ScriptError is the superclass for errors raised when a script can not be executed because of a LoadError, NotImplementedError or a SyntaxError. Note these type of ScriptErrors are not StandardError and will not be rescued unless it is specified explicitly (or its ancestor Exception).
No longer used by internal code.
SystemCallError is the base class for all low-level platform-dependent errors.
The errors available on the current platform are subclasses of SystemCallError and are defined in the Errno module.
File.open("does/not/exist")
raises the exception:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - does/not/exist
A Range object represents a collection of values that are between given begin and end values.
You can create an Range object explicitly with:
# Ranges that use '..' to include the given end value. (1..4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3, 4] ('a'..'d').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d"] # Ranges that use '...' to exclude the given end value. (1...4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3] ('a'...'d').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c"]
A range may be created using method Range.new:
# Ranges that by default include the given end value. Range.new(1, 4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3, 4] Range.new('a', 'd').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d"] # Ranges that use third argument +exclude_end+ to exclude the given end value. Range.new(1, 4, true).to_a # => [1, 2, 3] Range.new('a', 'd', true).to_a # => ["a", "b", "c"]
A beginless range has a definite end value, but a nil begin value. Such a range includes all values up to the end value.
r = (..4) # => nil..4 r.begin # => nil r.include?(-50) # => true r.include?(4) # => true r = (...4) # => nil...4 r.include?(4) # => false Range.new(nil, 4) # => nil..4 Range.new(nil, 4, true) # => nil...4
A beginless range may be used to slice an array:
a = [1, 2, 3, 4] r = (..2) # => nil...2 a[r] # => [1, 2]
Method each for a beginless range raises an exception.
An endless range has a definite begin value, but a nil end value. Such a range includes all values from the begin value.
r = (1..) # => 1.. r.end # => nil r.include?(50) # => true Range.new(1, nil) # => 1..
The literal for an endless range may be written with either two dots or three. The range has the same elements, either way. But note that the two are not equal:
r0 = (1..) # => 1.. r1 = (1...) # => 1... r0.begin == r1.begin # => true r0.end == r1.end # => true r0 == r1 # => false
An endless range may be used to slice an array:
a = [1, 2, 3, 4] r = (2..) # => 2.. a[r] # => [3, 4]
Method each for an endless range calls the given block indefinitely:
a = [] r = (1..) r.each do |i| a.push(i) if i.even? break if i > 10 end a # => [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
An object may be put into a range if its class implements instance method <=>. Ruby core classes that do so include Array, Complex, File::Stat, Float, Integer, Kernel, Module, Numeric, Rational, String, Symbol, and Time.
Example:
t0 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:22:48.4854986 -0500 t1 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:22:56.0365079 -0500 t2 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:23:08.5263283 -0500 (t0..t2).include?(t1) # => true (t0..t1).include?(t2) # => false
A range can be iterated over only if its elements implement instance method succ. Ruby core classes that do so include Integer, String, and Symbol (but not the other classes mentioned above).
Iterator methods include:
Included from module Enumerable: each_entry, each_with_index, each_with_object, each_slice, each_cons, and reverse_each.
Example:
a = [] (1..4).each {|i| a.push(i) } a # => [1, 2, 3, 4]
A user-defined class that is to be used in a range must implement instance <=>; see Integer#<=>. To make iteration available, it must also implement instance method succ; see Integer#succ.
The class below implements both <=> and succ, and so can be used both to construct ranges and to iterate over them. Note that the Comparable module is included so the == method is defined in terms of <=>.
# Represent a string of 'X' characters. class Xs include Comparable attr_accessor :length def initialize(n) @length = n end def succ Xs.new(@length + 1) end def <=>(other) @length <=> other.length end def to_s sprintf "%2d #{inspect}", @length end def inspect 'X' * @length end end r = Xs.new(3)..Xs.new(6) #=> XXX..XXXXXX r.to_a #=> [XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XXXXXX] r.include?(Xs.new(5)) #=> true r.include?(Xs.new(7)) #=> false
First, what’s elsewhere. Class Range:
Inherits from class Object.
Includes module Enumerable, which provides dozens of additional methods.
