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Latest stable release ruby 1.8.1 is finally announced:
This is mainly a bug fix release.
Mirroring volunteers are welcome. The Md5 check sum is
5d52c7d0e6a6eb6e3bc68d77e794898e ruby-1.8.1.tar.gz
Thank you matz and all committers.
Happy Hacking Holidays.
Posted by sughimsi on 25 Dec 2003
Mike Stok has written an excellent recap of the 3rd International Ruby Conference, featured on the front page of O’Reilly’s ONLamp site, entitled “Ruby’s Present and Future”.
For additional post-conference information, see Jim Weirich’s site or Ryan Davis’s Archive of the RubyConf presentations.
Posted by Unknown Author on 20 Dec 2003
In [ruby-talk:88503], David Alan Black announced the launch of the new official process for RCRs. The new process is the result of matz’s desire to further formalize the process, as expressed in his RubyConf 2003 presentation.
The new site for Ruby Change Requests is rcrchive.net.
Many thanks to Dave Thomas, who facilitated the creation of the RCR process 3 years ago.
Posted by Unknown Author on 19 Dec 2003
Ruby 1.8.1 preview3 is out.
Go get ruby 1.8.1 preview3 ||
rubyforge mirror.
Posted by NaHi on 05 Dec 2003
” Documentation for the Ruby 1.8 standard library”: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ is available.
This is the HTML from the RDoc comments resulting from Gavin Sinclair’s stdlib-doc project.
Posted by Unknown Author on 23 Nov 2003
Today, Matz announced the availability of ruby 1.8.1 preview1 and, subsequently, ruby 1.8.1 preview2 || rubyforge mirror
As always, we encourage Rubyists to download this preview release and put it through its paces. Your testing, bug reports, and patches will lead to a stable ruby 1.8.1.
Posted by Unknown Author on 30 Oct 2003
Ruby Conference 2003 will soon be held in November 14-16, 2003, on Austin, Texas U.S.A.
The registration is open. Sign in! Full registration will be open until Sunday, October 26.
See also [ruby-talk:83169], and [ruby-talk:84427].
Posted by sughimsi on 01 Oct 2003
Long time no minor version-up…
Here is an initial official release of a stable version ruby 1.8.
The download site
will lead you to the source code ruby-1.8.0.tar.gz. Its MD5SUM is:
582a65e52598a4a1e9fce523e16e67d6
Binaries are going to be there.
Some features are changed from previous stable version ruby 1.6.x;
See ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/changes.1.8.0.
Thank you matz, and all committers, for all your trouble!
Posted by sughimsi on 04 Aug 2003
(dblack posted an article
‘Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement….’ [ruby-talk:65632].
Following is excerpted from the article.)
Today, February 24, 2003, is Ruby’s 10th birthday. Happy Birthday, Ruby! And congratz to Matz!
dblack also annouces the new non-profit organization Ruby Central, Inc
and RubyConf 2003!. See [ruby-talk:65632].
Posted by NaHi on 24 Feb 2003
(MNeumann announced the first European Ruby Conference
at [ruby-talk:65418]. Following is excerpted from the post.)
The first European Ruby Conference will be held from
Saturday 21th to Sunday 22th June at the University of
Karslruhe in Germany.
Everyone instested in Ruby is welcome!
(For more detail about the entrance fee, calling for speakers,
mailing-lists, and so on, see [ruby-talk:65418])
Posted by NaHi on 21 Feb 2003
RAA - Ruby Application Archive - has been updated. (see
[ruby-talk:63170])
Changes:
- Change URL: www.ruby-lang.org/raa -> raa.ruby-lang.org
Access to old URLs should be redirected.
- Add the page to show projects sort by chronologically.
- Introduce “What’s updated” table at the top page.
- Add shortcut search box at top right of each page.
- Combine some sub-categories. [ruby-talk:62840]
Posted by usa on 31 Jan 2003
Here on the Ruby Garden Wiki comes a page to compile Ruby’s year 2002 and plans on 2003. The deadline is January 9.
RubyIn2002 http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyIn2002
This page supports a following plan: “The Year in Scripting Languages(Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl)”. The aim of that is to encourage these scripting language communities to collaborate with each other; its first step is to know neighbors, which will lead us to be able to share our efforts on scriptings. The chair person is Mitchell N. Charity.
see also: [ruby-talk:60604], [ruby-talk:60731]
Final result can be seen at http://www.vendian.org/language_year/.
Posted by tamura on 07 Jan 2003