similar to: Ruby Column at Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Better Late Than *Reeeally* Late: Last week''s Ruby column was posted at Linux Journal last night. There appears to be a bit of editorial flux there right now, so markup and scheduling are all a bit weird, but I hope to get things straightened out in time for next weeks column. In addition to news from around the Ruby world, I''ve included a quick overview of the rubyGems and

Hello everyone, Has anybody noticed *that* ? :) http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147 http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png (wow !) -- Jean-Fran?ois . -- Railsfrance : http://www.railsfrance.org

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

The BYU Ruby Users Group will be holding its February meeting on Wednesday the 8th at 7PM. We''re meeting in room 120 of the Talmage Math & Computer Building (TMCB) -- see http://map.byu.edu/Map.html for a map of campus if you need it. Eric Hodel is making a trip in from Seattle to talk about all kinds of deep Ruby things. He is a former presenter at RubyConf (RubyConf 2003

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

I''m trying to collect media references (URLs) to articles, podcasts, and videos about Ruby and Ruby on Rails, like this month''s Linux Journal ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147) or the recent DDJ article ( http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/187203512). If have such a collections yourself (or just know of some good references), could you please share them on this thread.

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Good afternoon from Singapore, I came across this Linux Journal article titled "DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source", written by Petros Koutoupis. Link: <https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/diy-build-custom-minimal-linux-distribution-source> https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/diy-build-custom-minimal-linux-distribution-source Are the instructions in this

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

This is long overdue (0.2.8 is out for about a week already), but anyway, here we go: ============ What''s this? ============ scRUBYt! is a very easy to learn and use, yet powerful Web scraping framework based on Hpricot and mechanize. It''s purpose is to free you from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical

It''s that time again. Tuesday at 7PM, in room 120 of the TMCB. (That would be the Talmage Mah and Computer science Building at BYU.) It should be a great chance to hang out and have some fun with Ruby, Rails, and related toys. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

(posted for a friend) FamilyLearn, the developer of exciting family and personal history websites is looking for a top notch Ruby and Ruby on Rails programmer with Ajax skills to help take our websites to the next level. There will be some work in supporting legacy Perl and PHP applications until they''re ported to Ruby and Rails. This is a full time position in a small company, where

If you live in the Mountain West (Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah), or don''t mind a bit of travel, You should look into the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 16th and 17th. We''ve got a great line up of speakers, including the JRuby team, Ara T Howard, and a keynote by Chad Fowler. Registration is just $50, hotels are affordable, and pre/post

For anybody who didn't know there is an article on asterisk in February's Linux Journal. AJ

I see the following paragraph in the Asterisk trunk LICENSE file: "In addition, Asterisk implements two management/control protocols: the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) and the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI). It is our belief that applications using these protocols to manage or control an Asterisk instance do not have to be licensed under the GPL or a compatible license, as we believe

The preliminary round voting is completed in the "2005 Readers' Choice Awards" at Linux Journal. CentOS was nominated in the "distribution:" category along with 18 other Linux distros ... and we finished in the top 3 (along with Ubuntu and FedoraCore). Thanks to every one who voted for CentOS. I really did not expect that we would be on the final ballot, though I am

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

I previously had WPA radius authentication working from my laptop to my home network with the laptop running Fedora Core 6 and the server running freeRadius under CentOS 4.4 (freeradius-1.0.1-3.RHEL4.3). I'm attempting to move my FC 6 boxes to CentOS 5 so I decided to pick on the laptop first. Unfortunately, I neglected to backup /etc before doing the CentOS 5 install (bad Dave, bad