Ruby Weekly News: 11/25/2002
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Pat Eyler.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ncurses-ruby 0.6
ncurses-ruby makes most functions, constants, and external
variables of the FSF’s C library “ncurses” accessible from
ruby. Additionally, ncurses-ruby can now also be used in
conjunction with the PDCurses library, in which case it wraps
the common subset of features of both libraries. A binary
package for Windows/MinGW/PDCurses is available.
rbbr-0.1
rbbr (RuBy BRowser) is an application to browse modules/classes
hierarchy and their constants, methods and etc. If the
optionally modules(ri, ReFe) to refer documents are installed,
you can also refer the document of methods in the browser.
Ruby-GNOME2 0.1
Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME
2.0 development environment.
INTERESTING THREADS
WeRDS, the Weekly Ruby-Doc Summary, for 2002-11-17
James Britt has posted a weekly summary of traffice on the
Ruby-Doc mailing list. This looks like a good project to keep
an eye on (or lend a hand to if you’re so inclined).
ruby-dev summary 18711-18810
Minero Aoki has posted another summary/translation of the
week’s activity on the (japanese) ruby-dev list. Several neat
conversations popped out in the thread that followed.
install.rb/setup.rb question
Phil Tomson asked about the use (and usefulness, on Win32
systems) of the existing install.rb/setup.rb scripts for
setting shebang lines (#!/bin/ruby – that is where it belongs,
right?). Lots of people weighed in with ideas about ways of
handling this.
Sydney Ruby users’ group meeting tonight!
The Sydney Ruby Users Group announced another meeting, and held
some discussion about what they’d be doing. (I want to know
who’s roshambo player won.)
I can't say this often enough, users groups rock! If you're
part of a users group, and want your meeting mentioned hear,
just let me know. If you send in a meeting report, you get
bonus credit.
Unit Testing in Ruby for the (Absolute) Novice
Mark Wilson posted a call for comments about Unit Testing in
Ruby. A number of useful pointers were given, along with some
good URLs.
ruby-dev summary 18811-18923
Takaaki Tateishi posted another summary/translation of the
ruby-dev mailing list. These are really great information, domo
origato to all involved in creating them.