#0.6.0

[jellyloveru]

VOICES OF THE VOID IS SURE SOMETHING ELSE

[lieut-john-irving]

Favourite

As a disclaimer, I‘m not explicitly sure if this research has already been done!

Nevertheless, I have compiled a bit of information about John's experience aboard the ship „Favourite“ (aka, the one after his excursions in Australia). Bell's commentary and his own compiled letters don’t provide too much so I thought to flesh out the dates and in doing so found some details that are so interesting (and funny) to me. Here’s the photos (highlighted to see better) and my transcriptions:

7th October 1842:

1. Lt. 2, no.15. to whom sold Mr. J. Irving [Particulars] Piece of Drill 24 yards. 35/0- 16 Pairs Socks 7/0- 4 Towels 1/0-. Amount £2, 3 shillings.

2. Lt. 2, no.15. to whom sold Mr. J. Irving [Particulars] 3 Table Cloths 4/0- Chest 5/0-. Amount 9 shillings.

3. Lt. 2, no.15. to whom sold Mr. J. Irving [Particulars] Cocket [?] Hat 11/0- Sword & Belt 43/0-. Amount £2, 14 shillings.

And close up:

List No.2

15. Irving, John

———

No.: 15

Entry: 1st April

Year: 1842

Appearance: April 1 1842

Whence and Whether Prest or Volunteer: Sydney; by Appointment of Commander Sulivan. 1 April 1842.

Place and County where born: Edinbro'

Age when entered in this Ship: 27

[Last Ship Discharge]: „Edinburgh“ March 1837

Names: John Irving

Qualities: mate

[Promotion]: Date of Promotion 23 March 1843. Overpaid as Mate £16.15 reported to London 12 Oct 1843 to be charged against his Account as Lieutenant.

[Striked-through maths scribbles = 79.12.4, 24.5.9]

Right-hand side:

Navy Slops, including Beds and Waxed Wrappers: 0.12.0

Dead and Run Men‘s Effects: 5.6.0

Tobacco: 0.6.0

Bills drawn by Officers, and Wages remitted: 59.11.6 3/4 (31 Mar 43)

Full Wages: 79.12.11

Solving column: [f?]

Nett Wages: 13.17.4

When paid: - 21 Jun 43

(Overpaid £16.15 See opposite side)

Source:

- ADM 32/338 The National Archives

With context:

Source:

- Arctonauts: John Irving‘s Letters by Benjamin Bell (which I physically printed and poorly bound a while ago for my own midnight reading): https://arctonauts.com/2023/01/17/bell-full/

EDIT, source as above (23/06/2025):

[officialclangen]

question, apparently, in like 0.6.0 or something, there was a food meter. why was this removed? :3

Hi! Thanks for your question. The food meter was an incomplete feature, to be continued at a later date!

~Chase

[pathofsephirot]

Xenogears: Perfect Works Edition (Version 0.6.0)

Version 0.6.0 of Xenogears: Perfect Works Edition is available. Changes are described in the README:

[yyako]

A few years ago I was working on a game called The Space Between Us, where players take on the roles of characters from different stories and come together in a crossover setting. I put it down for a few years because life got in the way, but recently I decided to pick it up again.

I published a new version that's got a bit more completeness to it, though it's not perfect yet. I would be honored if you checked it out or even played it.

I'm going to be doing some internal testing on it (by which I mean I'm getting my close friends to play it with me), after which you'll probably see some more changes.

[little-light-bulb]

between infinity nikki, ffxiv 7.15 content (i'm leading an alarm clock group for the chaotic alliance raid wish me luck guys), the potion craft 2.0 update, the slime rancher 2 0.6.0 update, vintage story 1.20 release candidate, and the project zomboid build 42 unstable releasing all in the same month

it's safe to say i ain't gettin shit DONE like i frontloaded all my work this week so now i get to spend the rest of my week milking the fact that i'm disabled and can't do shit while i just play more video games than i know what to do with

[lmg3864games]

Potatostrike - Beta Version 0.6.0

A new patch for Potatostrike has been relased.

Version 0.6.0 adds a Tutorial mission, Checkpoints, and rebalances a handful of weapons.

Additionally, two new Potatoes have been added, Zombiestrike and Spookystrike!

