tom preston

Back in 2008 and 2009, Ruby Inside had a long line of "Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts" posts, aimed at sharing a collection of news and libraries in one hit.

Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby.

It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic

Jekyll is a simple Ruby-powered static site generator, originally by Tom Preston-Werner (aka mojombo) of Github fame.

It's focused around blogging, but it can be configured to generate any kind of static site.

Earlier this week, Rip quietly made its way into the world.

It's a "next generation" Ruby packaging system, clearly meant to both work around some of the problems with RubyGems and also introduce some fresh ideas of its own.

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.