Provides a convenient Ruby iterator which executes a block for each entry in the /etc/passwd file.
The code block is passed an Passwd struct.
See ::getpwent above for details.
Example:
require 'etc' Etc.passwd {|u| puts u.name + " = " + u.gecos }
Resets the process of reading the /etc/group file, so that the next call to ::getgrent will return the first entry again.
Returns system configuration directory.
This is typically "/etc", but is modified by the prefix used when Ruby was compiled. For example, if Ruby is built and installed in /usr/local, returns "/usr/local/etc" on other platforms than Windows.
On Windows, this always returns the directory provided by the system.
Returns system configuration variable using sysconf().
name should be a constant under Etc which begins with SC_.
The return value is an integer or nil. nil means indefinite limit. (sysconf() returns -1 but errno is not set.)
Etc.sysconf(Etc::SC_ARG_MAX) #=> 2097152 Etc.sysconf(Etc::SC_LOGIN_NAME_MAX) #=> 256
Returns system configuration variable using confstr().
name should be a constant under Etc which begins with CS_.
The return value is a string or nil. nil means no configuration-defined value. (confstr() returns 0 but errno is not set.)
Etc.confstr(Etc::CS_PATH) #=> "/bin:/usr/bin" # GNU/Linux Etc.confstr(Etc::CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION) #=> "glibc 2.18" Etc.confstr(Etc::CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION) #=> "NPTL 2.18"
Creates a new handler that opens library, and returns an instance of Fiddle::Handle.
If nil is given for the library, Fiddle::Handle::DEFAULT is used, which is the equivalent to RTLD_DEFAULT. See man 3 dlopen for more.
lib = Fiddle.dlopen(nil)
The default is dependent on OS, and provide a handle for all libraries already loaded. For example, in most cases you can use this to access libc functions, or ruby functions like rb_str_new.
See Fiddle::Handle.new for more.
Creates a new handler that opens library, and returns an instance of Fiddle::Handle.
If nil is given for the library, Fiddle::Handle::DEFAULT is used, which is the equivalent to RTLD_DEFAULT. See man 3 dlopen for more.
lib = Fiddle.dlopen(nil)
The default is dependent on OS, and provide a handle for all libraries already loaded. For example, in most cases you can use this to access libc functions, or ruby functions like rb_str_new.
See Fiddle::Handle.new for more.
Returns a String containing the generated JSON data.
See also JSON.fast_generate, JSON.pretty_generate.
Argument obj is the Ruby object to be converted to JSON.
Argument opts, if given, contains a Hash of options for the generation. See Generating Options.
When obj is an Array, returns a String containing a JSON array:
obj = ["foo", 1.0, true, false, nil] json = JSON.generate(obj) json # => '["foo",1.0,true,false,null]'
When obj is a Hash, returns a String containing a JSON object:
obj = {foo: 0, bar: 's', baz: :bat} json = JSON.generate(obj) json # => '{"foo":0,"bar":"s","baz":"bat"}'
For examples of generating from other Ruby objects, see Generating JSON from Other Objects.
Raises an exception if any formatting option is not a String.
Raises an exception if obj contains circular references:
a = []; b = []; a.push(b); b.push(a) # Raises JSON::NestingError (nesting of 100 is too deep): JSON.generate(a)
Encodes string using String.encode.
Calculates Adler-32 checksum for string, and returns updated value of adler. If string is omitted, it returns the Adler-32 initial value. If adler is omitted, it assumes that the initial value is given to adler. If string is an IO instance, reads from the IO until the IO returns nil and returns Adler-32 of all read data.
Example usage:
require "zlib" data = "foo" puts "Adler32 checksum: #{Zlib.adler32(data).to_s(16)}" #=> Adler32 checksum: 2820145
Returns true if the named file exists and has a zero size.
file_name can be an IO object.
Returns true if the named file exists and has a zero size.
file_name can be an IO object.
Returns true if filepath points to a character device, false otherwise.
File.chardev?($stdin) # => true File.chardev?('t.txt') # => false
Returns true if the named file has the setuid bit set.
file_name can be an IO object.