Download the new version here: https://lmg3864.itch.io/potatostrike

Patch notes for Potatostrike version 0.6.0: https://lmg3864.itch.io/potatostrike/devlog/816939/patch-notes-beta-060

To update the game, simply delete the old game files and replace them with the new ones.

Save files are stored separately and will not be affected.

[cutestcosmiccat]

Voices of the Void! Video games!

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 513

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

Announcing Rust 1.72.1

Foundation

Announcing the Rust Foundation’s Associate Membership with OpenSSF

Project/Tooling Updates

This month in Servo: upcoming events, new browser UI, and more!

Pagefind v1.0.0 — Stable static search at scale

Open sourcing the Grafbase Engine

Announcing Arroyo 0.6.0

rust-analyzer changelog #199

rumqttd 0.18.0

Observations/Thoughts

Stability without stressing the !@#! out

The State of Async Rust

NFS > FUSE: Why We Built our own NFS Server in Rust

Breaking Tradition: Why Rust Might Be Your Best First Language

The Embedded Rust ESP Development Ecosystem

Sifting through crates.io for malware with OSSF Package Analysis

Choosing a more optimal String type

Changing the rules of Rust

Follow up to "Changing the rules of Rust"

When Zig Outshines Rust - Memory Efficient Enum Arrays

Three years of Bevy

Should I Rust or should I go?

[audio] What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69

[audio] Pitching Rust to decision-makers, with Joel Marcey

Rust Walkthroughs

🤗 Calling Hugging Face models from Rust

Rust Cross-Compilation With GitHub Actions

tuify your clap CLI apps and make them more interactive

Enhancing ClickHouse's Geospatial Support

[video] All Rust string types explained

Research

A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust

Debugging Trait Errors as Logic Programs

REVIS: An Error Visualization Tool for Rust

Miscellaneous

JetBrains, You're scaring me. The Rust plugin deprecation situation.

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is RustQuant, a crate for quantitative finance.

Thanks to avhz for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

r3bl_rs_utils - [tuify] Use nice ANSI symbols instead of ">" to decorate what row is currently selected

r3bl_rs_utils - [all] Use nu shell scripts (not just or fish) and add Github Actions to build & test on mac & linux

r3bl_rs_utils - [tuify] Use offscreen buffer from r3bl_tui to make repaints smooth

Ockam - make building of ockam_app create behind a feature flag

Ockam - Use the Terminal to print out RPC response instead of printlns

Hyperswitch - add domain type for client secret

Hyperswitch - separate payments_session from payments core

Hyperswitch - move redis key creation to a common module

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

342 pull requests were merged in the last week

#[diagnostic::on_unimplemented] without filters

repr(transparent): it's fine if the one non-1-ZST field is a ZST

accept additional user-defined syntax classes in fenced code blocks

add explicit_predicates_of to SMIR

add i686-pc-windows-gnullvm triple

add diagnostic for raw identifiers in format string

add source type for invalid bool casts

cache reachable_set on disk

canonicalize effect vars in new solver

change unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn to be warn-by-default from edition 2024

closure field capturing: don't depend on alignment of packed fields

consistently pass ty::Const through valtrees

coverage: simplify internal representation of debug types

disabled socketpair for Vita

enable varargs support for AAPCS calling convention

extend rustc -Zls

fallback effects even if types also fallback

fix std::primitive doc: homogenous → homogeneous

fix the error message for #![feature(no_coverage)]

fix: return early when has tainted in mir pass

improve Span in smir

improve PadAdapter::write_char

improve invalid let expression handling

inspect: closer to proof trees for coherence

llvm-wrapper: adapt for LLVM API changes

make .rmeta file in dep-info have correct name (lib prefix)

make ty::Const debug printing less verbose

make useless_ptr_null_checks smarter about some std functions

move required_consts check to general post-mono-check function

only suggest turbofish in patterns if we may recover

properly consider binder vars in HasTypeFlagsVisitor

read from non-scalar constants and statics in dataflow const-prop

remove verbose_generic_activity_with_arg

remove assert that checks type equality

resolve: mark binding is determined after all macros had been expanded

rework no_coverage to coverage(off)

