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 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.

1. Remove the MySql service before you uninstall.  This can be easily done with the configuration manager and i recommend this because it seemed ( atleast on my system) that uninstaling the program didn’t always remove the service.
2. Delete the MySql directory in program files after you uninstall.  The configuration files are kept here, so if you don’t delete this before you reinstall, you have to battle with the same botched config files again.

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.

Using prototype.js v1.4.0 – Sergio Pereira

A fast, event driven, easy to use network library in ruby. i now have no excuse not to make that mud…

Ruby/EventMachine

And of course the teaser site for the awesome scrapbooking site that matt and i are creating

scrapease.com

http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/