From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-03-19T04:03:35+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 03/18/2002
   
   A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
   this week by Phil Tomson.
   
   ANNOUNCEMENTS
   =============
   
   Ruby Dataquery Shell (RDQS) 0.3.3
          Thomas Heinen announced the release of RDQS version 0.3.3. RDQS
          is a commandline based shell for querying various datasources.
          
   rpkg - Ruby Package Management System 0.3.1
          Massimiliano Mirra announced the release of version 0.3 of
          rpkg. rpkg is a multi-platform system for installation,
          removal, and browsing of Ruby modules inspired by the Debian
          package manager.
          
   .rpk package repository
          Massimiliano Mirra started a repository of .rpk packages,
          including packages for rdoc, graphr, rdqs, webrick, webfetcher
          and csv.
          
   Ruby-Gnome 0.27
          Neil Conway announced the latest release of Ruby-Gnome.
          Ruby-Gnome is a collection of Ruby language bindings for some
          of the Gnome application development libraries, including:
          GTK+, libgnome/libgnomeui, GdkPixbuf, GdkImlib, and
          libpanel-applet.
          
   Ruby/SMB beta 2
          Henrik Falck announced the beta 2 release of Ruby/SMB. Ruby/SMB
          is a C library that provides Ruby bindings to Samba's
          libsmbclient library.
          
   Ruby/zlib 0.5.1
          Ueno Katsuhiro announced the 0.5.0 release of Ruby/zlib which
          allows the use of zlib from Ruby.
          
   Locana GUI and GUI builder 0.81
          Michael Davis announced the latest version of Locana ([1]).
          Locana is a GUI interface for Ruby that allows the use of
          several different underlying GUIs including HTML and Win32.
          
   XML Serialization for Ruby
          Chris Morris announced XML Serialization for Ruby. XML
          Serialization allows classes to be marshalled to and from XML,
          with an emphasis on concise, human readable and editable XML.
          
   INTERESTING THREADS
   ===================
   
   CamelCase, underscore_style or a_Mix?
          There was a discussion this week on the merits of using
          CamelCase or underscore_style and which represents the Ruby
          style.
          
   ruby-dev summary in English
          Masayoshi Takahashi is doing a wonderful service for those of
          us who do not understand Japanese. He is summarizing the
          discussions on the Japanese ruby-dev list and publishing the
          summary in English. This is a very good thing for the Ruby
          community.

References

   1. http://www.locana.org/