small wins for formatting-related code

some ConstValue refactoring

some inspect improvements

treat host effect params as erased in codegen

turn custom code classes in docs into warning

visit ExprField for lint levels

store a index per dep node kind

stabilize the Saturating type

stabilize const_transmute_copy

make Debug impl for ascii::Char match that of char

add minmax{,_by,_by_key} functions to core::cmp

specialize count for range iterators

impl Step for IP addresses

add implementation for thread::sleep_until

cargo: cli: Add '-n' to dry-run

cargo: pkgid: Allow incomplete versions when unambigious

cargo: doc: differentiate defaults for split-debuginfo

cargo: stabilize credential-process and registry-auth

cargo: emit a warning for credential-alias shadowing

cargo: generalise suggestion on abiguous spec

cargo: limit cargo add feature print

cargo: prerelease candidates error message

cargo: consolidate clap/shell styles

cargo: use RegistryOrIndex enum to replace two booleans

rustfmt: Style help like cargo nightly

clippy: ignore #[doc(hidden)] functions in clippy doc lints

clippy: reuse rustdoc's doc comment handling in Clippy

clippy: extra_unused_type_parameters: Fix edge case FP for parameters in where bounds

clippy: filter_map_bool_then: include multiple derefs from adjustments

clippy: len_without_is_empty: follow type alias to find inherent is_empty method

clippy: used_underscore_bindings: respect lint levels on the binding definition

clippy: useless_conversion: don't lint if type parameter has unsatisfiable bounds for .into_iter() receiver

clippy: fix FP of let_unit_value on async fn args

clippy: fix ICE by u64::try_from(<u128>)

clippy: trigger transmute_null_to_fn on chain of casts

clippy: fix filter_map_bool_then with a bool reference

clippy: ignore closures for some type lints

clippy: ignore span's parents in collect_ast_format_args/find_format_args

clippy: add redundant_as_str lint

clippy: add extra byref checking for the guard's local

clippy: new unnecessary_map_on_constructor lint

clippy: new lint: path_ends_with_ext

clippy: split needless_borrow into two lints

rust-analyzer: field shorthand overwritten in promote local to const assist

rust-analyzer: don't skip closure captures after let-else

rust-analyzer: fix lens location "above_whole_item" breaking lenses

rust-analyzer: temporarily skip decl check in derive expansions

rust-analyzer: prefer stable paths over unstable ones in import path calculation

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A pretty quiet week, with relatively few statistically significant changes, though some good improvements to a number of benchmarks, particularly in cycle counts rather than instructions.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 7e0261e7ea..af78bae

3 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 2 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups

56 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

[disposition: merge] RFC: Unicode and escape codes in literals

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] stabilize combining +bundle and +whole-archive link modifiers

[disposition: merge] Stabilize impl_trait_projections

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for option_as_slice

[disposition: merge] Amend style guide section for formatting where clauses in type aliases

[disposition: merge] Add allow-by-default lint for unit bindings

New and Updated RFCs

[new] RFC: Remove implicit features in a new edition

[new] RFC: const functions in traits

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

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[fromdevcom]

