Ruby 3.1.0 Launched

Posted by naruse on 25 Dec 2021

We’re happy to announce the discharge of Ruby 3.1.0. Ruby 3.1 retains compatibility with Ruby 3.0 and in addition provides many options.

YJIT: New experimental in-process JIT compiler

Ruby 3.1 merges YJIT, a brand new in-process JIT compiler developed by Shopify.

Since Ruby 2.6 launched MJIT in 2018, its efficiency drastically improved, and eventually we achieved Ruby3x3 final 12 months. However despite the fact that the Optcarrot benchmark has proven spectacular speedups, the JIT has not benefited actual world enterprise purposes.

Lately Shopify contributed many Ruby enhancements to hurry up their Rails software. YJIT is a vital contribution, and goals to enhance the efficiency of Rails purposes.

Whereas MJIT is a method-based JIT compiler and makes use of an exterior C compiler, YJIT makes use of Primary Block Versioning and features a JIT compiler inside it. With Lazy Primary Block Versioning (LBBV) it first compiles the start of a way, and incrementally compiles the remaining when the kind of arguments and variables are dynamically decided. See YJIT: a fundamental block versioning JIT compiler for CRuby for an in depth introduction.

With this know-how, YJIT achieves each quick warmup time and efficiency enhancements on most real-world software program, as much as 22% on railsbench, 39% on liquid-render.

YJIT remains to be an experimental function, and as such, it’s disabled by default. If you wish to use this, specify the --yjit command-line choice to allow YJIT. Additionally it is restricted to Unix-like x86-64 platforms for now.

debug gem: A brand new debugger

A very rewritten debugger debug.gem is bundled. debug.gem has the next options:

• Enhance the debugging efficiency (it doesn’t decelerate the appliance even with the debugger).
• Assist distant debugging.
• Assist wealthy debugging frontend (VS Code and Chrome browser are supported presently).
• Assist multi-process/multi-thread debugging.
• Colourful REPL.
• And different helpful options like report & replay function, tracing function and so forth.

Ruby had bundled lib/debug.rb, nevertheless it was not properly maintained and it had points about efficiency and options. debug.gem replaces lib/debug.rb fully.

error_highlight: Nice-grained error location in backtrace

A built-in gem, error_highlight, has been launched. It contains fine-grained error location in backtraces:

$ ruby take a look at.rb
take a look at.rb:1:in `<fundamental>': undefined technique `time' for 1:Integer (NoMethodError)

1.time {}
 ^^^^^
Did you imply?  occasions

At the moment, solely NameError is supported.

This gem is enabled by default. You possibly can disable it by utilizing the command-line possibility --disable-error_highlight. See the error_highlight repository for particulars.

IRB Autocomplete and Documentation Show

The IRB now has an autocomplete function, the place you’ll be able to simply sort within the code, and the completion candidates dialog will seem. You need to use Tab and Shift+Tab to maneuver up and down.

If documentation is put in when you choose a completion candidate, the documentation dialog will seem subsequent to the completion candidates dialog, exhibiting a part of the content material. You possibly can learn the complete documentation by urgent Alt+d.

Different Notable New Options

Language

• Values in Hash literals and key phrase arguments will be omitted. [Feature #14579]
  • {x:, y:} is syntax sugar for {x: x, y: y}.
  • foo(x:, y:) is syntax sugar for foo(x: x, y: y).

• The pin operator (^) in sample matching now takes an expression. [Feature #17411]

  Prime.each_cons(2).lazy.find_all{_1 in [n, ^(n + 2)]}.take(3).to_a
  #=> [[3, 5], [5, 7], [11, 13]]
  

• Parentheses will be omitted in one-line sample matching. [Feature #16182]

  [0, 1] => _, x
  {y: 2} => y:
  x #=> 1
  y #=> 2
  

RBS

RBS is a language to explain the construction of Ruby packages. See the RBS repository for particulars.

