wilhelmtell - Developer IT

Corrupt install of Ruby?

- by wilhelmtell

I'm having issues requiring 'digest/sha1'. ~$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --program-suffix=19 --enable-shared ~$ make ~$ make install ~$ irb19 irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/sha1' LoadError: dlopen(/Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle, 9): Symbol not found: _rb_Digest_SHA1_Finish Referenced from: /Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle Expected in: flat namespace - /Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 from /Users/matan/usr/bin/irb19:12:in `<main>' irb(main):002:0> I know some standard modules require fine, while others don't. If i'd say require 'digest' then that works fine. Just a couple of days ago I uninstalled Ruby and re-installed it. When I first installed Ruby I installed it in a similar manner, from source prefixed at my local $HOME/usr directory. I tried removing each and every file make install installs, then re-installing, but that didn't help. Do you have an idea what the issue is and how to resolve it?

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How do I execute find with GNU xargs to traverse a set of directories?

- by wilhelmtell

$ echo {a,b,c}.h d e.h |xargs -IA find A -name '*.h' find: `a.h b.h c.h d e.h': No such file or directory $ echo -e a.h\\nb.h c.h d e.h |xargs -IA find A -name '*.h' a.h find: `b.h c.h d e.h': No such file or directory The problem is that -I implies xargs will assume arguments are delimited by newline. I'm not sure why that is. I reckon I can solve this problem with sed, but I wonder if there's an xargs trick or idiom I'm not familiar with that people use to solve this. I'm looking for a solution that will also work on OS X. On OS X the xargs -J switch seems to work fine. The manpage claims this switch will just control where the arguments are placed for the executable -- which is exactly what I want.

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Split cell value into multiple cells

- by wilhelmtell

How do I get Excel to split a sequence of delimited values in a cell over multiple cells? | A | B 1| 1 2 4 | 2| | Split over /\s+/: | A | B 1| 1 | 2| 2 | 3| 4 | This is in a pivot table, so I want the pivot table's mechanism to take the split in account, and consider it as if the data came this way from the datasource.

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Output iterator's value_type

- by wilhelmtell

The STL commonly defines an output iterator like so: template<class Cont> class insert_iterator : public iterator<output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void> { // ... Why do output iterators define value_type as void? It would be useful for an algorithm to know what type of value it is supposed to output. For example, a function that translates a URL query "key1=value1&key2=value2&key3=value3" into any container that holds key-value strings elements. template<typename Ch,typename Tr,typename Out> void parse(const std::basic_string<Ch,Tr>& str, Out result) { std::basic_string<Ch,Tr> key, value; // loop over str, parse into p ... *result = typename iterator_traits<Out>::value_type(key, value); } The SGI reference page of value_type hints this is because it's not possible to dereference an output iterator. But that's not the only use of value_type: I might want to instantiate one in order to assign it to the iterator.

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When do you tag your software project?

- by WilhelmTell of Purple-Magenta

I realize there are various kinds of software projects: commercial (for John Doe) industrial (for Mr. Montgomery Burns) successful open-source (with audience larger than, say, 10 people) personal projects (with audience size in the vicinity of 1). each of which release a new version of their product on difference conditions. I'm particularly interested in the case of personal projects and open-source projects. When, or under what conditions, do you make a new release of any kind? Do you subscribe to a fixed recurring deadline such as every two weeks? Do you commit to a release of at least 10 minor fixes, or one major fix? Do you combine the two conditions such as at least one condition must hold, or both must hold? I reckon this is a subjective question. I ask this question in light of searching for tricks to keep my projects alive and kicking. Sometimes my projects are active but look as if they aren't because I don't have the confidence to make a release or a tag of any sort for a long time -- in the order of months.

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LoadError in Ruby

- by wilhelmtell

I'm having issues requiring 'digest/sha1'. ~$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --program-suffix=19 --enable-shared ~$ make ~$ make install ~$ irb19 irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/sha1' LoadError: dlopen(/Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle, 9): Symbol not found: _rb_Digest_SHA1_Finish Referenced from: /Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle Expected in: flat namespace - /Users/matan/usr/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/digest/sha1.bundle from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 from /Users/matan/usr/bin/irb19:12:in `<main>' irb(main):002:0> I know some standard modules require fine, while others don't. If i'd say require 'yaml' or even require 'digest' then that works fine. I am using OS X 10.5.8, with Ruby 1.9.1-p378. The system-wide install of Ruby 1.8.6 works fine. Just last week I uninstalled Ruby and re-installed it. When I first installed Ruby I installed it in a similar manner, from source prefixed at my local $HOME/usr directory. I tried removing each and every file make install installs, then re-installing, but that didn't help. Do you have an idea what the issue is and how to resolve it?

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Exporting an Environment Variable in Ruby

- by wilhelmtell

How do I export an environment variable from within a Ruby script to the parent shell? For example, implementing a naïve implementation of the /usr/bin/read utility: #!/usr/bin/ruby varname = ARGV[0] ENV[varname] = STDIN.gets # but have varname exported to the parent process

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Ruby: On what defining a class evaluates to

- by wilhelmtell

In Ruby, why does defining a class evaluate to nil? Same goes for defining a method: why does it evaluate to nil? Wouldn't it be useful if defining a class would evaluate as the class?

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