229,156 questions
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Count the number of vowels in a text
A rookie in Ruby here. I'm trying to count the number of each vowel in a text entered by the user but I'm stuck. My code is this at the moment:
def count_vowels(phrase)
puts 'Enter a text:'
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Tooling
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A rubylang mode for the Jed editor (from jedsoft)?
I'm running the latest Jed editor from jedsoft.org under Debian 13 and under LinuxMint 22.3.
I want to create a mode in Jed for editing code in the Ruby language.
Before I try to "re-invent the ...
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How to parse and generate week strings for HTML week elements in Ruby/Rails? [closed]
HTML has a week selector <input type="week"> which provides a string such as 2026-W05 (Week 5 of 2026).
Ruby provides the strptime/strftime methods which seem to be able to handle this ...
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Best practices
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How to minimize number of lookups in a Hash?
say you want to find the first duplicate in an array. you could do something like this:
cnt = {};
[ 11, 22, 77, 22, 33 ].each_with_index { |x,i|
j = cnt[x]; ## <1>
break [x, j, i] ...
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Hanami db migrate
I'm following the Hanami tutorial documentation for building a web app.
I run bin/hanami db migrate and I get the following error:
=> database db/bookshelf.sqlite migrated in 0.2763s
Error: in ...
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msgpack gem failing to install on MacOS when running `bundle install`
I'm on MacOS Tahoe (26.3.1 (a)). I have a Ruby project which requires msgpack (1.4.2).
Unfortunately, when I run bundle install, I see:
Fetching msgpack 1.4.2
Installing msgpack 1.4.2 with native ...
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How to use existing chromium profile for ferrum?
I have setup chromium profile and wish to use that with ruby ferrum library. I copied complete configurations directory into /tmp and passed browser switched, but profile extensions seems to not work....
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Automating repetitive tasks with Ruby and Selenium WebDriver
I followed the advice from this question and I started to experimenting with Selenium, but I feel like it has to many limitations. Could you recommend something more suitable?
A simple program that ...
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Convert a string to only have regular alphabet characters, from any language
I had an issue this morning where someone was blowing up our school search function (which uses a MySQL MATCH function) by typing 'ð“µð“²ð“µð“µð”‚ð“¬ð“»ð“¸ð“¯ð“½' into the school search. This is within the ...
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Regex Named Capture Group also Include Complete String
Is it possible to have a Regex include the whole string as a named capture group as well as individual named capture groups?
I am trying to parse IIS logs and can successfully extract the details I ...
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New DataTypes For Ruby
I'm Alex. I program science I was in school and I have concepts of Datatypes which I would like to have in programming language.
Ruby is My Favorite languge (10+ years of experience), Are there any ...
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Rails 8.0.4 app build from scratch test ("bin/rails test") gives wrong number of arguments in line_filtering.rb
I started a new rails project and generated a model with
rails new nonono --css=bootstrap -j esbuild
bin/rails g scaffold State name
After that I run the test suite
bin/rails test
And got the ...
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Remove un-numbered lines from vscode
In VSCode i am tying to increase amount of useful information displayed. A lot of screen space is taken up by UN-numbered blank lines between the lines of code. These are not actual lines as they ...
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Ruby Nokogiri Sax parser does not unescape & attribute
With the following code:
require 'nokogiri'
class MyDocument < Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document
def start_element_namespace(name, attrs = [], prefix = nil, uri = nil, ns = [])
a = attrs.map ...
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Heroku ruby buildpack breaks on second deployment push
I've upgraded Ruby from Ruby 3.1.7 to Ruby 3.2.8; after that, I've encountered a situation where my ruby bundle works for the first deployment on Heroku-deployed servers, but all subsequent ...
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