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Happy Winter Solstice, I am pleased to finally announce the first public release of Ruby Facets. Ruby Facets was born, as I imagine many such projects are, over a period of years, as a growing collection of routines for which I commonly found need. Recently the library had grown large enough that I thought it might stand on its own. So a few weeks ago, I decided I'd go ahead and prepare a release. There was a good bit of work to do --organizing, documenting, testing; and I had the "bright" idea of scouring the web for other tidbits that I might add. That turned into a whole project in itself! But I persevered and now Facets is finally polished enough for an initial offering. Of course, there are still plenty of things left to do: write better documentation, improve the tests and write a few yet missing, improve the methods themselves, perhaps even a few improvements in method and file names, plus error catching code --I'm sure there are a number of places for that improvement, and of course there's plenty of room for adding new goodies, too. In fact I hope the Ruby community at large will take this opportunity to contribute any extension methods used personally but deemed generally useful. As the project manager I am quite open to the many possibilities. Please contribute! Being the very first release, I expect there may arise some unforeseen bugs. If you come across any please let me know, as soon as possible, so I can fix. You can contact me either privately or via ruby-talk, or through the new calibre-cuts mailing-list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/calibre-cuts My hope for Ruby Facets, and the other children of its parent project, Ruby Calibre, is that Ruby will gain a vast and widely used set of useful classes and routines in a nice all-in-one package --Ruby's Tertiary library after Core and Standard, if you will. Thanks and Happy Holidays, T.
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