Ruby Weekly News: 01/20/2003
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Pat Eyler.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ruby-sumo-2003.01.08 and MacOSX package
ruby-sumo is all-in-one packaged installer for some major Ruby
applications/libraries.
FoxTails 0.1 for FXRuby
FoxTails is a set of extensions for FXRuby. (FXRuby is the Ruby
bindings for the Fox C++ GUI library. See
http://fxruby.sourceforge.net.)
saprfc - Ruby extension for RFC calls to an SAP R/3 System
This is a ibrary for performing RFC calls to an SAP R/3 system,
in Ruby (http://www.sap.com). This library binds the C rfc
library provided by SAP to Ruby to enable the user to perform
Remote Function Calls in a clean OO manner.
Ruby SunOS Packages
A build of Ruby 1.6.7 for Solaris 8.
FXRuby API Documentation - Preview
A preview (if you’d like to think of it that way) of the FXRuby
API documentation is posted here:
dbi-dbrc 0.2.0
This is a supplement to the dbi module, allowing you to avoid
hard-coding passwords in your programs that make database
connections by using a special config file. It’s also
convenient. 
SOAP4R/1.4.8 with WSDL4R/0.0.2
This is a new release of SOAP4R which includes bug fixes and
WSDL4R.
Ruby/Google 0.5.0
Version 0.5.0 of Ruby/Google has been released. This version
utilizes the new WSDL support of SOAP4R 1.4.8. There are no
user-visible changes.
YAML.rb 0.49.2 – YPath
YAML.rb 0.49.2 is another subrelease before 0.50. This features
bug fixes, better YPATH support and sequence-in-sequence
shortcuts.
INTERESTING THREADS
sorting with the Swartzian transform
The Swartzian transform is a method of speeding up certain
expensive sorts. It is one of the hallmarks of Perl, and it is
also available in Ruby. This thread looks at how.
Yet Another Test First Example … in Ruby
Jim Weirich put together a wonderful look at test first
development using Ruby. It was a great read and well worth
looking at. (I’m hoping to talk about it in our next seattle.rb
meeting.)
ruby-dev summary 19198-19345
Kazuo Saito posted a nice review of ruby-dev for the japanese
impaired among us. It spawnd a lot of discussion about heredocs
and ways they might be improved.
Unit Testing in dynamic environments
Travis Whitton asked about unit testing methods with dynamic
return values./ Some good feedback showed up in the thread.
Automating Perl -> Ruby translation?
Hal Fulton asked about building a Perl2Ruby translator. A lot
of people jumped in with ideas.
Article: Using the Ruby DBI Module
Paul DuBois wrote in to say that he’d posted not one, but two
articles about using Ruby with MySQL! Great stuff.
ruby-dev summary 19346-19379
Takaaki Tateishi wrote a summary of last weeks ruby-dev posts.
This is a really wonderful services, and I’d like to thank all
of the ruby hackers in Japan (and where-ever else they live)
who create these summary/tranlsations.