Ruby1_9Support

JRuby 1.2 will be the first release of JRuby to officially include large portions of Ruby 1.9's feature set. There's a lot of work to do, however, and we probably won't get it all done in time for the final 1.2 release. There are two areas people really could pitch in: writing specs and helping with implementation.

Table of Contents Writing Specs Implementation Done Missing

Writing Specs

The new features in Ruby 1.9 are very lightly specified. The RubySpec project has some specs, but there's a lot missing, especially in API areas like String M17N support.

If you're interested in contributing RubySpecs, check out http://www.rubyspec.org for information on how to help out.

Implementation

Here's the status of Ruby 1.9 feature support and work remaining:

Done

These are done but need more testing. Where noted, pieces are missing.

• Array
  • missing encoding aware pack (JRUBY-3426)
  • sort should obey modified Fixnum and String class (but 1.9 still optimizes these case) (JRUBY-3427)
• Hash
• String
  • missing encoding aware % (JRUBY-3428), unpack (JRUBY-3429), crypt (JRUBY-3430)
  • missing encode/decode (via Encoding::Converter) (JRUBY-3431)
  • possible gotchas with to_sym
  • String#hash is not encoding aware yet (JRUBY-3432)
  • string constructions in multiple places in core should taint/set coderanges and encoding
• Symbol
  • intern gotchas due to encoding information in symbols (needs to be done)
  • might loose encodings in some cases
• Regexp
• Encoding
  • missing default_internal/default_external (JRUBY-3433)
  • missing system encoding guess (JRUBY-3434)
• Enumerable
• Enumerator
  • missing next/rewind/with_index (fibers) (JRUBY-3435)
• Complex
• Rational
• Numeric
• Integer
• Fixnum
• Float
• Range
• Struct
• Kernel (mostly)
• some (most?) of Object, Method, Module, Class
• Thread?
• Fiber?

Missing

These are entire areas that need to be worked on.

• Encoding::Converter
• Yielder/Generator
• key Marshal changes
• cli options
• some RubyBignum changes
• possible other changes in Numerics
• changes in Dir/IO/File (some obvious things are done, like enumeratorize)
• some changes in Math
• encoding information in exception messages (now passed via java String)
• BigDecimal changes ?