Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend

[2006-04-19] by dblack

Student Rubyists will be able to participate in the Google Summer of Code this summer, with Ruby Central, Inc.Ruby Central, Inc. as mentoring organization. See the Summer of Code page at Ruby Central.

[2006-02-09] by dblack

This coming spring and summer are shaping up to be a real "conference alley" for Rubyists. (And RubyConf 2006 hasn't even been announced yet!) Upcoming events of interest include:

Canada on Rails, April 13-14

Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 22-23, co-produced by SDForum and Ruby Central, Inc.

the first official International Rails Conference, June 22-25, produced by Ruby Central, Inc.

the Ruby track at OSCON, July 24-28 (call for papers closing soon!)

Check specific events for information about submitting talk proposals and/or registering to attend.

[2005-12-24] by maki

Ruby 1.8.4 has been released.

The source is <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz>, the md5sum is bd8c2e593e1fa4b01fd98eaf016329bb, and filesize is 4,312,965 bytes.

[2005-12-14] by dblack

Ruby 1.8.4 preview 2 has been released. You can download the source here. The md5 sum is: e5a48054fb34f09da17e8e8f04b8c706

[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.