Ruby Float out of range warning?

[Kathy Lee]

I'm new to Ruby and I've been playing around with it abit.

the following line of code produces a out of range warning.
puts 3.14159 #outputting a simple float value

It will output the value in console, however it will warn me with the
following:
C:/Users/Admin/IdeaProjects/RubyExampl… warning: Float 3.14159 out of
range

To my knowledge, the value should be within bounds of a float object.
I'm using Ruby SDK v1.8.6 and IntelliJ with the Ruby plugin as my IDE

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

It will output the value in console, however it will warn me with the
following:
C:/Users/Admin/IdeaProjects/RubyExampl… warning: Float 3.14159 out of
range

irb(main):001:0> puts 3.14159
3.14159
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"

To my knowledge, the value should be within bounds of a float object.
I'm using Ruby SDK v1.8.6 and IntelliJ with the Ruby plugin as my IDE

What is "Ruby SDK"?

 

[Kathy Lee]

What is "Ruby SDK"?

It's the Ruby interpreter, i.e Ruby.exe

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

It's the Ruby interpreter, i.e Ruby.exe

Then, apparently, your IDE is throwing the error.

BTW, we refer to Ruby as "Ruby RUBY_VERSION", not as "Ruby SDK".

 

[Kathy Lee]

Then, apparently, your IDE is throwing the error.

BTW, we refer to Ruby as "Ruby RUBY_VERSION", not as "Ruby SDK".

Oh thanks, appreciate it. Would you please recommend a decent IDE in
that case?

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

Oh thanks, appreciate it. Would you please recommend a decent IDE in
that case?

Well, *that* opens a whole can of worms.

Me, I use NetBeans if I have to have access to IDE features.
Otherwise, I'm happy with vim (if you are on Windows, I can point you to
an article I wrote in getting vim 7.2 to work with Ruby from within
vim), or Notepad++, simple text editors.

All of these choices are Free as in beer, as well as in speech.

 

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Oh thanks, appreciate it. Would you please recommend a decent IDE in
that case?

Try working without an IDE. Ruby doesn't benefit from IDEs nearly as
much as Java does. I recommend a good editor such as jEdit or
KomodoEdit instead. NetBeans *mostly* has good Ruby support, if you
really need an IDE.


Best,