Escapes str so that it can be safely used in a Bourne shell command line.
See Shellwords.shellescape for details.
Returns the count of characters (not bytes) in self:
'foo'.length # => 3 'тест'.length # => 4 'こんにちは'.length # => 5
Contrast with String#bytesize:
'foo'.bytesize # => 3 'тест'.bytesize # => 8 'こんにちは'.bytesize # => 15
Returns a printable version of self, enclosed in double-quotes, with special characters escaped, and with non-printing characters replaced by hexadecimal notation:
"hello \n ''".dump # => "\"hello \\n ''\"" "\f\x00\xff\\\"".dump # => "\"\\f\\x00\\xFF\\\\\\\"\""
Related: String#undump (inverse of String#dump).
Returns an array of the codepoints in self; each codepoint is the integer value for a character:
'hello'.codepoints # => [104, 101, 108, 108, 111] 'тест'.codepoints # => [1090, 1077, 1089, 1090] 'こんにちは'.codepoints # => [12371, 12435, 12395, 12385, 12399]
Returns a copy of self with characters specified by selectors removed (see Multiple Character Selectors):
"hello".delete "l","lo" #=> "heo" "hello".delete "lo" #=> "he" "hello".delete "aeiou", "^e" #=> "hell" "hello".delete "ej-m" #=> "ho"
Like String#delete, but modifies self in place. Returns self if any changes were made, nil otherwise.
Returns a frozen, possibly pre-existing copy of the string.
The returned String will be deduplicated as long as it does not have any instance variables set on it and is not a String subclass.
Note that -string variant is more convenient for defining constants:
FILENAME = -'config/database.yml'
while dedup is better suitable for using the method in chains of calculations:
@url_list.concat(urls.map(&:dedup))
Returns 0 if self is positive, Math::PI otherwise.
Returns the file descriptor used in dir.
d = Dir.new('..') d.fileno # => 8
This method uses the dirfd() function defined by POSIX 2008; the method is not implemented on non-POSIX platforms (raises NotImplementedError).
Removes the directory at dirpath from the underlying file system:
Dir.rmdir('foo') # => 0
Raises an exception if the directory is not empty.
Deletes the named files, returning the number of names passed as arguments. Raises an exception on any error. Since the underlying implementation relies on the unlink(2) system call, the type of exception raised depends on its error type (see linux.die.net/man/2/unlink) and has the form of e.g. Errno::ENOENT.
See also Dir::rmdir.
Returns true if the named file is readable by the effective user and group id of this process. See eaccess(3).
Note that some OS-level security features may cause this to return true even though the file is not readable by the effective user/group.
Returns true if the named file is writable by the effective user and group id of this process. See eaccess(3).
Note that some OS-level security features may cause this to return true even though the file is not writable by the effective user/group.
Returns true if the named file is executable by the effective user and group id of this process. See eaccess(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 effective user/group.
Returns true if the named file exists and is a regular file.
file can be an IO object.
If the file argument is a symbolic link, it will resolve the symbolic link and use the file referenced by the link.
Returns true for dummy encodings. A dummy encoding is an encoding for which character handling is not properly implemented. It is used for stateful encodings.
Encoding::ISO_2022_JP.dummy? #=> true Encoding::UTF_8.dummy? #=> false
Returns the return value of the iterator.
o = Object.new def o.each yield 1 yield 2 yield 3 100 end e = o.to_enum puts e.next #=> 1 puts e.next #=> 2 puts e.next #=> 3 begin e.next rescue StopIteration => ex puts ex.result #=> 100 end
The primary interface to this library. Use to setup delegation when defining your class.
class MyClass < DelegateClass(ClassToDelegateTo) # Step 1 def initialize super(obj_of_ClassToDelegateTo) # Step 2 end end
or:
MyClass = DelegateClass(ClassToDelegateTo) do # Step 1 def initialize super(obj_of_ClassToDelegateTo) # Step 2 end end
Here’s a sample of use from Tempfile which is really a File object with a few special rules about storage location and when the File should be deleted. That makes for an almost textbook perfect example of how to use delegation.
class Tempfile < DelegateClass(File) # constant and class member data initialization... def initialize(basename, tmpdir=Dir::tmpdir) # build up file path/name in var tmpname... @tmpfile = File.open(tmpname, File::RDWR|File::CREAT|File::EXCL, 0600) # ... super(@tmpfile) # below this point, all methods of File are supported... end # ... end
Produces a shallow copy of obj—the instance variables of obj are copied, but not the objects they reference.
This method may have class-specific behavior. If so, that behavior will be documented under the #initialize_copy method of the class.
In general, clone and dup may have different semantics in descendant classes. While clone is used to duplicate an object, including its internal state, dup typically uses the class of the descendant object to create the new instance.
When using dup, any modules that the object has been extended with will not be copied.
class Klass attr_accessor :str end module Foo def foo; 'foo'; end end s1 = Klass.new #=> #<Klass:0x401b3a38> s1.extend(Foo) #=> #<Klass:0x401b3a38> s1.foo #=> "foo" s2 = s1.clone #=> #<Klass:0x401be280> s2.foo #=> "foo" s3 = s1.dup #=> #<Klass:0x401c1084> s3.foo #=> NoMethodError: undefined method `foo' for #<Klass:0x401c1084>
Returns a list of the names of public and protected methods of obj. This will include all the methods accessible in obj’s ancestors. If the optional parameter is false, it returns an array of obj’s public and protected singleton methods, the array will not include methods in modules included in obj.
class Klass def klass_method() end end k = Klass.new k.methods[0..9] #=> [:klass_method, :nil?, :===, # :==~, :!, :eql? # :hash, :<=>, :class, :singleton_class] k.methods.length #=> 56 k.methods(false) #=> [] def k.singleton_method; end k.methods(false) #=> [:singleton_method] module M123; def m123; end end k.extend M123 k.methods(false) #=> [:singleton_method]
Looks up the named method as a receiver in obj, returning a Method object (or raising NameError). The Method object acts as a closure in obj’s object instance, so instance variables and the value of self remain available.
class Demo def initialize(n) @iv = n end def hello() "Hello, @iv = #{@iv}" end end k = Demo.new(99) m = k.method(:hello) m.call #=> "Hello, @iv = 99" l = Demo.new('Fred') m = l.method("hello") m.call #=> "Hello, @iv = Fred"
Note that Method implements to_proc method, which means it can be used with iterators.
[ 1, 2, 3 ].each(&method(:puts)) # => prints 3 lines to stdout out = File.open('test.txt', 'w') [ 1, 2, 3 ].each(&out.method(:puts)) # => prints 3 lines to file require 'date' %w[2017-03-01 2017-03-02].collect(&Date.method(:parse)) #=> [#<Date: 2017-03-01 ((2457814j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, #<Date: 2017-03-02 ((2457815j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>]
Returns true if the given year is a leap year in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, false otherwise:
Date.gregorian_leap?(2000) # => true Date.gregorian_leap?(2001) # => false
Related: Date.julian_leap?.
Returns a new Date object constructed from the present date:
Date.today.to_s # => "2022-07-06"
See argument start.