Here, class Range provides methods that are useful for:
::new
Returns a new range.
begin
Returns the begin value given for self.
bsearch
Returns an element from self selected by a binary search.
count
Returns a count of elements in self.
end
Returns the end value given for self.
exclude_end?
Returns whether the end object is excluded.
first
Returns the first elements of self.
hash
Returns the integer hash code.
last
Returns the last elements of self.
max
Returns the maximum values in self.
min
Returns the minimum values in self.
minmax
Returns the minimum and maximum values in self.
size
Returns the count of elements in self.
===
Returns whether the given object is between the begin and end values.
cover?
Returns whether a given object is within self.
%
Requires argument n; calls the block with each n-th element of self.
each
Calls the block with each element of self.
step
Takes optional argument n (defaults to 1); calls the block with each n-th element of self.
Ripper is a Ruby script parser.
You can get information from the parser with event-based style. Information such as abstract syntax trees or simple lexical analysis of the Ruby program.
Ripper provides an easy interface for parsing your program into a symbolic expression tree (or S-expression).
Understanding the output of the parser may come as a challenge, it’s recommended you use PP to format the output for legibility.
require 'ripper'
require 'pp'
pp Ripper.sexp('def hello(world) "Hello, #{world}!"; end')
#=> [:program,
[[:def,
[:@ident, "hello", [1, 4]],
[:paren,
[:params, [[:@ident, "world", [1, 10]]], nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]],
[:bodystmt,
[[:string_literal,
[:string_content,
[:@tstring_content, "Hello, ", [1, 18]],
[:string_embexpr, [[:var_ref, [:@ident, "world", [1, 27]]]]],
[:@tstring_content, "!", [1, 33]]]]],
nil,
nil,
nil]]]]
You can see in the example above, the expression starts with :program.
From here, a method definition at :def, followed by the method’s identifier :@ident. After the method’s identifier comes the parentheses :paren and the method parameters under :params.
Next is the method body, starting at :bodystmt (stmt meaning statement), which contains the full definition of the method.
In our case, we’re simply returning a String, so next we have the :string_literal expression.
Within our :string_literal you’ll notice two @tstring_content, this is the literal part for Hello, and !. Between the two @tstring_content statements is a :string_embexpr, where embexpr is an embedded expression. Our expression consists of a local variable, or var_ref, with the identifier (@ident) of world.
ruby 1.9 (support CVS HEAD only)
bison 1.28 or later (Other yaccs do not work)
Ruby License.
Minero Aoki
aamine@loveruby.net
WIN32OLE objects represent OLE Automation object in Ruby.
By using WIN32OLE, you can access OLE server like VBScript.
Here is sample script.
require 'win32ole' excel = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application') excel.visible = true workbook = excel.Workbooks.Add(); worksheet = workbook.Worksheets(1); worksheet.Range("A1:D1").value = ["North","South","East","West"]; worksheet.Range("A2:B2").value = [5.2, 10]; worksheet.Range("C2").value = 8; worksheet.Range("D2").value = 20; range = worksheet.Range("A1:D2"); range.select chart = workbook.Charts.Add; workbook.saved = true; excel.ActiveWorkbook.Close(0); excel.Quit();
Unfortunately, Win32OLE doesn’t support the argument passed by reference directly. Instead, Win32OLE provides WIN32OLE::ARGV or WIN32OLE_VARIANT object. If you want to get the result value of argument passed by reference, you can use WIN32OLE::ARGV or WIN32OLE_VARIANT.
oleobj.method(arg1, arg2, refargv3) puts WIN32OLE::ARGV[2] # the value of refargv3 after called oleobj.method
or
refargv3 = WIN32OLE_VARIANT.new(XXX, WIN32OLE::VARIANT::VT_BYREF|WIN32OLE::VARIANT::VT_XXX) oleobj.method(arg1, arg2, refargv3) p refargv3.value # the value of refargv3 after called oleobj.method.
Raised when OLE processing failed.
EX:
obj = WIN32OLE.new("NonExistProgID")
raises the exception:
WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown OLE server: `NonExistProgID'
HRESULT error code:0x800401f3
Invalid class string
The GetoptLong class allows you to parse command line options similarly to the GNU getopt_long() C library call. Note, however, that GetoptLong is a pure Ruby implementation.
