From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-04-28T19:14:22+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 04/28/2003

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

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

   REXML 2.4.8
          Sean Russel has released a new version of REXML. This contains
          most of the bug fixes of the 2.5.8 release. Get REXML([1]).

   Ruby.shop
          Hal Fulton has started a Ruby shop where you can buy items like
          T-shirts and bumper stickers. 50% of all profits will go
          towards the next international Ruby Conference in November
          2003. Visit Ruby.shop([2]).

   FXRuby 1.0.22
          Lyle Johnson has released a new version of FXRuby. FXRuby is a
          set of GUI bindings for the FOX([3]) GUI library. Get
          FXRuby([4]).

   GridFlow 0.7.2
          Mathieu Bouchard has released a new version of GridFlow.
          GridFlow is a multi-dimensional processing library for Ruby,
          jMax and PureData, specialized in pictures and video. Get
          GridFlow([5]).

   CursWrap 0.2.1
          Julian Snitow has released a new version of CursWrap. CursWrap
          is a a high-level interface to the [n]Curses terminal I/O
          library. Get CursWrap([6]).

   Plugin engine snapshot
          Idan Sofer has started work on a generic plugin engine that can
          query, load, and resolve dependency conflicts. Get the plugin
          engine([7]).

   FreeRIDE 0.5 final
          Curt Hibbs has announced that FreeRIDE 0.5 final has been
          released. FreeRIDE aims to be a full-featured, first-class IDE
          on a par with those available for other languages, with all the
          best-of-breed features that you would expect in a high-end IDE.
          Get FreeRIDE([8]).

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

   Hashes and Enumerable#each_with_index
          Ryan Pavik brought up an old discussion about the relevance
          Enumerable#each_with_index method from the point of view of a
          Hash. Matz would like to address this but is unclear what to
          call the method name. Some suggestions have been given in this
          thread.

References

   1. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=rexml-stable
   2. http://cafeshops.com/rubyshop
   3. http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
   4. http://www.fxruby.org/
   5. http://artengine.ca/jmax/gridflow/
   6. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=curswrap
   7. http://idanso.dyndns.org/maps/plugin_engine.rb.gz
   8. http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl