Ruby Core Updates: Documentation Improvements and Bundler Restructuring
Five pull requests merged focusing on documentation fixes and C extension features, while significant bundler directory restructuring was reverted after testing issues.
Duration: PT1M58S
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- Show: Ruby Core Updates
- Published: 2026-03-23T10:06:21Z
- Audio duration: PT1M58S
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Good morning, this is Ruby Core Updates for March 23rd, 2026.
Byroot merged a pull request exposing and documenting RUBY_TYPED_EMBEDDABLE, a C extension feature that's been available but undocumented. The change adds 90 lines of documentation to the extension guide and updates the internal header files.
BurdetteLamar contributed two documentation fixes: removing a broken link from the Regexp documentation and improving the documentation for Pathname#ascend with clearer examples and formatting.
Earlopain backported syntax_suggest version 2.0.3 to Ruby 3.3, which includes performance improvements and adds a new mini_stringio utility to reduce dependencies.
Peter Zhu added strscan to the documentation build configuration to ensure its documentation appears in generated RDoc output.
Beyond the merged pull requests, there was significant activity around bundler's directory structure. Hiroshi Shibata initially moved bundler specs and bin scripts to the repository's top level to simplify test execution, allowing developers to run tests with `bin/rspec spec/` instead of changing directories first.…
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