Every year is an eventful one in ruby. Many rubies have been polished this year, and many new ones have been cut.
I'll take us through the state of things in MRI, jruby, rubinius and friends, and what we can expect from them next year, particularly in regards to ruby 2.0, which is scheduled for release just a couple of days after rubyconf au.
Ben is from Brisbane but these days hails from Melbourne, where he works for The Conversation, a not-for-profit that publishes academia's take on the news of the day. In tech, Ben loves unix, git, postgres and of course the rubies.
