2008 Archives

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 Proposal Deadline Approaching

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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RubyConf 2008 Summary Video

While RubyConf fans are waiting on the videos trickle in Confreaks, hold yourself over with the 31 minute summary video from Rails Envy. It's a perfect way to get an overview of what you missed at the conference.

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Scotland on Rails 2009

Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that Conference2009 will be held March 26-28 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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MountainWest RubyConf 2009 dates and CFP

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1 released

Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1:

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RubyConf 2008 is Sold-out

RubyConf 2008 is sold out

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Voices That Matter 2008

Pearson Education is running a Voices That Matter Ruby conference this fall in Boston. The conference, from the same people who Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series, will give you a chance to meet and learn from those very same authors. Don't miss a chance to interact with so many Ruby professionals.

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DoS vulnerability in REXML

There is a DoS vulnerability in the REXML library included in the Ruby Standard Library. A so-called "XML entity explosion" attack technique can be used for remotely bringing down (disabling) any application which parses user-provided XML using REXML.

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Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and 1.8.6-p287 released

Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and 1.8.6-p287 have been released. The last releases were incomplete, and the new releases include fixes of the previously announced vulnerability of dl.

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Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. It's recommended that you upgrade to the latest versions.

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RubyConf 2008 Proposals Now Being Accepted

RubyConf 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from November 6 to November 8.

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Arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.

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RubyNation 2008

RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas. This year's RubyNation will happen on August 1&2, 2008 in Herndon, VA. Please visit the RubyNation site for more details.

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Ruby 1.8.7 has been released

Akinori MUSHA announced today that Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.

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Server maintenance

Services on ruby-lang.org except SVN will be down for server maintenance on Fri May 23 02:00:00 UTC 2008. Sorry for inconvenience.

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Tulsa Ruby Workshop

I wanted to get the word out about the upcoming Tulsa Ruby Workshop. This will take place on April 26th, from 10 AM to 4 PM in Tulsa, OK.

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File access vulnerability of WEBrick

WEBrick, a standard library of Ruby to implement HTTP servers, has file access vulnerability.

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Scotland on Rails 2008

Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that Conference2008 is open for registration. There is a limit to the number of registrations we’re able to accept so we’d advise you to get in quickly :-)

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European Ruby Conference 2008 (EURUKO)

EURUKO is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year it takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 29th to 30th.

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MountainWest RubyConf 2008

Registration for MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is now open. This year features an expanded schedule and list of speakers.

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Ruby Fool's Conference

The first Ruby Fools conference will be held on April Fools’ Day in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference organizers intend to cater a bit to both expert and novice developers, so any Rubyists in the area may want to consider attending.

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Ruby logo available

The official Ruby logo is available to download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license now. Available formats are Illustrator/SVG/PDF/PNG.

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