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Ruby Weekly News: 04/28/2003

A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Holden Glova.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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REXML 2.4.8
Sean Russel has released a new version of REXML. This contains
most of the bug fixes of the 2.5.8 release. Get REXML([1]).

Ruby.shop
Hal Fulton has started a Ruby shop where you can buy items like
T-shirts and bumper stickers. 50% of all profits will go
towards the next international Ruby Conference in November
2003. Visit Ruby.shop([2]).

FXRuby 1.0.22
Lyle Johnson has released a new version of FXRuby. FXRuby is a
set of GUI bindings for the FOX([3]) GUI library. Get
FXRuby([4]).

GridFlow 0.7.2
Mathieu Bouchard has released a new version of GridFlow.
GridFlow is a multi-dimensional processing library for Ruby,
jMax and PureData, specialized in pictures and video. Get
GridFlow([5]).

CursWrap 0.2.1
Julian Snitow has released a new version of CursWrap. CursWrap
is a a high-level interface to the [n]Curses terminal I/O
library. Get CursWrap([6]).

Plugin engine snapshot
Idan Sofer has started work on a generic plugin engine that can
query, load, and resolve dependency conflicts. Get the plugin
engine([7]).

FreeRIDE 0.5 final
Curt Hibbs has announced that FreeRIDE 0.5 final has been
released. FreeRIDE aims to be a full-featured, first-class IDE
on a par with those available for other languages, with all the
best-of-breed features that you would expect in a high-end IDE.
Get FreeRIDE([8]).

INTERESTING THREADS

Hashes and Enumerable#each_with_index
Ryan Pavik brought up an old discussion about the relevance
Enumerable#each_with_index method from the point of view of a
Hash. Matz would like to address this but is unclear what to
call the method name. Some suggestions have been given in this
thread.

References

  1. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=rexml-stable
  2. http://cafeshops.com/rubyshop
  3. http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
  4. http://www.fxruby.org/
  5. http://artengine.ca/jmax/gridflow/
  6. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=curswrap
  7. http://idanso.dyndns.org/maps/plugin_engine.rb.gz
  8. http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl