We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby. This is a bug fix release. There should be no big difference from 1.8.4. We hope 1.8.5 is more stable and reliable than its preceding versions.―-Yukihiro MatsumotoAnd the change summ…

I put some notes for nginx on my wiki .The rails system administration is like waves – somebody found a new software and the community just fulfill it. Maybe there must be some name for this effect. Something like digg-effect but maybe Rai…

Created a first beta version of Restolog-1.2 . What’s new in it: Textile markup for articles body (act_as_textiled plugin) REST client (‘script/rester’) New REST API calls added (mostly for articles and comments) Some documentation (README…

Google's MapReduce is now available for Ruby (via gem install starfish). MapReduce is the technique used by Google to do monstrous distributed programming over 30 terabyte files.Here is the basic code that will get you up and running with …

I modified a little the original Alisdair McDiarmid’s RestBlog sources and created very simple blog system. Made an announce to the Rails ML. The copy of it follows:Restolog - very simple blog system based on REST/CRUD ideas. Sources (all …

O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price (see the "I want the PDF" checkbox in the upper right corner). Seems this is the first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF. PDF copies of t…