# Ruby Weekly News 12th - 18th June 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 21, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-weekly-news-12th-18th-june-2006/64015 "2006-06-21T12:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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[http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20060618.html](http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20060618.html) Use the link above for a nicer version of this newsletter that’s formatted for the web, including links to threads and other sites. You can also subscribe to a newsletter-only mailing list, or to RSS/Atom feeds. # Ruby Weekly News 12th - 18th June 2006 Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week’s activity for the ruby-talk mailing list (and its mirror equivalents the ruby-talk google group and the Ruby forum) and the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup. This week’s newsletter is brought to you by Tim S… [Contribute to the next newsletter] # Articles and Announcements ``` * Free eBook: The Little Book of Ruby (ruby-talk) ------------------------------------------------- Huw C. announced The Little Book Of Ruby, a free PDF ``` book for newcomers to Ruby. ``` (Huw is also the co-creator of "Sapphire In Steel: Ruby ``` Programming with Visual Studio 2005", along with Dermot H… This software adds Ruby support into Microsoft’s VS2005 IDE, including debugger support. It is developed in association with Bitwise Magazine.) ``` * Article on screen scraping w HTree+REXML, RubyfulSoup, ``` WWW::Mechanize (ruby-talk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` Peter S. was "investigating the possibilities of screen scraping/web extraction/automated web navigation/wrapper ``` generation in Ruby", and helpfully wrote up an article comparing the different Ruby libraries in this area. ``` "I am planning to write more entries on this topic, involving ``` screen scraping from Rails, Gecko to Ruby GTK widget embedding, wrapper generation etc." ``` James Edward G. II: "This was a very good article. Thank you ``` for sharing it with us." ``` * Ruby / RoR Training Camp, Pune (India) (ruby-talk) ---------------------------------------------------- Dibya P. announced a 5-day training camp for Ruby, and ``` Rails, in Pune (India) from 21st - 25th June 2006. The camp is run by Reevik Technologies Pvt. Ltd. ``` * Ruby/OpenSSL samples at RubyKaigi2006 (ruby-talk) --------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi N. posted slides and sources from his Ruby/OpenSSL presentation at the Japanese conference RubyKaigi 2006. ``` # User Group News ``` * Ruby Beach group in Miami/Fort Lauderdale (comp.lang.ruby) ------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Nemzow is looking for people to form a user group in ``` Miami/Fort Lauderdale. ``` * Columbia MD Ruby Codefest (ruby-talk) --------------------------------------- The AgileMaryland user group are working together on a project ``` called FeedMaster (a user configurable Podcast feed reader) in order to improve their agile, Ruby, and Rails skills. ``` Jeff Waltzer posted the meeting schedule for July, and invited ``` all those in the area who are interested in Ruby and Test Driven Development (TDD) to drop in. ``` * ruby/rails users in Ireland - interest in forming a user group? (comp.lang.ruby) ----------------------------------------------------------------- aidanf would like to start a user group in Ireland. Could others who are interested please contact him. * Alaska.rb - Polar bears, igloos and sled dogs... oh my! ``` (ruby-talk) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` Benjamin G. pondered having an Alaska.rb user group, to meet ``` in Anchorage once a month. “It might be a long shot but I thought i’d put the possibility of such a group out there if others are interested.” ``` * Milwaukee RUG Meeting July 12th at 5:30 - 7:30 pm (ruby-talk) --------------------------------------------------------------- The Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Ruby U.'s Group have their second ``` meeting on July 12th. “The Milwaukee RUG would like to thank SpiderLogic for providing space for the meeting.” # Threads ## Short But Unique (#83) (ruby-talk) Ruby Q. is by Ryan W. this week. “The quiz would be to develop an abbrev-like module that shortens a set of strings so that they are all within a specified length, and all unique.” ## Troubles Extending IRB (ruby-talk) Matthew H. is having problems integrating IRB with a GTK+ widget - the IRB source code doesn’t have enough documentation to get his head around how it works. # New Releases ## Ruby Reports 0.4.9 (ruby-talk) Gregory B. released the “Sneakin’ Into RoR” edition of Ruby Reports. It now has basic Rails integration, with acts\_as\_reportable in your ActiveRecord models. ## Get your mojo back with Mojo Helpdesk (comp.lang.ruby) Supercobra Thatbytes introduced Mojo Helpdesk, “a simple ticket tracking system for small businesses”. It is written with Rails. ## MongrelDay Documentation – Memoirs Of A Web Server (ruby-talk) Zed S. wished everyone a happy RailsDay, and announced he’d spent it writing “tons” of “documentation for Mongrel” (Mongrel is a web server for Ruby applications). Also, “MONGREL IS #2!”: RubyGems was the only rubyforge project to have more downloads than Mongrel this week. > BTW, if anyone wonders why I support win32, just ask yourself why > the > Ruby O.-Click installer is consistently in the top three projects > on > RubyForge. Yeah, windows doesn’t matter at all. ## NokiaFS (ruby-talk) Werner Bohl uploaded the first, alpha, version of NokiaFS. “This application is based on fusefs ruby lib and gammu. Mounts as user space fs your Nokia phone.” ## ZenObfuscate - for when you really really have to ship a (ruby-talk) Ryan D. announced ZenObfuscate, a commercial tool for effective obfuscation of Ruby source code. “ZenObfuscate is a translator for a fairly large subset of ruby that converts your pure ruby code into a dynamically loadable binary”. ## rcov 0.6.0: “differential code coverage”, full (faster) cross-references, vim integration (ruby-talk) The Ruby code-coverage tool `rcov’ now has a “differential code coverage” mode that shows you when you’ve added new code that isn’t covered by tests. Cross-referenced reports have also been improved - you can click on a method in the HTML report to see who called it. Rcov is by Mauricio F., and he thanks Alex W., Coda Hale and Tim Shadel for their bug reports. ## Announcing MarkaBoo - Creative Commons licensed Rails app for Social Bookmarking (comp.lang.ruby) Christian Romney: “After much lobbying, I managed to convince the company I work for to release the source of one of our for-profit web propertied under a Creative Commons license.” MarkaBoo is a social bookmarking tool, featuring a WYSIWYG editor, the ability to create bookmarks by email and from mobile phones, import from other sites like [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us), and more. ## Geocoding Goodness (ruby-talk) Eric H. wrote Ruby bindings for the Yahoo, Google and [geocoder.us](http://geocoder.us) geocoding services. “And as a bonus, you get a Yahoo! search gem to search either the web or for locations”. There was an enthusiastic response, and it looks like several people will be creating Ruby programs using geocoding soon.