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How can I get the first character in a string using Ruby?
Ultimately what I'm doing is taking someone's last name and just creating an initial out of it.
So if the string was "Smith" I just want "S".
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Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database.
Contents of database.yml
development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: APPS_SETUP
Host: WindowsVT06\SQLEXPRESS
Username: se
Password: paswd
Run rake db:migrate…
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My application requires to keep large data objects in session. There are like 3-4 data objects each created by parsing a csv containing 150 X 20 cells having strings of 3-4 characters.
My application shows this error- "marshal data too short".
I tried this-
Deleting the old session table.
Deleting…
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I don't know is it my mistake or no. So i have that code:
<code>
post '/singin/get_token' do
content_type :xml
puts request.body.read
puts xmlRequest
xmlRequest = REXML::Document.new(request.body.read)
...
</code>
And when i post something like that:
<code>
<?xml…
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reading around the various ruby install tutorials it's required to change path from /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/local/bin/ruby but i cant seem to be able to do it. Ultimately i want to install Ruby 1.9.2, should i uninstall 1.8.7 or what? i tried to install Ruby 1.9.2 with macports, the installation seemed…
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i am getting a strange bundler error when running
bundle pack
with bundler 0.9.12
any ideas? (see pastie for a better formatted code: http://pastie.org/881328 )
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:49:in `initialize': not in gzip format (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)
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Hi,
The text below is the dump of a multidimensional array, dumped by the var_dump() PHP function. I need a Java function that reads a file with a content like this (attached) and returns it in XML.
For a reference, in site http://pear.php.net/package/Var_Dump/ you can find the code (in PHP) that…
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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out a way to format a date string that sits inside string using javascript.
The string can be:
"hello there From 2010-03-04 00:00:00.0 to 2010-03-31 00:00:00.0"
or
"stuff like 2010-03-04 20:00:00.0 and 2010-03-31 00:00:02.0 blah blah"
I'd like it to end up like:
"stuff…
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A colleague told me that using the following method:
string url = "SomeURL";
string ext = "SomeExt";
string sub = "SomeSub";
string subSub = "moreSub";
string Url = @"http://www." + Url +@"/"+ ext +@"/"+ sub + subSub;
is not efficenet (takes more resources) and it is preferred to use the…
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The following output produces a string with no closing xml tag.
m_rFlight.Layout = m_rFlight.Layout + "<G3Grid:Spots>" + Me.gvwSpots.LayoutToString() + "</G3Grid:Spots>"
This following code works correctly
m_rFlight.Layout = m_rFlight.Layout + "<G3Grid:Spots>" + Me.gvwSpots.LayoutToString()
m_rFlight…
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Hi
I am trying to do some threading in Android so I took an old threading assignment I had done fora midlet and took out the midlet code and replaced it with android code(such as textview).
package com.assignment1;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
public…
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