Revision: 3393 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/changeset/3393 Author: lsansonetti@apple.com Date: 2010-01-31 18:36:48 -0800 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) Log Message: ----------- fixed english bugs (thanks patrick) Modified Paths: -------------- MacRubyWebsite/trunk/content/blog/2010/01/31/macruby05.txt Modified: MacRubyWebsite/trunk/content/blog/2010/01/31/macruby05.txt =================================================================== --- MacRubyWebsite/trunk/content/blog/2010/01/31/macruby05.txt 2010-02-01 02:29:32 UTC (rev 3392) +++ MacRubyWebsite/trunk/content/blog/2010/01/31/macruby05.txt 2010-02-01 02:36:48 UTC (rev 3393) @@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ - textile --- <% @page[:excerpt] = capture_erb do %> -We are glad to announce the final release of MacRuby 0.5. After months of hard work and two successful beta releases, we believe 0.5 is good enough to replace the previous stable release, 0.4. +We are pleased to announce the final release of MacRuby 0.5. After months of hard work and two successful beta releases, we believe 0.5 is good enough to replace the previous stable release, 0.4. <% end %> <%= RedCloth.new(@page.excerpt).to_html %> You can download it from "here":http://www.macruby.org/files/MacRuby%200.5.zip. Please note that this package only runs on Snow Leopard and above. Users on Leopard can also use MacRuby by "building the sources":/source.html from our repository. -Remember that while MacRuby is progressing fast, it is still not recommended for mainstream development yet. We believe that MacRuby is stable in a lot of areas but others are still a work in progress. +Remember that while MacRuby is progressing quickly, it is still not recommended for mainstream development yet. We believe that MacRuby is stable in a lot of areas but others are still a work in progress. As usual, please give it a try and be sure to "report":/contact-us.html any problems you encounter to us. -If you're just getting started with MacRuby 0.5, make sure to check out our previous articles on the previous beta releases: "0.5 beta 1":http://macruby.org/blog/2009/10/07/macruby05b1.html and "0.5 beta 2":http://macruby.org/blog/2009/11/17/macruby05b2.html. +If you're just getting started with MacRuby 0.5, make sure to check out our articles on the previous beta releases: "0.5 beta 1":http://macruby.org/blog/2009/10/07/macruby05b1.html and "0.5 beta 2":http://macruby.org/blog/2009/11/17/macruby05b2.html. You can read about all the changes since the last beta in this "status report":http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2010-January/004064.html e-mail on the mailing-list, but here are the most visible changes: @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ HotCocoa is a thin & idiomatic Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks, developed by Rich Kilmer. MacRuby 0.5 now supports HotCocoa. -HotCocoa used to be developed inside the MacRuby project, but we decided that it would have a better life on GitHub, where it is far easier for developers to submit contributions. HotCocoa also has been transformed as a gem and is included in the 0.5 package installer. Be sure to require rubygems before using it. +HotCocoa used to be developed inside the MacRuby project, but we decided that it would have a better life on "GitHub":http://github.com, where it is far easier for developers to submit contributions. HotCocoa also has been transformed as a gem and is included in the 0.5 package installer. Be sure to require rubygems before using it. <pre class="commands"> require 'rubygems' @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ h3. More Elegant Ahead-of-Time Compilation -The macrubyc command-line tool has been improved to support the compilation of multiple Ruby source file into dynamic libraries. This is useful when you have several executable sharing the same Ruby code. +The macrubyc command-line tool has been improved to support the compilation of multiple Ruby source file into dynamic libraries. This is useful when you have several executables sharing the same Ruby code. <pre class="commands"> $ cd /tmp @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ hello world </pre> -Also, macrubyc now comes with a manpage which provides more information on how to use it. Check it out! +Also, macrubyc now comes with a man-page which provides more information on how to use it. Check it out! <pre class="commands"> $ man macrubyc @@ -73,4 +73,4 @@ To get you started with GCD, we wrote a "separate tutorial":/documentation/gcd.html. Check it out! -We are considering providing a higher level layer of APIs in the future. +We plan to provide higher-level, Ruby-centric API's for GCD in future releases.