GetoptLong allows for POSIX-style options like --file as well as single letter options like -f
The empty option -- (two minus symbols) is used to end option processing. This can be particularly important if options have optional arguments.
Here is a simple example of usage:
require 'getoptlong' opts = GetoptLong.new( [ '--help', '-h', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ], [ '--repeat', '-n', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT ], [ '--name', GetoptLong::OPTIONAL_ARGUMENT ] ) dir = nil name = nil repetitions = 1 opts.each do |opt, arg| case opt when '--help' puts <<-EOF hello [OPTION] ... DIR -h, --help: show help --repeat x, -n x: repeat x times --name [name]: greet user by name, if name not supplied default is John DIR: The directory in which to issue the greeting. EOF when '--repeat' repetitions = arg.to_i when '--name' if arg == '' name = 'John' else name = arg end end end if ARGV.length != 1 puts "Missing dir argument (try --help)" exit 0 end dir = ARGV.shift Dir.chdir(dir) for i in (1..repetitions) print "Hello" if name print ", #{name}" end puts end
Example command line:
hello -n 6 --name -- /tmp
PStore implements a file based persistence mechanism based on a Hash. User code can store hierarchies of Ruby objects (values) into the data store file by name (keys). An object hierarchy may be just a single object. User code may later read values back from the data store or even update data, as needed.
The transactional behavior ensures that any changes succeed or fail together. This can be used to ensure that the data store is not left in a transitory state, where some values were updated but others were not.
Behind the scenes, Ruby objects are stored to the data store file with Marshal. That carries the usual limitations. Proc objects cannot be marshalled, for example.
require "pstore" # a mock wiki object... class WikiPage def initialize( page_name, author, contents ) @page_name = page_name @revisions = Array.new add_revision(author, contents) end attr_reader :page_name def add_revision( author, contents ) @revisions << { :created => Time.now, :author => author, :contents => contents } end def wiki_page_references [@page_name] + @revisions.last[:contents].scan(/\b(?:[A-Z]+[a-z]+){2,}/) end # ... end # create a new page... home_page = WikiPage.new( "HomePage", "James Edward Gray II", "A page about the JoysOfDocumentation..." ) # then we want to update page data and the index together, or not at all... wiki = PStore.new("wiki_pages.pstore") wiki.transaction do # begin transaction; do all of this or none of it # store page... wiki[home_page.page_name] = home_page # ensure that an index has been created... wiki[:wiki_index] ||= Array.new # update wiki index... wiki[:wiki_index].push(*home_page.wiki_page_references) end # commit changes to wiki data store file ### Some time later... ### # read wiki data... wiki.transaction(true) do # begin read-only transaction, no changes allowed wiki.roots.each do |data_root_name| p data_root_name p wiki[data_root_name] end end
By default, file integrity is only ensured as long as the operating system (and the underlying hardware) doesn’t raise any unexpected I/O errors. If an I/O error occurs while PStore is writing to its file, then the file will become corrupted.
You can prevent this by setting pstore.ultra_safe = true. However, this results in a minor performance loss, and only works on platforms that support atomic file renames. Please consult the documentation for ultra_safe for details.
Needless to say, if you’re storing valuable data with PStore, then you should backup the PStore files from time to time.
Raised when attempting to convert special float values (in particular Infinity or NaN) to numerical classes which don’t support them.
Float::INFINITY.to_r #=> FloatDomainError: Infinity
The global value true is the only instance of class TrueClass and represents a logically true value in boolean expressions. The class provides operators allowing true to be used in logical expressions.
This module provides a framework for message digest libraries.
You may want to look at OpenSSL::Digest as it supports more algorithms.
