Nick Sieger: New Hpricot Release

Comment on New Hpricot Release by Ijonas Kisselbach

2009-11-08T14:30:23+00:00

Thanks Nick,

It’s great to see hpricot for JRuby, back on level-pegging with its MRI counterpart.

Comment on New Hpricot Release by John Woodell

2009-11-06T21:22:15+00:00

I’m very excited to see this latest hpricot release. Traditionally, mechanize relied on hpricot, but deploying hpricot to a remote production environment has been problematic. Now that mechanize has moved to nokogiri, I should be thrilled, but we need pure java version for App Engine. With hpricot portability issues behind us, I hope this can be part of the solution to get mechanize to play nice in restrictive environments.

New Hpricot Release

2009-11-06T16:06:37+00:00

It’s with a modicum of fanfare and a cocktail of orange peel, maraschino, bitters, bourbon and vermouth that I announce the 0.8.2 release of Hpricot.

The angly thingies are just two martini glasses turned on their side, see? Pouring out hpricoty goodness for you. (I don’t know if _why imbibed alcoholic beverages but I feel the desire to raise a glass to him.)

This release is mostly a refresh; the previous release was way back in April. From the Git logs I can see that there were a few bug fixes since then. Otherwise, the main addition is a modern JRuby release, thanks to Ola Bini. (the previous was the 0.6 series). This does fix a fairly old, popular JRuby bug.

As for the future of Hpricot, it’s up to you. I know it’s still a trusty tool for many; I have no grand plans to change it. So if you encounter bugs and want to send patches, I’m happy to serve as your curator.