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Amdahl's Law - The Theoretical Relationship Between Speedup and Concurrency

Vishnu MApril 29, 2025

Understanding Puma, Concurrency, and the Effect of the GVL on Performance

Vishnu MApril 22, 2025

Upgrade Ruby using dual boot

Vijay VinodSeptember 4, 2024

Using enable-load-relative flag in building Ruby binaries

Vishal YadavJune 20, 2023

Improving the application performance by harnessing the full potential of ancestry gem

Shemin AntoMay 23, 2023

Three case studies of debugging redis running out of memory

Unnikrishnan KPSeptember 12, 2022

Ruby 3.1 adds Class#subclasses

Ashik SalmanDecember 27, 2021

Ruby 3.1 adds MatchData#match & MatchData#match_length

Ashik SalmanNovember 9, 2021

Ruby 3.1 adds Array#intersect?

Ashik SalmanMay 11, 2021

Ruby 3.1 accumulates Enumerable#tally results

Ashik SalmanApril 20, 2021

Ruby 3.1 adds Enumerable#compact and Enumerator::Lazy#compact

Ashik SalmanApril 6, 2021

Ruby 3 is released - The list of Ruby 3 features

Datt DongareDecember 25, 2020

Ruby 3 supports transforming hash keys using a hash argument

Yedhin KizhakketharaDecember 15, 2020

Ruby 3 adds new method Hash#except

Akhil GautamNovember 11, 2020

Ruby 3 adds Symbol#name

Datt DongareOctober 12, 2020

Ruby 3 adds endless method definition

Akhil GautamSeptember 15, 2020

Ruby 2.7 adds Beginless Range

Ashwath BiradarAugust 25, 2020

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#filter_map

Ashik SalmanMay 8, 2020

Ruby 2.7 deprecates conversion of keyword arguments

Taha HusainApril 14, 2020

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerator::Lazy#eager

Ashik SalmanMarch 18, 2020

Ruby 2.7 adds numbered parameters as default block parameters

Taha HusainMarch 3, 2020

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally

Akhil GautamFebruary 18, 2020

MJIT Support in Ruby 2.6

Sudeep TarlekarMarch 5, 2019

Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? accepts Range object as argument

Abhay NikamOctober 24, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds RubyVM::AST module

Amit ChoudharyOctober 2, 2018

Configuring memory allocation in ImageMagick

Ershad KunnakkadanSeptember 12, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds Enumerable#filter as alias of Enumerable#select

Amit ChoudharyAugust 28, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds support for non-ASCII capital letter

Rohan PujariAugust 22, 2018

Setting up a high performance Geocoder

Midhun KrishnaAugust 21, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds write_timeout to Net::HTTP

Taha HusainAugust 14, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds Dir#each_child & Dir#children instance

Tejaswini ChileAugust 7, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds exception parameters for Integer & Float methods

Prathamesh SonpatkiJuly 31, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds Binding#source_location

Taha HusainJuly 24, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds String#split with block

