From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-01-27T17:01:32+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 01/27/2003

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

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

   archive-tarsimple-0.1.0
          Daniel Berger has released a simple tar/zip interface. Get
          tarsimple([1]).

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

   mod_ruby - what is persistent and what is shared?
          Ever wondered exactly what is persistent and what is shared
          when you are doing mod_ruby development? This thread discusses
          what the issues are and what some possible solutions are.

   Ruby does not have enough libraries?
          Ruby is often said to be great, but lacks the equivalent of
          CPAN. David Alan Black asked the Ruby community if it is
          possible to identify exactly which modules are missing from
          Ruby. He asked this comment in hopes of collecting a list of
          the libraries desired so they could be written. This turned
          into a rather large thread with some of it answering David's
          original question while some of it digressing around build
          systems and package management issues. An interesting read.

   Hash#+?
          The topic again has been asked if Hash#+ should exist. It was
          proposed that perhaps it would be better to have a Hash#|
          method with either the first or second Hash (undecided which
          yet) will take precedence and the other value will be lost when
          collisions with keys occur.

   ModuleBuilder
          A group of Denver based Ruby enthusiasts have started a project
          that would fill the same role as the Perl module Module::Build.
          Many nice features, read them over and submit your wish list
          while the project is young. Project page here([2]).

   Our own CPAN
          Once again the letters C P A N come to the Ruby community again
          as we discuss what might be nice for the Ruby community here.
          For those wanting CPAN'ish tools for Ruby you will want to read
          this small thread.

References

   1. http://ruby-miscutils.sourceforge.net/
   2. http://ModuleBuilder.sf.net/