Ruby Weekly News: 12/02/2002
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Pat Eyler.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Spreadsheet/Excel 0.0.1
Daniel Berger posted an announcement for Spreadsheet/Excel
0.0.1 which allows you to programatically generate MS Excel
compatable files on any platform. It is a port of version .21
of John McNamara’s Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Perl module.
xregex-0.02
Martin DeMello announced the release of his extended regex
library, which he considers alpha, but useable. This release
features named subexpressions.
MiniRubyWiki has struck again
Phlip announced the latest release of his tiny wiki with a
built in webserver. It’s doing ever more stuff while staying
pretty small.
INTERESTING THREADS
each_with_index & collect_with_index?
This turned into a fairly long (but quite interesting) thread
about Ruby, or not.
RCR: Stack, Queue alias methods in Array
Another good discussion of how and why you might (or might not)
extend Ruby.
A Lesson Learned
Gavin Sinclair was reminded of the adage “Make it work, make it
right, then make it fast.” He balanced his Karma by sharing the
story … I’m hoping to help balance mine by sharing it again.
Numerical Ruby
Olivier Saut asked for help optimizing some numerical work he
was doing in Ruby. Help from the list bought him a 50x speed
up. Wow!
WeRDS, the Weekly Ruby-Doc Summary, for 2002-12-01
Gavin Sinclair brought us this weeks summary of the Ruby-Doc
project.
ruby-dev summary #18924-18973
TAKAHASHI Masayoshi brings us this weeks summary of the
Japanese language Ruby Development list.
Last week’s meeting
Martin Stannard sent a brief note about the most recent Sydney
Ruby Users meeting. The thread blossomed into a nice discussion
about what to do next. Makes me wish I had a reason to go to
Sydney.