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Functions accepting blocks in Ruby's C API make for tricky bugs

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
I ran into a tricky bug today. I was working on an extension that uses an event_hook and needed quite some time to figure this out: require 'binding_n'def...

ruby-wmii 0.3.1: bookmark manager, generalized menus, view history...

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
I just released ruby-wmii 0.3.1. If you didn't know it, it's a Ruby script plus associated plugins to control the wmii window manager. The most important...

Opening up my hiki wiki: bliki.rb plugin

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
You might have realized that eigenclass.org has been changing subtly as of late. In addition to the cosmetic modifications, I've upgraded to hiki 0.8.6...

More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
Computational archeolinguistics are the new rave. I've been working in a couple archeological sites of major interest, which, albeit well known, still have...

rcov 0.7.0: code coverage and callsite/defsite data aggregation across multiple runs

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
rcov 0.7.0 can aggregate code coverage and defsite/callsite data collected in successive runs. This is useful when you want to obtain a global coveragebut...

The ICFP Programming Contest 2006: a VM that challenges YARV as far as the fun factor goes

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
In 1967, during excavation for the construction of a new shopping center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, workers uncovered a vault containing a cache ofancient...

Cheaper alternative to Binding.of_caller

over 4 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
Here's a trick to modify local variables in the caller scope without using Binding.of_caller. It's not as general, but much faster when it applies (when...