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Ruby 1.9.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the facetnating dept.

sciurus0 writes "The 1.9.0 development version of the Ruby programming language has been released. This version has many changes, including a new virtual machine that provides great speed improvements."

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  1. Re:Benchmarks mean nothing, specially these ones. by sciurus0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to Chu Yeow, Mongrel doesn't run on 1.9.0 yet. Neither does Rails. The release of 1.9.0 coincided with the API freeze for 1.9.x, so hopefully projects that were holding off on porting to 1.9 will do so now. The situation is complicated by 1.9's transitional nature; you should stick with 1.8 if you absolutely need stability.

  2. Re:Why Ruby? by sciurus0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Alright, I know this is going to be flame fodder, but I'm genuinely curious: does Ruby have anything to offer for someone who's already very proficient in Python (and Django, so Rails is already covered)?

    Take a glance at Ruby from other languages. This page highlights some of the things that make Ruby Ruby.
  3. Re:where's unicode? by Riemann+hypothesis · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is support for Unicode in Ruby 1.9. An encoding is now associated to a string and you can also perform transcoding, therefore converting a given string amongst different formats (e.g. UTF-8 and ASCII).