What's new in Ruby 1.9

Ruby 1.9 the first major upgrade to the Ruby language in many years. On top of a slew of new language features, it offers an exponentially faster, byte-code compiled runtime environment.

This session will walk through many of the new features and changes in Ruby 1.9 with a focus on helping attendees both upgrade existing code to work with 1.9 as well as take advantage of new features producing cleaner, more elegant code.