What's New in Ruby 2.6

Ruby 2.6: What Changed?

The year 2019 brought interesting updates for Ruby developers. Version 2.6 brought performance improvements, new methods, and the experimental JIT Compiler.

Highlights:

• JIT Compiler: Promise of more speed for Ruby applications.
• New methods: Array#union, Array#difference and others.
• Garbage collector improvements.

It’s worth updating your environment and testing the new features!