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title: "Ruby 2.6 Blogs"
description: "BigBinary blog posts in the Ruby 2.6 category."
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# Ruby 2.6 Blogs

BigBinary blog posts in the Ruby 2.6 category.

## Posts

### MJIT Support in Ruby 2.6

[MJIT Support in Ruby 2.6](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/mjit-support-in-ruby-2-6)

- Author: Sudeep Tarlekar
- Published: March 5, 2019
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

MJIT Support in Ruby 2.6

### Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? accepts Range object as argument

[Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? accepts Range object as argument](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-range-cover-now-accepts-range-object)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: October 24, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? now accepts Range object as an argument

### Ruby 2.6 adds RubyVM::AST module

[Ruby 2.6 adds RubyVM::AST module](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-rubyvm-ast-module)

- Author: Amit Choudhary
- Published: October 2, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 adds RubyVM::AST module

### Ruby 2.6 adds Enumerable#filter as alias for #select

[Ruby 2.6 adds Enumerable#filter as alias for #select](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-enumerable-filter-as-an-alias-of-enumerable-select)

- Author: Amit Choudhary
- Published: August 28, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 adds Enumerable#filter as an alias of Enumerable#select

### Ruby 2.6 adds support for non-ASCII capital letter

[Ruby 2.6 adds support for non-ASCII capital letter](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2.6-adds-support-for-non-ascii-capital-case-constant)

- Author: Rohan Pujari
- Published: August 22, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 adds support for non-ASCII capital letter as a first character in
constant name

### Ruby 2.6 adds write_timeout to Net::HTTP

[Ruby 2.6 adds write_timeout to Net::HTTP](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-write-timeout-to-net-http)

- Author: Taha Husain
- Published: August 14, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

write_timeout is added to Net::HTTP and Net::BufferedIO in Ruby 2.6

### Ruby 2.6 adds Dir#each_child & Dir#children instance

[Ruby 2.6 adds Dir#each_child & Dir#children instance](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-introduces-dir-each_child-and-dir-children-instance-methods)

- Author: Tejaswini Chile
- Published: August 7, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 introduces each_child and children as instance methods to have file
names in a directory without \`.\` and \`..\`

### Ruby 2.6 adds exception parameter to Integer and Float

[Ruby 2.6 adds exception parameter to Integer and Float](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-option-to-not-raise-exception-for-integer-float-methods)

- Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki
- Published: July 31, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Instead of raising exception, we can pass a keyword argument and the type
conversion methods will return nil

### Ruby 2.6 adds Binding#source_location

[Ruby 2.6 adds Binding#source_location](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-binding-source-location)

- Author: Taha Husain
- Published: July 24, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Binding#source_location is added in Ruby 2.6 which makes fetching filename and
line number more readable

### Ruby 2.6 adds String#split with block

[Ruby 2.6 adds String#split with block](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-split-with-block)

- Author: Taha Husain
- Published: July 17, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

String#split with block is added in Ruby 2.6. split yields each split substrings
if the block is given, instead of returing the array.

### Ruby 2.6 raises exception for else without rescue

[Ruby 2.6 raises exception for else without rescue](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2.6-raise-exception-for-else-without-rescue)

- Author: Rohan Pujari
- Published: July 10, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 raises exception when 'else' is used inside 'begin..end' block without
'rescue'

### Ruby 2.6 adds endless range

[Ruby 2.6 adds endless range](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-endless-range)

- Author: Taha Husain
- Published: July 4, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Shorter syntax for endless range with index is added in Ruby 2.6

### Ruby 2.6 added option to raise exception in Kernel#system

[Ruby 2.6 added option to raise exception in Kernel#system](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-added-option-to-raise-exception-in-kernel-system)

- Author: Amit Choudhary
- Published: April 25, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

The BigBinary team's lesson on Ruby 2.6 adding an option to raise exception in
Kernel#system

## Links

- [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/categories/ruby-2-6)