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RubyGems 0.9.0 and earlier installation exploit

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Problem Description: RubyGems does not check installation paths for gems before writing files. Impact: Since RubyGems packages are typically installed...

RubyGems 0.9.1

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Finally, the much anticipated RubyGems version 0.9.1 is now available. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. The most important...

Tattle Host OS

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
After two days and 562 tattle reports a picture of rubyists' operating system choice is emerging: $ ruby filter_host_os.rb tattle-host_os-20070110-1053...

Tattle: The Ruby Census

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
The most-requested feature for RubyGems is the addition of a platform preference for automating installs and ignoring gems for the platforms you aren’...

RubyGems Beta 0.9.0.9

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Beta version 0.9.0.9 is now available with: gem update --system --source http://onestepback.org/betagems This will be the last beta with major changes...

rbayes 1.0.0 Released

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
rbayes version 1.0.0 has been released! rbayes-1.0.0 documentation. An bayesian filter fed by a tokenizer that throws crap out you’d find...

Later that month: healing

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Why the Lucky Stiff posts a year in review for 2006: April – Canada on Rails. DHH says the F-word. And flips the crowd off or something. It&rsquo...

RubyGems Beta 0.9.0.8

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Beta version 0.9.0.8 is now available with: gem update --system --source http://onestepback.org/betagems Merry christmas from the RubyGems project...

Onward Hoe!

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
I used Hoe to release the paginator files… and I have to say that’s the easiest, least painful release I’ve ever done. As Ryan said at...

Hoe Down

over 5 years ago by Eric Hodel on Segment7.
Hoe Down! Updates daily, or something. Incidentally, after we got the awesome part of the idea for the Hoe Down page a bunch of Brooks and Dunn fans joined...