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Some Ruby Before Christmas
'Twas the Saturday before Christmas and throughout Ruby-land
hackers were working, refact'ring by hand.
Their programs were written with the greatest of care
in hopes that a new VM soon would be there.
The newsgroup was still, the irc channels too
In light of the quiet, what's a blogger to do?
When up on the mail list, there arose such a clatter
I sprang to my laptop to see what was the matter.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
but a great bunch of news before the New Year.
Well, Clement Clark Moore I'm not, but this has been a great couple of weeks for Ruby, and those of us who enjoy it:
- rubinius (the smalltalk inspired VM written by Evan Phoenix and a host of others) is moving fast and is drawing a lot of interest from Ruby-fans everywhere.
- Not to be outdone, Jruby (Ruby on the JVM from Charles Nutter, Thomas Enobo, and a large and active group of contributors) has just released version 0.9.2
- Mongrel (the super fast, super secure Ruby webserver) is sitting on the cusp of a 1.0 release thanks to the work of Zed Shaw and his cohorts.
- RubyInside published a Ruby Advent Calendar
- Ruby 1.8.5 p2 was released in response to a security vulnerability.
- Ruby development has moved from the old cvs base to a new SVN repository
- Jeremy McAnally has announced that he's releasing his Humble Little Ruby Book for free as a Christmas gift to the Ruby community.
I hope you're looking forward to a great 2007, full of Ruby goodness. Have a happy holiday season.
Update: I nearly forgot Jeremy McAnally's announcement (the last item on the list).
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Comments
Ruby
I am personally a very big fan of ruby and ajax !!
However its still learning ruby techniques.
Ruby on Mac anyone?
has anyone a good dev environment for mac? i'm fed up using bbedit :/
good
I think i need to bookmark this post at delicious..
This year again?
"the same procedure like every year" ... i hope you have this year xmas a little bit ruby too, i like your articles. but i hate those spamers here, can someone delete them, please? Pat i await your little xmas-present (new article with the same amazing stuff) maybe at 23.12.2007? i`m looking forward it.
I hope
I hope too also. It will be good if it does..
Yes
I hope so too
Ruby on
Ruby is a powerful framework but dont't depends on christmas.
Xmas?
is this article for xmas 2007 also? :-) okay just a joke, u have some really interesting resource there and i hope u had your nice xmas 2006 and write some good stuff for 2007 too, im looking forward.
best wishes
Mira
2007
Great work. Still in 2007
no subject
Well, call it whatever u want.
Great work!
Excellent article its realy helpful, keep up the good work!
Thank you.
Pett
Very useful. I found this to be a joy to browse in.
nesot?
I don't have to explain anything to you...
Great resource. Thanks!
Great resource. Thanks!
Indeed very usefull reading
Indeed very usefull reading, just joining with the others to say thanks.
ha ha Yes, has been a great
:-D
Yes, has been a great weeks for Ruby
Haha!
Love it!
Thank you
Very usefull article. Thank you!
Some Ruby Before Christmas
Great and excellent article t’s realy helpful. Thanks again.
Katalog
Captioning for video, please. If people don't know how to manage that, I'm available
Cheers mate !
Cheers mate !
Not depending on 2007, this
Not depending on 2007, this article are actual in any time. Thank you for this, very helpful.
seriously very helpfull
thiz is really very much helpfull.
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