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Ruby Weekly News: 01/13/2003

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

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FormatR 1.07
FormatR provides Perl-like Formats for Ruby. It reads and
writes formatted text. Get FormatR([1]).

YAML.rb 0.49.0
"why the lucky stiff" has released a new version of YAML.rb.
YAML.rb is a data serialization language that is simple to
learn and very readable. This is release is considered to be a
pre-release of 0.50. Get YAML.rb([2]).

YAML.rb 0.49.1
"why the lucky stiff" has released yet another version of
YAML.rb. I’ve mentioned both releases because the text that
_why wrote in the announcement may be of interest to you. Get
YAML.rb([3]).

Ruby 1.6.8 Windows Installer
Andrew Hunt has packaged a new release of the Ruby 1.6.8
Windows Installer. This release incorporates more
documentation, contributed fixes and a more modern interface.
Get Ruby 1.6.8 Windows Installer([4]).

GridFlow 0.6.5
Mathieu Bouchard has made a new release of GridFlow. GridFlow
is a multi-dimensional data flow processing library for Ruby,
jMax and PureData, specialized in pictures and video. Get
GridFlow([5]).

xml-configfile 0.6.0
Maik Schmidt has released a class XmlConfigFile that makes
handling XML configuration files easy. Get xml-configfile([6]).

Win32Serial 0.1
Travis Whitton has released a Ruby library that wraps up a
small C library to manipulate the serial port using the Win32
API. Get Win32Serial([7]).

Things Newcomers to Ruby Should Know
Both Ruby veterans and newcomers alike should check out a great
document on some possible Ruby “gotchas” written by William
Djaja Tjokrominata.

INTERESTING THREADS

RubyConf 2002 slides have arrived
Ryan Davis has collected many of the 2002 RubyConf
presentations and made them available on the web. Check out
what was presented, fantastic stuff! Presentations are
available here([8]).

Portland Perl Mongers find new gems
Pat Eyler let us know that Phil Tomson gave a Ruby talk at the
Portland USA Perl Mongers meeting which seems to have inspired
some interest([9]).

‘borrow’ TCL’s virtual file system
Phil Tomson put forward the idea of borrowing TCL’s concept of
a virtual file system. The idea is a common API to things like
FTP, HTTP, Metakit, WebDAV, etc…Great idea IMHO.

References

  1. http://format.sourceforge.net/
  2. http://yaml4r.sf.net/
  3. http://yaml4r.sf.net/
  4. http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/
  5. http://artengine.ca/jmax/gridflow/
  6. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=xml-configfile
  7. http://grub.ath.cx/win32serial
  8. http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/RubyConf2002/
  9. http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/9867