What's new in Ruby 2.0

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1. Ruby 2.0
   What’s  new?
   

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2. About me
   @gee_forr
   Internet Solutions
   #rubyOnBeer
   I <3 Ruby
   

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3. History
   Big
   Changes
   Little
   Changes
   Install
   Deep
   Changes
   Eco
   System
   

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4. History
   

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5. Feb 24
   1993
   Dec 21
   1995
   Start  of  Xmas  Tradi.on
   Ruby’s History
   Language  starts  gaining  
   serious  trac.on
   I  want  a  language  more  
   powerful  than  Perl  and  
   more  OO  than  Python
   First  public  release
   0.95
   Dec 25
   1996
   1.0
   1.2
   Dec
   1998
   1.4
   Aug
   1999
   1.6
   Sep
   2000
   1.8
   Aug
   2003
   Dec 13
   2005
   Rails  arrives  on  the  
   scene.  Arguably  the  
   start  of  Ruby’s  rise.
   Dec
   2007
   Language  hits  the  big  
   .me.
   1.9
   

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6. Start  of  Xmas  Tradi.on
   Ruby’s History
   nguage  starts  gaining  
   rious  trac.on
   1.8
   Aug
   2003
   Dec 13
   2005
   Rails  arrives  on  the  
   scene.  Arguably  the  
   start  of  Ruby’s  rise.
   Dec
   2007
   Language  hits  the  big  
   .me.
   1.9
   Feb 24
   2013
   2.0
   

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7. Install
   

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8. The one true way
   The one true way
   ✦Update  RVM
   ✦rvm install ruby-2.0.0
   ✦Update  rbenv
   ✦rbenv install 2.0.0-p0
   RVM RBENV
   

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9. Deep Changes
   

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10. X
    BItmap Garbage
    Collection
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12. Heap based M&S
    Ruby  structures  are  divided  in  2    
    halves,  data  and  flags.  Each  
    structure  has  its  own  flag.  Mark  
    phase  trawls  through  heap  and  
    updates  FL_MARK  flag  in  every  
    object
    1.9 GC
    RString diagram from: http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excited-about-garbage-collection-in-ruby-2-0
    

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13. Bitmap marking
    All  mark  flags  for  heap  move  to  
    single  dedicated  data  structure.  
    1  for  In  Use,  0  for  Collectable.
    Flag  not  wriMen  to  data  
    structure,  much  more  friendly  
    to  copy-­‐on-­‐write
    2.0 GC
    Heap diagram from: http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excited-about-garbage-collection-in-ruby-2-0
    

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14. X
    Backward
    Compatible With
    1.9
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15. X
    require() speed
    improvements
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16. Big Changes
    

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17. X
    Keyword
    Arguments
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18. Keyword
    Arguments
    def foo(foo: ‘bar’, baz: ‘qux’, **rest)
    # Do something
    end
    foo(baz: ‘qux’, foo: ‘frob’)
    Big Changes
    

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19. X
    Module
    Prepend
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20. Module
    Prepend
    module IncludableModule
    def something; end
    end
    class MyClass
    prepend IncludableModule
    end
    Big Changes
    

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21. X
    Lazy
    Enumerators
    X
    X
    X
    X
    X
    

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22. Lazy
    Enumerators
    to_infinity = (0..Float::Infinity)
    beyond = to_infinity.lazy.select do |n|
    num % 42 == 0
    end
    100.times do { |n| puts beyond.next }
    Big Changes
    

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23. X
    Tracepoint
    X
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24. Trace
    Point
    Big Changes
    OO  alterna*ve  to  set_trace_func
    trace = TracePoint.new(:raise) do |t|
    puts "Alert: Exception raised!"
    end
    trace.enable
    

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25. X
    Refinements
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26. Refinements
    *
    Big Changes
    Localised  and  contained  monkey  patching
    Module MyString
    refine String do
    def palindrome?
    self == self.reverse
    end
    end
    end
    using MyString # Monkey patch now active for context
    

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27. little Changes
    

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28. Literal
    Symbol lists
    sym_list = %i{eeny meeny miny moe}
    # => [:eeny, :meeny, :miny, :moe]
    Little Changes
    

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29. Binary
    Search
    haystack = (1..99999999)
    haystack.bsearch do |needle|
    needle == 12345
    end
    # => 12345
    Little Changes
    

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30. UTF-8
    On by Default
    #!/usr/bin/env ruby1.9
    #encoding: utf-8
    puts “✖ ✹ ✚ ✭”
    #!/usr/bin/env ruby-2.0
    puts “✖ ✹ ✚ ✭”
    Little Changes
    

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31. __Dir__
    keyword
    Little Changes
    Similar  in  func*onality  to  __FILE__
    Shows  absolute  path  to  file’s  directory
    No  more  clunky  File.dirname(__FILE__)
    

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32. .to_h
    Little Changes
    Follows  conven*on  started  by  .to_s,  to_i,  to_a,  etc
    Super  useful  for  conver*ng  Structs
    

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33. Little Changes
    CGI  is  now  HTML5  compa*ble
    net/hLp  supports  Server  Name  Indica*on  (SNI)
    Grab
    Bag
    Zlib  runs  outside  of  the  Global  Interpreter  Lock
    Unused  variables  can  be  prepended  with  _  to  avoid  warnings
    

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34. Ecosystem
    

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35. Ecosystem
    Start  of  support  for  stdlib  gems
    No  more  out  of  place  requires!  MOAR  BUNDLAR!
    RubyGems
    2.0
    Searching  is  remote  by  default
    Metadata  through  Gem::Specifica*on#metadata
    Simplified  --document/--no-document
    No  more  --no-rdoc --no-ri mantra
    

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36. Ecosystem
    Supports  Ruby  2.0
    Supports  Rubygems  2.0
    Bundler
    1.3(.1)
    Supports  Rails  4.0
    Support  for  signed  gems!
    install and update up  to  150x  faster
    

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37. EcoSystem
    Ruby  2.0  is  the  official  preferred  ruby  version
    Beta  released  1  day  a_er  Ruby  2.0
    Rails
    4.0 beta
    gem install rails --version 4.0.0.beta1 --no-document
    gem ‘rails’, ‘4.0.0-beta1’
    

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38. Now what
    

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39. Any
    Questions?
    @gee_forr
    [email protected]
    Thanks
    Code examples: https://github.com/gee-forr/whats_new_in_ruby_2.0
    

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