Ruby Developer Meeting Archive
166 meeting logs spanning 2008–2026. Explore decisions, discussions, and the evolution of Ruby.
Recent Meetings
Feb 2026 Meeting
Allow trailing comma in method signature · New API to efficiently scan directories efficiently · Promote Thread::Monitor to a core class
Jan 2026 Meeting
Change the default size of Enumerator.produce back to infinity · Addrinfo#connect_internal should raise IO::TimeoutError on user-specified timeouts · Dir.foreach and…
Dec 2025 Meeting
logger context API · Expose rb_process_status_new to C extensions. · Enumerator.produce accepts an optional size keyword argument
Nov 2025 Meeting
Revisit Object#deep_freeze to support non-Ractor use cases · Enable frozen_string_literal by default · Set#new calls extra methods compared to previous versions
Oct 2025 Meeting
Make illegal variable in alternation pattern a syntax error · Propose Stan Lo · Propose Luke Gruber as a core committer