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Replaces the entire content of the environment variables with the name/value pairs in the given hash; returns ENV.

Replaces the content of ENV with the given pairs:

ENV.replace('foo' => '0', 'bar' => '1') # => ENV
ENV.to_hash # => {"bar"=>"1", "foo"=>"0"}

Raises an exception if a name or value is invalid (see Invalid Names and Values):

ENV.replace('foo' => '0', :bar => '1') # Raises TypeError (no implicit conversion of Symbol into String)
ENV.replace('foo' => '0', 'bar' => 1) # Raises TypeError (no implicit conversion of Integer into String)
ENV.to_hash # => {"bar"=>"1", "foo"=>"0"}

Reads each file in ARGF in its entirety, returning an Array containing lines from the files. Lines are assumed to be separated by sep.

lines = ARGF.readlines
lines[0]                #=> "This is line one\n"

See IO.readlines for a full description of all options.

Returns the next line from the current file in ARGF.

By default lines are assumed to be separated by $/; to use a different character as a separator, supply it as a String for the sep argument.

The optional limit argument specifies how many characters of each line to return. By default all characters are returned.

An EOFError is raised at the end of the file.

Returns the current line number of ARGF as a whole. This value can be set manually with ARGF.lineno=.

For example:

ARGF.lineno   #=> 0
ARGF.readline #=> "This is line 1\n"
ARGF.lineno   #=> 1

Sets the line number of ARGF as a whole to the given Integer.

ARGF sets the line number automatically as you read data, so normally you will not need to set it explicitly. To access the current line number use ARGF.lineno.

For example:

ARGF.lineno      #=> 0
ARGF.readline    #=> "This is line 1\n"
ARGF.lineno      #=> 1
ARGF.lineno = 0  #=> 0
ARGF.lineno      #=> 0

Returns the bound receiver of the binding object.

Directs to accept specified class t. The argument string is passed to the block in which it should be converted to the desired class.

t

Argument class specifier, any object including Class.

pat

Pattern for argument, defaults to t if it responds to match.

accept(t, pat, &block)

See accept.

Unlinks (deletes) the file from the filesystem. One should always unlink the file after using it, as is explained in the “Explicit close” good practice section in the Tempfile overview:

file = Tempfile.new('foo')
begin
   # ...do something with file...
ensure
   file.close
   file.unlink   # deletes the temp file
end

Unlink-before-close

On POSIX systems it’s possible to unlink a file before closing it. This practice is explained in detail in the Tempfile overview (section “Unlink after creation”); please refer there for more information.

However, unlink-before-close may not be supported on non-POSIX operating systems. Microsoft Windows is the most notable case: unlinking a non-closed file will result in an error, which this method will silently ignore. If you want to practice unlink-before-close whenever possible, then you should write code like this:

file = Tempfile.new('foo')
file.unlink   # On Windows this silently fails.
begin
   # ... do something with file ...
ensure
   file.close!   # Closes the file handle. If the file wasn't unlinked
                 # because #unlink failed, then this method will attempt
                 # to do so again.
end

Returns the bound receiver of the method object.

(1..3).method(:map).receiver # => 1..3

Receive a message from the incoming port of the current ractor (which was sent there by send from another ractor).

r = Ractor.new do
  v1 = Ractor.receive
  puts "Received: #{v1}"
end
r.send('message1')
r.take
# Here will be printed: "Received: message1"

Alternatively, the private instance method receive may be used:

r = Ractor.new do
  v1 = receive
  puts "Received: #{v1}"
end
r.send('message1')
r.take
# This prints: "Received: message1"

The method blocks if the queue is empty.

r = Ractor.new do
  puts "Before first receive"
  v1 = Ractor.receive
  puts "Received: #{v1}"
  v2 = Ractor.receive
  puts "Received: #{v2}"
end
wait
puts "Still not received"
r.send('message1')
wait
puts "Still received only one"
r.send('message2')
r.take

Output:

Before first receive
Still not received
Received: message1
Still received only one
Received: message2

If close_incoming was called on the ractor, the method raises Ractor::ClosedError if there are no more messages in the incoming queue:

Ractor.new do
  close_incoming
  receive
end
wait
# in `receive': The incoming port is already closed => #<Ractor:#2 test.rb:1 running> (Ractor::ClosedError)

same as Ractor.receive

Returns an array of all existing Thread objects that belong to this group.

