Stores the specified string value in the database, indexed via the string key provided.
Associates the value value with the specified key.
Turns the database’s fast mode on or off. If fast mode is turned on, gdbm does not wait for writes to be flushed to the disk before continuing.
This option is obsolete for gdbm >= 1.8 since fast mode is turned on by default. See also: syncmode=
Returns true if and only if there is more data in the string. See eos?. This method is obsolete; use eos? instead.
s = StringScanner.new('test string') s.eos? # These two s.rest? # are opposites.
Returns the “rest” of the string (i.e. everything after the scan pointer). If there is no more data (eos? = true), it returns "".
s.restsize is equivalent to s.rest_size. This method is obsolete; use rest_size instead.
Returns the type library version.
tlib = WIN32OLE_TYPELIB.new('Microsoft Excel 9.0 Object Library') puts tlib.version #-> "1.3"
Hash#store is an alias for Hash#[]=.
Associates the given value with the given key; returns value.
If the given key exists, replaces its value with the given value; the ordering is not affected (see Entry Order):
h = {foo: 0, bar: 1} h[:foo] = 2 # => 2 h.store(:bar, 3) # => 3 h # => {:foo=>2, :bar=>3}
If key does not exist, adds the key and value; the new entry is last in the order (see Entry Order):
h = {foo: 0, bar: 1} h[:baz] = 2 # => 2 h.store(:bat, 3) # => 3 h # => {:foo=>0, :bar=>1, :baz=>2, :bat=>3}
ENV.store is an alias for ENV.[]=.
Creates, updates, or deletes the named environment variable, returning the value. Both name and value may be instances of String. See Valid Names and Values.
If the named environment variable does not exist:
If value is nil, does nothing.
ENV.clear ENV['foo'] = nil # => nil ENV.include?('foo') # => false ENV.store('bar', nil) # => nil ENV.include?('bar') # => false
If value is not nil, creates the environment variable with name and value:
# Create 'foo' using ENV.[]=. ENV['foo'] = '0' # => '0' ENV['foo'] # => '0' # Create 'bar' using ENV.store. ENV.store('bar', '1') # => '1' ENV['bar'] # => '1'
If the named environment variable exists:
If value is not nil, updates the environment variable with value value:
# Update 'foo' using ENV.[]=. ENV['foo'] = '2' # => '2' ENV['foo'] # => '2' # Update 'bar' using ENV.store. ENV.store('bar', '3') # => '3' ENV['bar'] # => '3'
If value is nil, deletes the environment variable:
# Delete 'foo' using ENV.[]=. ENV['foo'] = nil # => nil ENV.include?('foo') # => false # Delete 'bar' using ENV.store. ENV.store('bar', nil) # => nil ENV.include?('bar') # => false
Raises an exception if name or value is invalid. See Invalid Names and Values.
Returns revision information for the erb.rb module.
The reason this block was terminated: :break, :redo, :retry, :next, :return, or :noreason.
Executes command… in a subshell. command… is one of following forms.
commandline
command line string which is passed to the standard shell
cmdname, arg1, ...
command name and one or more arguments (no shell)
[cmdname, argv0], arg1, ...
command name, argv[0] and zero or more arguments (no shell)
system returns true if the command gives zero exit status, false for non zero exit status. Returns nil if command execution fails. An error status is available in $?.
If the exception: true argument is passed, the method raises an exception instead of returning false or nil.
The arguments are processed in the same way as for Kernel#spawn.
The hash arguments, env and options, are same as exec and spawn. See Kernel#spawn for details.
system("echo *") system("echo", "*")
produces:
config.h main.rb *
Error handling:
system("cat nonexistent.txt") # => false system("catt nonexistent.txt") # => nil system("cat nonexistent.txt", exception: true) # RuntimeError (Command failed with exit 1: cat) system("catt nonexistent.txt", exception: true) # Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - catt)
See Kernel#exec for the standard shell.
Returns current status of GC stress mode.
Updates the GC stress mode.
When stress mode is enabled, the GC is invoked at every GC opportunity: all memory and object allocations.
Enabling stress mode will degrade performance, it is only for debugging.
flag can be true, false, or an integer bit-ORed following flags.
0x01:: no major GC 0x02:: no immediate sweep 0x04:: full mark after malloc/calloc/realloc
Quietly ensure the Gem directory dir contains all the proper subdirectories. If we can’t create a directory due to a permission problem, then we will silently continue.
If mode is given, missing directories are created with this mode.
World-writable directories will never be created.
Returns an Array of SingleResponse for this BasicResponse.
In the first form, returns an array of the names of all constants accessible from the point of call. This list includes the names of all modules and classes defined in the global scope.
Module.constants.first(4) # => [:ARGF, :ARGV, :ArgumentError, :Array] Module.constants.include?(:SEEK_SET) # => false class IO Module.constants.include?(:SEEK_SET) # => true end
The second form calls the instance method constants.
Returns an array of the names of the constants accessible in mod. This includes the names of constants in any included modules (example at start of section), unless the inherit parameter is set to false.
The implementation makes no guarantees about the order in which the constants are yielded.
IO.constants.include?(:SYNC) #=> true IO.constants(false).include?(:SYNC) #=> false
Also see Module#const_defined?.
Restore session state from the session’s FileStore file.
Returns the session state as a hash.
Restore (empty) session state.
Restore session state from the session’s PStore file.
Returns the session state as a hash.