Ruby is one of the most popular programming languages in the digital world. One of the reasons for the popularity of Ruby is its characteristic nature of reusability through codes wrapped in the form of gems. It is easy to add functionalities in Ruby through packaged libraries and this is one of the nicest things about Ruby development. Recently there has been a release of Rail 5 and there are many useful and popular Ruby Rails available for your usage. This article will briefly and specifically talk about few useful and popular gems that can save you a lot of time re-inventing. As a beginner at ruby programming, you may also find these ruby books handy for learning. Ruby Libraries For Authentication Authlogic This is a clean, unobtrusive and simple Ruby authentication solution that supports both Rails 3 and 4. A new type of model was introduced through Authlogic. The solution program has the option to logout or destroys the session. CanCan All permissions in this Ruby Rails is defined in a single location called the Ability class. This is not duplicated across views database queries and controllers. You can install it as a plugin. OmniAuth It is a standardized multi-provider authentication tool for web applications that is flexible and powerful and allows the developer to create strategies, which are released individually as RubyGems. Devise It is a flexible authentication solution for Rails that is based on Warden. This solution is Rack based and is a complete MVC solution based in Rail engines. Through this, the user can log in to multiple models. File Processing and Upload Utility Libraries in Ruby CarrierWave It offers extremely flexible and a simple way for uploading files from Ruby applications. Rack based web applications like Ruby on Rails is the best on which it works. Paperclip The main aim to create this is to make it an easy file attachment library for Active Record. It now works on Ruby version that is equal or higher than 1.9.2 and Rails version higher than or equal to 3.0. This is required only when the user is using Ruby on Rails. FasterCSV It was built with the intension that it serves as the replacement of the standard CSV library of Ruby. It is significantly fast compared to CSV at the same, it is a Pure Ruby library. Spreadsheet As the name suggests, this library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Document. It is compatible with only Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as of version 0.6.0. User Interface Libraries in Ruby Kaminari This is a scope and engine based Ruby solution. This is a sophisticated paginator for modern web application frameworks or ORMs. This application offers users the choice of customization too. Haml This is an HTML abstraction markup language that is based on a primary principle, which says that markup is necessary to be beautiful. It has the ability to simplify yet accelerate the creation of template down to veritable haiku. Sass This is an extension of CSS3 and it makes CSS fun. This has the ability to add nested rules, mixins, selector inheritance, variables and many others. It has two syntaxes – main syntax SCSS and superset of CSS3’s syntax. Mustache The views in Mustache are broken into two parts – Ruby class and HTML template. It is inspired by et and ctemplate. It is a framework-agnostic way of rendering logic-free views. Compass It is an open-source CSS Authoring framework and it uses Sass, which is an extension of CSS3. It has the best reusable patterns on the web. Compass mixins ease out the use of CSS3 and create good typographic rhythm. Hirb It offers mini view framework for console applications and uses the same in order to improve the ripl’s or rib’s default inspect output. It offers reusable views of two helper classes – Table and Tree. Unit Testing and Automation Libraries in Ruby Shoulda This gem is a meta gem that has two dependencies – shoulda context and shoulda matchers. This can be used in different tests and uses case combinations. Factory Girl This is a fixture replacement that has a straightforward definition syntax.

It can support multiple build strategies like saved and unsaved instances, stubbed objects and attribute hashes. It also supports multiple factories of same classes. Capybara This helps you testing the web applications through simulation of real users interacting with your app. It comes with Rack and has built in Selenium and Test support. The external gem supports the WebKit. Capistrano Capistrano works with the Ruby Rails that are higher or equal to the version 1.9. This rail supports JRuby and C-Ruby or YARV. It can create different stages in the capfile. Delayed Job It is a direct extraction from Shopify in which the job table performs a wide array of core tasks, which includes sending of massive newsletters, image resizing, http downloads and many others. Resque This is a Redis-backed library used for creating background jobs. It places those jobs on multiple queues and processes them later. The latest version is 2.0, which has a master branch. Nano Test It has the framework that has a very minimal testing and is perfect plugin for those who love DIY. Picture / Image Processing Libraries in Ruby Rmagick The new release version of this Ruby Rail is 2.13.2. This is Ruby Gem has the ability to add bundles of Gemfile and you can install the application directly. Smusher There is no need of image libraries and everything can be done through the interwebs. The file is less in size, offers 97% saving, faster downloads and less bandwidth makes the users happy to use it. XML Parsing and Processing Libraries in Ruby Nokogiri It is an XML Reader, SAX and HTML parser. Its ability to search documents through CSS3 and XPath selectors is one of its key features. It can also build XML/HTML. Gyoku The main function of this Ruby gem is to translate the Hashes into XML. It is available through Rubygems and can be directly installed or by adding it to the gem file. Feedjira.com It is a Ruby library that is designed to fetch and parse the feeds very quickly. The recent release version is 1.0 and it is a Ruby gem application. JSON Parsing and Processing Libraries in Ruby JSON It is regarded as the low fat alternate to XML and a pure Ruby variant. This is useful if you want to store data in a disk or transmit the same over a network, rather than to use as a verbose markup language. JSON – Stream It is a JSON parser that is based on a finite state machine. It is more like an XML SAX parser and can generate events during parsing. Document or object graphs are not required for it to be fully buffered in memory. YAJL C Bindings It is a C binding to YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. It can directly conduct JSON parsing as well as encode to and from IO stream like socket or file and String. It offers API compatibility and is a basic HTTP client. Domain Specific Language Libraries in Ruby Formtastic It is a Rails FormBuilder DSL that has some other goodies. This makes it easier to create beautiful and semantically rich HTML forms in your Rails application that are accessible and syntactically awesome. Jbuilder It offers you a simple DSL enabling you to declare JSON structures that can beat massaging giant hash structures. It proved to be helpful during the generation process that is overloaded with loops and conditionals. Thor It is like a tool kit that is used for building powerful command line interface. Apart from Rails, it can also be used in Vagrant, Bundler and many others. Build and Dependency Management Libraries in Ruby Bundler This unique software ensures that same code runs in every machine by Ruby applications. It aesthetically manages all gems upon which the application depends on. If you give the names of the gems, it can automatically download them. RAKE It is a program that resembles Make program built for Ruby. The dependencies and tasks in this program are specified in standard Ruby syntax and there are no XML files to edit. Compression Libraries in Ruby Jammit This is an asset packaging library for Rails that has industrial strength.

