My girlfriend’s coworker said the best thing ever when he saw some of the comments other students in my DeVry Online class were making.
Apparently, at least as far as these folks go, they have yet to make the great discovery of “cogent thought” or “even remotely insightful notion”.
“Prose that is at best dull and more likely impossible to parse expressing the most trivial of ideas not worthy of a functionally retarded bivalve” however seems to be all the rage. – Chris Gannon
So found this out the hard way trying to use modules to overload instance methods in classes.
So if you have something like the code listed below, the module will never execute the test method.
module Mixin
def test
puts "i am in the module"
end
end
class Example
include Mixin
def test
puts "i am in the class"
end
end
This is because when you mix in a module, it’s listed as an ancestor. So when ruby looks for the object to answer the message, it first looks in the class, finds the method, and says job done. It never reaches the module.
For example:
>> Example.ancestors
=> [Example, Mixin, Object, Kernel]
This means that to do things like using a module to overload how an object is converted to yaml you have to crack open the meta-class and do your work there.
just read about DrySQL and thought it was the best thing ever. It now makes ActiveRecord smart enough to ask the database for associations instead of you.
so i was trying to find an example of how to use win32ole in ruby that does’t involve excel and stumbled across this interesting post about ADSI. so now armed with this and the reference at MSDN, i now have the shoulder mounted missile launcher i need to crack active directory.
require 'win32ole'
domain = WIN32OLE.connect("WinNT://my_domain.com")
user = domain.Create("user", "my_username")
user.FullName = "Foo Bar"
user.Description = "just a lil ol' test of how ruby <3 ADSI"
user.SetPassword = "my_password"
user.SetInfo
now that i’ve been freed of point-n-click-administration hell, i wonder what i’m going to do with all that free time.
maybe this will save you an hour or so of your life to learn from my mistake. When installing MySql 5.0 on windows and you screw up the configuration and want to start over from scratch a couple things will help you out.
i’ve just been really busy lately with between work and school, but fortunately i’ll be graduating by next summer.
I’ve also been working on a project at work where i’m creating a rails front end to control a gentoo box running firehol so we can rent this out to clients as a cheep firewall. I’m also working on having it pull down configurations from a central server, so it’s much easier to manage then having to ssh into every box.
I’ve also been working on this MUD DSL using ruby. Mostly because the guy i work with is really into MUD’s and i thought this would be a good way to practice some tricky meta programming with ruby.
A terrific breakdown of what this library is capable of
A fast, event driven, easy to use network library in ruby. i now have no excuse not to make that mud…
And of course the teaser site for the awesome scrapbooking site that matt and i are creating
you probably have no idea how many times i've beaten my head against a
wall because i didn't have something like this… why isn't an easy way to view and compare the size of folders built into the operating system?
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that he parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, ifyou can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
—IBM maintenance manual (1925)
