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What's the simplest way of changing a negative number to positive with ruby?
ie. Change "-300" to "300"
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Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database.
Contents of database.yml
development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: APPS_SETUP
Host: WindowsVT06\SQLEXPRESS
Username: se
Password: paswd
Run rake db:migrate…
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My application requires to keep large data objects in session. There are like 3-4 data objects each created by parsing a csv containing 150 X 20 cells having strings of 3-4 characters.
My application shows this error- "marshal data too short".
I tried this-
Deleting the old session table.
Deleting…
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I don't know is it my mistake or no. So i have that code:
<code>
post '/singin/get_token' do
content_type :xml
puts request.body.read
puts xmlRequest
xmlRequest = REXML::Document.new(request.body.read)
...
</code>
And when i post something like that:
<code>
<?xml…
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reading around the various ruby install tutorials it's required to change path from /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/local/bin/ruby but i cant seem to be able to do it. Ultimately i want to install Ruby 1.9.2, should i uninstall 1.8.7 or what? i tried to install Ruby 1.9.2 with macports, the installation seemed…
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i am getting a strange bundler error when running
bundle pack
with bundler 0.9.12
any ideas? (see pastie for a better formatted code: http://pastie.org/881328 )
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:49:in `initialize': not in gzip format (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)
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i have this huge function and i am wondering how to make it recursive. i have the base case which should never come true, so it should always go to else and keep calling itself with the variable t increases. any help would be great
thanks
def draw(x, y, t, planets):
if 'Satellites' in planets["Moon"]:
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I'm trying to calculate the sunset / rise times using python based on the link provided below.
My results done through excel and python do not match the real values. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?
My Excel sheet can be found under .. http://transpotools.com/sun_time.xls
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Hi Guys,
I'm constructing a geolocation based application and I'm trying to figure out a way to make my application realise when a user is facing the direction of the given location (a particular long / lat co-ord). I've got the math figured, I just have the triangle to construct.
//UPDATE
So…
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so I'm trying to make a program that will output the sum, average, and smallest and largest values. I have everything basically figured out except the smallest and largest values are outputting 2147483647 and -2147483647, which I believe are the absolute smallest and largest values that Java will…
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I've heard many times that all programming is really a subset of math. Some suggest that OO, at its roots, is mathematically based. I don't get the connection. Aside from some obvious examples:
using induction to prove a recursive algorithm
formal correctness proofs
functional languages
lambda calculus
asymptotic…
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