Ruby 1.8.3 has been released. Thank you for the developers and users.

Mirror: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/6155/ruby-1.8.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.3.tar.gz
md5sum: 63d6c2bddd6af86664e338b31f3189a6

In ruby-dev mail list for Japanese guys are trying to write what’s new in 1.8.3, a press release for media and so on, but nobody works them yet.

Akira Yamada, a maintainer of ruby package in Debian, blogged that he would make the new package as soon as possible.

A wiki. That stores scripts. Run them from the URL. You have a personal Yubnub. This idea is Jake Donham’s and he dropped in on the MouseHole list a few weeks ago. My incarnation of his script is called MouseCommand.

To give you an idea of what’s possible, a few recipes du jour. For best effect in Firefox, go to about:config and set keyword.URL to http://127.0.0.1:37004/cmd/. Restart Firefox and make sure MouseHole is running and MouseCommand is installed.

del

A simple redirect to a del.icio.us tag.

 location "http://del.icio.us/tag/#{args.join '+'}" 

date

Display the system date and time. Arguments optionally passed into String#strftime.

 if args.empty?
   Time.now.to_s
 else
   Time.now.strftime( args.join( ' ' ) )
 end

url

For debugging. Pass another command in (try: url date or url del ruby) and get a dump of the headers and content generated by that command.

 run( args.join '/' ) rescue nil
 body = "<p>" 
 response.header.map do |k,v|
   body += k + ": " + v + "<br />" 
 end
 body + "</p><pre>#{ response.body }</pre>" 

links

Make a list of links for a given URL.

 body = "<ul>" 
 doc = read_xhtml_from "http://#{ args.join '/' }" 
 doc.each_element( "//a" ) do |link|
   if link.attributes['href']
     body += "<li>#{ link.attributes['href'] }</li>" 
   end
 end
 body + "</ul>" 

If you have MouseCommand setup as keyword.URL, you can also type new shortcut to create a new command with the name shortcut. Also, list all to see your command list and edit shortcut to… you know… (Again, credit goes to Jared. A bunch of useful command ideas is elsewhere.)