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Pathname

Pathname represents the name of a file or directory on the filesystem, but not the file itself.

The pathname depends on the Operating System: Unix, Windows, etc. This library works with pathnames of local OS, however non-Unix pathnames are supported experimentally.

A Pathname can be relative or absolute. It’s not until you try to reference the file that it even matters whether the file exists or not.

Pathname is immutable. It has no method for destructive update.

The goal of this class is to manipulate file path information in a neater way than standard Ruby provides. The examples below demonstrate the difference.

All functionality from File, FileTest, and some from Dir and FileUtils is included, in an unsurprising way. It is essentially a facade for all of these, and more.

Examples

Example 1: Using `Pathname`

require 'pathname'
pn = Pathname.new("/usr/bin/ruby")
size = pn.size              # 27662
isdir = pn.directory?       # false
dir  = pn.dirname           # Pathname:/usr/bin
base = pn.basename          # Pathname:ruby
dir, base = pn.split        # [Pathname:/usr/bin, Pathname:ruby]
data = pn.read
pn.open { |f| _ }
pn.each_line { |line| _ }

Example 2: Using standard `Ruby`

pn = "/usr/bin/ruby"
size = File.size(pn)        # 27662
isdir = File.directory?(pn) # false
dir  = File.dirname(pn)     # "/usr/bin"
base = File.basename(pn)    # "ruby"
dir, base = File.split(pn)  # ["/usr/bin", "ruby"]
data = File.read(pn)
File.open(pn) { |f| _ }
File.foreach(pn) { |line| _ }

Example 3: Special features

p1 = Pathname.new("/usr/lib")   # Pathname:/usr/lib
p2 = p1 + "ruby/1.8"            # Pathname:/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
p3 = p1.parent                  # Pathname:/usr
p4 = p2.relative_path_from(p3)  # Pathname:lib/ruby/1.8
pwd = Pathname.pwd              # Pathname:/home/gavin
pwd.absolute?                   # true
p5 = Pathname.new "."           # Pathname:.
p5 = p5 + "music/../articles"   # Pathname:music/../articles
p5.cleanpath                    # Pathname:articles
p5.realpath                     # Pathname:/home/gavin/articles
p5.children                     # [Pathname:/home/gavin/articles/linux, ...]

Breakdown of functionality

Core methods

These methods are effectively manipulating a String, because that’s all a path is. None of these access the file system except for mountpoint?, children, each_child, realdirpath and realpath.

`File` status predicate methods

These methods are a facade for FileTest:

`File` property and manipulation methods

These methods are a facade for File:

Directory methods

These methods are a facade for Dir:

`IO`

These methods are a facade for IO:

Utilities

These methods are a mixture of Find, FileUtils, and others:

`Method` documentation

As the above section shows, most of the methods in Pathname are facades. The documentation for these methods generally just says, for instance, “See FileTest.writable?”, as you should be familiar with the original method anyway, and its documentation (e.g. through ri) will contain more information. In some cases, a brief description will follow.

Delegator

This library provides three different ways to delegate method calls to an object. The easiest to use is SimpleDelegator. Pass an object to the constructor and all methods supported by the object will be delegated. This object can be changed later.

Going a step further, the top level DelegateClass method allows you to easily setup delegation through class inheritance. This is considerably more flexible and thus probably the most common use for this library.

Finally, if you need full control over the delegation scheme, you can inherit from the abstract class Delegator and customize as needed. (If you find yourself needing this control, have a look at Forwardable which is also in the standard library. It may suit your needs better.)

SimpleDelegator’s implementation serves as a nice example of the use of Delegator:

require 'delegate'

class SimpleDelegator < Delegator
  def __getobj__
    @delegate_sd_obj # return object we are delegating to, required
  end

  def __setobj__(obj)
    @delegate_sd_obj = obj # change delegation object,
                           # a feature we're providing
  end
end

Notes

Be advised, RDoc will not detect delegated methods.

SimpleDelegator

A concrete implementation of Delegator, this class provides the means to delegate all supported method calls to the object passed into the constructor and even to change the object being delegated to at a later time with __setobj__.

class User
  def born_on
    Date.new(1989, 9, 10)
  end
end

require 'delegate'

class UserDecorator < SimpleDelegator
  def birth_year
    born_on.year
  end
end

decorated_user = UserDecorator.new(User.new)
decorated_user.birth_year  #=> 1989
decorated_user.__getobj__  #=> #<User: ...>

A SimpleDelegator instance can take advantage of the fact that SimpleDelegator is a subclass of Delegator to call super to have methods called on the object being delegated to.

