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Ruby on Rails Bootcamp in Georgia

Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. is offering their Ruby on Rails Bootcamp classes in a retreat setting outside Atlanta, GA the week of February 12th-16th. For more information you can find the press release at http://bignerdranch.com/news/2006-10-11.shtml.

Posted by James Edward Gray II on 27 Dec 2006

CVS Repository moved to SVN

We have moved the source code repository to http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/. You can checkout it using the svn command, or you can also browse it by ViewVC.

The new machine for svn.ruby-lang.org is provided by Sun Microsystems. We are using Solaris 10 on the new machine, and it works pretty well.

Posted by Shugo Maeda on 22 Dec 2006

Ruby on Rails Bootcamp in Germany

Big Nerd Ranch Europe is offering their Ruby on Rails Bootcamp classes in Kloster Eberbach, Germany (near Frankfurt) the week of March 26th-30th. For more information you can find the press release at http://www.bignerdranch.com/news/2006-12-20.shtml.

Posted by James Edward Gray II on 20 Dec 2006

Another DoS Vulnerability in CGI Library

Another vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library (cgi.rb) that ships with Ruby which could be used by a malicious user to create a denial of service attack (DoS).

This vulnerability is open to the public as JVN#84798830.

Please note that the previous patch (<URL:http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-cgi-dos-1.patch>) does not fix this problem.

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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 04 Dec 2006

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