About:
Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This version represents a quantum leap for the Ruby language. Many new features were added, and all of the old bugs eliminated.

Author:
matz [contact developer]

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8.69/10.00 (46 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Interpreters

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.8.6	27-Sep-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.8.6	N/A	27-Sep-2007 21:39
1.8.5	Minor bugfixes	31-Aug-2006 08:07
1.8.4	Minor feature enhancements	14-Feb-2006 15:37
1.8.2	Minor feature enhancements	04-Jan-2005 18:46
1.8.2 Preview 2	Major feature enhancements	19-Sep-2004 05:41
1.8.1	Minor feature enhancements	06-Feb-2004 02:03
1.8.0	Major feature enhancements	24-Aug-2003 07:56
1.6.8	Minor feature enhancements	30-Dec-2002 01:07
1.6.7	N/A	19-Mar-2002 02:48
1.6.6	Minor bugfixes	27-Dec-2001 07:46

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New ruby1.9 packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 28th 2008 23:28 Debian: New ruby1.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 28th 2008 21:39 Red Hat: Updated ruby packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 21st 2008 01:15 Debian: New ruby1.8 packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 25th 2007 08:07 Debian: New ruby1.9 packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 25th 2007 08:05

Debian: New libopenssl-ruby packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 25th 2007 08:03 Red Hat: Updated ruby packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 18th 2007 13:07 Debian: New ruby1.8 package fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 17th 2006 01:56 Debian: New ruby1.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Aug 29th 2006 10:29 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Introducing: Ridge v.001 Beta
by Brat Wizard - Sep 20th 2000 08:06:55

Ridge is a little Ruby program that hides in the background and randomly executes user processes. It does have a small bug though that causes it to occasionally miss its target and execute a child-process instead... One interesting feature is that if interrogated, Ridge will insist that it was acting on behalf of the System Administrator, who will of course deny having authorized the daemon.

Ridge is based on an earlier work, WAC-0, which of course, was a rather botched attempt to combine the ATF and FBI daemons into a common RAID structure. Apparently there were many security problems and rumors persist that the entire WAC-0 codebase was shot full of holes. A raging flamewar ensued which gleaned WAC-0 a brief bit of noteriety but in the end was basically a flash-in-the-pan.

For more information on either of these two projects, Ridge or WAC-0, please contact the project administrator, J. Reno, (senior project coordinator at a large government agency). Unfortunately, at this time, much of both projects remain proprietary despite numerous attempts to take them 'open-source'.

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