fixed error w/simple ruby arrays, and added litorgy-chomp function

litorgy/litorgy-script.el

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;;; litorgy-script.el --- litorgy functions for script execution
+;;; litorgy-script.el --- litorgy functions for scripting languages
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 2009 Eric Schulte
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ executed through litorgy."
              (format "\treturn %s\n" (car (last body-lines)))))))
         ;; (message (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))) ;; debug script
         (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) cmd nil 'replace)
-        ;; (message (buffer-string)) ;; debug results
+        ;; (message (format "shell output = %s" (buffer-string))) ;; debug results
         (litorgy-script-table-or-results (buffer-string))))))
 
 (defun litorgy-script-var-to-ruby/python (var)
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ code specifying a var of the same value."
 (defun litorgy-script-table-or-results (results)
   "If the results look like a table, then convert them into an
 Emacs-lisp table, otherwise return the results as a string."
+  (setq results (litorgy-chomp results))
   (litorgy-read
    (if (string-match "^\\[.+\\]$" results)
        ;; somewhat hacky, but thanks to similarities between languages
@@ -115,11 +116,7 @@ Emacs-lisp table, otherwise return the results as a string."
                     "\\]" ")" (replace-regexp-in-string
                                ", " " " (replace-regexp-in-string
                                          "'" "\"" results)))))
-     ;; strip trailing endline
-     (progn
-       (while (string= "\n" (substring results -1))
-         (setq results (substring results 0 -1)))
-       results))))
+     (litorgy-chomp results))))
 
 (provide 'litorgy-script)
 ;;; litorgy-script.el ends here

litorgy/litorgy.el

@@ -277,5 +277,13 @@ This is taken almost directly from `org-read-prop'."
   "Return t if STRING represents a number"
   (string-match "^[[:digit:]]*\\.?[[:digit:]]*$" string))
 
+(defun litorgy-chomp (string &optional regexp)
+  "Remove any trailing space or carriage returns characters from
+STRING.  Default regexp used is \"[ \f\t\n\r\v]\" but can be
+overwritten by specifying a regexp as a second argument."
+  (while (string-match "[ \f\t\n\r\v]" (substring results -1))
+    (setq results (substring results 0 -1)))
+  results)
+
 (provide 'litorgy)
 ;;; litorgy.el ends here

rorg.org

@@ -312,11 +312,11 @@ This is currently working only with emacs lisp as in the following
 example in the [[* emacs lisp source reference][emacs lisp source reference]].
 
 
-* Bugs [3/4]
+* Bugs [4/5]
 
 ** TODO extra quotes for nested string
-when string are 2 deep in org-mode tables their quotes aren't being
-stripped
+when string are nested 2 deep in org-mode tables their quotes aren't
+being stripped
 
 these should not be quoted
 #+srcname: ls
@@ -342,8 +342,23 @@ ls
 
 #+srcname: ruby-quote-test
 #+begin_src ruby
-puts %w(eric michael schulte)
+[3, 4, 5]
 #+end_src
+
+** RESOLVED simple ruby arrays not working
+
+As an example eval the following.  Adding a line to test
+
+#+srcname: simple-ruby-array
+#+begin_src ruby
+[3, 4, 5]
+#+end_src
+
+#+srcname: ruby-array-test
+#+begin_src ruby :var ar = simple-ruby-array
+ar.first
+#+end_src
+
 ** RESOLVED space trailing language name
 fix regexp so it works when there's a space trailing the language name
 
@@ -430,6 +445,10 @@ litorgy functionality.
 | of                      | Fibonacci        |   3 |           3 |           3 | pass |
 | different               | Fibonacci        |   4 |           5 |           5 | pass |
 | arguments               | Fibonacci        |   5 |           8 |           8 | pass |
+|-------------------------+------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
+| bug fixing              |                  |     |             |             | pass |
+|-------------------------+------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
+| simple ruby arrays      | ruby-array-test  |     |           3 |           3 | pass |
 #+TBLFM: $5='(if (= (length $3) 1) (progn (message (format "running %S" '(sbe $2 (n $3)))) (sbe $2 (n $3))) (sbe $2))::$6='(if (string= $4 $5) "pass" (format "expected %S but was %S" $4 $5))
 
 ** basic tests