An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition

Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.

The competition tends to be dominated by Java, Flash, Microsoft XNA developers, and HTML5 developers, so it'd be great to see more Ruby entries (of which there have only been a couple so far).

During August's event, I, along with hundreds of others, was glued to Notch's livestream watching him code his game, Prelude of the Chambered (a 6 minute version is on YouTube). I was inspired enough to port his Java code into Ruby using JRuby, producing
potc-jruby (sadly far slower than the original Java version). This time, I plan to enter for real and build my own original game.

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Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012

Oops! I forgot to post the weekly Ruby news updates from Ruby Weekly to Ruby Inside in February so.. here's a mega roundup of all that was new in the Ruby and Rails worlds in February 2012. I'll try to keep posting every week from here on - sorry.

Highlights include: a new Ruby 1.9.3 release, REE's end of life, Spree 1.0, some Rails 4 news, Devise 2.0, a new private gem hosting service.. and that's just scratching the surface :-) Enjoy! (And don't forget to subscribe to Ruby Weekly if you want to receive something like this every week via e-mail or The Ruby Show if you want it in podcast/audio form.)

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What is docrails?

docrails is a branch of Ruby on Rails with public write access where anyone can push doc fixes.

If you see a typo, you'd like to correct a factual error, complement some existing documentation, add a useful example... before docrails existed you had to open a pull request (or the equivalent in those days) and follow the ordinary workflow to get it accepted. docrails allows you to clone the repo, edit, and push. Done!

What is allowed in docrails?

You can freely push changes to any RDoc, guides, and READMEs.

No code can be touched at all. That's a hard rule. No matter how insignificant, not even a one character typo in a string literal.

CHANGELOGs cannot be edited either.

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Source: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/

Rails 3.2.2 has been released!

Rails 3.2.2 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• Log files are always flushed
• Failing tests will exit with nonzero status code
• Elimination of calls to deprecated methods
• Query cache instrumentation includes bindings in the payload
• Hidden checkbox values are not set if the value is nil
• Various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Rails 3.1.4 has been released!

Rails 3.1.4 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• thrrubyrhino is added to the Gemfile for JRuby users
• Routing cache improvements
• Assets group may be skipped with the --skip-sprockets flag
• Various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Rails 3.0.12 has been released!

Rails 3.0.12 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• require and load will return the value from the superclass
• ActiveModel confirmation validation fixes
• Increasing rack dependency

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Flash ActionScript Developers Build Immersive Apps

Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web site design components, integrate video, and more recently used to develop rich internet applications (RIAs). The Flash Player is an application used by web browsers to view and interact with Flash content. ActionScript is the programming language used to develop Flash.

ActionScript is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that is designed specifically for Web site animation. ActionScript makes it possible for developers to create onscreen environments (such as games, tutorials, and e-commerce applications) that can respond to user input through the keyboard or mouse.

ActionScript developers use Flex for mobile. It is currently the easiest and most reliable way to build apps on both Android and iOS from one source.

Flash and ActionScript provide immersive multimedia experience. Flash and ActionScript are used in custom design, Flash ActionScript, PHP development and Apple Xcode for the iPhone application. PHP is used to interface with the ActionScript to create a dynamic gallery.

Adobe AIR allows Flex based applications to work and reside on the user's desktop, instead of exclusively on the web. Adobe AIR has the ability to mesh with a local database system and store files locally too.

Flash programmer and ActionScript developers with extensive Flash programming and ActionScript development experience in all versions of ActionScript (3.0, 2.0 & 1.0) provide Object-oriented Flash application development with CS5 and ActionScript 3.0 including video editing, with an excellent eye for cutting to make the most of the footage; programming complex banners for ad server.

Flash and Action Script developers build Facebook Apps and Facebook games using the Facebook Action Script API. Flash programmers and Action Script developers have experience of XML data integration and have scripted animation with tween engines as well as JavaScript-Action Script integration using external interface.

Flash programmers and Action Script developers use appropriate technologies and tools including Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe FlashBuilder 4.0, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, Sony Vegas 9.0, FinalCut Pro 5.1, FlashDevelop 3.0, AdobeD reamweaver CS4, Adobe AIR, MDM Zinc 3.0, SoundForge / Audacity, Adobe Authorware 7.0, Action Script 1.0, Action Script 2.0, Action Script 3.0, Adobe AS3 SDK for Facebook (v1.6), MXML, XHTML / HTML, XML, CSS, C++ and Javascript.

Hire Flash developer ActionScript developer Flex developer as the best option to grow your business without really expanding and spending on infrastructure and hiring on-roll employees.

Hire Flash developers ActionScript developers Flex developers who can build powerful and reliable Flash ActionScript Flex applications including websites and portals to boost your online business.

With Adobe Flash, you can export or publish your projects as Windows executables or MacOS apps. But now alternatives implement Windows GUI components, allowing for the development as real Windows apps in Flash.

Flex development has capabilities for visual design, to deliver highly usable and effective online experiences.

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) combine the wide reach of browser based applications with the user interface of traditional Windows applications to provide the best of both worlds for serious business applications development.

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