A status update

More than a month has passed since my last update. Did you miss me? I sure missed you, I truly love you guys. Jokes aside, it was rather uncharacteristic for this blog to go so long without a post, so I feel that a status update is in order before my feed ends up in the Dinosaur reports of your RSS reader. And with humanity facing the imminent threat of the Large Hadron Collider, I didn’t want to be sucked...

This Week in Ruby (July 26, 2008)

This is the 13th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Also, if you enjoy the series and this blog in general, please consider recommending me on Working With Rails. JRuby 1.1.3 has been released. This version includes several bug fixes and major speed and memory improvements. Satish Talim of RubyLearning has announced a new course dedicated...

This Week in Ruby (July 11, 2008)

This is the 12th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Also, if you enjoy the series and this blog in general, please consider recommending me on Working With Rails. I’d like to start this edition by apologizing to my readers for the delay in publishing this edition. Things got pretty hectic last week. As far as I know, there are no...

This Week in Ruby (June 26, 2008)

This is the 11th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. This edition begins with some bad news: Several vulnerabilities that affect the main Ruby implementation have been discovered. There is no reason to freak out, but they are serious. An ill-intended person could take advantage of these vulnerability and execute arbitrary code. Matasano has...

This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008)

This is the 10th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. As announced a few days ago, This Week in Ruby is being split into two parts: This Week in Ruby and This Week in Rails. The one you are reading is the Ruby edition, while Riding Rails – the official Rails blog – will host the Rails one. Links to and from each post will be...

The future of This Week in Ruby

You may have noticed that a few days ago I didn’t post a new edition of This Week in Ruby. This was intentional and related to the future of this series. Let me tell you about it briefly. Ever since I started This Week in Ruby, I’ve received many emails from people telling me how much they appreciated a weekly summary of the most relevant and interesting highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities. So...

This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008)

This is the 9th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Ruby Two days ago JRuby 1.1.2 was released. Amongst several bug fixes and improvements, this release is characterized by a focus on performances. Startup time, threading, method calling and YAML symbol parsing have all been drastically improved. Huw Collingbourne of SapphireSteel, has...

This Week in Ruby (May 20, 2008)

This is the 8th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Ruby Yehuda Katz released a couple of “gems” this week: Thor improves Ruby’s support for scripting, and it was created while he was working on a Textmate gem for handling bundles. You may have heard about the book: The Ruby Programming Language. I found this review to be...

This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008)

This is the 7th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Ruby The tickets for RubyKaigi went on sale yesterday. RubyKaigi is the Japanese equivalent of RubyConf and will take place from the 20th to the 22nd of June. Yehuda Katz blogged about Benchwarmer, which is an improved DSL for doing benchmarks. The repository can be found on GitHub. That...

This Week in Ruby (May 5, 2008)

This is the 6th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Ruby Jamis Buck released Net::SSH 2.0, Net::SFTP 2.0, Net::SCP 1.0, Net::SSH::Gateway 1.0 and Net::SSH::Multi 1.0. If you would like to learn why this matters, please head over and read his announcement. Gemstone is working on a Ruby VM, that’s similar to Rubinius, called MagLev....

This Week in Ruby (April 28, 2008)

This is the 5th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Rails For some, the greatest Rails news this week was the announcement of a third edition of the Agile Web Development with Rails book. It’s currently in beta and will be finished by October, much to the anticipation of many, I’m sure. Another interesting development, this time...

This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008)

This is the 4th episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed so as to not miss any weekly installments. Ruby As you’ve probably heard by now, this week Ruby 1.8.7-preview1 was released and it’s a major upgrade because it includes several backports from Ruby 1.9. It should help many in this transitionary period without substantially breaking the existing code. On the subject of...

This Week in Ruby (April 14, 2008)

This is the third episode of This Week in Ruby, please consider subscribing to my feed in order not to miss any weekly installments. Phusion Passenger This week there were a few announcements that will change the history of Ruby. The first of them was the release of Phusion Passenger. For those who spent the last three weeks in a cave, Passenger is the name of mod_rails for Apache and, at the moment, it’s the...

This Week in Ruby (April 7, 2008)

The first edition of This Week in Ruby received a warm welcome from the community. A week later, here we are with a second installment of the series. I’ll attempt to repeat these posts approximately every week, so feel free to follow along by subscribing to my feed. The Ruby community is a tremendously active one. In only seven days, there have been so many noteworthy items popping up, that it would take me hours...

This Week in Ruby (March 31, 2008)

One of the main advantages of Ruby’s growing community, is the speed at which exciting news pops up. This post briefly covers must-read highlights for new developments in the Ruby and Rails communities throughout the past week. I’ll attempt to repeat a “This Week in Ruby” post approximately every week, so feel free to follow along by subscribing to my feed. Rails 2 Craig Webster published the...