From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-12-30T20:34:06+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 12/30/2002

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

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

   RTrans 1.01
          Idan Sofer has released a bug fix version of RTrans. RTrans is
          a library for internationalizing applications written in Ruby.
          Get RTrans([1]).

   RDoc template system modification
          Eric Hodel has taken some existing RDoc code and modified it to
          allow calls to methods. You can get the code([2]) and the
          tests([3]) for testunit([4]).

   RubyCocoa 0.4.0
          FUJIMOTO Hisakuni has released a new version of RubyCocoa.
          RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that
          http://idanso.dyndns.org/radical/allows Cocoa programming in
          Ruby. Get RubyCocoa([5]).

   Ruby-GNOME-0.2
          Masao Mutoh has released a new version of Ruby-GNOME2.
          Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME
          2.0 development environment. This project is also looking for
          volunteers to help. Get Ruby-GNOME2([6]).

   Radical 0.6
          Idan Sofer has released Radical with many improvements in
          documentation and speed. Radical is a web application
          server/framework written in pure Ruby. Get Radical([7]).

   Test::Unit 0.1.6
          Nathanial has released another version of the Test::Unit unit
          testing framework. This release is an API change renaming the
          Test::TestCase method previously known as tear_down() to
          teardown(). If there are no major problems with this release it
          will be moved into the Ruby 1.8 as Ruby's standard unit testing
          framework. Get Test::Unit([8]).

   Ruby Document Bundle
          Gavin Sinclair wishes the Ruby community a happy new year by
          releasing a bundle of Ruby documentation affectionately known
          as "the bundle". The bundle provides convenient off-line access
          to: pickaxe reference, Ruby users guide, Ruby reference manual,
          Ruby FAQ, comp.lang.ruby FAQ, things that newcomers to Ruby
          should know, Daniel Carrera's Ruby tutorial, and a new document
          written by Gavin Sinclair himself called "Getting Started With
          Ruby". Get the bundle([9]).

   XTemplate
          Takaaki Tateishi has released XTemplate, which is a small XML
          template system using xmlscan. Get XTemplate([10]).

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

   Build problems for FOX, FXRuby and FXScintilla?
          Many people seem to be having problems building FOX, FXRuby and
          the FXScinitilla packages. The author of FXRuby, Lyle Johnson
          made some recommendations on a strategy to try and get each one
          working. These are required dependencies for anyone wanting to
          try out the FreeRIDE([11]) release candidate one.

   Ruby on IRC
          I couldn't have said it better then Yohanes Santoso did. IRC is
          a valuable resource and is lots of fun. I'll see you there!
          Read his post to see what I mean.

   RAA.your_project(name).freeze!
          NAKAMURA, Hiroshi has announced that come early next year the
          projects in the RAA will have their project names frozen.
          Project owners are urged to have a think if their chosen
          project names are appropriate for RAA users to remember. The
          reason for this freeze is to improve co-operation with
          RAA-install([12]). Go here([13]) and search RAA with your name.

   Happy New Year
          Happy New Year to the Ruby community! This has been the first
          year of the RWN and we have had a great time bringing it to
          you. We hope it is of use to some people out there. Looking
          forward to 2003.

References

   1. http://idanso.dyndns.org/radical/
   2. http://segment7.net/ruby-code/template/template.rb
   3. http://segment7.net/ruby-code/template/TC_template.rb
   4. http://testunit.talbott.ws/
   5. http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/
   6. http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/
   7. http://idanso.dyndns.org/radical
   8. http://testunit.talbott.ws/
   9. http://www.ruby-doc.org/downloads/
  10. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=xtemplate
  11. http://www.rubyide.org/
  12. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?id=729
  13. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/