Updates since Ruby 3.0.0:

• Generic sort parameters will be bounded. (PR)
• Generic sort aliases are supported. (PR)
• rbs assortment has been launched to handle gems’ RBSs. (doc)
• Many signatures for built-in and normal libraries have been added/up to date.
• It contains many bug fixes and efficiency enhancements too.

See the RBS changelog for extra data.

TypeProf

TypeProf is a static sort analyzer for Ruby. It generates a prototype of RBS from non-type-annotated Ruby code. See the documentation for particulars.

The principle replace since Ruby 3.0.0 is an experimental IDE help known as “TypeProf for IDE”.

The VS Code extension exhibits a guessed (or explicitly written in an RBS file) technique signature above every technique definition, attracts a pink underline beneath the code that will trigger a reputation error or sort error, and completes technique names (i.e., exhibits technique candidates). See the documentation for particulars.

Additionally, the discharge contains many bug fixes and efficiency enhancements.

Efficiency enhancements

• MJIT
  • For workloads like Rails, the default --jit-max-cache is modified from 100 to 10000.
    The JIT compiler now not skips compilation of strategies longer than 1000 directions.
  • To help Zeitwerk of Rails, JIT-ed code is now not cancelled
    when a TracePoint for sophistication occasions is enabled.

Different notable modifications since 3.0

Commonplace libraries updates

• The next default gems are up to date.
  • RubyGems 3.3.3
  • base64 0.1.1
  • benchmark 0.2.0
  • bigdecimal 3.1.1
  • bundler 2.3.3
  • cgi 0.3.1
  • csv 3.2.2
  • date 3.2.2
  • did_you_mean 1.6.1
  • digest 3.1.0
  • drb 2.1.0
  • erb 2.2.3
  • error_highlight 0.3.0
  • and many others 1.3.0
  • fcntl 1.0.1
  • fiddle 1.1.0
  • fileutils 1.6.0
  • discover 0.1.1
  • io-console 0.5.10
  • io-wait 0.2.1
  • ipaddr 1.2.3
  • irb 1.4.1
  • json 2.6.1
  • logger 1.5.0
  • net-http 0.2.0
  • net-protocol 0.1.2
  • nkf 0.1.1
  • open-uri 0.2.0
  • openssl 3.0.0
  • optparse 0.2.0
  • ostruct 0.5.2
  • pathname 0.2.0
  • pp 0.3.0
  • prettyprint 0.1.1
  • psych 4.0.3
  • racc 1.6.0
  • rdoc 6.4.0
  • readline 0.0.3
  • readline-ext 0.1.4
  • reline 0.3.0
  • resolv 0.2.1
  • rinda 0.1.1
  • ruby2_keywords 0.0.5
  • securerandom 0.1.1
  • set 1.0.2
  • stringio 3.0.1
  • strscan 3.0.1
  • tempfile 0.1.2
  • time 0.2.0
  • timeout 0.2.0
  • tmpdir 0.1.2
  • un 0.2.0
  • uri 0.11.0
  • yaml 0.2.0
  • zlib 2.1.1
• The next bundled gems are up to date.
  • minitest 5.15.0
  • power_assert 2.0.1
  • rake 13.0.6
  • test-unit 3.5.3
  • rexml 3.2.5
  • rbs 2.0.0
  • typeprof 0.21.1
• The next default gems at the moment are bundled gems. It’s essential to add the next libraries to Gemfile beneath the bundler atmosphere.
  • net-ftp 0.1.3
  • net-imap 0.2.2
  • net-pop 0.1.1
  • net-smtp 0.3.1
  • matrix 0.4.2
  • prime 0.1.2
  • debug 1.4.0

See NEWS
or the commit logs
for extra particulars.

With these modifications, 3124 information modified, 551760 insertions(+), 99167 deletions(-)
since Ruby 3.0.0!

Merry Christmas, Pleased Holidays, and revel in programming with Ruby 3.1!

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What’s Ruby

Ruby was first developed by Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) in 1993,
and is now developed as Open Supply. It runs on a number of platforms
and is used everywhere in the world particularly for net improvement.