Not sure why this was posted to HN, but I think is is a good opportunity for people to see how much transpires in the Ruby community on a regular basis.

Peter Cooper deserves a ton of praise for aggregating all of the weekly news, he rarely (if ever) misses anything of value.

Another big development (it probably happened after the article was published) :

Ruby 2.0-dev adds copy-on-write support similar to Ruby Enterprise Edition's http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/3367884

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Is there an RSS version?