Shoes - Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit - Grows Up (5)
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It was about a year ago now that Rubyist extraordinaire Why The Lucky Stiff first showed his "Shoes" Ruby cross-platform GUI application toolkit off to the world. Since then, he's not let up with the development. We've featured the release of The Shoebox - a Shoes application repository - and Nobody Knows Shoes - a short book about Shoes, done a roundup of Shoes tutorials, and looked at how to write a drawing program with ...
New Vulnerabilities Discovered in Ruby (August 2008) (2)
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Photo by JL2003 - CC 2.0 Attribution License In June, a serious security advisory was put out about the official (MRI) Ruby interpreter for all versions prior to 1.8.5, 1.8.6 prior to patch 231, 1.8.7 prior to patch 22, and 1.9.0 prior to 1.9.0-2. Now (August 8, 2008) a new set of vulnerabilities have been discovered and announced. They affect all 1.8.5 releases, 1.8.6 patch 285 and prior, 1.8.7 patch 70 and prior, and Ruby ...
A Crazy Number of Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2008 (2)
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There are some really amazing sounding jobs this month! The focus is definitely on Rails - and working environments include the skunkworks at an adult entertainment provider, a gaming startup, a mansion in Los Angeles, and one of the biggest companies in America. All the jobs are in the US, alas, but on both coasts and in-between! From the Ruby Inside job board (costs $99 for a 60 day listing - and you get featured ...
Prawn: The Pure Ruby PDF Generation Library (10)
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Prawn is a new pure Ruby PDF generation library developed primarily by Gregory Brown. Back in March, Gregory tried to raise $13000 so he could spend six months working on Ruby-related open source projects. He eventually raised $5525 from the community (plus $5000 from Ruby Central and $500 from Mountain West RubyConf) and has spent the last few months working on Prawn. Prawn can be installed from a pull from GitHub or, for those of ...
“The Rubyist” Ruby Magazine Launches (9)
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The Rubyist - not to be confused with the Japanese Rubyist Magazine - a new paper-and-PDF based magazine for Ruby developers has released its first issue. This is a significant milestone, since it was just over a year I lamented about how the blogosphere killed the enthusiasm for Ruby magazines. In response to that post, Jeremy McAnally announced his intention to produce a Ruby magazine, and now, with the advent of simple Print On Demand ...
Describe Your Perfect Conference: Win Ruby Hoedown Tickets! (2)
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Yee-haw! The Ruby Hoedown, the "Ruby conference for the South" enters its second year, taking place in Huntsville, Alabama on August 8th and 9th, 2008 (yes, in a week's time!). Speakers include David Black, Chris Wanstrath, Giles Bowkett, Robert Dempsey, Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer, and late registration is $199. If you fancy a last-minute trip to what should be a great sophomore Ruby event, register now!. Huntsville isn't a crazy distance from Birmingham, Atlanta, ...
DocBox: Wiki-Like Ruby / Rails Documentation For Everyone (8)
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DocBox is the latest attempt to improve the Ruby/Rails documentation scene. Created as a Google Summer of Code project by Ian Ownbey (mentored by Jeremy McAnally) DocBox "sits on top of RDoc and allows users to update documentation through a wiki-like interface." Changes to the 'wiki' are then folded back into your code and committed to a git documentation branch. While still young, this project shows a lot of promise, as it allows anyone to ...
Ruby on Bells: The Ruby-Powered Musical Glass Playing Machine (3)
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Ruby on Bells is a demo of the Madrona fork of RAD (Ruby Arduino Development) itself a Ruby bridge to Arduino, an open source electronics prototyping platform. Powered by a simple Ruby script, a set of glasses are hit by small mallets on servos, resulting in a Philip Glass-esque cacophony. It's a compelling demo, and if physical computing intrigues you, the tools available to Ruby and Arduino developers are now mature enough to bring interesting ...
