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It’s actually really easy. Here’s how I did it.

$ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk ruby19
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/ruby19
$ make
~ Get coffee
$ sudo make install

Now you have a fresh and cutting edge build of Ruby on your system. Time to install Rubygems.

$ wget "http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/34638/rubygems-1.1.0.tgz"
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-1.1.0.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.1.0
$ sudo /opt/ruby19/bin/ruby setup.rb

Finally we need ZenTest, because it includes autotest.

$ /opt/ruby19/bin/gem install ZenTest

Now that we have all the prerequisites we just start two autotests.

alias らけ='rake'

Did you ever hear someone say, “Oh! But that’s the ___ pattern!”

class Object
  def using(object, &block)
    object.instance_eval(&block); object
  end

  def returning(value)
    yield(value)
    value
  end
end

class Index
  def build
  end

  def self.build
    index = new
    index.build
    index
  end

  def self.build2
    using(new) { build }
  end

  def self.build3
    using new do
      build
    end
  end

  def self.build4
    returning new do |index|
      index.build
    end
  end

  def self.build5
    (index = new).build; index
  end
end

Don’t think anyone has abandoned the campsite, we’re just cleaning it up. Zimbatm is cleaning up the bugs in Trac so we can work up to a new stable release.

Huzza!

Oh my, where did the time go? Anyway, I’m here to tell you Norbert and I are going to give a little talk at the upcoming RubyEnRails conference in Amsterdam. We’ve been preparing extensively for this the last few years of our life and have gathered quite a lot of cool stuff. So if you’re in the neighbourhood, please drop by.

On the photo you can clearly see that we’ve tamed the sea near our office.