RDoc 4.0.1 · drbrain | Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:49:00 GMT. home: https://github.com/ rdoc/rdoc; rdoc: http://docs.seattlerb.org/rdoc; bugs: ...
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The default output encoding for RDoc is now UTF-8. Previously RDoc used the default external encoding which was determined from your locale. Issue #106 by Justin Baker. RDoc::RI::Store is now RDoc::Store so ri data generated by RDoc 4 cannot be read by earlier versions of RDoc. RDoc::...
Earlier today I checked in a patch that adds streaming zlib processing to Ruby. This allows you to process a stream without needing to allocate space to hold the entire result. To add the streaming support I changed #inflate and #deflate to accept a block. A handful of other methods (...
drbrain | Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:12:20 GMT Posted in Rubygems If you went to the first round of RubyConf lightning talks you saw me say this already, but I got enough applause that this needs wider dissemination. Here is my STRONG recommendation on how to name gems: Use underscores fancy...
On Community Funding of Open Source drbrain | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:49:42 GMT Posted in Ruby The other day Yehuda Katz announced a kickstarter for creating Rails.app , an OS X application that makes it easy to bring new programmers to Rails and Ruby. I think the idea is fantastic. When ...
Verifying benchmarks with ministat drbrain | Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:48:50 GMT Posted in Ruby , Testing Most people know to benchmark to verify performance improvements, but comparing a handful of results isn't enough. You need to be sure your results are statistically significant. minist...
drbrain | Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:34:30 GMT Posted in RDoc , Software Source Documentation Bug Reports rdoc-spellcheck checks your documentation for spelling errors. File, class, and method names are automatically excluded from the results and you can add your own words to the default wor...
Ruby 1.9.3 Documentation Challenge drbrain | Tue, 10 May 2011 00:33:00 GMT Posted in Ruby Yugui announced a draft Ruby 1.9.3 release plan today with a feature freeze of end of May and a release target of end of July or early August. I've seen many complaints in the form of "X lacks do...
Mechanize#auth and Mechanize#basic_auth allowed disclosure of passwords to malicious servers and have been deprecated. In prior versions of mechanize only one set of HTTP authentication credentials were allowed for all connections. If a mechanize instance connected to more than one se...