Makes a list of existing constants deprecated. Attempt to refer to them will produce a warning.
module HTTP NotFound = Exception.new NOT_FOUND = NotFound # previous version of the library used this name deprecate_constant :NOT_FOUND end HTTP::NOT_FOUND # warning: constant HTTP::NOT_FOUND is deprecated
Returns an UnboundMethod
representing the given instance method in mod.
class Interpreter def do_a() print "there, "; end def do_d() print "Hello "; end def do_e() print "!\n"; end def do_v() print "Dave"; end Dispatcher = { "a" => instance_method(:do_a), "d" => instance_method(:do_d), "e" => instance_method(:do_e), "v" => instance_method(:do_v) } def interpret(string) string.each_char {|b| Dispatcher[b].bind(self).call } end end interpreter = Interpreter.new interpreter.interpret('dave')
produces:
Hello there, Dave!
Evaluates the string or block in the context of mod, except that when a block is given, constant/class variable lookup is not affected. This can be used to add methods to a class. module_eval
returns the result of evaluating its argument. The optional filename and lineno parameters set the text for error messages.
class Thing end a = %q{def hello() "Hello there!" end} Thing.module_eval(a) puts Thing.new.hello() Thing.module_eval("invalid code", "dummy", 123)
produces:
Hello there! dummy:123:in `module_eval': undefined local variable or method `code' for Thing:Class
Evaluates the string or block in the context of mod, except that when a block is given, constant/class variable lookup is not affected. This can be used to add methods to a class. module_eval
returns the result of evaluating its argument. The optional filename and lineno parameters set the text for error messages.
class Thing end a = %q{def hello() "Hello there!" end} Thing.module_eval(a) puts Thing.new.hello() Thing.module_eval("invalid code", "dummy", 123)
produces:
Hello there! dummy:123:in `module_eval': undefined local variable or method `code' for Thing:Class
Makes new_name a new copy of the method old_name. This can be used to retain access to methods that are overridden.
module Mod alias_method :orig_exit, :exit #=> :orig_exit def exit(code=0) puts "Exiting with code #{code}" orig_exit(code) end end include Mod exit(99)
produces:
Exiting with code 99
Returns a 2-length array; the first item is the result of BigDecimal#precision
and the second one is of BigDecimal#scale
.
See BigDecimal#precision
. See BigDecimal#scale
.
Synonym for ENV
.
Just returns true. It’s nonsense, but is for symmetry.
Date.valid_jd?(2451944) #=> true
See also ::jd
.
Returns true if the given calendar date is valid, and false if not. Valid in this context is whether the arguments passed to this method would be accepted by ::new
.
Date.valid_date?(2001,2,3) #=> true Date.valid_date?(2001,2,29) #=> false Date.valid_date?(2001,2,-1) #=> true
Returns true if the given calendar date is valid, and false if not. Valid in this context is whether the arguments passed to this method would be accepted by ::new
.
Date.valid_date?(2001,2,3) #=> true Date.valid_date?(2001,2,29) #=> false Date.valid_date?(2001,2,-1) #=> true
Duplicates self and resets its day of calendar reform.
d = Date.new(1582,10,15) d.new_start(Date::JULIAN) #=> #<Date: 1582-10-05 ...>
Returns an array of values from self
.
With integer arguments integers
given, returns an array containing each value given by one of integers
:
Customer = Struct.new(:name, :address, :zip) joe = Customer.new("Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345) joe.values_at(0, 2) # => ["Joe Smith", 12345] joe.values_at(2, 0) # => [12345, "Joe Smith"] joe.values_at(2, 1, 0) # => [12345, "123 Maple, Anytown NC", "Joe Smith"] joe.values_at(0, -3) # => ["Joe Smith", "Joe Smith"]
Raises IndexError
if any of integers
is out of range; see Array Indexes.
With integer range argument integer_range
given, returns an array containing each value given by the elements of the range; fills with nil
values for range elements larger than the structure:
joe.values_at(0..2) # => ["Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345] joe.values_at(-3..-1) # => ["Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345] joe.values_at(1..4) # => ["123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345, nil, nil]
Raises RangeError
if any element of the range is negative and out of range; see Array Indexes.
Waits until IO
is writable and returns true
or false
when times out.
Returns the Encoding
object that represents the encoding of the file. If io is in write mode and no encoding is specified, returns nil
.
Returns the Encoding
of the internal string if conversion is specified. Otherwise returns nil
.
Dup internal hash.
Clone internal hash.
Returns true if sym
starts with one of the prefixes
given. Each of the prefixes
should be a String
or a Regexp
.
:hello.start_with?("hell") #=> true :hello.start_with?(/H/i) #=> true # returns true if one of the prefixes matches. :hello.start_with?("heaven", "hell") #=> true :hello.start_with?("heaven", "paradise") #=> false
Returns true if this class can be used to create an instance from a serialised JSON
string. The class has to implement a class method json_create that expects a hash as first parameter. The hash should include the required data.