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The JRuby team has announced the release of JRuby 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1.

The final release is still a little way off but the bulk of the work is in place.

One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging file

Manuel Pichler has a new post today about a feature he's added into the PHP_Depend application that tracks the dependencies in your code - a bit of DBus magic.

Trollop is a command-line argument processing library for Ruby.

Developer William Morgan says Trollop is “designed to provide the maximal amount of GNU-style argument processing in the minimum number of lines of code.” It makes a refreshing change to the more popular, but generally scary, cmdparse.

The homepage features some examples of its usage.