A cryptographic hash function is a procedure that takes data and returns a fixed bit string: the hash value, also known as digest. Hash functions are also called one-way functions, it is easy to compute a digest from a message, but it is infeasible to generate a message from a digest.
require 'digest' # Compute a complete digest Digest::SHA256.digest 'message' #=> "\xABS\n\x13\xE4Y..." sha256 = Digest::SHA256.new sha256.digest 'message' #=> "\xABS\n\x13\xE4Y..." # Other encoding formats Digest::SHA256.hexdigest 'message' #=> "ab530a13e459..." Digest::SHA256.base64digest 'message' #=> "q1MKE+RZFJgr..." # Compute digest by chunks md5 = Digest::MD5.new md5.update 'message1' md5 << 'message2' # << is an alias for update md5.hexdigest #=> "94af09c09bb9..." # Compute digest for a file sha256 = Digest::SHA256.file 'testfile' sha256.hexdigest
Additionally digests can be encoded in “bubble babble” format as a sequence of consonants and vowels which is more recognizable and comparable than a hexadecimal digest.
require 'digest/bubblebabble' Digest::SHA256.bubblebabble 'message' #=> "xopoh-fedac-fenyh-..."
See the bubble babble specification at web.mit.edu/kenta/www/one/bubblebabble/spec/jrtrjwzi/draft-huima-01.txt.
Digest algorithms Different digest algorithms (or hash functions) are available:
MD5
See RFC 1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
As Digest::RMD160. See homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html.
SHA1
See FIPS 180 Secure Hash Standard.
SHA2 family
See FIPS 180 Secure Hash Standard which defines the following algorithms:
SHA512
SHA384
SHA256
The latest versions of the FIPS publications can be found here: csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html.
The Readline module provides interface for GNU Readline. This module defines a number of methods to facilitate completion and accesses input history from the Ruby interpreter. This module supported Edit Line(libedit) too. libedit is compatible with GNU Readline.
Reads one inputted line with line edit by Readline.readline method. At this time, the facilitatation completion and the key bind like Emacs can be operated like GNU Readline.
require "readline" while buf = Readline.readline("> ", true) p buf end
The content that the user input can be recorded to the history. The history can be accessed by Readline::HISTORY constant.
require "readline" while buf = Readline.readline("> ", true) p Readline::HISTORY.to_a print("-> ", buf, "\n") end
Documented by Kouji Takao <kouji dot takao at gmail dot com>.
FileTest implements file test operations similar to those used in File::Stat. It exists as a standalone module, and its methods are also insinuated into the File class. (Note that this is not done by inclusion: the interpreter cheats).
Include the English library file in a Ruby script, and you can reference the global variables such as $_ using less cryptic names, listed below.
Without ‘English’:
$\ = ' -- ' "waterbuffalo" =~ /buff/ print $', $$, "\n"
With English:
require "English" $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR = ' -- ' "waterbuffalo" =~ /buff/ print $POSTMATCH, $PID, "\n"
Below is a full list of descriptive aliases and their associated global variable:
$!
$@
$;
$;
$,
$,
$/
$/
$\
$\
$.
$.
$_
$>
$<
$$
$$
$?
$~
$=
$*
$&
$‘
$‘
$+
The Find module supports the top-down traversal of a set of file paths.
For example, to total the size of all files under your home directory, ignoring anything in a “dot” directory (e.g. $HOME/.ssh):
require 'find' total_size = 0 Find.find(ENV["HOME"]) do |path| if FileTest.directory?(path) if File.basename(path).start_with?('.') Find.prune # Don't look any further into this directory. else next end else total_size += FileTest.size(path) end end
URI is a module providing classes to handle Uniform Resource Identifiers (RFC2396).
Uniform way of handling URIs.
Flexibility to introduce custom URI schemes.
Flexibility to have an alternate URI::Parser (or just different patterns and regexp’s).
