The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this week’s releases: OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0, and Ruby 1.9.3, for starters!
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Ruby 1.9.3-p0 Released
The first production-ready release of Ruby 1.9.3 is finally here with patchlevel 0′s release this week. I’ve already covered what’s new on Ruby Inside (see the link below) but this is a nice step forward for MRI and worth checking out, especially if you want faster Rails loading times.
MagLev 1.0.0 Released
It’s been a couple of years in the making but MagLev 1.0.0 has released. Read More

Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time. Yesterday,
Today, Yusuke Endoh posted to the
In
Back in 2008 and 2009, Ruby Inside had a long line of “Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts” posts, aimed at sharing a collection of news and libraries in one hit. In the last year, I’ve shifted Ruby Inside to focusing on less frequent tutorials or investigative features and have been putting all of the news on
Ruby Inside wouldn’t be what it is without you but it’s time for me to thank the companies who also help to keep Ruby Inside going by sponsoring my work. Thanks!
On August 1, 2011, 
Despite
It seems the Ruby and Rails job scenes are on fire! I don’t remember running so many jobs across a single month before. 22 Ruby and Rails jobs are here and they’re spanning the world. US West Coast, East Coast, England, Scotland and Germany are all represented. It’s definitely not the common “San Francisco or nothing” roundup :-)

Between August 19—20, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin plays host to thirty-seven speakers and panelists to discuss Ruby, OSS, and community in the form of
In the past couple of months I’ve seen situations arise where developers aren’t entirely sure how Ruby has chosen to interpret their code. Luckily, Ruby 1.9 comes with a built-in library called Ripper that can help solve the problem (there’s a 1.8 version too, see later). Here, I give the 30 second rundown on what to do.