From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-06-24T19:37:40+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 06/24/2002

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

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

   Ruby Password 0.1.0
          Ian Macdonald has announced a release of Ruby/Password.
          Ruby/Password is a set of useful methods for creating,
          verifying and manipulating passwords. It includes an interface
          to CrackLib, a library commonly used for checking password
          strength. Get Ruby Password([1]).

   FXRuby-1.0.11
          Lyle Johnson has announced a new release of the popular FXRuby.
          FXRuby is a set of Ruby bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. Get
          FXRuby([2]).

   New Ruby.vim maintainer
          Doug Kearns has announced his intentions to take over the
          active maintenance of the ruby.vim syntax file for the popular
          ViM editor. If you are a ViM user, keep your ruby.vim([3])
          current.

   Rpkg-0.3.4pre4
          Massimilano Mirra has announced a pre-release to test the
          ability to deal with precompiled binary packages. Rpkg is a
          system to manage Ruby packages on your system including
          dependency management. Get Rpkg([4]).

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

   Rpkg Repository
          Massimiliano Mirra let us know what is currently in the
          rapt/rpkg package repository. Most of the packages are pure
          Ruby with experimental binaries have recently been made
          available for testing purposes.

   REXML in C?
          A thread was started discussing the possibilities of REXML
          written in C. Some people claimed it would be a good thing,
          while others didn't really see a need. The rather long thread
          brought about some interesting perspectives on XML processing.

   Inside Ruby IO
          Yet again, a thread about the speed of Ruby IO resurfaced. Some
          initial benchmarks where presented which where later revisited
          with a more accurate comparison([5]). This discussion moved
          towards the topic of how Ruby IO is handled internally and the
          difficulties on making it fast and platform independent.

References

   1. %20http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
   2. http://www.fxruby.org/
   3. http://mugca.its.monash.edu.au/~djkea2/vim/syntax/ruby.vim
   4. http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/
   5. http://www.ruby-talk.org/42780/