Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend

[2005-10-10] by james

The newest on-line resource for serious Ruby information has gone live.

Ruby Code & Style, an on-line magazine from Artima, has just published issue #1.

Check out the names on the advisory board. It's a Who's Who of everybody who's anybody in the Ruby world.

The premiere issue has three outstanding articles:

First up, Jack Herrington, author of Code Generation in Action (Manning, 2002) and Podcasting Hacks (O'Reilly, 2005), has written Modular Architectures with Ruby

Next, Austin Ziegler gives us Creating Printable Documents with Ruby

And there's a reprint of Ara Howard's article, Linux Clustering with Ruby Queue: Small is Beautiful, which first appeared in Linux Journal but deserves repeat attention

A big thanks to the advisory board, and especial to Bill Venners for starting this whole thing. 

[2005-10-10] by james

EuRuKo 2005, the European Ruby Conference, will be in Munich, Germany, October 15 and 16, 2005.

If you have any means whatsoever to attend, go. It is still fairly small, and the intimate feeling of the conference is something special.

You can see the current agenda here, but last year there were assorted spontaneous talks and discussions as well and it will likely be the same this year.

[2005-10-02 10:58] by matz

The Ruby versions listed below have a vulnerability that allows an arbitrary code to run bypassing the safe level check.

Date published: 2005-10-02

Versions affected:

Stable releases(1.8.x) - Versions 1.8.2 and earlier
                         (fixed on Version 1.8.3)
Old releases(1.6.x) - Versions 1.6.8 and earlier
Development versions(1.9.0) - Versions 2005-09-01 and earlier
                              (fixed on Version 2005-09-02)

[2005-9-21] by dblack

Ruby 1.8.3 has been released. The source is here, and the md5sum is 63d6c2bddd6af86664e338b31f3189a6.

[2005-09-06] by james

Registration for RubyConf 2005 is CLOSING soon.

The schedule is as follows:

• Friday, September 16: last day for full registration (meals included)
• Friday, September 23: last day for events-only registration (no meals)

So, all you stragglers, get over to the RubyConf site

[2005-08-30] by james

David Black announced on ruby-talk that there are now 136 registrants, from 12 countries, for RubyConf 2005. If you still have not registered, do it now.

Full registration (i.e., full meal plans) ends in two weeks. Non-full may continue past that, but not forever. Go to the RubyConf site for complete registration details.

David A. Black recently reported on ruby-talk that over 100 people have registered for RubyConf 2005, to be held this coming October 14-16 in San Diego.

If you haven't yet registered, now is the time!

[2005-07-01] by shugo

Created security@ruby-lang.org . If you have found vulnerabilities in Ruby, please report to this address.

security@ruby-lang.org is a private ML, and anyone can post to it without subscription.

[2005-07-01] by shugo

On Fri Jun 17 2005, a vulnerability of XMLRPC.iPIMethods was reported in [ruby-core:05237]. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands by this vulnerability.

[2005-06-22] by shugo

We'll upgrade this host to Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) on Wed Jun 29 05:00:00 UTC 2005. Services will be stopped for a while.

Successfully DONE. Thank you.