Ruby 1.9 Drops Support For 9 Platforms (Ruby 1.9.0-3’s Release Bombshell) (5)
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Photo credit: Blakespot. License: CC 2.0 Attribution Yuki Sonoda has announced the release of Ruby 1.9.0-3, a snapshot release of the still-experimental Ruby 1.9 (wait until Christmas for the production ready 1.9.1). Minor releases aren't typically covered here on Ruby Inside, but the dropping of support for nine platforms in Ruby 1.9 might be of significant interest to some: Ruby 1.9 no longer supports the following platforms because they have no active maintainer. BeOS WinCE ...
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I had no clue Ruby even *supported* Mac OS 9... I am bummed about the lack of a BeOS version though. :-(
A Great Set of IronRuby Tutorials To Bring C# Developers Into The Ruby Fold (7)
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IronRuby is a .NET implementation of Ruby being developed by Microsoft (specifically, by John Lam). The project has matured significantly in the past year, and IronRuby is well on its way to running Rails applications (it already works with very simple ones). IronRuby's major benefit is that it allows Ruby code to access a massive range of .NET libraries and services. Justin Etheredge has put together a great set of tutorial blog posts designed to ...
RedCloth 4.0 Released: 40x Faster Textile Rendering (14)
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RedCloth is a popular Ruby library for converting Textile-formatted text into HTML. Initially developed by WhyTheLuckyStiff, it's now under the guardianship of Jason Garber, who has just released version 4 (RubyForge or Github). This is a significant update, following on from 3.0.4 which was released almost three years ago, and features a handful of significant improvements and changes: New SuperRedCloth (RedCloth 4.0) is a total rewrite using Ragel for the parsing. Markdown support has been ...
Starling: A Ruby Persistent Queue Server That Speaks Memcached (26)
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It's been around for a while now, but Starling is a "light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol." Starling makes it ridiculously easy to set up a network-accessible queue (or many queues) for, say, asynchronous job processing between multiple processes and machines. It was developed by Twitter to handle the heavy amount of queueing necessary to keep their service ticking over. Starling is proven in production, with not only Twitter using it in ...
RubyFringe Roundup: The Best Ruby Conference Ever? (3)
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(Photo credit: Kieran Huggins) RubyFringe - described as a "pricey, limited-attendance smoozefest" by Ruby documentation co-ordinator James Britt or as "an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging technologies outside of the Ruby on Rails monoculture" by the organizers - went ahead last week and appears to have been a significant hit. A small conference with a reasonably high ticket price (though far less than RailsConf Europe!), RubyFringe was set to be a ...
libxml-ruby 0.8.0 Released: Ruby Gets Fast, Reliable XML Processing At Last (27)
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Ruby's is not known for its deftness with XML. On RubyFlow, I considered calling the community to arms over it, and solicited twenty responses on what the problem is, and what we could do about it. Robert Fischer was lamenting on the state of Ruby's libxml library, and didn't seem to like REXML much either. Tim Bray has also had a few complaints about REXML. It seemed there was a problem to be fixed; a ...
Autumn: Easy, Feature-Rich IRC Bots in Ruby (10)
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Autumn is a framework by Tim Morgan that makes it easy to develop powerful IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bots with Ruby. Version 3, a significant update, was launched just a week ago. The code is available on Github, so it's ready to fork, tweak and work on to your heart's content. An instance of an "Autumn app" is laid out in a similar way to a Rails app. There are config, doc, script, libs, tmp, ...
rbiphonetest: Unit Testing iPhone Apps with Ruby (1)
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Dr Nic Williams has been busy playing with iPhone and Objective C development lately and, unsurprisingly, has found a way to bring Ruby into the mix. He has developed rbiphonetest, a Ruby-based testing framework for iPhone / Objective C applications that uses RubyCocoa to provide the necessary bridge. As well as producing an in-depth 20 minute demonstration screencast, he has also packed some key information into his blog post. If you're a Rubyist with ambitions ...
