Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008: The Next Ruby

Ruby 1.9, currently in development, has already introduced a wide range of syntax and language feature changes to the Ruby language (some of which have been backported into 1.8.7). We’ll focus on 1.9’s changes and emphasize concrete steps needed to update existing Ruby 1.8 applications. The talk will address specific points of difference between the two versions; the new object literals, enumerators, text processing changes (encodings and oniguruma regular expressions), new scoping rules, and Fibers.