Help using facets?

Ruby
1

i just discovered facets and would like to begin using them, but am
having issues:

require ‘facets’ works, but i am unable to use anything suggested in the
rdoc or the little stuff i’ve found online.

based on
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/163215, i
should be able to do

Time.use Facets, :stamp

or

Array.use Facets, :each_permutation

but both give errors:

tinker% !.
./facets.rb
./facets.rb:5: uninitialized constant Facets (NameError)
from ./facets.rb:3
tinker% cat facets.rb
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require ‘facets’

Time.use Facets, :stamp
tinker%

i do have the gems installed:

tinker% gem list | grep facets
facets (1.0.2)
facets_core (1.0.2)
facets_more (1.0.2)

same thing if i try the Array line. sooo…what gives? i’d really like to
be able to use its Crypt module.

thanks

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DÅ?a Streda 08 Február 2006 23:36 a non y mouse napísal:

Time.use Facets, :stamp
from ./facets.rb:3
tinker% gem list | grep facets
facets (1.0.2)
facets_core (1.0.2)
facets_more (1.0.2)

same thing if i try the Array line. sooo…what gives? i’d really like to
be able to use its Crypt module.

thanks

Couldn’t reproduce this with whatever ruby there is in the Ubuntu
repositories, latest rubygems, and whatever “gem in -y facets” gets me.

The Facets module does indeed seem to exist, however, my hopes shatter
right
after that. Time doesn’t have a #use class method, in fact, there is no
such
method in the API documentation.

The deprecated method in the documentation doesn’t help any either.

How -do- you use this library then?

The website is also in slight need of spellchecking, I wonder if this
would be
proper to report via the project bug tracker.

David V.

PS: Am I the only one slightly irritated by the recent surge of posts from faked e-mail addresses, and even anonymous ones?
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David V. wrote:

PS: Am I the only one slightly irritated by the recent surge of posts from faked e-mail addresses, and even anonymous ones?

i’m not anonymous :slight_smile:

i’ll send the maintainer an e-mail asking him what’s up. thanks!

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DÅ?a Å tvrtok 09 Február 2006 04:23 Trans napísal:

Be sure RUBYOPT="-rubygems" then

require ‘facet/time/stamp’

i’d really like to be able to use its Crypt module.

require ‘facet/crypt’

T.

Gah. #stamp is an instance method? Ah well, I thought it was a class
method
because it would look good in code that way. I should hint the Facets
developers towards that.

So the usage in the announcement from a few months ago didn’t describe
changs
that were released yet?

David V.

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Be sure RUBYOPT="-rubygems" then

require ‘facet/time/stamp’

i’d really like to be able to use its Crypt module.

require ‘facet/crypt’

T.

6

Is this what you want?

def Time.stamp(*args)
now.stamp(*args)
end

I will add to next version of Facets if so.

T.

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DÅ?a Piatok 10 Február 2006 06:33 Trans napísal:

Is this what you want?

def Time.stamp(*args)
now.stamp(*args)
end

I will add to next version of Facets if so.

T.

Yep, something like that. I have no idea how often people need textual
timestamps of the current date though, so it might not be a particularly
useful addition. It’s just the first usage that came to mind when I saw
someone asking about that functionality.

David V.