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Zerentiy 1.3 Released

Version 1.3 of Zerenity has been released with the addition of a new color selection dialog. The addition was requested by Daniel Lucraft who is using Zerenity in his Red Car Ruby based text editor.

Source control has moved to Github while a gem is also available.

A Quick Cautionary Tale

Just a quick word of warning, when you want to write

array = [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

don’t write

array = { 1, 2, 3, 4 }

the latter in fact being equivalent to writing

array = { 1 => 2, 3 => 4 }

and will keep you up till 3am trying to understand why your code is broken.

November Cape Town Ruby Brigade

The November meeting of the Cape Town Ruby Brigade is this coming Wednesday.

Talks:

  • ‘Irbie – A Ruby IRC Bot’ by Jonathan Groll
  • ’What’s New In Ruby 2.0’ by Farrel Lifson

Venue: Bandwidth Barn Meeting Room, 125 Buitengracht, Cape Town
Date: Wednesday, 12th November 2008
Time: 19:00

About Aimred

Aimred is a specialist Ruby and Ruby on Rails development house and consultancy based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We provide Ruby and Ruby on Rails development, consulting and training services to all enterprise levels. If you want to find out how we can help your company, contact us at info@aimred.com.

Why Ruby?

Ruby is an object oriented programming language that is designed to make development as quick and painless as posssible. Taking the best practices from a number of other languages, Ruby

  • is easy to write, read and maintain
  • has a well thought out and extensive standard API
  • has a thriving developer community
  • is rapidly gaining popularity worldwide

Ruby is on the cutting edge of web development technology, not only through the Ruby on Rails framework, but also through new and exciting frameworks such as Merb and Sequel.

Ruby is also ideal for traditional application development and available APIs allow Ruby to create cross platform GUI applications for Linux, Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris.

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