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...
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...
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...
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...
