Ruby Weekly News

Ruby Weekly News: 12/30/2002

A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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RTrans 1.01
Idan Sofer has released a bug fix version of RTrans. RTrans is
a library for internationalizing applications written in Ruby.
Get RTrans([1]).

RDoc template system modification
Eric Hodel has taken some existing RDoc code and modified it to
allow calls to methods. You can get the code([2]) and the
tests([3]) for testunit([4]).

RubyCocoa 0.4.0
FUJIMOTO Hisakuni has released a new version of RubyCocoa.
RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming
in Ruby. Get RubyCocoa([5]).

Ruby-GNOME-0.2
Masao Mutoh has released a new version of Ruby-GNOME2.
Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME
2.0 development environment. This project is also looking for
volunteers to help. Get Ruby-GNOME2([6]).

Radical 0.6
Idan Sofer has released Radical with many improvements in
documentation and speed. Radical is a web application
server/framework written in pure Ruby. Get Radical([7]).

Test::Unit 0.1.6
Nathanial has released another version of the Test::Unit unit
testing framework. This release is an API change renaming the
Test::TestCase method previously known as tear_down() to
teardown(). If there are no major problems with this release it
will be moved into the Ruby 1.8 as Ruby’s standard unit testing
framework. Get Test::Unit([8]).

Ruby Document Bundle
Gavin Sinclair wishes the Ruby community a happy new year by
releasing a bundle of Ruby documentation affectionately known
as “the bundle”. The bundle provides convenient off-line access
to: pickaxe reference, Ruby users guide, Ruby reference manual,
Ruby FAQ, comp.lang.ruby FAQ, things that newcomers to Ruby
should know, Daniel Carrera’s Ruby tutorial, and a new document
written by Gavin Sinclair himself called “Getting Started With
Ruby”. Get the bundle([9]).

XTemplate
Takaaki Tateishi has released XTemplate, which is a small XML
template system using xmlscan. Get XTemplate([10]).

INTERESTING THREADS

Build problems for FOX, FXRuby and FXScintilla?
Many people seem to be having problems building FOX, FXRuby and
the FXScinitilla packages. The author of FXRuby, Lyle Johnson
made some recommendations on a strategy to try and get each one
working. These are required dependencies for anyone wanting to
try out the FreeRIDE([11]) release candidate one.

Ruby on IRC
I couldn’t have said it better then Yohanes Santoso did. IRC is
a valuable resource and is lots of fun. I’ll see you there!
Read his post to see what I mean.

RAA.your_project(name).freeze!
NAKAMURA, Hiroshi has announced that come early next year the
projects in the RAA will have their project names frozen.
Project owners are urged to have a think if their chosen
project names are appropriate for RAA users to remember. The
reason for this freeze is to improve co-operation with
RAA-install([12]). Go here([13]) and search RAA with your name.

      Many people seem to be having problems building FOX, FXRuby and
      the FXscinitilla packages. The author of FXRuby, Lyle Johnson
      made some recommendations on a strategy to try and get each one
      working. These are required dependencies for anyone wanting to
      try out the FreeRIDE([14]) release candidate.

Happy New Year
Happy New Year to the Ruby community! This has been the first
year of the RWN and we have had a great time bringing it to
you. We hope it is of use to some people out there. Looking
forward to 2003.

References

  1. file://localhost/tmp/t.html
  2. http://segment7.net/ruby-code/template/template.rb
  3. http://segment7.net/ruby-code/template/TC_template.rb
  4. http://testunit.talbott.ws/
  5. http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/
  6. http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/
  7. http://idanso.dyndns.org/radical
  8. http://testunit.talbott.ws/
  9. http://www.ruby-doc.org/downloads/
  10. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=xtemplate
  11. http://www.rubyide.org/
  12. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?id=729
  13. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/
  14. http://www.rubyide.org/