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    <title>RX for Pain</title>
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<p><a href='http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/10/RX-Work'><cite>Tim Bray</cite></a>: <em>There is quite a bit of disgruntlement about XML and Ruby right at this point in time</em></p>
<p>I’m scheduled to give a <a href='http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2969'>talk about this subject and more</a> at <a href='http://www.conferences.oreilly.com/oscon'>OSCON</a> next month.  Short summary: if you are a markup geek (i.e., deal with things like HTML or XML), and expect things to “just work”, now is not a great time to be exploring Ruby 1.9.  The biggest issue is that <a href='http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=17666&amp;group_id=494&amp;atid=1973'>bug</a> <a href='http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=17700&amp;group_id=426&amp;atid=1698'>reports</a> and <a href='http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/01/04/Builder-on-1-9'>suggestions</a> don’t seem to attract the necessary cycles from the key developers.</p>
<p>Hopefully, venues like OSCON can help draw attention to this important issue.</p></div></content>
    <updated>2008-06-11T10:40:52-04:00</updated>
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    <name>Sam Ruby</name>
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