[shootout] n body problem

[Isaac Gouy]

http://127.0.0.1/great/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ruby&id=2&sort=fullcpu

Unfortunately, we don't share the same home.

And I guess you don't know what this discussion thread is about.

The n-body Ruby #2 program fails because the program output is not
being formated correctly. The example output shows how many decimal
places are expected.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ruby&id=2&sort=fullcpu

 

[Austin Ziegler]

I'm using Win 2000 Pro (english language) with a danish
keyboard layout.

This is the problem -- please search on the archives for IRB and
German -- there are some alternative .irbrc files that should help
with this problem. I believe that this is a high priority item for
Curt to fix in the next release of the Windows installer.

-austin

 

[Steffen Pedersen]

Thank you Austin!

I've found and tried out this one:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=865&group_id=167&atid=715

... <snip>
I had the same problem under WinXP in Germany.

My fix:
run the command "set HOME=%HOMEPATH%"
Then create a file in your HOMEPATH called .inputrc with this
content:
"\M-[": "["
"\M-]": "]"
"\M-{": "{"
"\M-}": "}"
"\M-\\": "\\"
"\M-|": "|"
"\M-@": "@"
"\M-~": "~"
<snap> ...

This does not fully work with a danisk keyboard.

1) I have a few more characters where using Left-ALT is necessary.
I tried to add those, and succeeded except for "£".

2)In order to type "~" I have to type Left-ALT-~ + spacebar
(2 strokes) during "normal" keyboard operation.
Using IRB, I get one strange "grafic"-character followed by "~".
Same thing happens for "|".
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I would like to know what the "patch" is actually doing?

And in what module?
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But I can probably live with this for a while. Until I know so
much about Ruby that I can make up my mind about continuing.

Thanks again.

Regards Steffen
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