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02/11/2016

09:51 AM Ruby Feature #10793: Infrastructure/Release-Management: Sign releases
Yui NARUSE wrote:
> As far as I remember we discussed this topic before (but I can't find the ticket/mail).
> ...
Several commonly used TLS libraries such as OpenSSL and GnuTLS are plagued by security vulnerabilities, some parts of the...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)

11/21/2012

05:09 AM Ruby Feature #7377: #indetical? as an alias for #equal?
#same_object? would also be ok by me. aef (Alexander E. Fischer)

11/17/2012

09:56 AM Ruby Feature #7378 (Closed): Adding Pathname#write
There should be a variant of File.write for Pathname.
I will provide a patch if this is acceptable.
(Please see my other Pathname related tickets too: #7360 #7361 #7362 #7363 )
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
09:47 AM Ruby Feature #7377 (Assigned): #indetical? as an alias for #equal?
As my feature request #7359 got rejected, here a more backward-compatible approach:
In my opinion the difference between #eql? and #equal? is really unintuitive. How about making their difference more obvious by giving one of them a m...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)

11/15/2012

10:50 PM Ruby Feature #7363 (Rejected): Remove the global Pathname() method
About a year ago I sumbitted an not yet accepted patch for Ruby on GitHub which deprecates the global Pathname() method and adds the .[] operator to the Pathname class. The patch got ignored, supposedly because I didn't post it here.
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aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
10:38 PM Ruby Feature #7362 (Assigned): Adding Pathname#start_with?
If a Pathname starts with another Pathname, that means that the former Pathname lies below the latter Pathname, as long as both Pathnames are interpreted from the same location or both are given as absolute.
Therefore I would like to ...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
10:30 PM Ruby Feature #7361 (Rejected): Adding Pathname#touch
Pathname has an #mkdir method to create a directory at the path, but does not have a #touch method to create an empty file at that path.
There were numerous cases where I had to fallback to using
new_file = Pathname.new('location/f...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
10:26 PM Ruby Feature #7360 (Closed): Adding Pathname#glob
Currently there is only a Pathname.glob method, which allows you to find Pathname objects by a pattern including wildcard characters like '*'.
I would like to be able to use this relative to a current Pathname.
some_directory = Pat...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
10:00 PM Ruby Feature #7359 (Rejected): #eql? and #equal? naming
In my opinion the difference between @#eql?@ and @#equal?@ is really unintuitive. How about making their difference more obvious by giving one of them a more accurate name?
My proposal is to rename @#equal?@ to @#identic?@.
If you ...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)

10/25/2012

05:02 AM Ruby Bug #7213 (Rejected): Namespace regression problem in RSpec from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3
This article describes a bug which appeared in 1.9.3: "Including namespace module through RSpec config in Ruby 1.9.3":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13042298/including-namespace-module-through-rspec-config-in-ruby-1-9-3
Some peopl...
aef (Alexander E. Fischer)

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