Returns true if the named file has the setgid bit set.
file_name can be an IO object.
Returns true if the named file has the sticky bit set.
file_name can be an IO object.
Returns true if the named files are identical.
file_1 and file_2 can be an IO object.
open("a", "w") {} p File.identical?("a", "a") #=> true p File.identical?("a", "./a") #=> true File.link("a", "b") p File.identical?("a", "b") #=> true File.symlink("a", "c") p File.identical?("a", "c") #=> true open("d", "w") {} p File.identical?("a", "d") #=> false
Initiates garbage collection, even if manually disabled.
The full_mark keyword argument determines whether or not to perform a major garbage collection cycle. When set to true, a major garbage collection cycle is run, meaning all objects are marked. When set to false, a minor garbage collection cycle is run, meaning only young objects are marked.
The immediate_mark keyword argument determines whether or not to perform incremental marking. When set to true, marking is completed during the call to this method. When set to false, marking is performed in steps that are interleaved with future Ruby code execution, so marking might not be completed during this method call. Note that if full_mark is false, then marking will always be immediate, regardless of the value of immediate_mark.
The immediate_sweep keyword argument determines whether or not to defer sweeping (using lazy sweep). When set to false, sweeping is performed in steps that are interleaved with future Ruby code execution, so sweeping might not be completed during this method call. When set to true, sweeping is completed during the call to this method.
Note: These keyword arguments are implementation and version-dependent. They are not guaranteed to be future-compatible and may be ignored if the underlying implementation does not support them.
Sets or gets information about the current GC config.
Configuration parameters are GC implementation-specific and may change without notice.
This method can be called without parameters to retrieve the current config as a Hash with Symbol keys.
This method can also be called with a Hash argument to assign values to valid config keys. Config keys missing from the passed Hash will be left unmodified.
If a key/value pair is passed to this function that does not correspond to a valid config key for the GC implementation being used, no config will be updated, the key will be present in the returned Hash, and its value will be nil. This is to facilitate easy migration between GC implementations.
In both call-seqs, the return value of GC.config will be a Hash containing the most recent full configuration, i.e., all keys and values defined by the specific GC implementation being used. In the case of a config update, the return value will include the new values being updated.
This method is only expected to work on CRuby.
The GC.config hash can also contain keys that are global and read-only. These keys are not specific to any one GC library implementation and attempting to write to them will raise ArgumentError.
There is currently only one global, read-only key:
Returns a String containing the name of the currently loaded GC library, if one has been loaded using RUBY_GC_LIBRARY, and “default” in all other cases
GC libraries are expected to document their own configuration. Valid keys for Ruby’s default GC implementation are:
Controls whether the GC is allowed to run a full mark (young & old objects).
When true, GC interleaves major and minor collections. This is the default. GC will function as intended.
When false, the GC will never trigger a full marking cycle unless explicitly requested by user code. Instead, only a minor mark will run—only young objects will be marked. When the heap space is exhausted, new pages will be allocated immediately instead of running a full mark.
A flag will be set to notify that a full mark has been requested. This flag is accessible using GC.latest_gc_info(:needs_major_by)
The user can trigger a major collection at any time using GC.start(full_mark: true)
When false, Young to Old object promotion is disabled. For performance reasons, it is recommended to warm up an application using Process.warmup before setting this parameter to false.
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption at the top of the report, and uses format to format each line. (Note: caption must contain a terminating newline character, see the default Benchmark::Tms::CAPTION for an example.)
Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark, and the bm and bmbm methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)
Returns the elapsed real time used to execute the given block. The unit of time is seconds.
Benchmark.realtime { "a" * 1_000_000_000 } #=> 0.5098029999935534
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption at the top of the report, and uses format to format each line. (Note: caption must contain a terminating newline character, see the default Benchmark::Tms::CAPTION for an example.)
Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark, and the bm and bmbm methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)
Returns the elapsed real time used to execute the given block. The unit of time is seconds.
Benchmark.realtime { "a" * 1_000_000_000 } #=> 0.5098029999935534
Retrieve the PathSupport object that RubyGems uses to lookup files.