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date: "2004-10-02T19:40:15Z"
title: RubyConf continues
---

<p>
There were presentations today on <a href='http://www.rubyonrails.org/'>Ruby on Rails</a>, a cool web application development framework, <a href='http://www.atdot.net/yarv/'><acronym title='Yet Another Ruby VM'>YARV</acronym></a>, and one on <a href='http://testunit.talbott.ws/'>Test::Unit</a> (or <code>test/unit</code>, as he likes to call it now).  Up next is the keynote addres with the creator of <a href='http://www.dekorte.com/Objective-C/'>Objective C</a>.  Also, my little <acronym title='Graphical User Interface'>GUI</acronym> for <a href='http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/'>RubyGems</a> is coming along, here's a screenshot:
</p>

<p>
<a href='/gallery/misc/gemboree_progress.png'><img src='/gallery/misc/gemboree_progress-thumb.png'
  width='274' height='200' title='Gemboree' alt='Gemboree' border='0' style='border: 1px solid black' /></a>
</p>

<p>
The green items are installed gems, and the nested entries are for
packages with more than one version in the <a
href='http://gems.rubyforge.org/'>RubyGems repository</a>.
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