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Before I get flamed, I just want to start off by saying that I am new to Ruby and I really enjoy this language and want to see it succeed. But, what niche does this language fill? These are serious question, not a put down of the language. Does it has something to offer for Web 2.0? Is it just another scripting language? Does it suppose to replace something else? Does it suppose to work with

Hi, There seems to be no way to scp a file containig ":" in its name, e.g., scp file-with-colon-in-its-name: user at localhost: results in err-msg: ssh: file-with-colon-in-its-name: Name or service not known Best regards, Tjavdar Tjavdar Ivanov Dept. of Mathematics, School of Engineering, J?nk?ping University, P.O Box 1026 : SE-551 11 J?nk?ping, Sweden tel. 036-15 78 56

I''m posting this here because I''m sure that there are a few Rails fans here who are stuck in Java land at work and willing to consider Trails as a compromise. ( Web version here: http://weblog.masukomi.org/index.pl/view/trails ) First let me set the stage I love [Rails](http://www.rubyonrails.com) but I work in a Java shop. There are two of us here but I''m the only one

...9;Roger'),'is not playing with a full deck.') - analyze Bush vs. Gore vote. See http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/policy.html . - rate autos (or other product) via several criteria and use stat methods to combine these into a single desirability score - spam filtering See http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/spam.html . LANGUAGES Suggestions. I don't really want to get too sidetracked into the relative merits of various languages here as the intention was to focus on science, math and stats rather than programming, per se, however, for completen...

I would like to teach some scientific/statistical computing to my 13 year old nephew and was considering using R for this. He has a Mac G3 OS 9.1. I am looking for ideas for problems that would be interesting and motivating for someone that age. I recently taught him the basics of HTML and noticed that he particularly was intrigued by the ability to change colors; thus, perhaps problems

I''m not sure this is the appropriate community to get objective unbiased feedback on this issue, but I suppose it''s worth a gander... Here''s my question: Is it possible to write a massively scalable application intented for millions of users (i.e. Yahoo, Google, MySpace, etc.) using Ruby on Rails? I''m sure apps like these can be built, but can they scale to

Just a poll here i am looking for a good IDE for rails and wondering what you guys use? features i like in an ide code highlites auto code complete file browser Currently i am using dreamwever but the code highliting is really bad its also a pain to set up other doucment types such as .yml data config. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Guys, I think many of us on this list would consider ourselves entrepreneurs. I''m willing to bet at least 40% of you are working on ideas for startups...hoping that you just might have the next Flickr, Oddpost, del.icio.us, etc. Me too, for what it''s worth. Rails is good for this, in that it enables you to move quickly (after the learning curve) and it''s