Returns true if the referenced object is still alive.
Returns an array of the names of the thread-local variables (as Symbols).
thr = Thread.new do Thread.current.thread_variable_set(:cat, 'meow') Thread.current.thread_variable_set("dog", 'woof') end thr.join #=> #<Thread:0x401b3f10 dead> thr.thread_variables #=> [:dog, :cat]
Note that these are not fiber local variables. Please see Thread#[] and Thread#thread_variable_get for more details.
Returns true if the given string (or symbol) exists as a thread-local variable.
me = Thread.current me.thread_variable_set(:oliver, "a") me.thread_variable?(:oliver) #=> true me.thread_variable?(:stanley) #=> false
Note that these are not fiber local variables. Please see Thread#[] and Thread#thread_variable_get for more details.
Part of the protocol for converting objects to Proc objects. Instances of class Proc simply return themselves.
Returns a Proc object corresponding to this method.
Returns the original name of the method.
class C def foo; end alias bar foo end C.instance_method(:bar).original_name # => :foo
Returns the original name of the method.
class C def foo; end alias bar foo end C.instance_method(:bar).original_name # => :foo
Return value from :return, c_return, and b_return event
Returns a pretty printed object as a string.
In order to use this method you must first require the PP module:
require 'pp'
See the PP module for more information.
Sorts enum using a set of keys generated by mapping the values in enum through the given block.
The result is not guaranteed to be stable. When two keys are equal, the order of the corresponding elements is unpredictable.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
%w{apple pear fig}.sort_by { |word| word.length } #=> ["fig", "pear", "apple"]
The current implementation of sort_by generates an array of tuples containing the original collection element and the mapped value. This makes sort_by fairly expensive when the keysets are simple.
require 'benchmark' a = (1..100000).map { rand(100000) } Benchmark.bm(10) do |b| b.report("Sort") { a.sort } b.report("Sort by") { a.sort_by { |a| a } } end
produces:
user system total real Sort 0.180000 0.000000 0.180000 ( 0.175469) Sort by 1.980000 0.040000 2.020000 ( 2.013586)
However, consider the case where comparing the keys is a non-trivial operation. The following code sorts some files on modification time using the basic sort method.
files = Dir["*"] sorted = files.sort { |a, b| File.new(a).mtime <=> File.new(b).mtime } sorted #=> ["mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs"]
This sort is inefficient: it generates two new File objects during every comparison. A slightly better technique is to use the Kernel#test method to generate the modification times directly.
files = Dir["*"] sorted = files.sort { |a, b| test(?M, a) <=> test(?M, b) } sorted #=> ["mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs"]
This still generates many unnecessary Time objects. A more efficient technique is to cache the sort keys (modification times in this case) before the sort. Perl users often call this approach a Schwartzian transform, after Randal Schwartz. We construct a temporary array, where each element is an array containing our sort key along with the filename. We sort this array, and then extract the filename from the result.
sorted = Dir["*"].collect { |f| [test(?M, f), f] }.sort.collect { |f| f[1] } sorted #=> ["mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs"]
This is exactly what sort_by does internally.
sorted = Dir["*"].sort_by { |f| test(?M, f) } sorted #=> ["mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs"]
Builds a temporary array and traverses that array in reverse order.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
(1..3).reverse_each { |v| p v }
produces:
3
2
1
Makes a set from the enumerable object with given arguments. Needs to +require “set”+ to use this method.
Returns a hash that contains filename as key and coverage array as value.
{
"file.rb" => [1, 2, nil],
...
}
Generate a JSON document from the Ruby data structure obj and return it. This method disables the checks for circles in Ruby objects.
WARNING: Be careful not to pass any Ruby data structures with circles as obj argument because this will cause JSON to go into an infinite loop.
Generate a JSON document from the Ruby data structure obj and return it. The returned document is a prettier form of the document returned by unparse.
The opts argument can be used to configure the generator. See the generate method for a more detailed explanation.
Recursively calls passed Proc if the parsed data structure is an Array or Hash
Turns FIPS mode on or off. Turning on FIPS mode will obviously only have an effect for FIPS-capable installations of the OpenSSL library. Trying to do so otherwise will result in an error.
OpenSSL.fips_mode = true # turn FIPS mode on OpenSSL.fips_mode = false # and off again
Dump Ruby object to a JSON string.
Sets the list of characters that are word break characters, but should be left in text when it is passed to the completion function. Programs can use this to help determine what kind of completing to do. For instance, Bash sets this variable to “$@” so that it can complete shell variables and hostnames.
See GNU Readline’s rl_special_prefixes variable.
Raises NotImplementedError if the using readline library does not support.
Gets the list of characters that are word break characters, but should be left in text when it is passed to the completion function.
See GNU Readline’s rl_special_prefixes variable.
Raises NotImplementedError if the using readline library does not support.
Returns true if the named file is writable by the real user and group id of this process. See access(3)
If file_name is writable by others, returns an integer representing the file permission bits of file_name. Returns nil otherwise. The meaning of the bits is platform dependent; on Unix systems, see stat(2).
file_name can be an IO object.
File.world_writable?("/tmp") #=> 511 m = File.world_writable?("/tmp") sprintf("%o", m) #=> "777"
Returns true if the named file is executable by the real user and group id of this process. See access(3).
Returns the Base64-encoded version of bin. This method complies with RFC 4648. No line feeds are added.