrote: > I updated the file and added comments. > > Here you go > > http://codepad.org/qVPc35hV All three codepad links came up 404. How clever is that? > Attachments: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/7914/can_happen.rb If you intend to provide

Re: [ANN] rdoc 4.0.0.preview2

2012-12-01 Thread Intransition
> > > Notable feature additions are markdown support and an WEBrick servlet that > can > serve HTML from an ri store. (This means that RubyGems 2.0+ no longer > needs > to build HTML documentation when installing gems.) > Nice! I had a gem that did that, but it was quite the hack, so it was