Sip from the Firehose

Matz told everyone there would be Christmas present this year.  He was right on target.  He posted a message on December 25th telling everyone that Ruby version 1.9.0 is officially released.

Ruby version 1.9.0 downloads:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.tar.bz2

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.tar.gz

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.zip 

Compatibility test results posted by Matz on the Ruby language forum:

"For your information, here’s the test result from the released Ruby
1.9.0:

  sample/test.rb
  858 tests 0 failed

  bootstraptest/
  821 tests 0 failed

  test/ruby/test_*.rb
  849 tests 1935064 assertions 1 failures 0 errors

  test-all
  3263 tests 2275950 assertions 8 failures 6 errors

We couldn’t make it error free, but it’s fairly good, we hope. matz."

What’s new in version 1.9.0?

http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes+in+Ruby+1.9

http://eigenclass.org/repos/ruby-changelog/ruby18-19.rb

A blog post about 1.9.0 improved performance:

http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/12/real-world-performance-on-boxing-day.html

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