class SuperArray < SimpleDelegator
  def [](*args)
    super + 1
  end
end

SuperArray.new([1])[0]  #=> 2

Here’s a simple example that takes advantage of the fact that SimpleDelegator’s delegation object can be changed at any time.

class Stats
  def initialize
    @source = SimpleDelegator.new([])
  end

  def stats(records)
    @source.__setobj__(records)

    "Elements:  #{@source.size}\n" +
    " Non-Nil:  #{@source.compact.size}\n" +
    "  Unique:  #{@source.uniq.size}\n"
  end
end

s = Stats.new
puts s.stats(%w{James Edward Gray II})
puts
puts s.stats([1, 2, 3, nil, 4, 5, 1, 2])

Prints:

Elements:  4
 Non-Nil:  4
  Unique:  4

Elements:  8
 Non-Nil:  7
  Unique:  6

FloatDomainError

Raised when attempting to convert special float values (in particular Infinity or NaN) to numerical classes which don’t support them.

Float::INFINITY.to_r   #=> FloatDomainError: Infinity

SystemStackError

Raised in case of a stack overflow.

def me_myself_and_i
  me_myself_and_i
end
me_myself_and_i

raises the exception:

SystemStackError: stack level too deep

Forwardable

The Forwardable module provides delegation of specified methods to a designated object, using the methods def_delegator and def_delegators.

For example, say you have a class RecordCollection which contains an array @records. You could provide the lookup method record_number(), which simply calls [] on the @records array, like this:

require 'forwardable'

class RecordCollection
  attr_accessor :records
  extend Forwardable
  def_delegator :@records, :[], :record_number
end

We can use the lookup method like so:

r = RecordCollection.new
r.records = [4,5,6]
r.record_number(0)  # => 4

Further, if you wish to provide the methods size, <<, and map, all of which delegate to @records, this is how you can do it:

class RecordCollection # re-open RecordCollection class
  def_delegators :@records, :size, :<<, :map
end

r = RecordCollection.new
r.records = [1,2,3]
r.record_number(0)   # => 1
r.size               # => 3
r << 4               # => [1, 2, 3, 4]
r.map { |x| x * 2 }  # => [2, 4, 6, 8]

You can even extend regular objects with Forwardable.

my_hash = Hash.new
my_hash.extend Forwardable              # prepare object for delegation
my_hash.def_delegator "STDOUT", "puts"  # add delegation for STDOUT.puts()
my_hash.puts "Howdy!"

Another example

You could use Forwardable as an alternative to inheritance, when you don’t want to inherit all methods from the superclass. For instance, here is how you might add a range of Array instance methods to a new class Queue:

class Queue
  extend Forwardable

  def initialize
    @q = [ ]    # prepare delegate object
  end

  # setup preferred interface, enq() and deq()...
  def_delegator :@q, :push, :enq
  def_delegator :@q, :shift, :deq

  # support some general Array methods that fit Queues well
  def_delegators :@q, :clear, :first, :push, :shift, :size
end

q = Thread::Queue.new
q.enq 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
q.push 6

q.shift    # => 1
while q.size > 0
  puts q.deq
end

q.enq "Ruby", "Perl", "Python"
puts q.first
q.clear
puts q.first

This should output:

2
3
4
5
6
Ruby
nil

Notes

Be advised, RDoc will not detect delegated methods.

forwardable.rb provides single-method delegation via the def_delegator and def_delegators methods. For full-class delegation via DelegateClass, see delegate.rb.

SingleForwardable

SingleForwardable can be used to setup delegation at the object level as well.

printer = String.new
printer.extend SingleForwardable        # prepare object for delegation
printer.def_delegator "STDOUT", "puts"  # add delegation for STDOUT.puts()
printer.puts "Howdy!"

Also, SingleForwardable can be used to set up delegation for a Class or Module.

class Implementation
  def self.service
    puts "serviced!"
  end
end

module Facade
  extend SingleForwardable
  def_delegator :Implementation, :service
end

Facade.service #=> serviced!

If you want to use both Forwardable and SingleForwardable, you can use methods def_instance_delegator and def_single_delegator, etc.

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Math

Module Math provides methods for basic trigonometric, logarithmic, and transcendental functions, and for extracting roots.

