Returns help string.
tobj = WIN32OLE_TYPE.new('Microsoft Internet Controls', 'IWebBrowser') puts tobj.helpstring # => Web Browser interface
Adds a post-installs hook that will be passed a Gem::DependencyInstaller
and a list of installed specifications when Gem::DependencyInstaller#install
is complete
Returns the list of Modules
nested at the point of call.
module M1 module M2 $a = Module.nesting end end $a #=> [M1::M2, M1] $a[0].name #=> "M1::M2"
Set the handling of the ordering of options and arguments. A RuntimeError
is raised if option processing has already started.
The supplied value must be a member of GetoptLong::ORDERINGS
. It alters the processing of options as follows:
REQUIRE_ORDER :
Options are required to occur before non-options.
Processing of options ends as soon as a word is encountered that has not been preceded by an appropriate option flag.
For example, if -a and -b are options which do not take arguments, parsing command line arguments of ‘-a one -b two’ would result in ‘one’, ‘-b’, ‘two’ being left in ARGV, and only (‘-a’, ”) being processed as an option/arg pair.
This is the default ordering, if the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. (This is for compatibility with GNU getopt_long.)
PERMUTE :
Options can occur anywhere in the command line parsed. This is the default behavior.
Every sequence of words which can be interpreted as an option (with or without argument) is treated as an option; non-option words are skipped.
For example, if -a does not require an argument and -b optionally takes an argument, parsing ‘-a one -b two three’ would result in (‘-a’,”) and (‘-b’, ‘two’) being processed as option/arg pairs, and ‘one’,‘three’ being left in ARGV.
If the ordering is set to PERMUTE but the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, REQUIRE_ORDER is used instead. This is for compatibility with GNU getopt_long.
RETURN_IN_ORDER :
All words on the command line are processed as options. Words not preceded by a short or long option flag are passed as arguments with an option of ” (empty string).
For example, if -a requires an argument but -b does not, a command line of ‘-a one -b two three’ would result in option/arg pairs of (‘-a’, ‘one’) (‘-b’, ”), (”, ‘two’), (”, ‘three’) being processed.
Returns the binding associated with prc.
def fred(param) proc {} end b = fred(99) eval("param", b.binding) #=> 99
Return the generated binding object from event.
Note that for c_call
and c_return
events, the binding returned is the binding of the nearest Ruby method calling the C method, since C methods themselves do not have bindings.
Returns a Binding
object, describing the variable and method bindings at the point of call. This object can be used when calling eval
to execute the evaluated command in this environment. See also the description of class Binding
.
def get_binding(param) binding end b = get_binding("hello") eval("param", b) #=> "hello"
Is this handler a streaming handler?
Returns true
if the given instance variable is defined in obj. String
arguments are converted to symbols.
class Fred def initialize(p1, p2) @a, @b = p1, p2 end end fred = Fred.new('cat', 99) fred.instance_variable_defined?(:@a) #=> true fred.instance_variable_defined?("@b") #=> true fred.instance_variable_defined?("@c") #=> false
Returns true
if and only if the scan pointer is at the beginning of the line.
s = StringScanner.new("test\ntest\n") s.bol? # => true s.scan(/te/) s.bol? # => false s.scan(/st\n/) s.bol? # => true s.terminate s.bol? # => true
Returns an array of instance variable names for the receiver. Note that simply defining an accessor does not create the corresponding instance variable.
class Fred attr_accessor :a1 def initialize @iv = 3 end end Fred.new.instance_variables #=> [:@iv]
Invoked when a reference is made to an undefined constant in mod. It is passed a symbol for the undefined constant, and returns a value to be used for that constant. The following code is an example of the same:
def Foo.const_missing(name) name # return the constant name as Symbol end Foo::UNDEFINED_CONST #=> :UNDEFINED_CONST: symbol returned
In the next example when a reference is made to an undefined constant, it attempts to load a file whose name is the lowercase version of the constant (thus class Fred
is assumed to be in file fred.rb
). If found, it returns the loaded class. It therefore implements an autoload feature similar to Kernel#autoload
and Module#autoload
.
def Object.const_missing(name) @looked_for ||= {} str_name = name.to_s raise "Class not found: #{name}" if @looked_for[str_name] @looked_for[str_name] = 1 file = str_name.downcase require file klass = const_get(name) return klass if klass raise "Class not found: #{name}" end
Returns the Encoding
of the internal string if conversion is specified. Otherwise returns nil
.
Returns the Encoding
of the internal string if conversion is specified. Otherwise returns nil
.
Returns the internal encoding for strings read from ARGF
as an Encoding
object.
If ARGF.set_encoding
has been called with two encoding names, the second is returned. Otherwise, if Encoding.default_external
has been set, that value is returned. Failing that, if a default external encoding was specified on the command-line, that value is used. If the encoding is unknown, nil
is returned.
Outputs obj
to out
like PP.pp
but with no indent and newline.
PP.singleline_pp
returns out
.
Returns the sharing detection flag as a boolean value. It is false (nil) by default.
Sets the sharing detection flag to b.
This is similar to PrettyPrint::format
but the result has no breaks.
maxwidth
, newline
and genspace
are ignored.
The invocation of breakable
in the block doesn’t break a line and is treated as just an invocation of text
.
Closes the incoming port and returns its previous state. All further attempts to Ractor.receive
in the ractor, and send
to the ractor will fail with Ractor::ClosedError
.
r = Ractor.new {sleep(500)} r.close_incoming #=> false r.close_incoming #=> true r.send('test') # Ractor::ClosedError (The incoming-port is already closed)
Returns whether or not the asynchronous queue is empty.
Since Thread::handle_interrupt
can be used to defer asynchronous events, this method can be used to determine if there are any deferred events.
If you find this method returns true, then you may finish :never
blocks.
For example, the following method processes deferred asynchronous events immediately.
def Thread.kick_interrupt_immediately Thread.handle_interrupt(Object => :immediate) { Thread.pass } end
If error
is given, then check only for error
type deferred events.
th = Thread.new{ Thread.handle_interrupt(RuntimeError => :on_blocking){ while true ... # reach safe point to invoke interrupt if Thread.pending_interrupt? Thread.handle_interrupt(Object => :immediate){} end ... end } } ... th.raise # stop thread
This example can also be written as the following, which you should use to avoid asynchronous interrupts.
flag = true th = Thread.new{ Thread.handle_interrupt(RuntimeError => :on_blocking){ while true ... # reach safe point to invoke interrupt break if flag == false ... end } } ... flag = false # stop thread
Returns whether or not the asynchronous queue is empty for the target thread.
If error
is given, then check only for error
type deferred events.
See ::pending_interrupt?
for more information.