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Comment on A Unix ‘Which’ command for Windows by David

David — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:54:15 +0000

John try this:

if RUBY_PLATFORM['win']

and you won’t need an external library, && basically does the same thing.

For JRuby (which is ‘java’ for platform) you have to call a Java function, I think I have it on my github if not I’ll put it there shortly.

Comment on Installing the Watir Gem under Windows 7 by David

David — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:48:21 +0000

A good option for installing Ruby w/ the dev kit headers (needed for some gems) is to use the Rails Installer from 37 labs.

Comment on Perl Connectivity Check Script by axman

axman — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Hey John, thanks very much for this sample script. It does help me a lot in testing the connection.

Comment on A Hexdump extension to the String class in Ruby by Hexdump for iRules | JohnAllen.us

Hexdump for iRules | JohnAllen.us — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:35:59 +0000

[...] being sent, etc. Personally, I’m used to using a very common hexdump format that I’ve created Ruby methods for…but I could not find anything similar for iRules, so I wrote my [...]

Comment on Adding Commas to Numbers in Ruby by Andy

Andy — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:12 +0000

Why not just:
class Numeric
def commas
self.to_s =~ /([^\.]*)(\..*)?/
int, dec = $1.reverse, $2 ? $2 : “”
while int.gsub!(/(,|\.|^)(\d{3})(\d)/, ‘\1\2,\3′)
end
int.reverse + dec
end
end

And be done with it?

Comment on Successfully using OCRA with Watir by Scatman Dan

Scatman Dan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:19:36 +0000

Incredibly helpful post, thanks! I’m not dealing with this exact same problem (although I will be later this week) but with a similar one, and your pointers set me in the right direction. Thanks!

Comment on Successfully using OCRA with Watir by pejte

pejte — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:38:33 +0000

Excellent post, you are being really helpful.

Comment on Successfully using OCRA with Watir by Gary

Gary — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:15:56 +0000

thank you, this post is very helpful to me .

Comment on Textual Table class for Ruby by fport program in Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us

fport program in Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:01:42 +0000

[...] program uses my TextTable class from a previous post. It runs the ‘netstat -aon’ command and then filters out the [...]

Comment on Python Connectivity Check Script by Perl Connectivity Check Script | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us

Perl Connectivity Check Script | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:30:56 +0000

[...] is a follow-on to my Python Connectivity Check Script that I posted a while back. It functions the same way…its just written in Perl. I use both [...]

Comment on Correct file paths for WIN32OLE applications in Ruby by Automating Visio with Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us

Automating Visio with Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:38 +0000

[...] function to format the directory path to something Visio does like. I covered this function in a previous post. This file save is an ‘Extended’ form that saves the workspace (VisSaveAsWS) and also [...]

Comment on Controlling Visio Windows with Ruby by Automating Visio with Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us

Automating Visio with Ruby | JohnAllen.us / KD7SEE.us — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:07:33 +0000

[...] Controlling Visio Windows with Ruby Feb 01 [...]

Comment on A Unix ‘Which’ command for Windows by john

john — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:09:20 +0000

Hi Timm
its actually one of my helper libraries. Its nothing more than an extension to the ‘String’ class that looks for a windows string:
Class String
def isWindows?
if self =~ /(:?mswin|win32|mingw)/
return true
end
return false
end
end

Comment on A Unix ‘Which’ command for Windows by Timm

Timm — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:05:43 +0000

Where does is this ‘exo/iswindows’ library come from?

Comment on Importing Excel Constants values into Ruby by Drawing Borders in Excell using Ruby

Drawing Borders in Excell using Ruby — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:56:01 +0000

[...] Once the values are all loaded in, its time to make the spreadsheet look pretty. Here’s how you draw a single, continuous, thin line around each cell in a range of cells. This function can be used an any number of cells…but only in one row. If you give it a range of more than one row, then it will draw a box around the rows, and add the vertical lines. As I am adding one row at a time in my applications, my function works fine for single rows. The ExcelConst:: constants were address in a previous post. [...]