Welcome to the bumper pick’n'mix of Ruby and Rails news and releases for May 2012, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly (which, unsurprisingly, comes out once every week – on Thursdays).

Highlights include: RubyMotion’s release, the JRuby guys are moving to Red Hat, Spree 1.1, DHH’s RailsConf keynote, and JRuby 1.7.0 preview 1.

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RubyMotion Released: It’s Ruby, but for iOS
The biggest Ruby news of the month! RubyMotion is a Ruby implementation and toolchain for iOS by Laurent Sansonetti, the former MacRuby lead developer, that lets you build iPhone and iPad apps.

DHH’s RailsConf 2012 Keynote (YouTube)
DHH rails against conservatism, people who think about the newbies, and ex-hippies, while celebrating progress and getting the audience to chant “I will not fear change, I will not fight progress”. Read More

Welcome to April 2012′s bumper pick’n'mix of Ruby and Rails news and releases, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly.

Highlights include: Matz’s new Ruby implementation, MobiRuby (Ruby for iOS), Passenger 3.0.12, Ruby 1.9.3-p194, TorqueBox 2.0, Adhearsion 2.0, and Dr Nic’s App Scrolls.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p194 Released
A small version bump for Ruby 1.9.3 which includes a security fix for RubyGems (and therefore an updated version) along with oodles of minor tweaks and fixes.

MRuby: A Lightweight Ruby Implementation by Matz
It’s been in the making for a while (remember RiteVM?) but this week Matz’s new ‘lightweight’ Ruby implementation, mruby, spread around the Rubysphere like wildfire. Read More

And again, a mixture of travel, illness, and exhaustion have prevented me from my weekly updates on here (although Ruby Weekly is still going out on a weekly basis!) so here’s a bumper update for all of the top Ruby and Rails news from March 2012.

Highlights include: Matz wins a prize, Ruby is approved by the ISO, some awesome jobs, Bundler 1.1, Vagrant 1.0, Rails 3.2.3, Avdi Grimm’s Object on Rails book, the Pragmatic Programmers release some more awesome books and, of course, a lot more.

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Matz Wins FSF’s 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Read More

Ruby Weekly has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so here’s the latest frequent roundup of the latest Ruby and Rails news for you, all on the Web :-)

Key News, Releases, and Headlines

Hungry Academy Application Process Closes This Weekend
LivingSocial’s ‘Hungry Academy’ will provide a paid, on-site 5 month Ruby and Rails learning experience and mentorship program to a small group of lucky applicants. Interested? You’ve only got a few days left to apply.

DOS Attack Vulnerability Found in Ruby 1.8′s Hash Algorithm
Ruby 1.8.7-p352 and earlier are affected by a wide reaching (as in Python and Java are also affected!) hash related vulnerability. Read More