Ruby Announcements

[ANN/ADV] Training: Intro to Ruby, with Black & Kastner, Sept. 14-17

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:18 GMT

Hi everyone --
I am delighted to announce an upcoming Ruby Power and Light training
course, to be taught jointly by me and Erik Kastner:
Introduction to Ruby
September 14-17
Edison, New Jersey, USA
The course will be held at the new, very up-to-date training facilities
of Exceed Education in the Raritan Center. There are lots of hotels in

ANN: Sequel 3.2.0 Released

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:30 GMT

Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby.
* Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL
for constructing database queries and table schemas.
* Sequel also includes a lightweight but comprehensive ORM layer for
mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.

[ANN] hoe-git 1.2.0 Released

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:03 GMT

hoe-git version 1.2.0 has been released!
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A set of Hoe plugins for tighter Git integration. Provides tasks to
automate release tagging and pushing and changelog generation. I
expect it'll learn a few more tricks in the future.
Changes:
* Add git-svn support for git:tag and git:changelog.

[ANN] unicorn 0.9.0 (experimental release)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:58 GMT

Unicorn is a Rack HTTP server for Unix, fast clients and nothing else[1]
We now have support for "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" bodies in
requests. Not only that, Rack applications reading input bodies
get that data streamed off to the client socket on an as-needed
basis. This allows the application to do things like upload

[ANN] hoe 2.3.2 Released

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:13 GMT

hoe version 2.3.2 has been released!
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Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps generate
rubygems and includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy
extensibility. Hoe ships with plug-ins for all your usual project