Ruby Weekly News: 02/11/2003
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Pat Eyler.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ZenWeb 2.15.0 Released
ZenWeb is a set of classes/tools for organizing and formating a
website. It is website oriented rather than webpage oriented,
unlike most rendering tools. It is content oriented, rather
than style oriented, unlike most rendering tools. It provides a
plugin system of renderers and filters to provide a very
flexible, and powerful system.
sys-uname 0.4.0
Sys-uname is an interface to the ‘uname’ command. This release
includes MS Windows support! In addition, a test suite has been
added (for testunit users).
Text::Format 0.61
A bug fix release to Text::Format (for the installer).
Text::Format is a port of the Perl Text::Format module.
Digest::CRC32 0.1.0
This module is an implementation of the crc32 hash algorithm as
a Digest::Base digester. There is both a C and a pure Ruby
implementation. The former for speed and the latter for
portability. By default it will use the C implementation.
bdb
bdb-0.3.9 has been released. It contains the first beta
interface to DB XML
FXRuby-1.0.19 Now Available
FXRuby-1.0.19 is now available. This is mainly a bug-fix
release.
plruby
plruby 0.3.2 was released with 2 experimental features:
specify a timeout at compile time and functions returning SET
math-const 1.0.0
math-const provides mathematical and physical constants both in
the MKS and CGS system
Ruby-GNOME2-0.3.0
Ruby-GNOME2 is a ruby interface to the GNOME2 system.
MIME::Types 1.005
MIME::Types has been updated to match the Perl version 1.005;
additional changes have been made to make the data cleaner.
Certain file types (e.g., application/applefile) will show up
correctly now instead of with an improper extension.
ruby syntax file for GNU Source-highlight
This is a ruby syntax file for GNU Source-highlight, producing
a document(HTML, XHTML) with syntax highlighting.
INTERESTING THREADS
Embedding Ruby in C code
Szymon Drejewicz asked about embedding a bit of Ruby in C.
locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings
Phil Thomson started a long thread about cross platform GUI
tools on Ruby.
Blogging software
Martin DeMello asked about blogging tools written in Ruby.
Several options were discussed in the thread.
The way of the Gentoo
This thread covered the Gentoo portage system and how it might
work as a model for Ruby module distribution.
Relative performance of Ruby templating systems
Gabriel Emerson presented a review of the performance of
several Ruby templating systems under mod_ruby.
ruby-dev summary 19457-19539
Kazuo Saito gave us this weeks ruby-dev translation and
summary.