Ever wish you had a literal syntax for an array of symbols, like %w()? Kind of like this:
syms = %S[foo bar baz] #=> syms == [:foo, :bar, :baz]
There's a patch for that (courtesy of Aaron Patterson).
What about Ruby 1.9's label syntax, but for quoted symbols and interpolation? Like this:
x = 'hello'
{foo: 1, 'bar-baz': 2, "#{x}-world": 3}
There's a patch for that!
Want to try out Refinements, a feature proposed for Ruby 2.0? There's a patch for that, too! (courtesy of Shugo Maeda)
Want an easy way to use these patches? Use rvm:
rvm install 1.9.2-head --patch example/foo.diff -n fooruby
rvm install 1.9.2-head --patch example/foo.diff,example/bar.diff -n sillyruby
Be sure to patch the correct interpreter for a given patch! A tiny shell wrapper is in the works, too, just to make some mistakes harder to make.
I'd just like a central place where patches to Ruby go before they get merged into respective projects. A GitHub repository makes as much sense as anything else to that end. Any patch is welcome, be it a bug fix that hasn't landed yet, a random new syntax change, whole new language features - whatever you like!
Any Ruby implementation is fine - if you have a JRuby patch, submit away! Here's what you do:
- Fork this repository.
- Pick a descriptive but not onerous name for your patch.
- Add a directory with that name under the correct target implementation
- Add your patch to that directory, with picked_name.diff as the filename.
- Add at least a minimal README.md file to the directory, saying what the patch does. If you want to take credit for your patch, leave it here!
- Send a pull request!
While I don't have any patches for some implementations as yet, the directory structure is already set up. Which might be disappointing at first glance.
All submitted patches are placed under the MIT License. All submitted README.md documents are placed under CC SA-BY 3.0. You should assume these patches could do horrible things! I'll be looking over any patches to try to eliminate actually malicious code, but one should assume danger lurks with a manually-patched language implementation.
On that note, have fun!