From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-04-01T07:46:56+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 03/31/2003

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

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

   RubLog 0.8
          RubLog is written in pure Ruby and features a simple
          installation procedure (nothing else to download). Blog
          documents can be in RDoc, HTML, plain text format. The blog can
          also display the contents of a Usemod wiki. Documents can be
          stored in regular filesystem files, or can be read from a CVS
          repository (useful if multiple people add entries to the blog,
          or if you add blog entries from multiple machines). The blog
          entries are searchable. The RubLog features an optional sidebar
          with plug-in modules. It is shipped with plugins for lists of
          links, blog contents summary, blogrolls, mini blogs (a sidebar
          entry for each entry in a directory), and the search interface.
          RubLog runs under Apache, and has experimental support for
          Webrick. RubLog is used to drive http://pragprog.com/pragdave.

   GridFlow 0.7.1
          GridFlow is a multi-dimensional dataflow processing library for
          Ruby, jMax and PureData, specialized in pictures and video.

   FXRuby-1.0.21 Now Available
          This is primarily a bug-fix release, but there's been a lot of
          progress on the API documentation as well.

   mhttp - simple C based module implmentation for HTTP
          Mhttp is a singleton representation of a small, and fast C
          library for HTTP calls - mhttp. The objective of this module is
          not to replace all the existing HTTP implementations, but to
          provide a specialised implementation purely for speed.

   Ruby-MacX alpha
          This is a static binary of ruby for Macintosh OS X. It's in a
          disk image.

   Ruby/zlib 0.6.0
          Ruby/zlib version 0.6.0 is out.

   Ruby-GNOME2-0.4.0 binaries(Cygwin, Debian)
          Ruby-GNOME2-0.4.0 binaries are available.

   Squawks of the Parrot
          Here's an interesting article (ok, blog) from Dan Sugalski
          regarding Parrot. In light of some recent discussion on
          continuations and closures, I thought it relevant. And, hey,
          Parrot is *always* relevant to Ruby IMHO. While it focuses on
          Perl, it's certainly relevant to Ruby (and Python) as well.

   tld.rb 0.11
          tld.rb allows you to check wether a TLD (top level domain) is
          valid or not where 'to be valid' means that the TLD is
          presently in use on the Internet.

   RHDL-0.4.2 (Ruby HDL) an agile HDL
          An HDL (Hardware Description Language) built on the Ruby
          scripting language. It tends to look a lot like VHDL.

   xml-simple 0.6.0
          This is a _new_ Ruby library called xml-simple. It offers an
          easy API to maintain XML (especially configuration files) and
          was heavily inspried by Grant McLean's Perl module XML::Simple

   Text::Format 0.62
          A new version of Text::Format

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

   ruby-dev summary 19824-19877
          An excellent summary and translation of the ruby-dev mailing
          list by TAKAHASHI Masayosh.

   ruby-dev summary 19878-19943
          Another excellent summary and translation of the ruby-dev
          mailing list, this time by Minero Aoki.