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Today there are *drumroll* 17 new jobs to share from the Ruby Jobs board from companies like Expedia, Brightbox (the British Rails hosting guys) and LivingSocial.

Wanted to go to JRubyConf or RubyConf this year?

Tough - they're sold out already. Luckily, though, there are some interesting upcoming events that you can still get in to - some online, some in multiple cities, some held in youth centers, some in hotels, and even one on a tropical island.

Whew!

Rubyology is a Ruby-based podcast chaired by Chris Matthieu.

Its focus is on interviewing interesting Ruby (and Rails) developers - finding out about their projects, what makes them tick, and extracting their insights into the Ruby and Rails worlds.

MacRuby - a Mac OS X port of Ruby 1.9 designed to run directly on top of OS X's frameworks - recently hit a new milestone with the release of MacRuby 0.3.

While it was pretty momentous last year when Mac OS X (Leopard) was released with full support for Ruby and Rails included with the OS, it seems that the Ruby train is still rolling with Apple.

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.