It's out, it's out. Redmine 1.0 is released!

Giles Bowkett (Ruby Inside's top Ruby presenter of 2008) has released a series of free videos called "Secrets of Superstar Programming Productivity" that could interest some of you:

Florian Hanke got in touch to tell me that presentations and photos from the recent Euruko 2010 European Ruby conference are now online.

Ruby Tracker is a new webapp from EnvyLabs that tracks dependencies for your Ruby and Rails applications. It alerts you whenever libraries you depend on are updated or have new versions released. This is all in aid of keeping up to date.

In Ruby, dealing with Arrays and similar objects is pretty fun. And we have gotten more possibilities with Ruby 1.9.2 :)

We would like to announce the first AdhearsionConf to be held in San Francisco from August 14th to the 15th. Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be joining us for two days of talks, discussions, hacking and pair programming on all things Adhearsion.

Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 has just been released. This is a release candidate of Ruby 1.9.2. Ruby 1.9.2 will be mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes:

Phusion Passenger 3 introduces a new component to the existing lineup: Phusion Passenger Lite. When it comes to usage, its interface is almost identical to that of Mongrel and Thin.

There has been a shift in development landscape over at Apple. John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an article about Apple’s language and API future. I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language.

This post contains the results of a Ruby shootout on Windows that I recently conducted. [..] All tests were run on Windows 7 x64, on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, with two 500 GB 7200 rpm disks.