Why (real name?) has a list of What's Shiny and New in Ruby 1.8.0, and there's some neat stuff in there. Particularly interesting is the native Ruby XML parser, REXML (also see a tutorial and an introduction to REXML at IBM developerWorks by David Mertz).
Also, YAML is included as standard with Ruby 1.8.0 (way to go guys), and what's especially neat is that it seems like it's been integrated into the Ruby debugger (scroll down to the bottom of Why's page for an example). Check out YAML for Ruby's API documentation too.
Finally, for a neat name for message-style OO polymorphism I've never heard before, check out Duck Typing.
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
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