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Ruby Facets v1.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2006-07-20 // almost 18 years ago

  • 🔄 Changes:

    • ➕ Additions

      • Add PrivateAccess expiremental class.
      • Add Hash#reverse_merge (from ActiveSupport).
      • Add core methods Enumerable#divide, array and hash op_div, kernel/meta.
      • Add Jan Molic's Debugger(Logger) to explore.
      • Add Symbol::generate.
      • Created subclass AutoDictionary, now used by Dictionary.auto.
      • Add new implementation of OpenObject in Facets/EXPLORE.
      • Add deep_clone (thanks Jan Molic).
      • Add Hash.auto (thanks Jan Molic).
      • Add annotation and instance_intercept to Facets/EXPLORE.
      • Add Kernel#to_data.
      • Add Daniel Berger's Hash#to_stuct.
      • Improve Proc#to_method and Kernel#instance_exec.
      • Add instance_exec (duh).
      • Add object_clone and object_dup. These object_ methods are intended as non-overridable (although you can if you must).
      • Add facets/explore libs.
      • Add settings.rb from glue.

    • 📇 Renamed Features

      • Retained ::alpha but changed ::auto_key to ::auto_alpha.
      • Rename Hash methods keys_to_s and keys_to_sym to stringify_keys and symbolize_keys. Both now depend on normalize_keys.

    • 🗄 Deprecations

      • Deprecate BasicObject (bad implementation).
      • Remove BlankSlate alias to BasicObject.
      • Remove generate_method_name methods
      • Remove kernel/generate_method_name, not thread safe.
      • Remove moodule/generate_instance_method_name, not thread safe.
      • Deprecate generate_method_name and generate_instance_method_name.
      • Deprecate ::key_new and :value_new, use ::new.by_key and ::new.by_value instead.

    • 🐛 Bug Fixes

      • Fix to nilclass#status (accept single parameter).
      • Adjustments to stringify_keys, record normalize_keys.
      • Minor bug fix to alias_method_chain.

    • Other Enhancments

      • Updated Dictionary class.
      • Work on OpenCascade, and Hash#having_fallback features.
      • Minor update to tagiterator.rb.
      • OpenObject uses self[] instead of @table[].
      • Rewrote openobject as a subclass of Hash with a method filter.
      • Rewrote annotation.rb and moved into more/.
      • Move ValueHolder in snapshot.rb to Snapshot::ValueHolder.

    • Admin Changes

      • Add meta docs to darcs.
      • Add _darcs expection to FileList.
      • Fix compatiblity with Reap.