ThreadGroup::Default.list   #=> [#<Thread:0x401bdf4c run>]

Returns an array of Thread objects for all threads that are either runnable or stopped.

Thread.new { sleep(200) }
Thread.new { 1000000.times {|i| i*i } }
Thread.new { Thread.stop }
Thread.list.each {|t| p t}

This will produce:

#<Thread:0x401b3e84 sleep>
#<Thread:0x401b3f38 run>
#<Thread:0x401b3fb0 sleep>
#<Thread:0x401bdf4c run>

Returns true if thr is running or sleeping.

thr = Thread.new { }
thr.join                #=> #<Thread:0x401b3fb0 dead>
Thread.current.alive?   #=> true
thr.alive?              #=> false

See also stop? and status.

Returns the current backtrace of the target thread.

A convenience method for TracePoint.new that activates the trace automatically.

trace = TracePoint.trace(:call) { |tp| [tp.lineno, tp.event] }
#=> #<TracePoint:enabled>

trace.enabled?  #=> true

Returns the line number of the event.

Equivalent to method Kernel#gets, except that it raises an exception if called at end-of-stream:

$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines; readline"
["First line\n", "Second line\n", "\n", "Fourth line\n", "Fifth line\n"]
in `readline': end of file reached (EOFError)

Optional keyword argument chomp specifies whether line separators are to be omitted.

Returns an array containing the lines returned by calling Kernel#gets until the end-of-stream is reached; (see Line IO).

With only string argument sep given, returns the remaining lines as determined by line separator sep, or nil if none; see Line Separator:

# Default separator.
$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines"
["First line\n", "Second line\n", "\n", "Fourth line\n", "Fifth line\n"]

# Specified separator.
$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines 'li'"
["First li", "ne\nSecond li", "ne\n\nFourth li", "ne\nFifth li", "ne\n"]

# Get-all separator.
$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines nil"
["First line\nSecond line\n\nFourth line\nFifth line\n"]

# Get-paragraph separator.
$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines ''"
["First line\nSecond line\n\n", "Fourth line\nFifth line\n"]

With only integer argument limit given, limits the number of bytes in the line; see Line Limit:

$cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines 10"
["First line", "\n", "Second lin", "e\n", "\n", "Fourth lin", "e\n", "Fifth line", "\n"]

$cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines 11"
["First line\n", "Second line", "\n", "\n", "Fourth line", "\n", "Fifth line\n"]

$cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines 12"
["First line\n", "Second line\n", "\n", "Fourth line\n", "Fifth line\n"]

With arguments sep and limit given, combines the two behaviors (see Line Separator and Line Limit).

Optional keyword argument chomp specifies whether line separators are to be omitted:

$ cat t.txt | ruby -e "p readlines(chomp: true)"
["First line", "Second line", "", "Fourth line", "Fifth line"]

Optional keyword arguments enc_opts specify encoding options; see Encoding options.

Suspends execution of the current thread for the number of seconds specified by numeric argument secs, or forever if secs is nil; returns the integer number of seconds suspended (rounded).

Time.new  # => 2008-03-08 19:56:19 +0900
sleep 1.2 # => 1
Time.new  # => 2008-03-08 19:56:20 +0900
sleep 1.9 # => 2
Time.new  # => 2008-03-08 19:56:22 +0900

Returns the result of applying a reducer to an initial value and the first element of the Enumerable. It then takes the result and applies the function to it and the second element of the collection, and so on. The return value is the result returned by the final call to the function.

You can think of

[ a, b, c, d ].inject(i) { |r, v| fn(r, v) }

as being

fn(fn(fn(fn(i, a), b), c), d)

In a way the inject function injects the function between the elements of the enumerable.

inject is aliased as reduce. You use it when you want to reduce a collection to a single value.

