From gamache on Perlmonks:I will put this as clearly as I can: RoR beat the daylights out of every Perl web framework I have had experience with. Even after a decade of Perl experience and more Perl websites under my belt than I can count on both hands, I couldn't have done with Perl what I did in RoR in eight days. I don't know if I could have...

The rb_warn() function provides the line number that generated the warning. The Kernel#warn method does not. Weird.

The rb_warn() function provides the line number that generated the warning. The Kernel#warn method does not. Weird.

What do I think? I think you should stop linking to people like Bill Burke.

I had a great time at Genghiscon (a gaming convention) this weekend. This year I took a day off work, opted for the unlimited pass, and gamed my brains out.Here's the quick summary:Thursday - Fishermen of Catan and 1856.Friday - Seafarers of Catan, Empire Builder, Railroad TycoonSaturday - Starfarers of Catan, Railroad Tycoon (again), Twilight...

I had a great time at Genghiscon (a gaming convention) this weekend. This year I took a day off work, opted for the unlimited pass, and gamed my brains out.Here's the quick summary:Thursday - Fishermen of Catan and 1856.Friday - Seafarers of Catan, Empire Builder, Railroad TycoonSaturday - Starfarers of Catan, Railroad Tycoon (again), Twilight...

It looks like Ruby on Rails is now part of the PostgreSQL Enterprise Stack. :)

It looks like Ruby on Rails is now part of the PostgreSQL Enterprise Stack. :)

My 67 year old father bought a Harley this week. You can bet my mom is absolutely thrilled. Not.Late life crisis? Who knows! About every 5-10 years he decides he needs a new toy. The Chevy Nova II with the 427 HP big block just wasn't doing it any more I guess. :)

My 67 year old father bought a Harley this week. You can bet my mom is absolutely thrilled. Not.Late life crisis? Who knows! About every 5-10 years he decides he needs a new toy. The Chevy Nova II with the 427 HP big block just wasn't doing it any more I guess. :)

From the journal of Ovid: for ( my $num = 20; $num <= 100; $num += 5 ) { print $num, $/; } And here it is in Ruby: 20.step(100, 5){ |num| p num } None of those pesky external iterators. Which, by the by, I hate in any language.

From the journal of Ovid: for ( my $num = 20; $num <= 100; $num += 5 ) { print $num, $/; } And here it is in Ruby: 20.step(100, 5){ |num| p num } None of those pesky external iterators. Which, by the by, I hate in any language.

I've been doing my own cleanup of bignum.c using cl 14 only to discover warnings like this: bignum.c(836) : warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned Sure enough the (now ANSI) source looks like this: unsigned long rb_big2ulong_pack(VALUE x) { unsigned LONG_LONG num = big2ulong(x, "unsigned long");...

I've been doing my own cleanup of bignum.c using cl 14 only to discover warnings like this: bignum.c(836) : warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result still unsigned Sure enough the (now ANSI) source looks like this: unsigned long rb_big2ulong_pack(VALUE x) { unsigned LONG_LONG num = big2ulong(x, "unsigned long");...

I stumbled onto Rice the other day. I like it. A lot.It's funny I came across this because I've been considering a rewrite of Ruby in C++. Not that I know C++ very well. I just think there are a lot of advantages to using C++. Functors, try/catch, the STL. Who knows what else?I think the main argument against implementing a language in C++ has...