It has the capacity to provide compression and concatenation of both CSS and JavaScript. The available current version is 0.6.5. Payment Processing Libraries in Ruby Active Merchant This is a Ruby Rail that deals with payment processors and credit cards. This application is an extraction from Shopify, which is an e-commerce software solution. It can be used as a Ruby on Rails web application. Concurrency Libraries in Ruby EventMachine It is a lightweight concurrency library for Ruby, which is an event-driven I/O. It uses Reactor patterns like Apache MINA, JBoss Netty, Node.js, Python’s Twisted and many others. Application Servers n Ruby Phusion Passenger It is a lightweight, robust and a fast web application server for Ruby and also supports Python and Node.js. Its C++ core along with watchdog system and zero-capacity architecture makes it fast. It has hybrid-evented multi-process and multi-threaded design. Configuration Management Libraries in Ruby Chef It is a configuration management tool that is designed in such a way that it can automate your entire infrastructure. By learning and using Chef, you can administer IT infrastructure from your workstation like your desktop or laptop. RConfig It is a complete solution as far as Ruby configuration management is concerned and manages the configurations that are available in Ruby applications, bridging gaps between kay/value based property files and XML/YAML. MVC Framework Related Libraries Thinking Sphinx It is a library that connects ActiveRecords to the Sphinx full-text search tools. Though it can closely integrate with Rails, it can also function with other Ruby web frameworks. The currently available version is 3.1.1. Will Paginate This is basically a collection of extensions suitable for the database layers that enable paginated queries and view helpers for frameworks that offer pagination links. It helps in combining view helpers and CSS styling. Squeel This is the best tool that users can use to write Active Records queries using fewer strings with more Ruby. It makes the Arel awesomeness accessible that lie beneath Active Records. HasScope This tool enables users to create controller filters with ease based on the resources that are named 'scopes'. Users can use the named scopes as filters by declaring them on the controllers. Security Related Libraries in Ruby Rack::SslEnforcer This is a simple Rack middleware that can enforce SSL connections. The cookies are by default marked as secure entities by the 0.2.0 version of Rack::SslEnforcer. It works with various versions of Ruby, Ruby-head, and REE. Ngrok It has the capacity to create tunnels from the public internet that it can port to a local machine. Through this tunnel, it captures all internet or HTTP traffic information. Developer Help, Debugging and Tuning Libraries Bullet Bullet gem is designed in such a way that it increases the performance of applications. It does that by reducing the number of queries that it makes. It can support ActiveRecord as well as Mongoid. Debugger It is a fork of Ruby debug that works only on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3. It can be easily installed for rvm or rbenv Rubies. It can support Rubies that are 1.9.x and doesn't support Rubies that are higher or equal to 2.0. Rack Mini Profiler This is a type of middleware that has the feature of displaying speed badge for every HTML page and helps in database profiling. It is designed in such a way that it can work in both production and development. Quiet Assets It supports Ruby on Rail versions that are higher or equal to version 3.1. It turns off the pipeline log of the Rails asset and suppresses the messages in the development log. Request Log Analyzer This is a simple command line tool that can analyze the request log files in different formats like Apache or Amazon S3 and prepare a performance report. The aim of this is to find the best actions for optimization. Rails Footnotes It enables easy debugging for your application by displaying footnotes like request parameters, filter chain, queries, routes, cookies, sessions and much more.