The Calling Sequences

Let’s start with the most verbose:

enum.inject(initial_value) do |result, next_value|
  # do something with +result+ and +next_value+
  # the value returned by the block becomes the
  # value passed in to the next iteration
  # as +result+
end

For example:

product = [ 2, 3, 4 ].inject(1) do |result, next_value|
  result * next_value
end
product #=> 24

When this runs, the block is first called with 1 (the initial value) and 2 (the first element of the array). The block returns 1*2, so on the next iteration the block is called with 2 (the previous result) and 3. The block returns 6, and is called one last time with 6 and 4. The result of the block, 24 becomes the value returned by inject. This code returns the product of the elements in the enumerable.

First Shortcut: Default Initial value

In the case of the previous example, the initial value, 1, wasn’t really necessary: the calculation of the product of a list of numbers is self-contained.

In these circumstances, you can omit the initial_value parameter. inject will then initially call the block with the first element of the collection as the result parameter and the second element as the next_value.

[ 2, 3, 4 ].inject do |result, next_value|
  result * next_value
end

This shortcut is convenient, but can only be used when the block produces a result which can be passed back to it as a first parameter.

Here’s an example where that’s not the case: it returns a hash where the keys are words and the values are the number of occurrences of that word in the enumerable.

freqs = File.read("README.md")
  .scan(/\w{2,}/)
  .reduce(Hash.new(0)) do |counts, word|
    counts[word] += 1
    counts
  end
freqs #=> {"Actions"=>4,
           "Status"=>5,
           "MinGW"=>3,
           "https"=>27,
           "github"=>10,
           "com"=>15, ...

Note that the last line of the block is just the word counts. This ensures the return value of the block is the result that’s being calculated.

Second Shortcut: a Reducer function

A reducer function is a function that takes a partial result and the next value, returning the next partial result. The block that is given to inject is a reducer.

You can also write a reducer as a function and pass the name of that function (as a symbol) to inject. However, for this to work, the function

1. Must be defined on the type of the result value

2. Must accept a single parameter, the next value in the collection, and

3. Must return an updated result which will also implement the function.

Here’s an example that adds elements to a string. The two calls invoke the functions String#concat and String#+ on the result so far, passing it the next value.

s = [ "cat", " ", "dog" ].inject("", :concat)
s #=> "cat dog"
s = [ "cat", " ", "dog" ].inject("The result is:", :+)
s #=> "The result is: cat dog"

Here’s a more complex example when the result object maintains state of a different type to the enumerable elements.

class Turtle

  def initialize
    @x = @y = 0
  end

  def move(dir)
    case dir
    when "n" then @y += 1
    when "s" then @y -= 1
    when "e" then @x += 1
    when "w" then @x -= 1
    end
    self
  end
end

position = "nnneesw".chars.reduce(Turtle.new, :move)
position  #=>> #<Turtle:0x00000001052f4698 @y=2, @x=1>

Third Shortcut: Reducer With no Initial Value

If your reducer returns a value that it can accept as a parameter, then you don’t have to pass in an initial value. Here :* is the name of the times function:

product = [ 2, 3, 4 ].inject(:*)
product # => 24

String concatenation again:

s = [ "cat", " ", "dog" ].inject(:+)
s #=> "cat dog"

And an example that converts a hash to an array of two-element subarrays.

nested = {foo: 0, bar: 1}.inject([], :push)
nested # => [[:foo, 0], [:bar, 1]]

Returns the number of online processors.

The result is intended as the number of processes to use all available processors.

This method is implemented using:

• sched_getaffinity(): Linux

• sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN): GNU/Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenIndiana, Mac OS X, AIX

Example:

require 'etc'
p Etc.nprocessors #=> 4

The result might be smaller number than physical cpus especially when ruby process is bound to specific cpus. This is intended for getting better parallel processing.

Example: (Linux)

linux$ taskset 0x3 ./ruby -retc -e "p Etc.nprocessors"  #=> 2

Encodes string using String.encode.

Returns true if filepath points to a symbolic link, false otherwise:

symlink = File.symlink('t.txt', 'symlink')
File.symlink?('symlink') # => true
File.symlink?('t.txt')   # => false