From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-10-28T19:18:46+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 10/28/2002

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

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

   RAA Replaced
          The RAA Renewal team have redone the RAA - thanks guys. There
          is also a XML([1]) and RDF([2]) representation of the RAA.
          Recent information can be received in an RDF([3]) format.

   FixedTime 0.0.1
          Daniel Berger has written a module called FixedTime which is
          deisgned to calculate the difference or sum between two fixed
          times. It can also be used to calculate total seconds or
          minutes based on a fixed amount of time in "00:00:00" format.
          Get FixedTime([4]).

   Crawler 0.0.1
          Brian Denny has released a web crawler. Get Crawler 0.0.1([5]).

   Ruby QT Embedded 0.2
          HIDAKA Takahiro has released Ruby bindings for the QT/Embedded
          and Qtopia library. He has built and tested it on Zaurus
          SL-A300 and would like feedback if it works on SL-5500, iPAQ,
          and other handhelds. Get Ruby/Qte 0.2([6]).

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

   comp.lang.ruby FAQ
          Hal Fulton has taken on maintaining the Ruby FAQ for news. If
          you post on news or are thinking of posting on news please read
          over the FAQ.

   Reading current line from a file
          Ever wanted to read the current line of a file? Sevearl ways to
          do it are illustrated in this thread.

References

   1. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-xml.xml
   2. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-rdf.xml
   3. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-since.mrb
   4. http://www.enteract.com/~mghall/ruby/sys/sys.html
   5. http://implementality.com/projects/crawler/
   6. http://takahr.dhis.portside.net/cgi-bin/rwiki.cgi?cmd=view;name=Ruby%2FQte%3Aen