128 - January 17, 2013

My blog series on #JRuby and #OpenGL are in this Ruby Weekly digest! Well that just made my day. /cc @peterc

Ruby 1.9.3-p374 is Released The last production patchlevel (p362) was released less than a month ago but many users encountered frequent segmentation faults with it. This release fixes that significant issue and includes some other minor fixes too. Use Metasploit to Verify Rails is Secured from CVE-2013-0156 Metasploit is a popular security testing system (written in Ruby, no less) and it already has an exploit module for last week's Rails XML and YAML parameter parsing vulnerability. Brian Buchalter shows how to use it to test if your own Rails apps are safe. Ruby Manor 4 will be on 6th April, 2013 (London, UK) The popular, quirky London-based Ruby conference is back for a fourth outing - save the date. Ticket info and CFP coming soon. You can also follow them on Twitter @rubymanor . Big Ruby Conf: February 28-March 1 (Dallas, TX) From Our Sponsor Get your free digital co...

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