Contributions to Ruby

List of my (zverok aka Victor Shepelev) contributions to discussing/changing of the Ruby programming language. It links to Ruby bug tracker discussions and GitHub PRs of things I’ve contributed and proposed and their current status. Rejected/ignored proposals are eventually removed from the list.

Ruby features

Accepted

• Ruby 3.3:
  • Range#step behavior change to become more useful for non-numeric iteration.
• Ruby 3.2:
  • Data class
  • Time#deconstruct_keys, also Date and DateTime
• Ruby 3.1:
  • Enumerable#compact and Enumerator::Lazy#compact
• Ruby 3.0:
  • Symbol#to_proc lambdiness
  • Array slicing with ArithmeticSequence
• Ruby 2.7:
  • Comparambe#clamp with a range: 1.clamp(0..100), 1.clamp(5..), 1.clamp(..18)
  • Enumerator#produce
  • Beginless range
  • Method#inspect
  • ~Date#inspect simplified~ (reverted)
• Ruby 2.6:
  • Kernel#then as a synonym (better name) for #yield_self (context)
  • Enumerable#chain
  • Range#=== to use cover? instead of include?
  • CSV::Row#each_pair for compatibility with OpenStruct

Pending

• Make a concept of “consuming enumerator” explicit
• Enumerator::Lazy#partition
• Enumerable#take_while_after
• Dir#empty? and File#empty?
• Object#non

Contributed to discussions

(The cases where I was not an author of initial proposal, but believe my contribution/pushing for solution was significant enough)

• 3.1: IO::Buffer reviews/proposals
• 3.0: Hash#except
• 2.7: Syntax sugar for method reference: seems .: is finally accepted for 2.7 (ugh, reverted)
• 2.5: Kernel#yield_self – I don’t like the name, but for several months pushed for “we should have this method, whatever name you choose” :) Then we renamed it to #then in 2.6

Minor clarifications and bugs

• 3.2 Range#include? inconsistency for beginless String ranges
• 3.1 Necessity of require 'fiber'
• 3.0 Object.clone(freeze: true)
• 2.7 Deprecate Kernel#open provided by open-uri in favor of more explicit URI.open
• 2.7 Time#dst? bug for time with real timezone
• 2.7 IO#set_encoding_by_bom raising on already set encoding
• StringIO#internal_encoding is broken

Documenting Ruby

Merged

• Ruby 3.3:
  • Document it anonymous block argument
  • Document **nil and update splatting documentation
  • Rewrite backtraces-related documentation
• Ruby 3.2:
  • Improve TracePoint#allow_reentry docs
  • Improve Random::Formatter docs
  • Clarify Class#subclases behavior quirks
  • Document AST.parse’s keyword arguments
  • Group of pre-3.2 fixes for docs
  • Document new methods of IO::Buffer and Fiber::Scheduler
• Ruby 3.1:
  • Add documentation for new hash value omission syntax
  • Add documentation for new Refinement class
  • Improve Thread::Queue.new docs
  • Fix StructClass:: class method docs
  • Fiber::SchedulerInterface#io_read and #io_write
  • IO::Buffer: 1, 2
  • Thread::Backtrace.limit
  • Fix String#unpack and #unpack1 docs
  • Document Marshal#load parameter freeze:
• Ruby 3.0:
  • Full docs for non-blocking Fibers and scheduler
  • New docs for Fiber.transfer
  • Full class- and method-level docs for Ractors
  • Update method definition docs to include ... and one-line methods
  • A group of small fixes in 3.0 core docs
  • JSON: hide irrelevant parts of docs
  • JSON: enhance generic JSON and #generate docs
• Ruby 2.7:
  • Kernel#system(exception: true)
  • NoMethodError/NameError new arguments
  • Kernel#BigDecimal(exception: false)
  • BigDecimal::Jacobian – fix invisible docs
  • TracePoint#enable
  • Enumerator::Lazy
  • fileutils: facelift module docs and fix some bugs;
  • group of small fixes of formatting in core docs
  • group of larger fixes: toplevel return, full comments syntax explanation, rescue in blocks, better docs for chomp: option, Object#to_enum, Proc#>> and #<<, Process module
  • Matrix: slightly enhance docs
  • group of stdlib documentation fixes: ERB, StringIO, IRB, Net::FTP, open-uri, OptionParser, Net::HTTP
  • Bundler entire stdlib
  • Webrick: document Proc body for Response
  • Numbered block parameters
  • Small final pre-2.7 changes
  • Module#const_source_location
  • ~RubyVM.resolve_feature_path~ (the feature is moved to $LOAD_PATH)
  • Pattern matching
• Ruby 2.6:
  • &.
  • Kernel#yield_self
  • Method
  • YAML (explanation of aliasing to Psych)
  • MatchData
  • Proc
  • Endless range
  • Integer(exception: false) and others
  • Tempfile
  • Psych#dump
  • CSV: redesign main class docs

Pending

• Update docs on sharing module instance variables in Ractors