Try Ruby for Opera #
It’s true! Try Ruby has nearly reached one year of age, having executed 5.6 million lines of Ruby (or attempted Ruby) code since November 30th of last year. I can’t believe it has stayed functional for so long. (Aside from the occasional drownings.)
In due course, it’ll get it’s repainting. For now, I’m working on the basics again. Specifically supporting Opera through a hidden text box hack. Tell me: is it doing it for you?
J`ey
Having the ability to paste would be good, you could have a normal littletext box that we can paste into, which can then write to the main session?
Peter Krantz
Almost. I am using Opera 9.01 on OS X 10 .4 and I can use the text area to edit code. However, the arrow keys are screwed up. The up key will scroll the entire web page and output an ampersand in the edit area
why
I’m not sure I’ll be able to support the up and down keys in Opera. Try using Apple-up and Apple-down. (Or Alt-up and Alt-down, if you’re on PC.)
rosco
Yeah! I can finally “try ruby” with Opera 9.01 on Linux. Only problems, apart from cursors not working (even with alt) are that backspace doesn’t seem to work either, and ctrl-d for reset still makes an opera bookmark. A definite improvement – good stuff, why!
Riduidel
Using Opera 9.01 on Windows XP I tried 2+6 (using keypad) but the ”+” sign was always displayed twice. Strangely, when using alphabetic keyboard (the + sign being shift-=) it works I also have issues using backspace and since there is no visible cursor, arrow keys are non effective
Priit Tamboom
First, thanks for doing it! I always tell new people to check it out! Incredibly useful!
By the way, with Estonian keyboard layout we have problem entering symbols [] in IE (and Opera). No problem with Firefox.
Keep up good work!
why
Perfect, thankyou to all the above. The cursor and the repaint is working now, so backspace is better. Still having arrow keys troubles and bad focus matters. And, yeah, still working on Riduidel’s and Priit’s stuff.
Laza
kooki
you rock!!!
crampy dee
don’t know what’s wrong. plz. sned help.
kode
I have tried now, and it’s not doing it for me. opera 8.5something on windows, and 9.02 under linux. keypresses still do other stuff instead of just the typing.
yup
I had the pleasure of recommending Ruby as a programming language to a mathematics professor at a local college today at lunch, and sent him over to tryruby! He’ll find, or so will you if you type ‘help 8’, that the link to the Windows installer is a bit outdated: 182-15, whereas 185-21 be the current package. Perhaps linking to the project files page is a better strategy?