Taha HusainJuly 17, 2018

Ruby 2.6 raises exception for else without rescue

Rohan PujariJuly 10, 2018

Ruby 2.6 adds endless range

Taha HusainJuly 4, 2018

Using Concurrent Ruby in a Ruby on Rails Application

Midhun KrishnaJune 5, 2018

RubyKaigi 2018 Day two

Prathamesh SonpatkiJune 1, 2018

RubyKaigi 2018 Day one

Prathamesh SonpatkiMay 31, 2018

Ruby 2.5 added lazy proc allocation for block parameters

Amit ChoudharyMay 22, 2018

Increase reliability using super_fetch of Sidekiq Pro

Vishal TelangreMay 8, 2018

Ruby 2.6 added option to raise exception in Kernel#system

Amit ChoudharyApril 25, 2018

Ruby 2.5 adds Thread.report_on_exception by default

Vishal TelangreApril 18, 2018

Ruby 2.5 supports measuring branch and method coverages

Vishal TelangreApril 11, 2018

Ruby 2.5 adds Exception#full_message method

Vishal TelangreMarch 13, 2018

Ruby 2.5 prints backtrace & error message in reverse

Vishal TelangreMarch 7, 2018

Ruby 2.5 added Hash#slice method

Amit ChoudharyFebruary 6, 2018

Ruby 2.5 allows creating structs with keyword arguments

Prathamesh SonpatkiJanuary 16, 2018

Ruby 2.5 adds Hash#transform_keys method

Prathamesh SonpatkiJanuary 9, 2018

Ruby 2.5 enumerable predicates accept pattern argument

Prathamesh SonpatkiJanuary 2, 2018

Ruby 2.5 requires pp by default

Prathamesh SonpatkiDecember 20, 2017

Array#prepend and Array#append in Ruby 2.5

Prathamesh SonpatkiDecember 19, 2017

Ruby 2.5 added yield_self

Vijay Kumar AgrawalDecember 12, 2017

Ruby 2.5 added delete_prefix and delete_suffix methods

Amit ChoudharyNovember 28, 2017

Ruby 2.5 introduces Dir.children and Dir.each_child

Mohit NatooNovember 21, 2017

Ruby 2.5 allows rescue/else/ensure inside do/end blocks

Amit ChoudharyOctober 24, 2017

Ruby 2.5 has removed top level constant lookup

Amit ChoudharyOctober 18, 2017

Ruby 2.4 has optimized enumerable min max methods

Chirag ShahSeptember 28, 2017

CSV::Row#each etc. return enumerator when no block given

Sushant MittalSeptember 25, 2017

Ruby 2.4 DateTime#to_time & Time#to_time keeps info

Sushant MittalSeptember 19, 2017

Avoid exception for dup on Integer

Rohit ArolkarAugust 1, 2017

Ruby 2.4 no exception for objects converted to IPAddr

Sushant MittalJune 21, 2017

Ruby 2.4 deprecated constants TRUE, FALSE & NIL

Akshay VishnoiJune 19, 2017

Ruby 2.4 allows custom suffix of rotated log files

Sushant MittalJune 15, 2017

Ruby 2.4 Hash#transform_values & destructive version

Sushant MittalJune 14, 2017

Binding irb - Runtime Invocation for IRB

Rohit ArolkarApril 18, 2017

Ruby 2.4 has added additional parameters for Logger#new

Chirag ShahApril 10, 2017

Ruby 2.4 has default basename for Tempfile#create

Chirag ShahApril 4, 2017

New arguments support for float & integer modifiers

Abhishek JainMarch 28, 2017

Ruby 2.4 adds Enumerable#uniq & Enumerable::Lazy#uniq

Mohit NatooMarch 21, 2017

Ruby 2.4 optimized lstrip & strip for ASCII strings

Chirag ShahMarch 14, 2017

IO#readlines now accepts chomp flag as an argument

Chirag ShahMarch 7, 2017

open-uri in Ruby 2.4 allows http to https redirection

Chirag ShahMarch 2, 2017

Ruby 2.4 now has Dir.empty? and File.empty? methods

Ratnadeep DeshmaneFebruary 28, 2017

Ruby 2.4 Integer#digits extract digits in place-value

Rohit KumarFebruary 23, 2017

Ruby 2.4 adds compare by identity functionality

Chirag ShahDecember 29, 2016

Ruby 2.4 MatchData#values_at

Rohit KumarDecember 21, 2016

Ruby 2.4 adds infinite? and finite? methods to Numeric

Abhishek JainDecember 19, 2016

Ruby 2.4 adds Comparable#clamp method

Abhishek JainDecember 13, 2016

New liberal_parsing option for parsing bad CSV data

Ershad KunnakkadanNovember 22, 2016

Enumerable#chunk not mandatory in Ruby 2.4

Abhishek JainNovember 21, 2016

Ruby 2.4 unifies Fixnum and Bignum into Integer

Prathamesh SonpatkiNovember 18, 2016

Ruby 2.4 implements Array#min and Array#max

Rohit KumarNovember 17, 2016

Hunting down a memory leak in shoryuken

Rohit KumarNovember 15, 2016

Ruby 2.4 Extracting captured data from Regexp results

Rohit KumarNovember 10, 2016

Ruby 2.4 Regexp#match? not polluting global variables

Rohit KumarNovember 4, 2016

Ruby 2.4 implements Enumerable#sum

Mohit NatooNovember 2, 2016

String#concat, Array#concat & String#prepend Ruby 2.4

Abhishek JainOctober 28, 2016

Hash#compact and Hash#compact! now part of Ruby 2.4

Prathamesh SonpatkiOctober 24, 2016

Configuring CircleCI for JRuby

Ershad KunnakkadanAugust 1, 2016

Author information in jekyll blog

Neeraj SinghJanuary 9, 2015

Six Year Old Optional / Keyword Arguments bug

VipulApril 28, 2014

How to deploy jekyll site to heroku

Neeraj SinghApril 27, 2014

Getting arguments passed to command

Neeraj SinghSeptember 22, 2013

What is ppid

Neeraj SinghSeptember 21, 2013

How to setup Pinch to Zoom for an image in RubyMotion

Neeraj SinghAugust 27, 2013

Fix image orientation issue in RubyMotion

Neeraj SinghAugust 4, 2013

Background/header for Formotion forms in RubyMotion

Neeraj SinghJune 8, 2013

Handling money in ruby

Neeraj SinghJanuary 14, 2013

Executing shell commands in ruby

Neeraj SinghOctober 18, 2012

extend self in ruby

Neeraj SinghJune 28, 2012

to_str in ruby

Neeraj SinghJune 26, 2012

alias vs alias_method

Neeraj SinghJanuary 8, 2012

Ruby pack unpack

Neeraj SinghJuly 20, 2011

Infinite hash and default_proc

Neeraj SinghDecember 31, 2010

instance_exec , changing self and params

Neeraj SinghMay 28, 2010

$LOADED_FEATURES and require, load, require_dependency

Neeraj SinghMay 12, 2010

$stdout.sync = true to flush output immediately

Neeraj SinghJuly 4, 2009

Why the id of nil is 4 in Ruby

Neeraj SinghJune 23, 2008