It can directly open files in the editor. MethodProfiler It is one of the best tools that captures performance information of the methods in the process and creates a report that allows identifying slow methods. RDoc This is the program for Ruby projects that produces command line documentation and HTML. It includes ri and rdoc tools and displays documentation from the command line. Static Code Analysis Libraries in Ruby Flay This tool analyzes the code for structural similarities and can report differences at any level of the code. It has the capacity to offer both conservative and liberal pruning options. Rails Best Practices It is a code metric tool that can check the quality of the rail codes. It supports ORM/ODMs like Mongomapper, Mongoid, and ActiveRecord. It also supports template engines like ERB, HAML, SLIM and RABL. Reek It is code smell detection for Ruby. It can examine Ruby modules, methods and classes. Reek also helps in reporting any kind of code smells that it can find. SimpleCov It is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby applications. Built-in coverage library of Ruby is used to capture the code coverage data. Database Utility Libraries in Ruby Lol DBA It is a small package of different rake tasks, which can scan the application models and display it in the form of column lists that can be indexed. It also has the ability to generate .sql migration script. Other Useful Libraries in Ruby Better Errors If a user wants to replace a standard error page with a much better and useful error page, Better Errors is the solution for that. It can also be used outside Rails as a Rack middleware in any Rack app. Annotate It helps the user to add comments by summarizing the present schema to the top or bottom of the ActiveRecords model, fixture files, Tests and Specs, Object Daddy exemplars and others. MailCatcher From the name itself, it can be understood that it catches mails and serves them. It runs on a very simple SMTP server that catches any message and sends it to be displayed on a web interface. Pry If there is any powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby, then it is Pry. It offers both source code and documentation browsing. Two of the main features of Pry are syntax highlighting and gist integration. RailRoady The Rail 3/4 model like Mongoid, ActiveRecord, and Datamapper can be generated by RailRoady. It can also generate Controller UML diagrams in the form of cross-platform .svg files and also in DOT language format. Zeus It can preload the Rails app, which enables the normal development tasks like a server, generate and console, the specs/test takes less than a second. In general, it is language-agnostic application checkpointer used for non-multithreaded applications. Ransack It is basically a rewrite of MetaSearch. Though it supports most of the features as MetaSearch the underlying implementation is different. It enables creating both simple and advanced search forms against the application models. FriendlyId It is basically regarded as the “Swiss Army bulldozer” as it can slug and permalink plugins for Active Record. It allows users to create pretty URLs and work with different numeric IDs in the form of human-friendly strings. Settingslogic It is basically a simple configuration or setting solution that uses YAML file that is ERB enabled. It can work with Sinatra, Rails or any kind of Ruby projects. Graph and Chart in Ruby Chartkick With the help of this, you can create beautiful Javascript charts using just one line of Ruby. It works with Sinatra, Rails and most of the browsers including IE6. Gruff Graphs It is a library that enables you to create beautiful graphs like a line graph, bar graph, area graph and much more. It enables you to create your feature branches in the program and push the changes to the branches. Active Record It consists M in the MVC or Model-View-Controller paradigm. It helps in facilitating the creation and use of various business objects the data for which it requires persistent storage to a database.

Log4r It is a comprehensive flexible logging library that is written in Ruby in order to be used in Ruby programs. It has hierarchical logging system used for any number of levels and also has YAML and XML configuration. Prawn It is a pure Ruby PDF generation library. It offers vector drawing support that includes polygons, lines, ellipses, and curves. It also offers JPG and PNG image embedding with flexible scaling option. Origami It is a Ruby framework meant for editing PDF files. It supports advance PDF features like encryption, digital signature, forms, annotation, Flash and much more. Breadcrumbs It is a simple Ruby on Rails plugin that is required for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation for Rails project. It requires Rails 3 or 4 to run. Crummy The simple way to add breadcrumbs to the Rails application is by using Crummy. The user just needs to add the dependency to the gem file. Whenever It is a Ruby gem that offers a clear syntax, which enables you to write and deploy cron jobs. It can directly installed in the gem file or with a bundler in it. Spree It is an open source e-commerce solution that is built using Ruby on Rails. It consists of many different gems maintained in a single repository and documented in a single set of online documentation. Capistrano It supports JRuby and C-Ruby/YARV. It can be installed through a particular command in the gem file of the application and it can post that bundle that needs to be executed. Attr Encrypted It generates attr_accessors that can transparently encrypt and decrypt attributes. Though it can be used with any class but using with Datamapper, ActiveRecord or Sequel give it some extra features. Refinery It is a Ruby on Rails CMS and supports Rails 3.2 and 4.1. The new version 2.1.4 has the ability to make many core functions optional like visual editor, authentication, and the dashboard. Gosu It is game development library for Ruby. It supports only 2D games and apart from Ruby, it also supports C++ language. It is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. We have seen here quite a few Ruby libraries that have one or the other benefits for Ruby applications. However, it is our experience and knowledge base that help us choosing the best one among the lot. Moreover, it is always recommended to choose the one that has the highest utility for programs and applications you are using.

