Ruby is…

A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

# The Greeter class

class Greeter

def initialize(name)

@name = name.capitalize

end

def salute

puts "Hello #{@name}!"

end

end

# Create a new object

g = Greeter.new("world")

# Output "Hello World!"

g.salute

Denial of service attack was found for Ruby's Hash algorithm (CVE-2011-4815)

Impact

This is something related to computational complexity. Specially crafted series of strings that intentionally collide their hash values each other was found. With such sequences an attacker can issue a denial of service attack by, for instance, giving them as POST parameters of HTTP requests for your Rails application.

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Posted by Urabe Shyouhei on 28 Dec 2011

Ruby 1.9.3 p0 is released

Ruby 1.9.3 p0 is released. This is the latest stable version of 1.9 series.

See ChangeLogs and NEWS for the descriptions.

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Posted by Shota Fukumori on 31 Oct 2011

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