Rails - Aug 2006 - HELP!!! New to Ruby

Hi all,

I am new to Ruby programming language. I know that require
''gemname'' is
used for using some gems in our application. I have a sample application 
developed in Ruby on Rails which have the following lines of code:

require ''zlib''
require ''stringio''

Can you plz help me to know what these gems are used for. It would be 
very helpful if you could give some hyperlinks to some articles that 
explains them in detail..

Thanks in advance,
Janeve

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Ohh.. Thanks for the correction.. :)

Janeve

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Janeve George wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to Ruby programming language. I know that require
''gemname'' is
> used for using some gems in our application. I have a sample application 
> developed in Ruby on Rails which have the following lines of code:
> 
> require ''zlib''
> require ''stringio''
> 
> Can you plz help me to know what these gems are used for. It would be 
> very helpful if you could give some hyperlinks to some articles that 
> explains them in detail..
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Janeve
Those are not gems, they are part of the standard library.
Documentation for them can be found at ruby-doc.org: 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

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On Aug 9, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Janeve George wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Ruby programming language. I know that require  
> ''gemname'' is
> used for using some gems in our application. I have a sample  
> application
> developed in Ruby on Rails which have the following lines of code:
>
> require ''zlib''
> require ''stringio''
>
> Can you plz help me to know what these gems are used for. It would be
> very helpful if you could give some hyperlinks to some articles that
> explains them in detail..
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Janeve

http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+zlib
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+stringio

Janeve George wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Ruby programming language. I know that require
''gemname'' is
> used for using some gems in our application. I have a sample application 
> developed in Ruby on Rails which have the following lines of code:
>
> require ''zlib''
> require ''stringio''
>
> Can you plz help me to know what these gems are used for. It would be 
> very helpful if you could give some hyperlinks to some articles that 
> explains them in detail..
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Janeve
>   
Well, zlib is for compression (ZIP handling), stringio I''m not sure
about.

Regards,
Henning Kilset

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:03:03AM +0200, Janeve George
wrote:
> I am new to Ruby programming language. I know that require
''gemname'' is
> used for using some gems in our application. I have a sample application 
> developed in Ruby on Rails which have the following lines of code:
> 
> require ''zlib''
Compression routines.  "ri Zlib"
> require ''stringio''
Pretending that strings are files.  "ri StringIO"
> Can you plz help me to know what these gems are used for. It would be 
They''re not gems, they''re classes in the standard library.
> very helpful if you could give some hyperlinks to some articles that 
> explains them in detail..
I think the documentation that ships with Ruby is pretty comprehensive. 
Google can help more, or asking a specific question on the ruby-talk mailing
list (since neither class is Rails-specific).

- Matt