This programming language allows its users to freely alter its parts, making it more flexible in many areas like error reporting, testing, building apps and more.
Essential parts of Ruby can be removed or redefined, at will.
Existing parts can be added upon. Ruby tries not to restrict the coder.
Here are some key features of "Ruby":
· Exception handling features, like Java or Python, to make it easy to handle errors.
· True mark-and-sweep garbage collector for all Ruby objects. No need to maintain reference counts in extension libraries.
· Writing C extensions in Ruby is easier than in Perl or Python, with a very elegant API for calling Ruby from C. This includes calls for embedding Ruby in software, for use as a scripting language. A SWIG interface is also available.
· Ruby can load extension libraries dynamically if an OS allows.
· OS independent threading. Thus, for all platforms on which Ruby runs, you also have multithreading, regardless of if the OS supports it or not, even on MS-DOS!
· Ruby is highly portable: it is developed mostly on GNU/Linux, but works on many types of UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, DOS, BeOS, OS/2, etc.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Turn on verification of server SSL certs.
· Disallow redirects from https to http.
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