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Ruby 1.9.2 Released

Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2!
Ruby 1.9.2 has been released. This is the newest release of Ruby 1.9 series. Ruby 1.9.2 is mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes:

Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby

http://labs.headlondon.com/2010/07/skinny-daemons/ (or on Ruby Inside)

Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene

http://mongomatic.com/ (or on Ruby Inside)

14 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2010

It's been a couple of months since the last job round up but the Ruby Inside job board has been hopping! There are 14 live listings to go over today and they're not all in San Francisco. Jobs in Denver and Maryland bring in a bit of interesting variety.

The 2010 Ruby Implementation Performance Shootout

Redmine 1.0 Released: Ruby’s Top Project Management Webapp Hits Maturity

http://redmineblog.com/articles/redmine-1.0.0-released/ (or on Ruby Inside)It's out, it's out. Redmine 1.0 is released!
The first release candidate for Redmine 1.0 has been released to Rubyforge. This is a major release which includes many new features and bugfixes since the last major release, (0.9 in 2010-01-09).

Ruby 1.9 Fibers + EventMachine for Big Ruby Webapp Performance Gains

Developers hankering for more performance from their Rack and Rails applications are using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries as a way to boost the performance of their applications - in opposition to scaling by merely running multiple processes or using threads.

Faye: Simple Pub/Sub Messaging for the Web (and Ruby!)

http://faye.jcoglan.com/Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby programs and in the browser.James Coglan

Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem

fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API. It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB.

Celebrate Why The Lucky Stiff By Letting Loose on Whyday (August 19, 2010)

http://whyday.org/
This year, on August 19, celebrate Whyday. Set aside that day to remember Why's contributions to our community and culture by hacking just for the fun and joy of it.Glenn Vanderburg