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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
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
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
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. :(
- Publisher: Impress
- Author: AOKI, Minero under the editorship of MATSUMOTO, Yukihiro
-
ISBN: 4-8443-1721-0
I tried to translate the table of contents.
Bear in mind that it’s an unofficial translation.
Posted by NaHi on 11 Dec 2002
Following RAA/2.1, RAA XML Interfaces are updated.
-
SOAP & XML-RPC interface
You can get “short_description” from Project object.
- plain XML
URLs are changed.
Latter only includes 10 recently updated items.
-
RSS/0.91
URLs are changed.
Is there anyone who can help us to serve RSS/1.0 file?
-
YAML (not a XML!)
Posted by NaHi on 09 Dec 2002
RAA is upgraded.
Changes:
-
URL was changed. RAA is at
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/
now. Former URL http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html
is redirected to the new URL.
- Add new page “All” that lists all RAA entries by
alphabetical order.
- Show number of projects in each major_category or
minor category in listing view. We have 753 projects
now. Is your stomach full?
- Add AND/OR search option. RAA search is substring
search, not a word search.
- Project’s “name” field is restricted to match
/\A[a-z0-9_-]{2,15}\z/ .
-
RAA users can refer a project with a simple name like
“druby”. They don’t have to remember the ID number or
a long name like “druby – distributed ruby”.
- Application owner must specify canonical name(s)
of his/her project(s).
This field is a freezed (static, const) field.
For each existing entries, I prepared a canonical name
created from former name, Project UNIX Name in
sourceforge or filename of its download item. See
[ruby-talk:58018] for your entry.
Since I created canonical names automatically with
a script1, some owners would think that it isn’t
a suitable name for their project.
So UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR owner can change
this “name” field of his/her entry.
- Add new field “short description”.
Owners can describe short(63 bytes or shorter)
description here.
At now, this field is filled with former “name” field.
Feel free to change this field anytime.
- To add an application entry, you must type pass phrase
twice. Don’t forget your pass phrase.
[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
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
(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
We www-admin@ruby-lang.org rewrote current RAA which got a little old and rickety.
Changes:
- lightweight top page
- iso8859-1 => UTF-8
- added simple keyword search
- show projects by the specified owner
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;
- id and owner_id element are added to each entry.
Those two elements contain positive integer.
- For SOAP interface users only: element url, download
and email are marked as xsd:anyURI type. Those
elements will be unmarshalled as a URI object at
client side, not a String object.
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;
- *.xml files are updated in each 15 minutes, not on the
fly.
- Charset encoding scheme was changed from iso-8859-1 to
UTF-8.
-
XML instance format is changed for user’s convenience.
Posted by Unknown Author on 24 Oct 2002
Dutch translation of www.ruby-lang.org is available.
Thanks to John Jacobs.
Posted by Unknown Author on 18 Sep 2002
The new stable version 1.6.7 is released.
Posted by Unknown Author on 01 Mar 2002
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
The source code of Ruby is stored in CVS repositories. You can walk them around by CVSweb:
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
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:
- http://cvs.ruby-lang.org/cvsup/
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