# Ruby 1.8.5 feature in English

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-feature-in-english/65657>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-feature-in-english/65657 "2006-08-20T08:40:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-feature-in-english/65657/1 "2006-08-20T08:40:22Z")

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ruby 1.8.5 feature  
[http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/man/?cmd=view;name=ruby+1.8.5+feature](http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/man/?cmd=view;name=ruby+1.8.5+feature)

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= ruby 1.8.5 feature

== Tag Notation

```
* level
      o [bug]: fix bugs
      o [new]: add new classes/methods
      o [compat]: modify classes/methods
            + (almost) compatible
            + only backward-compatibility
      o [change]: modify classes/methods (not compatibile)
      o [obsolete]: (will be) obsoleted functions
      o [platform]: add new platform

```

== 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) → 1.8.5

- 2006-06-18

BasicSocket#recv\_nonblock [new]  
UDPSocket#recvfrom\_nonblock [new]

- 2006-06-17

Pathname(path) [new]

Kernel#pretty\_inspect [new]

RSS::TaxonomyTopicModel [new]  
RSS::TaxonomyTopicsModel [new]  
RSS::Maker::TaxonomyTopicModel [new]  
RSS::Maker::TaxonomyTopicsModel [new]

```
RSS Parser/RSS Maker supports Taxonomy module.

```

RSS::Maker xxx.new\_yyy(&block) [compat]

```
maker.items.new_item supports block. [ruby-talk:197284]

old:

  item = maker.items.new_item
  item.xxx = yyy
  ...

new:

  maker.items.new_item |item|
    item.xxx = yyy
    ...
  end

```

RSS::RootElementMixin#to\_xml [new]

```
You can convert RSS files from RSS 1.0 to RSS 2.0.

  rss10 = RSS::Parser.parse(File.read("1.0.rdf"))
  File.open("2.0.rss", "w") {|f| f.print(rss10.to_xml("2.0"))}

[ruby-talk:197284]

```

RSS::VERSION

```
"0.1.5" -> "0.1.6"

```

- 2006-06-14

Process.getrlimit(resource) [new]  
Process.setrlimit(resource, limit) [new]  
Process.setrlimit(resource, cur\_limit, max\_limit) [new]  
Process::RLIM\_INFINITY  
Process::RLIM\_SAVED\_MAX  
Process::RLIM\_SAVED\_CUR  
Process::RLIMIT\_CORE  
Process::RLIMIT\_CPU  
Process::RLIMIT\_DATA  
Process::RLIMIT\_FSIZE  
Process::RLIMIT\_NOFILE  
Process::RLIMIT\_STACK  
Process::RLIMIT\_AS  
Process::RLIMIT\_MEMLOCK  
Process::RLIMIT\_NPROC  
Process::RLIMIT\_RSS  
Process::RLIMIT\_SBSIZE

```
added [ruby-dev:28729]

```

- 2006-06-11

OptionParser#getopts [new]  
changed the name of tempolary file which tempfile  
make(. → ..)  
[ruby-talk:196272]

- 2006-06-07

configure --with-winsock2 [new]

```
added new configure option that use winsock2 instead of winsock1 in

```

mswin32 and mingw32.

- 2006-06-02

TCPServer#accept\_nonblock [new]  
UNIXServer#accept\_nonblock [new]

```
[ruby-core:7925]

```

- 2006-05-22

IO#read\_nonblock [new]  
IO#write\_nonblock [new]  
Socket#connect\_nonblock [new]  
Socket#accept\_nonblock [new]  
Socket#recvfrom\_nonblock [new]

```
[ruby-core:7917]

```

- 2006-02-21

File#link [bug]

```
fixed a bug that File#link was broked in mswin32 and mingw32.

```

- 2006-02-20

RbConfig [new]

```
rbconfig defines RbConfig as same as Config.

```

- 2006-02-06

File#flock [bug]

```
fixed a bug that flock(File::LOCK_UN) without lock stop other Ruby's

```

threads in cygwin.

- 2006-02-04

File#flock [bug]

```
fixed a bug that flock(File::LOCK_UN) without lock stop other Ruby's

```

threads in mswin32.

- 2005-12-29

Thread [compat]

```
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**Author:** ![Masayoshi\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@Masayoshi\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Masayoshi_T)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-feature-in-english/65657/2 "2006-08-20T09:08:26Z")

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At Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:38:58 +0900,  
Masayoshi T. wrote in [ruby-dev:29335]:

> - 2006-06-11
> 
> OptionParser#getopts [new]

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> ```
> changed the name of tempolary file which tempfile
> 
> ```
> 
> make(. -\> ..) [ruby-talk:196272]

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# tempolary?

> - 2005-12-29
> 
> Thread [compat]
> 
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-5-feature-in-english/65657/3 "2006-08-25T16:55:10Z")

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In message “Re: [ruby-dev:29335] Ruby 1.8.5 feature in English”  
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