Ruby Issue Tracking System

05/25/2016

06:13 AM Ruby Bug #9569: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first

Yui NARUSE wrote:
> Mike Pastore wrote:
> ...
What? No, it uses RbNaCl.random_bytes instead of OpenSSL's RAND_bytes. mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

05/24/2016

10:23 PM Ruby Bug #9569: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first

Yui NARUSE wrote:
> Anyway I'm creating a securerandom.gem which uses arc4random_buf internally like libressl RAND_bytes.
> ...
You might want to take a look at (shameless self-plug, sorry) https://github.com/mwpastore/securer_randomer... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/22/2015

09:40 PM Ruby Feature #11731: Make ruby gem install to user-install by default

Aren't most people using rvm or rbenv/bundler to address this need? mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/17/2015

11:28 PM Ruby Bug #11705 (Rejected): Namespace resolution in nested modules with short syntax

Given the following definition:
~~~
module Foo
class Qux
def self.hello
'Hello, world!'
end
end
end
~~~
Namespace resolution at a later time works differently when you have nested modules, e.g.
~~~
mod... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/13/2015

02:26 AM Ruby Feature #11473: Immutable String literal in Ruby 3

Has anyone suggested introducing new quote-like operators to define mutable strings in Ruby 2.3 (with immutable string pragma) and 3.0? I was thinking something like:
~~~
# immutable without interpolation
'foo'
%q{foo}
# immutab... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/07/2015

03:59 AM Ruby Bug #11659: Strange behavior setting previously-undefined local variables with a statement modifier

That's not a typo. :-) I wanted to intentionally compare and contrast between a scenario where the same variable was being checked and set (#2) and a scenario where two different variables are in play (#4).
I understand about the par... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/05/2015

06:43 AM Ruby Bug #11659 (Rejected): Strange behavior setting previously-undefined local variables with a statement modifier

Consider a previously-undefined local variable `var1`:
~~~
irb(main):001:0> if defined?(var1).nil?; var1 = 'default'; end; var1
=> "default"
~~~
Consider previously-undefined local variables `var1` and `var2`:
~~~
irb(main):... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

11/03/2015

07:44 AM Ruby Bug #11648 (Closed): Undocumented features of String#oct

String#oct will adjust the base of the stringy number being converted to 2 (if prefixed with 0B), 8 (also the default, if prefixed with 0O), 10 (if prefixed with 0D), or 16 (if prefixed with 0X). Much to my surprise this behavior is not ... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)

10/06/2015

04:52 PM Ruby Misc #11570 (Open): Clarify autoload chaining behavior

I've discovered a discrepancy between how MRI 2.1.7 and 2.2.3 handle autoload "chaining" (which I'll describe below) cf. RBX 2.5.8. I opened [an issue](https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/issues/3513) with them but the lead contributor ... mwpastore (Mike Pastore)