From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-06-11T00:21:43+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 05/09/2003

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

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

   Syck 0.35 + YAML.rb 0.60 -- the 1st stable release
          Why the Lucky Stiff has released the first stable version of
          syck, his new YAML in C engine, with Ruby bindings. Syck is a
          faster replacement forthe old YAML in ruby version. It will
          make your life better.

   ruby-goto, your evil for the evening
          In an attempt to bring a little more spaghetti to our code,
          Ryan Pavlik has created a goto module for Ruby.

   VAPOR 0.06, Transparent Persistence to PostgreSQL
          VAPOR is a persistence framework that supports versioning and
          transactions (or, at least it will when completed). Oliver M.
          Bolzer has released an initial, incomplete version for public
          review and use.

   sql-serialize 0.0.3
          Under the influence of the VAPOR announcment, Anders Borch has
          announced his sql serialization tool as well. Within his
          announcment was the suggestion that the various persistence in
          RDBMS projects compare notes and see what they can learn from
          one another. Ain't Open Source development great?

   dia2code-ruby-0.8.1 (unofficial)
          Dmitry V. Sabanin has announced an unofficial release of a
          patches to dia2code which will allow it to generate Ruby code
          from Dia. Dmitry is also asking for feedback.

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

   ruby-dev summary 20201 - 20315
          Kazuo Saito has posted yet another translation and summary of
          the Japanese language ruby-dev mailing list.

   RCR: Enhancing matrix.rb
          Michael Neumann has posted an RCR recommending three new
          methods for the matrix class; collect! (and map!), [], and
          Matrix.m_by_n.

   RCR: join block
          Simon Strandgaard posted an RCR asking about join blocks. E.g.,

          [1, 2, 3].join {|x| "<td>#{x}</td>"} =>
          "<td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</\td>"

   Ruby 1.8.0
          George Moschovitis asked about possible release time frames for
          Ruby 1.8.0 ... From everyones answers, it looks like it will be
          sooner rather than later.

   Bytecode Compiler
          Sean O'Dell asked about Bytecode compilers for Ruby, among the
          responses was a pointer to ByteCodeRuby
          http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26000([1]
          ).

References

   1. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26000