Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend

[2004-12-25] by maki

Matz announced that ruby 1.8.2 was released ([ruby-talk:124413] and [ruby-talk:124434]).

This is mainly a bug fix release. You can download it at:

• <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz>

md5sum is 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b

Merry Christmas!

[2004-12-25] by shugo

Chinese translation of www.ruby-lang.org is available now. Thanks, KOBAYASHI Toshihito.

[2004-12-22] by usa

Matz announced that ruby 1.8.2 preview4 was released ([ruby-core:04000]).

md5sum is 2f53d4dc4b24e37799143645772aabd0.

You can download it at:

• <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-preview4.tar.gz>

[2004-12-19] by dblack

"Programming Ruby" author Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers announced plans for a series of Ruby books from the Pragmatic Bookshelf (the Pragmatic Programmers' own imprint). "The intent is to create a series of books with a deeply practical focus. We won't just document APIs. Instead, we want to show how to get _value_ from those APIs---how to solve real-world problems."

See the full announcement for more information, including follow-up guidelines for potential authors.

[2004-12-02] by dblack

Ruby Central, Inc. has announced its first Ruby Codefest Grant Program. This program is designed to provide support for local and regional groups working on development of Ruby libraries. (See full text of the announcement.)

You can apply for a grant on behalf of your group.

[2004-11-08] by usa

Matz announced that ruby 1.8.2 preview3 was released ([ruby-core:03694]).

md5sum is 64478c70a44a48af1a1c256a43e5dc61.

You can download it at:

• <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-preview3.tar.gz>

[2004-09-29] by shugo

RSYNC service is restarted.

<URL:rsync://ftp.ruby-lang.org/>

[2004-09-22] by shugo

A link to Ruby Forum was added to Community

Alexey Verkhovsky saids, `Ruby Forum is a newly created bulletin board for discussing Ruby. Unlike ruby-talk mailing list, it allows anonymous posting and implements more understandable interface for searching. Intended target audience of this forum is newcomers to Ruby that are not committed enough to subscribe to a 100+ posts/day mailing list.'

[2004-09-18] by shugo

Korean translation of www.ruby-lang.org is available. Thanks to Bryan Kang.

[2004-08-08] by dblack

Brad Cox, creator of Objective-C, will deliver the keynote address at this year's International Ruby Conference (RubyConf 2004). A leading expert on dynamic programming languages, Brad will speak on "The History and Design of Objective-C".

Registration for RubyConf 2004 is still open.