Facets 2.8 effectively completes the MORE library clean-up which peaked with the previous 2.7 release. In so doing, five additional libraries have been deprecated:
- fileable.rb (too esoteric)
- ioredirect.rb (needs better implementation)
- coroutine.rb (because of Fiber)
- capsule.rb (may be spun-off)
- recorder.rb (may be spun-off)
Three other libraries have been deprecated, but have been spun-off to the new 'ansi' project:
- ansicode.rb
- progressbar.rb
- logger.rb
This version of Facets also reverts a few of the deprecations made before -- reconsiderations made due to analysis of the code as suitable for release as separate projects. These libs will thus remain in Facets's MORE library at least for the forseeable future.
- ini.rb
- linkedlist.rb
- matcher.rb
- memoizer.rb
- roman.rb
- semaphore.rb
Other minor enhancements have also been made in the release. These include:
- Kernel#extend can now take a block
- Fixed kernel#d so it is useable
- Added method #at_rand to Range in random.rb (thanks to Tyler Rick).
- Added method #map_detect to Enumerable (thanks to Scott Taylor).
- Added method #/ to String, which calls File.join.
- Added method #newlines and #cleanlines to String.
- String#titlecase now handles apostrophes.
- BasicObject/BlankSlate is more compliant with 1.9.1's design.
- Enumerable#count can take multiple items, treats them as a logical Or.
- Class#class_extend extends class level, rather than use class_eval.
- Integer#succ(n) becomes Fixnum#succ(n) in succ.rb.
- inheritor.rb has been rewritten.
- The Shellwords extensions have been reworked.
- Added #similarity method to String.
- Added a Levenshtein edit_distance method to String.
In addition to all this, we have recently set up a new Ruby 1.9 compliance procedure using RunCodeRun.com. Actually RunCodeRun helps us to ensure 1.8.6 compabiltiy as well. This is great tool for improving code quality, and comes highly recommended.