# Ruby v 2?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 23, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748 "2006-09-23T20:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/1 "2006-09-23T20:35:40Z")

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Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the  
progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

Thanks,  
Ken

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/2 "2006-09-23T22:33:57Z")

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the  
> progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Ken

Hi Ken,

I don’t know of anything official (but I’m not “in the know” about  
those things). Some places to keep on eye on for progress towards v2:

YARV: [YARV: Yet Another Ruby VM](http://www.atdot.net/yarv/)  
RubyGrammar: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygrammar/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygrammar/) (also  
[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar))  
MetaRuby: [Ruby | zenspider.com | by ryan davis](http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/MetaRuby.html)

Regards,  
Jordan

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/3 "2006-09-24T15:51:51Z")

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the  
> progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

I was wondering the same. From what I understand (and I don’t that  
much) the latest news come from approximatly one year ago in the last  
Ruby Conf when the latest ideas were presented.

I would imagine something similar might happen again at the next Ruby  
Conf (in approximatly a month): all I know is that Matz is giving the  
keynote.  
([http://www.rubycentral.org/conference/talks.html](http://www.rubycentral.org/conference/talks.html))

Personally I’d really like to know more about it. 🙂

Diego

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/4 "2006-09-25T15:20:20Z")

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On 9/24/06, Diego V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Kenneth McDonald wrote:
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> > Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the  
> > progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

Ruby 1.9 is due for release in 2007 (I think late in the year). The  
intention  
of this release is to smoke out a lot of the issues that will be central  
to 2.0  
i.e. break early in 1.8 -\>1.9 so that 1.9-\>2.0 is an easier transition.

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/5 "2006-09-23T23:42:07Z")

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MonkeeSage wrote:

> [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar)

= [http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.grammar](http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.grammar)

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-v-2/69748/6 "2006-09-26T07:15:39Z")

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the  
> progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Ken

There’s a few people quietly using yarv(which will very likely form the  
basis for ruby2.0) and the occasional bug/benchmark/comment posted to  
yarv-dev-en.

svn checkout [http://www.atdot.net/svn/yarv/trunk](http://www.atdot.net/svn/yarv/trunk)  
if you want to take a look at code and/or play around with it. It’s  
usable and comparatively fast and potentially getting pretty stable. I  
think development has slowed down a little recently though, not been any  
commits since the first.

John