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The Rails Girls Summer of Code Fundraising Campaign Rails Girls were attempting to raise 50k in their mission to support students to work full-time on open source projects and.. they passed that figure today. But every extra 5k will enable another person to benefit from the project. W...
The primary goal of 1.7 point releases is to fill out any missing compatibility issues with Ruby 1.9.3, although JRuby now includes experimental 2.0 support covering most 2.0 features and stdlib. In related news, a new release of BitNami JRubyStack includes JRuby 1.7.4 too if you want...
Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 Released So reassured of its quality, the Phusion crew decided to leap straight to a more trustworthy 4.0.1 for the first stable release of Passenger 4, the popular Nginx and Apache deployment and server module for Rack apps. Upgrading to Rails 4 With the recen...
Parsing JSON The Hard Way From the Practicing Ruby journal comes an excellent walkthrough of building a JSON parser from Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson with the emphasis being on using parser and compiler tools in Ruby rather than parsing JSON per se. String#scrub Method Added to Edge R...
MRI Ruby 1.8.7 to Receive No More Fixes From the End of June 2013 On the ruby-dev list, Urabe Shyouhei reminded everyone that 1.8.7 is entering its 'sunset' phase and while it's already not getting any bugfixes, it will also get no security fixes from the end of June onwards. The solu...
Matz on Ruby 2.0 Matz spoke about Ruby 2.0 ('the happiest release ever') for 30 minutes at the Heroku Waza event a week ago and the video is already available to watch. He stresses that "Ruby 1.8 will die soon" and encourages everyone to upgrade. Dynamic Method Definitions Aaron 'tend...
Last Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of work commencing on Ruby way back in 1993 and it was celebrated in style with the final release of Ruby 2.0.0. Congratulations to Matz along with the rest of the core team and anyone else who has contributed over the years to the rich Ruby eco...
Many Rubyists will currently be at RailsConf 2013. If you are, I hope you're having a great time! This newsletter, however, has a bit of a MountainWest RubyConf vibe because a lot of the talks are being released this week :-) Featured Introducing Generational Garbage Collection for Ru...
