From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-12-25T04:47:37+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 12/24/2002

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

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

   ByteCodeRuby 0.1.3
          After a long delay, version 0.1.3 of ByteCodeRuby is now
          available from the RubyVM project on SourceForge. ByteCodeRuby
          is a Byte Code interpretor for Ruby, designed to explore
          possible performance improvements.

   FXRuby-1.0.17 Now Available
          The latest version of FXRuby is now available for download from
          SourceForge. This is primarily a bug-fix release.

   Test::Unit 0.1.5
          Nathaniel Talbott has released the latest version of
          Test::Unit. Go and enjoy some testing goodness this Holiday
          Season.

   MiniRubyWiki does NerveCenter, WikiStyleSheet, Minor Edits
          Phlip has added yet more functionality to MinyRubyWiki,
          including my favorite -- WikiUnrequitedLinks.

   frin Ruby/Tk interface to ratlast
          An interactive editor for the Ratlast Forth library.

   REXML 2.4.5 and 2.5.3
          New versions of REXML were released by Sean Russell

   FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Release Candidate 1
          Curt Hibbs has announced the first release candidate of
          FreeRIDE.

   GridFlow 0.6.4
          Mathieu Bouchard has cut a new release of GridFlow (a
          multi-dimensional dataflow processing library for Ruby, jMax
          and PureData, specialized in pictures and video)

   RDE0.9.9.0 released
          Sakazuki has cut a new release of RDE, a Ruby IDE for windows.

   ruby 1.6.8
          Matz has released the last 1.6 version of Ruby (and put up a
          preview of 1.8). What a great way to celebrate Christmas. Have
          a happy New Year everyone!

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

   Confessions of a Ruby programmer
          Wai-Sun Chia wrote about his experiences working with Ruby over
          the past year (including doing commercial work). Several people
          hopped on the thread to mention their own experiences, and to
          talk about making Ruby a more viable option for use in
          commercial/professional settings.

   ruby-dev summary 19069-19150
          TAKAHASHI Masayoshi has posted a recap/translation of the
          recent week's traffic on ruby-dev. Topics include: 'ruby
          1.6.9(sic) preview4 Announcement', 'ruby 1.6.8 bug? on freebsd
          4.7 stable', 'Re: ruby 1.6.9 preview4 Announcement', 'class of
          substring', 'allocator', 'Movement for Appropriate Subject',
          AND 'Object#to_a in Ruby 1.7'.