require 'uri' uri = URI("http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413") #=> #<URI::HTTP http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413> uri.scheme #=> "http" uri.host #=> "foo.com" uri.path #=> "/posts" uri.query #=> "id=30&limit=5" uri.fragment #=> "time=1305298413" uri.to_s #=> "http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413"
module URI class RSYNC < Generic DEFAULT_PORT = 873 end register_scheme 'RSYNC', RSYNC end #=> URI::RSYNC URI.scheme_list #=> {"FILE"=>URI::File, "FTP"=>URI::FTP, "HTTP"=>URI::HTTP, # "HTTPS"=>URI::HTTPS, "LDAP"=>URI::LDAP, "LDAPS"=>URI::LDAPS, # "MAILTO"=>URI::MailTo, "RSYNC"=>URI::RSYNC} uri = URI("rsync://rsync.foo.com") #=> #<URI::RSYNC rsync://rsync.foo.com>
A good place to view an RFC spec is www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
Here is a list of all related RFC’s:
Class tree URI::Generic (in uri/generic.rb)
URI::File - (in uri/file.rb)
URI::FTP - (in uri/ftp.rb)
URI::HTTP - (in uri/http.rb)
URI::HTTPS - (in uri/https.rb)
URI::LDAP - (in uri/ldap.rb)
URI::LDAPS - (in uri/ldaps.rb)
URI::MailTo - (in uri/mailto.rb)
URI::Parser - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::REGEXP - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::REGEXP::PATTERN - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::Util - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::Error - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::InvalidURIError - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::InvalidComponentError - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::BadURIError - (in uri/common.rb)
Akira Yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
Akira Yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org> Dmitry V. Sabanin <sdmitry@lrn.ru> Vincent Batts <vbatts@hashbangbash.com>
Copyright © 2001 akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org> You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same term as Ruby.
OpenURI is an easy-to-use wrapper for Net::HTTP, Net::HTTPS and Net::FTP.
It is possible to open an http, https or ftp URL as though it were a file:
URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f| f.each_line {|line| p line} }
The opened file has several getter methods for its meta-information, as follows, since it is extended by OpenURI::Meta.
URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en") {|f| f.each_line {|line| p line} p f.base_uri # <URI::HTTP:0x40e6ef2 URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/> p f.content_type # "text/html" p f.charset # "iso-8859-1" p f.content_encoding # [] p f.last_modified # Thu Dec 05 02:45:02 UTC 2002 }
Additional header fields can be specified by an optional hash argument.
URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/", "User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}", "From" => "foo@bar.invalid", "Referer" => "http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f| # ... }
The environment variables such as http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy are in effect by default. Here we disable proxy:
URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/", :proxy => nil) {|f| # ... }
See OpenURI::OpenRead.open and URI.open for more on available options.
URI objects can be opened in a similar way.
uri = URI.parse("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/") uri.open {|f| # ... }
URI objects can be read directly. The returned string is also extended by OpenURI::Meta.
str = uri.read p str.base_uri
Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
This is not an existing class, but documentation of the interface that Scheduler object should comply to in order to be used as argument to Fiber.scheduler and handle non-blocking fibers. See also the “Non-blocking fibers” section in Fiber class docs for explanations of some concepts.
Scheduler’s behavior and usage are expected to be as follows:
When the execution in the non-blocking Fiber reaches some blocking operation (like sleep, wait for a process, or a non-ready I/O), it calls some of the scheduler’s hook methods, listed below.
Scheduler somehow registers what the current fiber is waiting on, and yields control to other fibers with Fiber.yield (so the fiber would be suspended while expecting its wait to end, and other fibers in the same thread can perform)
At the end of the current thread execution, the scheduler’s method close is called
The scheduler runs into a wait loop, checking all the blocked fibers (which it has registered on hook calls) and resuming them when the awaited resource is ready (e.g. I/O ready or sleep time elapsed).
A typical implementation would probably rely for this closing loop on a gem like EventMachine or Async.
This way concurrent execution will be achieved transparently for every individual Fiber’s code.
Hook methods are:
(the list is expanded as Ruby developers make more methods having non-blocking calls)
When not specified otherwise, the hook implementations are mandatory: if they are not implemented, the methods trying to call hook will fail. To provide backward compatibility, in the future hooks will be optional (if they are not implemented, due to the scheduler being created for the older Ruby version, the code which needs this hook will not fail, and will just behave in a blocking fashion).
It is also strongly recommended that the scheduler implements the fiber method, which is delegated to by Fiber.schedule.
Sample toy implementation of the scheduler can be found in Ruby’s code, in test/fiber/scheduler.rb
A base class for objects representing a C structure
Wrapper for arrays within a struct
A pointer to a C structure