Ruby Weekly News: 10/28/2002
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Holden Glova.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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RAA Replaced
The RAA Renewal team have redone the RAA - thanks guys. There
is also a XML([1]) and RDF([2]) representation of the RAA.
Recent information can be received in an RDF([3]) format.
FixedTime 0.0.1
Daniel Berger has written a module called FixedTime which is
deisgned to calculate the difference or sum between two fixed
times. It can also be used to calculate total seconds or
minutes based on a fixed amount of time in “00:00:00” format.
Get FixedTime([4]).
Crawler 0.0.1
Brian Denny has released a web crawler. Get Crawler 0.0.1([5]).
Ruby QT Embedded 0.2
HIDAKA Takahiro has released Ruby bindings for the QT/Embedded
and Qtopia library. He has built and tested it on Zaurus
SL-A300 and would like feedback if it works on SL-5500, iPAQ,
and other handhelds. Get Ruby/Qte 0.2([6]).
INTERESTING THREADS
comp.lang.ruby FAQ
Hal Fulton has taken on maintaining the Ruby FAQ for news. If
you post on news or are thinking of posting on news please read
over the FAQ.
Reading current line from a file
Ever wanted to read the current line of a file? Sevearl ways to
do it are illustrated in this thread.
References