Ruby rescued me from a life of non-programming. I'm happy to see 2.0 inching closer.<p>I graduated Physics in 1995 and my programming experience had been hobbyist on my Apple II at home as a kid or on my Physics course projects, in simple languages. All my friends went into tech in some way or other mostly programming. I looked at C but after a little poking it scared the heck out of me and, intimidated I gave up and did slmethjng else. Only when I had to did I come back to trying programming 15 years later and discovering Ruby I learned that I could, and that I can. I've loved it ever since.
Ruby pulled me out of C# hell and allowed me to see other open source stacks and for that I love it. I'm so happy now that I can work with a clean language with a small difficulty curve.<p>I look like a wizard to management!<p>I'm not working on projects with millions of daily users, just simple CRUD enterprisey apps, and Ruby and Rails are my Virgil, guiding me through programming hell. :P
Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
Don't wait to try this out, I've been using this in production and it really flies ... I'm getting results in simple tests right around 60-70% which is right in line with this guy <a href="https://gist.github.com/soffes/4478454" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/soffes/4478454</a>.<p>Can't really measure performance boost in production though, since I can't afford to get newrelic just yet
Can't wait to see refinements start getting used in libraries. I guess it'll be some time until people start requiring Ruby 2.0, but there are some seriously excellent new features in the works. See <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/ruby-2-dot-0-on-rails" rel="nofollow">https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/ruby-2-dot-0-on-rails</a> for a good overview.
I cannot wait for this to become part of the rbenv install list. Looking forward to giving it a spin, particularly due to the require enhancements. They should improve rails boot time significantly.