About this document
Enhancements in Ruby 2.1 by dpaluy is a document available to read on EtoBox.
David Paluy presented an overview of Ruby 2.1 including new features like refinements, decimals as required keyword arguments, and method definition returning method names. He discussed performance improvements from using HiTimes for benchmarking and internal changes like improved object space and restricted generational garbage collection. While some gems initially had issues, GitHub has adopted Ruby 2.1 in production. References were provided on the new features and performance tests.
- Author
- dpaluy
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- EN