Returns the Symbol corresponding to str, creating the symbol if it did not previously exist. See Symbol#id2name.
"Koala".intern #=> :Koala s = 'cat'.to_sym #=> :cat s == :cat #=> true s = '@cat'.to_sym #=> :@cat s == :@cat #=> true
This can also be used to create symbols that cannot be represented using the :xxx notation.
'cat and dog'.to_sym #=> :"cat and dog"
Returns true if str 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 a copy of str with leading prefix deleted.
"hello".delete_prefix("hel") #=> "lo" "hello".delete_prefix("llo") #=> "hello"
Deletes leading prefix from str, returning nil if no change was made.
"hello".delete_prefix!("hel") #=> "lo" "hello".delete_prefix!("llo") #=> nil
Changes the encoding to encoding and returns self.
Unicode Normalization—Returns a normalized form of str, using Unicode normalizations NFC, NFD, NFKC, or NFKD. The normalization form used is determined by form, which can be any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. In this context, ‘Unicode Encoding’ means any of UTF-8, UTF-16BE/LE, and UTF-32BE/LE, as well as GB18030, UCS_2BE, and UCS_4BE. Anything other than UTF-8 is implemented by converting to UTF-8, which makes it slower than UTF-8.
"a\u0300".unicode_normalize #=> "\u00E0" "a\u0300".unicode_normalize(:nfc) #=> "\u00E0" "\u00E0".unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> "a\u0300" "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
Destructive version of String#unicode_normalize, doing Unicode normalization in place.
Checks whether str is in Unicode normalization form form, which can be any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. For details, see String#unicode_normalize.
"a\u0300".unicode_normalized? #=> false "a\u0300".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized? #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> false "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalized? #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
Returns self truncated to an Integer.
1.2.to_i # => 1 (-1.2).to_i # => -1
Note that the limited precision of floating-point arithmetic may lead to surprising results:
(0.3 / 0.1).to_i # => 2 (!)
Float#to_int is an alias for Float#to_i.
Returns the next-smaller representable Float.
These examples show the internally stored values (64-bit hexadecimal) for each Float f and for the corresponding f.pev_float:
f = 5e-324 # 0x0000000000000001 f.prev_float # 0x0000000000000000 f = 0.01 # 0x3f847ae147ae147b f.prev_float # 0x3f847ae147ae147a
In the remaining examples here, the output is shown in the usual way (result to_s):
0.01.prev_float # => 0.009999999999999998 1.0.prev_float # => 0.9999999999999999 100.0.prev_float # => 99.99999999999999 f = 0.01 (0..3).each_with_index {|i| printf "%2d %-20a %s\n", i, f, f.to_s; f = f.prev_float }
Output:
0 0x1.47ae147ae147bp-7 0.01 1 0x1.47ae147ae147ap-7 0.009999999999999998 2 0x1.47ae147ae1479p-7 0.009999999999999997 3 0x1.47ae147ae1478p-7 0.009999999999999995
Related: Float#next_float.
Returns the Fiber scheduler, that was last set for the current thread with Fiber.set_scheduler if and only if the current fiber is non-blocking.
Returns the path parameter passed to dir’s constructor.
d = Dir.new("..") d.path #=> ".."
Returns the pathname used to create file as a string. Does not normalize the name.
The pathname may not point to the file corresponding to file. For instance, the pathname becomes void when the file has been moved or deleted.
This method raises IOError for a file created using File::Constants::TMPFILE because they don’t have a pathname.
File.new("testfile").path #=> "testfile" File.new("/tmp/../tmp/xxx", "w").path #=> "/tmp/../tmp/xxx"
Returns true if the named file is writable by the real user and group id of this process. See access(3).
Note that some OS-level security features may cause this to return true even though the file is not writable by the real user/group.
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).
Windows does not support execute permissions separately from read permissions. On Windows, a file is only considered executable if it ends in .bat, .cmd, .com, or .exe.
Note that some OS-level security features may cause this to return true even though the file is not executable by the real user/group.
Returns the list of available encoding names.
Encoding.name_list
#=> ["US-ASCII", "ASCII-8BIT", "UTF-8",
"ISO-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "EUC-JP",
"Windows-31J",
"BINARY", "CP932", "eucJP"]
Returns true if exception messages will be sent to a tty.
Deserializes JSON string by constructing new Exception object with message m and backtrace b serialized with to_json
When this module is included in another, Ruby calls append_features in this module, passing it the receiving module in mod. Ruby’s default implementation is to add the constants, methods, and module variables of this module to mod if this module has not already been added to mod or one of its ancestors. See also Module#include.
Invoked as a callback whenever an instance method is removed from the receiver.
module Chatty def self.method_removed(method_name) puts "Removing #{method_name.inspect}" end def self.some_class_method() end def some_instance_method() end class << self remove_method :some_class_method end remove_method :some_instance_method end
produces:
Removing :some_instance_method
Creates instance variables and corresponding methods that return the value of each instance variable. Equivalent to calling “attr:name” on each name in turn. String arguments are converted to symbols. Returns an array of defined method names as symbols.
Defines a named attribute for this module, where the name is symbol.id2name, creating an instance variable (@name) and a corresponding access method to read it. Also creates a method called name= to set the attribute. String arguments are converted to symbols. Returns an array of defined method names as symbols.
module Mod attr_accessor(:one, :two) #=> [:one, :one=, :two, :two=] end Mod.instance_methods.sort #=> [:one, :one=, :two, :two=]
Returns an array containing the names of the public and protected instance methods in the receiver. For a module, these are the public and protected methods; for a class, they are the instance (not singleton) methods. If the optional parameter is false, the methods of any ancestors are not included.
module A def method1() end end class B include A def method2() end end class C < B def method3() end end A.instance_methods(false) #=> [:method1] B.instance_methods(false) #=> [:method2] B.instance_methods(true).include?(:method1) #=> true C.instance_methods(false) #=> [:method3] C.instance_methods.include?(:method2) #=> true