Posted on Jul 25, 2009

SQLite3/Ruby 1.2.5 Released!

I just released an updated version of SQLite3/Ruby, officially to RubyForge!

Read the news here

This release includes binaries for Windows, but not any kind of binary, but fat ones!

That means that using either 1.8 or 1.9 versions of Ruby you will be able to access SQLite3/Ruby bindings and script your craziest applications!

This also solves the major PITA for gem update that lot of user experienced in the past.

Don’t forget to read a getting started guide here

Now is time to hunt down MySQL gem author and politely ask him integrate my patches ;)

Posted on Jul 25, 2009

RubyInstaller: Voting is over and the results are…

Hello Hello!

I’m happy to announce — 24 hours late on it — that the voting is over for the website contest I started last month for getting RubyInstaller (known as OneClick) a new home.

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Posted on Jul 8, 2009

Stepping up as SQLite3/Ruby maintainer

So, I think this may be good news for some folks.

February 24, 2009 is the date that Jamis Buck marked as the end of several of his open source projects, including SQLite3/Ruby. (you can read the post here)

Previously, he asked for help updating SQLite3/Ruby to make it work on Windows.

That sad news left a lot of us with a bad taste, and very unhappy, not because we no longer will have someone to complain at, but because he no longer enjoyed working on those projects.

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Posted on Jul 6, 2009

RubyInstaller: Getting Started with Rails and MySQL

This is a follow up instruction set from previous post, but this time, using MySQL

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