What has changed since 1.9?

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Hello,
Is there a document or report listing what has changed in Ruby since the
latest edition of The Ruby Programming Language book by Matsumoto,
Flanagan? If not, where should look to gather this info? Thanks.

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https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/24/ruby-2-0-0-p0-is-released/

I took it from whats new in ruby 2.0.0 at DuckDuckGo

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:34 AM Tekin Sal <teksalx@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
Is there a document or report listing what has changed in Ruby since the
latest edition of The Ruby Programming Language book by Matsumoto,
Flanagan? If not, where should look to gather this info? Thanks.

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The canonical point of information is the NEWS file in Ruby's source
tree for each version. It is maintained by the developers (core team)
and should contain everything important for each released version.

Here's the list of all NEWS files since Ruby 1.9.3:

* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_0_0_0/NEWS?view=markup
* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_1_0/NEWS?view=markup
* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_2_0/NEWS?view=markup
* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_3_0/NEWS?view=markup
* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_4_0/NEWS?view=markup
* https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_5_1/NEWS?view=markup

Marvin

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Am 14. Oktober 2018 um 22:03 Uhr +0300 schrieb Tekin Sal:

Hello,
Is there a document or report listing what has changed in Ruby since the
latest edition of The Ruby Programming Language book by Matsumoto,
Flanagan? If not, where should look to gather this info? Thanks.

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Hello,
Thanks for the response.
I looked at the first item under Language Changes in 2.0.0.0 NEWS file, it
says "Added keyword arguments." That's it. Where are the details? What do I
do to learn the syntax, without relying on random posts Google search
returns? I don't see a formal Language Reference document regularly updated
either.

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:06 PM Marvin Gülker <m-guelker@phoenixmail.de> wrote:

Am 14. Oktober 2018 um 22:03 Uhr +0300 schrieb Tekin Sal:
> Hello,
> Is there a document or report listing what has changed in Ruby since the
> latest edition of The Ruby Programming Language book by Matsumoto,
> Flanagan? If not, where should look to gather this info? Thanks.

The canonical point of information is the NEWS file in Ruby's source
tree for each version. It is maintained by the developers (core team)
and should contain everything important for each released version.

Here's the list of all NEWS files since Ruby 1.9.3:

*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_0_0_0/NEWS?view=markup
*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_1_0/NEWS?view=markup
*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_2_0/NEWS?view=markup
*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_3_0/NEWS?view=markup
*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_4_0/NEWS?view=markup
*
https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v2_5_1/NEWS?view=markup

Marvin

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What do I do to learn the syntax, without relying on random posts Google search returns?

There is some documentation included as text files as part of the standard documentation online: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.1/

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Hello,
Thanks for the response.
I looked at the first item under Language Changes in 2.0.0.0 NEWS file, it
says "Added keyword arguments." That's it. Where are the details?

The document says at its very top:

Note that each entry is kept so brief that no reason behind or
reference information is supplied with. For a full list of changes
with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.

So you could try that one.

In addition, you could check the respective news posts on the official
homepage. Here's the news archive: Recent News

The relevant minor releases are usually around Christmas. 2.0.0 itself
was not a Christmas release, because it was intentionally released on
Ruby's 20th birthday on a February's day.

What do I do to learn the syntax, without relying on random posts
Google search returns? I don't see a formal Language Reference
document regularly updated either.

There's the MRI's RubySpec if you want a semi-formal document. I've
not used it, so I can't comment on its contents. Link:

Marvin

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