You can write its constants and method calls thus:

Math::PI      # => 3.141592653589793
Math::E       # => 2.718281828459045
Math.sin(0.0) # => 0.0
Math.cos(0.0) # => 1.0

If you include module Math, you can write simpler forms:

include Math
PI       # => 3.141592653589793
E        # => 2.718281828459045
sin(0.0) # => 0.0
cos(0.0) # => 1.0

For simplicity, the examples here assume:

include Math
INFINITY = Float::INFINITY

The domains and ranges for the methods are denoted by open or closed intervals, using, respectively, parentheses or square brackets:

An open interval does not include the endpoints:
```
(-INFINITY, INFINITY)
```
A closed interval includes the endpoints:
```
[-1.0, 1.0]
```
A half-open interval includes one endpoint, but not the other:
```
[1.0, INFINITY)
```

Many values returned by Math methods are numerical approximations. This is because many such values are, in mathematics, of infinite precision, while in numerical computation the precision is finite.

Thus, in mathematics, cos(π/2) is exactly zero, but in our computation cos(PI/2) is a number very close to zero:

cos(PI/2) # => 6.123031769111886e-17

For very large and very small returned values, we have added formatted numbers for clarity:

tan(PI/2)  # => 1.633123935319537e+16   # 16331239353195370.0
tan(PI)    # => -1.2246467991473532e-16 # -0.0000000000000001

See class Float for the constants that affect Ruby’s floating-point arithmetic.

What’s Here

Trigonometric Functions

::cos: Returns the cosine of the given argument.
::sin: Returns the sine of the given argument.
::tan: Returns the tangent of the given argument.

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

::acos: Returns the arc cosine of the given argument.
::asin: Returns the arc sine of the given argument.
::atan: Returns the arc tangent of the given argument.
::atan2: Returns the arg tangent of two given arguments.

Hyperbolic Trigonometric Functions

::cosh: Returns the hyperbolic cosine of the given argument.
::sinh: Returns the hyperbolic sine of the given argument.
::tanh: Returns the hyperbolic tangent of the given argument.

Inverse Hyperbolic Trigonometric Functions

::acosh: Returns the inverse hyperbolic cosine of the given argument.
::asinh: Returns the inverse hyperbolic sine of the given argument.
::atanh: Returns the inverse hyperbolic tangent of the given argument.

Exponentiation and Logarithmic Functions

::exp: Returns the value of a given value raised to a given power.
::log: Returns the logarithm of a given value in a given base.
::log10: Returns the base 10 logarithm of the given argument.
::log2: Returns the base 2 logarithm of the given argument.

Fraction and Exponent Functions

::frexp: Returns the fraction and exponent of the given argument.
::ldexp: Returns the value for a given fraction and exponent.

Root Functions

::cbrt: Returns the cube root of the given argument.
::sqrt: Returns the square root of the given argument.

Error Functions

::erf: Returns the value of the Gauss error function for the given argument.
::erfc: Returns the value of the complementary error function for the given argument.

Gamma Functions

::gamma: Returns the value of the gamma function for the given argument.
::lgamma: Returns the value of the logarithmic gamma function for the given argument.

Hypotenuse Function

::hypot: Returns sqrt(a**2 + b**2) for the given a and b.

File::Stat

Objects of class File::Stat encapsulate common status information for File objects. The information is recorded at the moment the File::Stat object is created; changes made to the file after that point will not be reflected. File::Stat objects are returned by IO#stat, File::stat, File#lstat, and File::lstat. Many of these methods return platform-specific values, and not all values are meaningful on all systems. See also Kernel#test.

Net::HTTPFatalError

No documentation available

Net::HTTPMultiStatus

Response class for Multi-Status (WebDAV) responses (status code 207).

The Multi-Status (WebDAV) response indicates that the server has received the request, and that the message body can contain a number of separate response codes.

References:

RFC 4818.
Wikipedia.

Net::HTTPNotAcceptable

Response class for Not Acceptable responses (status code 406).

The requested resource is capable of generating only content that not acceptable according to the Accept headers sent in the request.

References:

Net::HTTPExpectationFailed

Response class for Expectation Failed responses (status code 417).

The server cannot meet the requirements of the Expect request-header field.

References:

Net::HTTPVariantAlsoNegotiates

Response class for Variant Also Negotiates responses (status code 506).

Transparent content negotiation for the request results in a circular reference.

References:

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Examples

Example 1: Using Pathname

Example 2: Using standard Ruby

Example 3: Special features

Breakdown of functionality

Core methods

File status predicate methods

File property and manipulation methods

Directory methods

Utilities

Method documentation

Notes

Another example

Notes

What’s Here

Trigonometric Functions

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Hyperbolic Trigonometric Functions

Inverse Hyperbolic Trigonometric Functions

Exponentiation and Logarithmic Functions

Fraction and Exponent Functions

Root Functions

Error Functions

Gamma Functions

Hypotenuse Function

Example 1: Using `Pathname`

Example 2: Using standard `Ruby`

`File` status predicate methods

`File` property and manipulation methods

`Method` documentation