Arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.

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Posted by Shugo Maeda on 20 Jun 2008

RubyNation 2008

RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas. This year's RubyNation will happen on August 1&2, 2008 in Herndon, VA. Please visit the RubyNation site for more details.

Posted by James Edward Gray II on 16 Jun 2008

Ruby 1.8.7 has been released

Akinori MUSHA announced today that Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.

The source code package is available in three formats at the following locations:

• ftp://ftp.ruby-online.co.uk/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2
• ftp://ftp.ruby-online.co.uk/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz
• ftp://ftp.ruby-online.co.uk/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip

Checksums:

• MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = f17f14c8d55e731b3ce1bc35c42f0a6c
• SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 65f2a862ba5e88bac7a78cff15bcb88d7534e741b51a1ffb79a0136c7041359a
• SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 4100024

• MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = de906850f9a012c12ffc6e9f56fb1b66
• SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 600dccf13bca3e4179fa6ff554220ce4ba67ffc72bce1ac3bf74c2599c03a0ca
• SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz) = 4799732

• MD5 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 14d3eb37b32e4a26966bdd80f361ccd2
• SHA256 (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 805987ad167d8f9cac90e4b9342686e96a7708664111be27a3c6d680ce21d6c1
• SIZE (ruby-1.8.7.zip) = 5851408

For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all changes, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog, which are also available at the following locations:

• http://svn.ruby-online.co.uk/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS
• http://svn.ruby-online.co.uk/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog

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Posted by james on 31 May 2008

Server maintenance

Services on ruby-online.co.uk except SVN will be down for server maintenance on Fri May 23 02:00:00 UTC 2008. Sorry for inconvenience.

Posted by Shugo Maeda on 22 May 2008

Tulsa Ruby Workshop

I wanted to get the word out about the upcoming Tulsa Ruby Workshop. This will take place on April 26th, from 10 AM to 4 PM in Tulsa, OK.

The workshop has a great line up of intro Ruby and Rail content. I’m honored to have been asked to give two of the talks that day: an introduction to Ruby talk as well as a Ruby from Java talk. There will also be a beginning Rails talk from Tulsa.rb’s commander and chief, an Engine Yard employee on hand sharing deployment advice, as well as other language specific migration talks.

That’s pretty much a full day of Ruby learning and the best news is that attendance is free. They are even throwing in some food.

If you’re going to be in the area, definitely come join us!

You can find directions, a schedule, and other details about the workshop at:

http://tulsarb.org/wiki/Tulsa_Ruby_Workshop

Hope to see you there.

Posted by James Edward Gray II on 11 Apr 2008