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Chess engine: Lambergar 1.1

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PS Vita Homebrew Roundup - 25th March 2025

Mainly updates this week over on the VitaDB website for the PS Vita homebrew scene, although there is one new release worth checking out this time around… Real Football 2011 Vita v.1.0 (Released 23rd March 2025) PS Vita port of Real Football 2011 More details and the download link can be found over its VitaDB page at https://www.rinnegatamante.eu/vitadb/#/info/1263 DSVita v.0.6.0 (Updated 23rd…

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Experience the Thrill of the Annihilation Mission in the Arcane Wilds Update

Arcane Wilds update is the biggest yet for the western-themed fantasy RTS game on Linux and Windows PC. Thanks to the relentless creativity of the team at Avancadia. Which you can find on Steam Early Access with 70% Positive reviews. Steam’s Real-Time Strategy Fest is here, and Arcane Wilds is stepping up with an update. For a limited time, this western-themed fantasy RTS from indie studio Avancadia is also 20% off on Steam. If you’ve been eyeing it, now’s the perfect chance to jump in — especially with its biggest update yet, version 0.6.0. Since this packs fresh features and refined mechanics on Linux based on player feedback. Let’s talk about what makes this Arcane Wilds update so exciting. First up, there’s a new mission type called Annihilation. The goal? Total destruction of your enemy’s base. It’s you versus their fortress in a head to head clash, and it’s as intense as it sounds. Combine that with the 30 shiny new perks added across different units, and your battlefield strategies just got a major upgrade. Want to dominate? Customize your perks to fit your playstyle and watch your enemies crumble.

Arcane Wilds Early Access Release Trailer (before update 0.6.0)

Arcane Wilds’ resource system is also getting a lot of love. Forget about simple gathering — here, resources stay at their gathering sites. You’ll need to plan how to transport and protect them, and if you’re feeling sneaky, you can even steal resources from rival factions. It’s a high-risk, high-reward twist that keeps the tension cranked up. And the polish? Oh, it’s noticeable in the Arcane Wilds update. The devs have revamped terrain textures, improved unit pathing with better formations, and — get this — unlocked the cannon at Tier 3. Blasting through enemies just got way more satisfying. The perk system has also had a glow-up, now displayed in a better tree layout that’s both easy to use and visually awesome. Avancadia’s team is clearly listening to its players. “We’ve taken Early Access feedback to heart,” they said, “and with the 0.6.0 update, Arcane Wilds is ready to shine during the Real-Time Strategy Fest.” That kind of commitment shows, and it’s no wonder the game keeps getting better. So, if you’re into RTS games that mix wild west vibes with magical chaos, don’t miss out on this limited-time deal. Grab Arcane Wilds and check out the new update content on Steam Early Access. Dive into the western-themed fantasy RTS with the new Annihilation mode. See just how far your strategies can take you. Priced at $14.39 USD / £11.99 / 13,99€ with a 20% discount. Along with support for Linux and Windows PC.

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Microsoft addresses the complex challenges of integrating geospatial data into machine learning workflows. Working with such data is difficult due to its heterogeneity, coming in multiple formats and varying resolutions, and its complexity, involvin #AI #ML #Automation

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TorchGeo 0.6.0 released

https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/releases/tag/v0.6.0

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oOOF i started playing all the way back to 0.6.0 on pocket edition because we didn't have a computer. A lot of my preteens games were on that tablet including slenderman and fnaf jsjsjs

i have decided to do a poll for fun because of a video im watching while im eating

for those curious i started playing during 1.6!! i played the demo worlds of the game on the minecraft.net website before my parents bought it for me