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MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The submission deadline for presentation proposals is midnight (MST) on December 31st, 2008.
Please send your proposal to proposals@mtnwestrubyconf.org.
Please see mtnwestrubyconf.org/ for more details.
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Posted by james on 23 Dec 2008
While RubyConf fans are waiting on the videos trickle in Confreaks, hold yourself over with the 31 minute summary video from Rails Envy. It’s a perfect way to get an overview of what you missed at the conference.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 27 Nov 2008
Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that Conference2009 will be held March 26-28 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
We are now accepting submissions. The closing date for submissions is December 1st 2008, so there’s still time! Please mail your plaintext proposals for 45 minute sessions to submissions@scotlandonrails.com.
Alternatively, if you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please mail sponsorship@scotlandonrails.com for a prospectus.
Lastly, if you wish to be notified when we open for registration, you can sign up on the site.
Come and enjoy all that Edinburgh has to offer (whisky! castle! volcano! ruby! whisky!) in March. We hope to see you there.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 10 Nov 2008
MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Proposals to speak at this regional conference are now being accepted. Please send your proposal to proposals@mtnwestrubyconf.org.
The submission deadline is midnight (MST) on December 31st, 2008.
There are sponsorship opportunities available as well. Please contact sponsorship@mtnwestruby.org if you are interested.
Please see mtnwestrubyconf.org/ for more details as they become available.
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Posted by james on 08 Nov 2008
Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1:
This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable version of the Ruby 1.9 series. Try it out now and get an early taste of a modern, faster, multilingualized, and much improved Ruby with clearer syntax.
If you encounter any bugs or problems, please let us know via the official issue tracking system:
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org
You can download the release from;
Posted by james on 28 Oct 2008
RubyConf 2008 is sold out
However, there is a waiting list you can join in case of cancellations.
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Posted by james on 02 Oct 2008
Pearson Education is running a Voices That Matter Ruby conference this fall in Boston. The conference, from the same people who Addison-Wesley’s Professional Ruby Series, will give you a chance to meet and learn from those very same authors. Don’t miss a chance to interact with so many Ruby professionals.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 09 Sep 2008
There is a DoS vulnerability in the REXML library included in the Ruby
Standard Library. A so-called “XML entity explosion” attack technique
can be used for remotely bringing down (disabling) any application
which parses user-provided XML using REXML.
Most Rails applications will be vulnerable because Rails parses
user-provided XML using REXML by default.
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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 23 Aug 2008
Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and 1.8.6-p287 have been released.
The last releases were incomplete, and the new releases include fixes of the previously announced vulnerability of dl.
The released source archives are available at:
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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 11 Aug 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. It’s
recommended that you upgrade to the latest versions.
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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 08 Aug 2008
RubyConf 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from November 6 to November 8.
Proposals for presentations are now begin accepted. All proposals must be received by August 21.
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Posted by james on 04 Aug 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS)
condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.
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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 20 Jun 2008
RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas. This year’s RubyNation will happen on August 1&2, 2008 in Herndon, VA. Please visit the RubyNation site for more details.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 16 Jun 2008
Akinori MUSHA announced today that Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.
The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.
The source code package is available in three formats at the following
locations:
Checksums:
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MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = f17f14c8d55e731b3ce1bc35c42f0a6c
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SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 65f2a862ba5e88bac7a78cff15bcb88d7534e741b51a1ffb79a0136c7041359a
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SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 4100024
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MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = de906850f9a012c12ffc6e9f56fb1b66
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SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 600dccf13bca3e4179fa6ff554220ce4ba67ffc72bce1ac3bf74c2599c03a0ca
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SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 4799732
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MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 14d3eb37b32e4a26966bdd80f361ccd2
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SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 805987ad167d8f9cac90e4b9342686e96a7708664111be27a3c6d680ce21d6c1
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SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 5851408
For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are
also available at the following locations:
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog
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Posted by james on 31 May 2008
Services on ruby-lang.org except SVN will be down for server maintenance on Fri May 23 02:00:00 UTC 2008.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Posted by Shugo Maeda on 22 May 2008
I wanted to get the word out about the upcoming Tulsa Ruby Workshop. This will take place on April 26th, from 10 AM to 4 PM in Tulsa, OK.
The workshop has a great line up of intro Ruby and Rail content. I’m honored to have been asked to give two of the talks that day: an introduction to Ruby talk as well as a Ruby from Java talk. There will also be a beginning Rails talk from Tulsa.rb’s commander and chief, an Engine Yard employee on hand sharing deployment advice, as well as other language specific migration talks.
That’s pretty much a full day of Ruby learning and the best news is that attendance is free. They are even throwing in some food.
If you’re going to be in the area, definitely come join us!
You can find directions, a schedule, and other details about the workshop at:
http://tulsarb.org/wiki/Tulsa_Ruby_Workshop
Hope to see you there.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 11 Apr 2008
WEBrick, a standard library of Ruby to implement HTTP servers, has file
access vulnerability.
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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 03 Mar 2008
Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that
Conference2008 is open for registration. There is a limit
to the number of registrations we’re able to accept so
we’d advise you to get in quickly :-)
You can register at http://scotlandonrails.com/register
The conference will take place on April 4th and 5th in
Edinburgh (in a castle!), Scotland and will feature speakers from the UK,
Europe, US and New Zealand including keynotes from Michael
Koziarski and David Black. A list of sessions and speakers
is available at http://scotlandonrails.com/talks.
We’re also planning a
charity event on Thursday 3rd. This will feature an beginner
level intro to Ruby and Rails in the morning, and sessions
from several of the speakers from the main conference
(including Jim Weirich, Bruce Williams and Giles Bowkett)
in the afternoon. All the money raised from that days event will
be going to CHAS – The Childrens Hospice Association.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 27 Feb 2008
EURUKO is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year it takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 29th to 30th.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 25 Feb 2008
Registration for MountainWest RubyConf
2008 is now open. This year features an
expanded schedule and list of
speakers.
The conference will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on March 28 and
29, 2008. Registration costs just
$100 and includes lunch both
days, t-shirt, and more.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 04 Feb 2008
The first Ruby Fools conference will be held on April Fools’ Day in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference organizers intend to cater a bit to both expert and novice developers, so any Rubyists in the area may want to consider attending.
Posted by James Edward Gray II on 24 Jan 2008
The official Ruby logo is available to download
under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license now.
Available formats are Illustrator/SVG/PDF/PNG.
Posted by Shugo Maeda on 09 Jan 2008