Ruby Version Changes

By Jesus Castello

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Ruby 2.4

New features

  • Fixnum + Bignum merge into Integer
  • Better Thread error reporting

Methods

  • Dir.empty?
  • File.empty?
  • Regexp#match?
  • Enumerable#sum
  • Integer#digits
Ruby 2.3

New features

  • Frozen strings pragma
  • Safe navigator operator (&.)
  • Squiggly heredoc (<<~)
  • 'Did you mean?' gem included by default

Methods

  • Hash#dig
  • Array#dig
  • File.mkfifo
  • Hash#fetch_values
  • Enumerable#chunk_while
Ruby 2.2

New features

  • Symbol GC
  • Incremental GC

Methods

  • Method#curry
  • Kernel#itself
  • Enumerable#slice_after
  • Enumerable#slice_when
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Ruby 2.1

New features

  • Required Keyword Arguments
  • Generational GC
  • New GC environment variables
  • Refinements

Methods

  • String#scrub and String#scrub!
  • Binding#local_variable_get(symbol)
  • Binding#local_variable_set(symbol, obj)
  • Binding#local_variable_defined?(symbol)
Ruby 2.0

New features

  • Lazy enumerators
  • Keyword Arguments
  • UTF-8 as default encoding
  • Refinements (experimental)
  • New regular expression engine
  • `%i` and `%I` for symbol list creation (similar to `%w` and `%W`)

Methods

  • Kernel#__dir__
  • Array#bsearch
  • Module#prepend
  • Module.prepended
  • Module.prepend_features
  • Return an Array instead of an Enumerator:
    • String#chars
    • String#bytes
    • ​String#lines
    • String#codepoints

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