Hi.
Is there a community convention that specifies which of the two methods,
`Object#clone` and `Object#dup`, should be overridden for the purposes of
deep-cloning?
On Stackoverflow, some say that `clone` should be overridden [1], while
others say that `dup` is the method to be overridden [2]. So
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Being a Ruby shop we try to use Ruby everywhere but when it does come
>> to grinding through logfiles (some several gigs in size) we had to go
>> with Perl. The string processing and regex matching was so much
>> faster. We couldn't get Ruby ev
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Robert Klemme
wrote:
PS: Here's probably a even more rubyesce solution - albeit not faster
$ cat ruby-8.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
f = 'FRED'
puts File.foreach("results201101.dat").count {|line| line.include? f}
--
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - withou
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Peter Hickman
wrote:
> On 19 September 2012 10:09, Carlos Agarie wrote:
>> I'd like to know, too. I stumbled upon a similar problem, but it was long
>> ago.
>
> Ok here is a quick test that I hacked up. The data is a 2,659,800 line
> 639Mb text file. Some lines c
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Peter Hickman
wrote:
> On 19 September 2012 09:24, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Peter Zotov
>> wrote:
>>> That being said, I won't write number crunching algorithms in Ruby, or work
>>> with gigabyte-sized datasets.
>>
>> Well, even
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Aleksander Ciesielski wrote:
> Is it obligatory to use instance variables in classes? Can't we just write
> something like this:
>
> class Test
> var = 5
>
> def show
> puts var
> end
> end
>
> test = Test.new
> test.show
> p test.var
You can
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Peter Zotov wrote:
> Roger Pack писал 17.09.2012 22:06:
>
>> So basically if you're ok with a "somewhat slow" end product, Ruby is
>> still grand, because programming in it is funner.
>
> I want to note that there isn't a general measure for slowness. Is it
> fast
