Equivalent to $_ = $_.chomp(string)
. See String#chomp
. Available only when -p/-n command line option specified.
catch
executes its block. If throw
is not called, the block executes normally, and catch
returns the value of the last expression evaluated.
catch(1) { 123 } # => 123
If throw(tag2, val)
is called, Ruby searches up its stack for a catch
block whose tag
has the same object_id
as tag2. When found, the block stops executing and returns val (or nil
if no second argument was given to throw
).
catch(1) { throw(1, 456) } # => 456 catch(1) { throw(1) } # => nil
When tag
is passed as the first argument, catch
yields it as the parameter of the block.
catch(1) {|x| x + 2 } # => 3
When no tag
is given, catch
yields a new unique object (as from Object.new
) as the block parameter. This object can then be used as the argument to throw
, and will match the correct catch
block.
catch do |obj_A| catch do |obj_B| throw(obj_B, 123) puts "This puts is not reached" end puts "This puts is displayed" 456 end # => 456 catch do |obj_A| catch do |obj_B| throw(obj_A, 123) puts "This puts is still not reached" end puts "Now this puts is also not reached" 456 end # => 123
Enumerates over the items, chunking them together based on the return value of the block.
Consecutive elements which return the same block value are chunked together.
For example, consecutive even numbers and odd numbers can be chunked as follows.
[3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5].chunk { |n| n.even? }.each { |even, ary| p [even, ary] } #=> [false, [3, 1]] # [true, [4]] # [false, [1, 5, 9]] # [true, [2, 6]] # [false, [5, 3, 5]]
This method is especially useful for sorted series of elements. The following example counts words for each initial letter.
open("/usr/share/dict/words", "r:iso-8859-1") { |f| f.chunk { |line| line.ord }.each { |ch, lines| p [ch.chr, lines.length] } } #=> ["\n", 1] # ["A", 1327] # ["B", 1372] # ["C", 1507] # ["D", 791] # ...
The following key values have special meaning:
nil
and :_separator
specifies that the elements should be dropped.
:_alone
specifies that the element should be chunked by itself.
Any other symbols that begin with an underscore will raise an error:
items.chunk { |item| :_underscore } #=> RuntimeError: symbols beginning with an underscore are reserved
nil
and :_separator
can be used to ignore some elements.
For example, the sequence of hyphens in svn log can be eliminated as follows:
sep = "-"*72 + "\n" IO.popen("svn log README") { |f| f.chunk { |line| line != sep || nil }.each { |_, lines| pp lines } } #=> ["r20018 | knu | 2008-10-29 13:20:42 +0900 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008) | 2 lines\n", # "\n", # "* README, README.ja: Update the portability section.\n", # "\n"] # ["r16725 | knu | 2008-05-31 23:34:23 +0900 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines\n", # "\n", # "* README, README.ja: Add a note about default C flags.\n", # "\n"] # ...
Paragraphs separated by empty lines can be parsed as follows:
File.foreach("README").chunk { |line| /\A\s*\z/ !~ line || nil }.each { |_, lines| pp lines }
:_alone
can be used to force items into their own chunk. For example, you can put lines that contain a URL by themselves, and chunk the rest of the lines together, like this:
pattern = /http/ open(filename) { |f| f.chunk { |line| line =~ pattern ? :_alone : true }.each { |key, lines| pp lines } }
Checks the status of the child process specified by pid
. Returns nil
if the process is still alive.
If the process is not alive, and raise
was true, a PTY::ChildExited
exception will be raised. Otherwise it will return a Process::Status
instance.
pid
The process id of the process to check
raise
If true
and the process identified by pid
is no longer alive a PTY::ChildExited
is raised.
Returns true
if the named file is a character device.
file_name can be an IO
object.
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width
leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption
at the top of the report, and uses format
to format each line. Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels
parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark
, and the bm
and bmbm
methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width
leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption
at the top of the report, and uses format
to format each line. Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels
parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark
, and the bm
and bmbm
methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)
Options: noop verbose
Changes permission bits on the named files (in list
) to the bit pattern represented by mode
.
mode
is the symbolic and absolute mode can be used.
Absolute mode is
FileUtils.chmod 0755, 'somecommand' FileUtils.chmod 0644, %w(my.rb your.rb his.rb her.rb) FileUtils.chmod 0755, '/usr/bin/ruby', :verbose => true
Symbolic mode is
FileUtils.chmod "u=wrx,go=rx", 'somecommand' FileUtils.chmod "u=wr,go=rr", %w(my.rb your.rb his.rb her.rb) FileUtils.chmod "u=wrx,go=rx", '/usr/bin/ruby', :verbose => true
is user, group, other mask.
is user’s mask.
is group’s mask.
is other’s mask.
is write permission.
is read permission.
is execute permission.
is execute permission for directories only, must be used in conjunction with “+”
is uid, gid.
is sticky bit.
is added to a class given the specified mode.
