Ruby in a Nutshell

Participate in Ruby

Programmers often get ideas on how they’d like to improve Ruby. These ideas are sometimes useful and interesting, sometimes not. Since the language needs to stay consistent, I often need to choose which fixes or ideas to add and which to reject. To make this process easier, we have instituted Ruby Change Requests (RCRs).

When you want to propose a new feature for Ruby, you have to submit your proposal to http://www.rubygarden.org/?topic=RCR. The more concrete and detailed the proposal, the greater chance of success you have of getting it accepted. The proposal should preferably be consistent, backward-compatible, and follow the principle of least surprise.

The RCR page offers a discussion forum and web-based voting box. Once you submit your proposal, discussion is held on it. If it’s decided (with the help of the community) that your proposal is indeed useful, it will be added to future versions of Ruby.