Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend

Preregistration for the upcoming Fifth Annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf 2005) is now open. RubyConf 2005 will be held in San Diego, CA, October 14-16.

You can preregister here. The full announcement is here.

[2005-03-11] by chad

Ruby Central announced the the recipients of its first CodeFest Grant Program.

Five projects were awarded funding to support regional coding sessions, whose aim are to build working Ruby code to fill a void in the landscape of available Ruby libraries.

Congratulations to the recipients!

[2005-02-20] by chad

Tim Sutherland announced the latest publication of the Ruby Weekly News. The Ruby Weekly News is a weekly summary of the ruby-talk mailing list. Tim recently resurrected it after an extended hiatus.

The Ruby Weekly News is a great way to stay in touch with what's happening in the world of ruby-talk as its volume continues to grow. Many thanks to Tim for this valuable resource!

[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.

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