Ruby Weekly News: 04/07/2003
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Rubum-tools 0.01
Pierre Baillet released a set of tools that aim to manipulate
JPEG/JFIF images via a pure Ruby API. Get Rubum([1]).
Madeleine 0.2
Anders Bengtsson has released another version of Madeleine.
Madeleine is a pure Ruby implementation the Object Prevalence
transparent persistence of business objects framework. Get
Madeleine([2]).
INTERESTING THREADS
J->E translation of Matz’s Japan /. interview
OTA Takashi has made an intial translation of the interview and
requests assistance from the english speaking/writing
community. It is a wiki so feel free to edit any errors found
in thetranslation([3]). Thank you for the work!
Inherit vs. include
Ever been confused about if should inherit or if you should
mixin functionality? If so, you are not the only one. This
short thread discusses some possible heuristics you might want
to think about when you have to make this decision next.
Standardized package installation procedure
Tom Payne has recently offered his services to help maintain
Ruby packages for Gentoo([4]) Linux (thank you Tom!). He
highlights that Ruby packages do not have a standard method of
installation. This thread debates if a standard method of
installation fits for Ruby.
References