# Launchy 0.3.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-3-0-released/113353>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 30, 2007, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-3-0-released/113353 "2007-08-30T09:26:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-3-0-released/113353/1 "2007-08-30T09:26:30Z")

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launchy version 0.3.0 has been released.

[http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/launchy/](http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/launchy/)

Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a  
fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser, email  
client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be  
launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common  
approach to launching external application from within ruby programs.

{{ Changelog for Version 0.3.0 }}

=== Version 0.3.0 - 2007-08-30

- reorganize the code structure, removing Spawnable namespace
- removed ‘do\_magic’ method, changed it to ‘open’
- added override environment variable LAUNCHY\_HOST\_OS for testing
- fix broken cygwin support [Bug #13472]

enjoy,

-jeremy

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/launchy-0-3-0-released/113353/2 "2007-08-30T17:45:48Z")

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On Aug 30, 12:25 am, Jeremy H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> {{ Changelog for Version 0.3.0 }}
> 
> === Version 0.3.0 - 2007-08-30
> 
> - reorganize the code structure, removing Spawnable namespace
> - removed ‘do\_magic’ method, changed it to ‘open’
> - added override environment variable LAUNCHY\_HOST\_OS for testing
> - fix broken cygwin support [Bug #13472]
> 
> enjoy,

Nice work.

T.