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Ruby 1.6.8 and 1.8.0 preview 1

I just put the 1.6.8 release package on the ftp. 1.6.8 should be the last release in the 1.6.x series. Check out

I also put the first preview of 1.8.0 at

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Matz on 24 Dec 2002

Color scheme of www.ruby-lang.org

We webmasters decided to change the red only color scheme of this site following a recommendation in [ruby-talk:59202].

You may see somewhat strange color scheme while our CSS development. Thank you for your kind corporation.

And we also thank people who are discussing about color scheme on ruby-talk.

Posted by NaHi on 18 Dec 2002

Toward ruby-lang.org renewal; trial website offered

We webmasters’ team of ruby-lang.org have reformed our official site design, so that we can provide natural contents navigation and just-in-time information about Ruby.

Now we can offer a trial for a future official site. Here we are:

http://dev.ruby-lang.org/en/

And here is Japanese site:

http://dev.ruby-lang.org/ja/

Have a go and look at it.

Our scheme is a double release with ruby 1.6.8; the switchover of the site will be in the end of this year, if no critical problems are found. If you find them, feel free to tell us via this list, or mail directly to the address below.

Cheers,

—ruby-lang.org webmaster team
webmaster@ruby-lang.org

Posted by Unknown Author on 16 Dec 2002

“Ruby Hacking Guide” is out though …

RHG A book named “Ruby source code Kanzen Kaisetsu – Ruby Hacking Guide” by Aoki-san is out though it’s written in Japanese…

It’s a must-buy item for Ruby hacker, who can read Japanese. :(

I tried to translate the table of contents. Bear in mind that it’s an unofficial translation.

Posted by NaHi on 11 Dec 2002

RAA XML Interfaces are updated

Following RAA/2.1, RAA XML Interfaces are updated.

Posted by NaHi on 09 Dec 2002

RAA.succ!.version #=> 2.1.0

RAA is upgraded.

Changes:

[1] canonical name generation tool; http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/app/raa/tool/name_conv.rb

RAA development team:
NAKAMURA, Hiroshi aka NaHi and U.Nakamura aka usa.

Posted by NaHi on 07 Dec 2002

Matz’s Slides at 4 conferences

Matz’s Slides at Ruby Conference 2002, OOPSLA2002, LL2 and O+F kansai(Japanese) are available.

Ruby Conference 2002
Slides: OOPSLA 2002
Slides: LL2
Slides: KANSAI OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE 2002
Slides: LL2 slides in English to learn Japanese. :)

Ruby Installer For Windows at sourceforge

Now you can get Ruby Installer For Windows from http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/.

Excerpted from the site.

This is a "one-click", self-contained installer that
comprises the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor
and execution environment, and a Windows help file that
contains the full text of the book, "Programming Ruby:
The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". 

It’s a must item for Ruby users on Win32 box. Check also eban/ruby/binaries/”>eban’s win32 binaries to get Win32 binaries with dozens of popular extensions.

Posted by NaHi on 25 Nov 2002

Ruby Conference 2002

(Excerpted from http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyIn2002.)

The second annual Ruby Conference was held in November 2002 in Seattle, WA, USA.

There were about fifteen presentations, as well as a keynote speech by Matz.

Slides of the talks are available at http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/RubyConf2002/.

Posted by NaHi on 01 Nov 2002

RAA replaced

We www-admin@ruby-lang.org rewrote current RAA which got a little old and rickety.

Changes:

SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces will be updated, too. Users of RAA SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces, please tell me if the problem occurred. I changed wire format a little. See below;

Except SOAP and XML-RPC we are offering a plain XML or RDF file of RAA information. Those are at http://raa.ruby-lang.org/xml.xml and http://raa.ruby-lang.org/rdf.xml. You can also get recent information in RDF format from http://raa.ruby-lang.org/since.mrb

Users of pragdave’s XML/RDF feed interfaces should use above for a while. Pragdave’s former interfaces are not updated now because of replacing RAA DB. Bare in mind some changes are made to these interfaces, too. See below;

Posted by Unknown Author on 24 Oct 2002

Dutch translation of www.ruby-lang.org

Dutch translation of www.ruby-lang.org is available. Thanks to John Jacobs.

Posted by Unknown Author on 18 Sep 2002

1.6.7 is released

The new stable version 1.6.7 is released.

Posted by Unknown Author on 01 Mar 2002

Report Security Issues

Please send a mail to security@ruby-lang.org to report security issues. Reported problems will be published after fixes.

Posted by Unknown Author on 01 Feb 2002

Ruby CVS Repository Guide

The source code of Ruby is stored in CVS repositories. You can walk them around by CVSweb:

Anonymous CVS is also available:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org)
CVS password: 
$ cvs -z4 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src co ruby

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/doc login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org)
CVS password: 
$ cvs -z4 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/doc co doc

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/www login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org)
CVS password: 
$ cvs -z4 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/www co www

No password is required. Please just press Enter.

In addition, CVSup is also available:

You’ll find “supfiles” here. With them, you can get a part of or a whole repository by means of CVSup.

That’s all, folks! Happy hacking!

Posted by Unknown Author on 06 Jan 2002