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Ruby Weekly News: 06/03/2003

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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SuperShape
Phil Tomson made the initial release of SuperShape, a C
extension for use with Ruby’s Tk library for testing of Belgian
Biologist Johan Gielis’ SuperShape concept.

      Get SuperShape([1]).

FXRuby v1.0.23
Lyle Johnson released FXRuby v1.0.23. FXRuby is a Ruby
extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI
library([2]).

      Download FXRuby([3]).

      An FXRuby mailing list([4]) is now also available; details can
      be found on the FXRuby homepage([5]).

OSSL-0.2.0-pre2
Michal Rokos announced OpenSSL-0.2.0-pre2 for Ruby, supporting
ciphers, digests, X509, and SSL. Version 0.2.0 will be released
after further SSL testing.

      Get OSSL-0.2.0-pre2([6]) for Ruby.

Ruby-GNOME2 v0.5.0, Ruby/GtkSourceView v0.1.0
Masao Mutoh released Ruby-GNOME2 v0.5.0 and Ruby/GtkSourceView
v0.1.0.

      Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME
      2.x development environment. Its supporting libraries are
      Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2,
      Ruby/GnomeCanvas2, Ruby/Libart2, Ruby/Libglade2, and
      Ruby/GConf2.

      Ruby/GtkSourceView is a wrapper for GtkSourceView (maintained
      by Geoff Youngs). GtkSourceView is a syntax highlighting,
      multi-line text editing widget for GTK+2. It is currently at
      version 0.2.0 and is used, among other things, by the latest
      version of GEdit, the GNOME 2 text editor.

      Download Ruby-GNOME2([7]).

Ruby 1.8 Windows Installer
Andy Hunt has packaged a CVS snapshot of Ruby 1.8 in the
Windows Installer version, available from sourceforge([8]).

INTERESTING THREADS

Project Directory Structure
Jim Freeze posted a question regarding project directory
structure. What followed was a discussion on the pros and cons
of certain setups, rdoc behavior, and standard directory names
for Ruby libraries.

References

  1. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=supershape
  2. http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
  3. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243
  4. file://localhost/tmp/t.html
  5. http://www.fxruby.org/
  6. http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rubypki/
  7. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614
  8. http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/
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Ruby Weekly News: 06/03/2003

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

…

Not to mention an unprecedented 203.8 million dollars in six separate

offers (plus two additional offers of unspecified amounts from Major George
Owen) available to kind-hearted Americans who will help oppressed
third-world refugees relocate their ill-gotten money into the United States
:o)

If we could get just 1% of that money into the Ruby community, just

think what we could do!

Sorry, sometimes these scams just get to me...

- Warren Brown
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Hi Warren,

You have lost me, which scam are you referring to?

Signed,
Holden Glova

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On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 08:06, Warren Brown wrote:

Ruby Weekly News: 06/03/2003

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

…

Not to mention an unprecedented 203.8 million dollars in six separate

offers (plus two additional offers of unspecified amounts from Major George
Owen) available to kind-hearted Americans who will help oppressed
third-world refugees relocate their ill-gotten money into the United States

:o)

If we could get just 1% of that money into the Ruby community, just

think what we could do!

Sorry, sometimes these scams just get to me...

- Warren Brown
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Holden,

You have lost me, which scam are you referring to?

I was going to reply off-list, but I realized that there are probably

other people on this list that may not be familiar with these scams. For
those interested, see the ruby-talk archives
(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk) for the following messages:

    72374,
    72571,
    72730,
    72731,
    72737,
    72729,
    72738,
    72760

These are all variations on what is called the "Nigerian Scam" (see

Nigerian (419) Scam | Snopes.com for more information), so
named because it thrives in Nigeria (I read once that it was the second
largest industry of that country). They all hinge on getting the recipient
to pay some up-front fees or even just divulge their bank account
information in return for the promise of millions of dollars. The
perpetrator then drains the victim’s bank account. The scam itself has been
around since at least the 1920s in various forms, but it has flourished with
the introduction of email. That is why this list receives on average more
than one per day.

- Warren Brown
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The scam may also involve kidnapping, imprisonment in Nigeria, death, and
even Golden Retrievers.

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on 6/4/03 4:01 PM, Warren Brown at wkb@airmail.net wrote:

Holden,

You have lost me, which scam are you referring to?

I was going to reply off-list, but I realized that there are probably

These are all variations on what is called the “Nigerian Scam” (see

–
Regards,
JJ

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