From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-03-12T04:37:46+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 03/10/2003

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

   ANNOUNCEMENTS
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   Russian Ruby resource and Ruby Course
          A Russian-language Ruby resource has been started. Currently it
          contains materials of a Ruby course which was developed and led
          in Minsk, Belarus, by Alexander Bokovoy and me. The course
          consists of 6 seminars. It only targets the language, its
          design and built-in classes.

   Test::Unit::Mock: Mock objects for testing with Test::Unit
          Test-Unit-Mock is a class for conveniently building mock
          objects in Test::Unit test cases. It is based on ideas in
          Ruby/Mock by Nat Pryce, but is a bit easier to use, and more
          flexible.

   PSE as Ruby module and an RAA question
          Periodic.rb is a Ruby module that provides information about
          all chemical elements as a single constant table named
          Periodic::Table. The database is taken from Gperiodic that is
          released under GPL. The character set used for the table is ISO
          8859-1. Information that is not available is encoded as nil.

   INTERESTING THREADS
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   OSCON
          Phil Tomson asked about OSCON attendance and the opportunity to
          hold a Ruby meeting on the side. A number of people seem to be
          going.

   I'm to give short talk on ruby at work, anybody have material/outlines
          they can donate
          Sam Roberts asked for some help on a short presentation he's
          doing about ruby. Several people chimed in with recommendations
          and pointers to other information.