Is removed from a given class given mode.
Is the exact nature of the class will be given a specified mode.
Options: noop verbose
Changes permission bits on the named files (in list
) to the bit pattern represented by mode
.
mode
is the symbolic and absolute mode can be used.
Absolute mode is
FileUtils.chmod 0755, 'somecommand' FileUtils.chmod 0644, %w(my.rb your.rb his.rb her.rb) FileUtils.chmod 0755, '/usr/bin/ruby', :verbose => true
Symbolic mode is
FileUtils.chmod "u=wrx,go=rx", 'somecommand' FileUtils.chmod "u=wr,go=rr", %w(my.rb your.rb his.rb her.rb) FileUtils.chmod "u=wrx,go=rx", '/usr/bin/ruby', :verbose => true
is user, group, other mask.
is user’s mask.
is group’s mask.
is other’s mask.
is write permission.
is read permission.
is execute permission.
is execute permission for directories only, must be used in conjunction with “+”
is uid, gid.
is sticky bit.
is added to a class given the specified mode.
Is removed from a given class given mode.
Is the exact nature of the class will be given a specified mode.
Options: noop verbose force
Changes permission bits on the named files (in list
) to the bit pattern represented by mode
.
FileUtils.chmod_R 0700, "/tmp/app.#{$$}" FileUtils.chmod_R "u=wrx", "/tmp/app.#{$$}"
Options: noop verbose force
Changes permission bits on the named files (in list
) to the bit pattern represented by mode
.
FileUtils.chmod_R 0700, "/tmp/app.#{$$}" FileUtils.chmod_R "u=wrx", "/tmp/app.#{$$}"
Options: noop verbose
Changes owner and group on the named files (in list
) to the user user
and the group group
. user
and group
may be an ID (Integer/String) or a name (String). If user
or group
is nil, this method does not change the attribute.
FileUtils.chown 'root', 'staff', '/usr/local/bin/ruby' FileUtils.chown nil, 'bin', Dir.glob('/usr/bin/*'), :verbose => true
Options: noop verbose
Changes owner and group on the named files (in list
) to the user user
and the group group
. user
and group
may be an ID (Integer/String) or a name (String). If user
or group
is nil, this method does not change the attribute.
FileUtils.chown 'root', 'staff', '/usr/local/bin/ruby' FileUtils.chown nil, 'bin', Dir.glob('/usr/bin/*'), :verbose => true
Options: noop verbose force
Changes owner and group on the named files (in list
) to the user user
and the group group
recursively. user
and group
may be an ID (Integer/String) or a name (String). If user
or group
is nil, this method does not change the attribute.
FileUtils.chown_R 'www', 'www', '/var/www/htdocs' FileUtils.chown_R 'cvs', 'cvs', '/var/cvs', :verbose => true
Options: noop verbose force
Changes owner and group on the named files (in list
) to the user user
and the group group
recursively. user
and group
may be an ID (Integer/String) or a name (String). If user
or group
is nil, this method does not change the attribute.
FileUtils.chown_R 'www', 'www', '/var/www/htdocs' FileUtils.chown_R 'cvs', 'cvs', '/var/cvs', :verbose => true
Options: noop verbose mtime nocreate
Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of file(s) in list
. Files are created if they don’t exist.
FileUtils.touch 'timestamp' FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c'); system 'make'
Options: noop verbose mtime nocreate
Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of file(s) in list
. Files are created if they don’t exist.
FileUtils.touch 'timestamp' FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c'); system 'make'
Set
the changed state of this object. Notifications will be sent only if the changed state
is true
.
state
Boolean indicating the changed state of this Observable
.
Returns true if this object’s state has been changed since the last notify_observers
call.
Allows setting the gem path searcher. This method is available when requiring ‘rubygems/test_case’
Some operating systems retain the status of terminated child processes until the parent collects that status (normally using some variant of wait()
). If the parent never collects this status, the child stays around as a zombie process. Process::detach
prevents this by setting up a separate Ruby thread whose sole job is to reap the status of the process pid when it terminates. Use detach
only when you do not intend to explicitly wait for the child to terminate.
The waiting thread returns the exit status of the detached process when it terminates, so you can use Thread#join
to know the result. If specified pid is not a valid child process ID, the thread returns nil
immediately.
The waiting thread has pid
method which returns the pid.
In this first example, we don’t reap the first child process, so it appears as a zombie in the process status display.
p1 = fork { sleep 0.1 } p2 = fork { sleep 0.2 } Process.waitpid(p2) sleep 2 system("ps -ho pid,state -p #{p1}")
produces:
27389 Z
In the next example, Process::detach
is used to reap the child automatically.
p1 = fork { sleep 0.1 } p2 = fork { sleep 0.2 } Process.detach(p1) Process.waitpid(p2) sleep 2 system("ps -ho pid,state -p #{p1}")
(produces no output)