Miscellaneous Libraries

It almost goes without saying, but there’s always a bunch of stuff that doesn’t quite fit into any category. Ruby’s standard library is no exception. This group of libraries includes anything that isn’t in one of the preceding groups.

In Ruby’s standard library, you’ll find classes providing abstractions for date manipulation, timeouts on long operations, and MD5 and SHA1 message digests.

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