From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-10-23T10:48:43+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 10/20/2002

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

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

   FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available
          The latest release of the Ruby language bindings for the FOX
          GUI toolkit are now available.

   MIME::Types for Ruby (1.003)
          The Perl MIME::Types module was ported to ruby by Austin
          Ziegler. He intends to keep up with the Perl version, so will
          maintain their version numbering.

   RDE0.9.8.0
          RDEO is an IDE for Ruby on Win32 systems.

   Text::Format for Ruby (1.003)
          Austin Ziegler has also implemented Text::Format for Ruby. Go
          Austin!

   Rimport 0.0.1.13
          Rimport is a tool for creating ri data files from 3rd-party
          source code. Rimport converts the source XML created by RDoc
          into a Ruby script similar to those shipped with the ri
          installation. The resulting script must then be executed,
          creating Marshal data dump files readable by ri.

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

   Help wanted with an experimental FAQ facility
          Dave Thomas proposed a new FAQ, communally built using an IOWA
          application. It's visible at
          http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum and looks to be a great
          resource in the making.

   Ruby and Linux kernel
          How cool is that? Now we can use Ruby to reconfigure (or check
          the configuration of) our linux kernels ... (apologies to all
          of you non-linux folks out there).

   a collaborative Ruby book?
          Phil Tomson asked about starting a collaborative book about
          Ruby. Jim Freeze responded and mentioned several items that
          would make good content. David Alan Black capped things off
          with a pointer to http://www.rubydoc.org/book -- Sean
          Chittenden's extant project to do just this. Looks like a great
          chance to contribute.