From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-06-13T00:16:59+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 06/09/2002

   A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
   this week by Holden Glova.

   ANNOUNCEMENTS
   =============

   Interactive Learning Environment/Ocelot
          ILE is small but powerful environment for building interactive
          learning environments, written by Brad Cox. It can be used for
          any web application, particularly those that need interactive,
          persistent form-based features. Its primary audience is
          teachers who think that hauling the education to where students
          work and live can be better than the other way around. ILE is
          open source (free) software and can be downloaded here([1]).

   PageTemplate 0.3.2
          Brian Wisti has announced a new release of his PageTemplate
          library. PageTemplate is used to create output based on
          template pages. This project was inspired from Sam Tregar's
          HTML::Template Perl package. Get PageTemplate([2]).

   Test::Mock 1.0
          Nat Pryce has released a new version of his popular Ruby/Mock
          framework which is compatible with Test::Unit. Test::Mock makes
          the creation and use of mock objects very simple. Get
          Test::Mock([3]) via CVS from the Ruby([4]) web site.

   REXML 2.3.5 and 2.2.3
          Sean Russel has announced two new versions of REXML. REXML is a
          XML parser written in Ruby. Get REXML([5]).

   INTERESTING THREADS
   ===================

   REXML a validating parser?
          Sean Russel asked who uses a validating parser? Who has needs
          for DTD validation, XMLSchema validation or RelaxNG validation?
          The general feeling in the Ruby community seems to be that
          validating parsers aren't such a big deal to have. The
          suggestion was put forward that if REXML was to be a validating
          parser that maybe it should allow for pluggable validators.

References

   1. http://virtualschool.edu/
   2. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53220
   3. http://www.ruby-lang.org/~knu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/rough/lib/testmock/
   4. http://www.ruby-lang.org/
   5. http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml