The author expresses their wishes for improvements to the Ruby programming language and community in the upcoming year. They want warnings to be enabled by default in Ruby 2.0 to catch errors, better support for functional programming patterns, and more approachable books on maintainable and optimized Ruby code. The author also hopes the Ruby community will ask and answer more advanced technical questions, be less discriminatory, and continue improving Ruby's ability to scale.

1. What I want for Matz-mas Andrew Grimm @andrewjgrimm

2. $VERBOSE = true Not my talks – I want it in Ruby 2.0!

3. $VERBOSE = true Warns you about misspelled instance variables

4. Warns you that (false; true) is legal but pointless

5. Warns you that you aren't using a variable

6. Who do I want using it? People who are going to ask “Why doesn't this code work?” questions on Stack Overflow

7. People who write libraries

8. Hash.default_proc If I could set a global default proc for Hash#fetch, I wouldn't need: hash.fetch{ raise “The key #{key.inspect} doesn't bloody exist”}

9. Better support for FP I want to keep up with functional programming

10. I'd rather do it with Ruby than without Ruby

11. Better support for FP Ban side effects from part of your program?

12. Haskell process:

13. 1. No side effects

14. 2. Profound embarassment

15. 3. ???

16. 4. Awesomeness

17. Better books about Ruby Ruby has the same book published in a hundred editions Metaprogramming

18. DSLs

19. method_missing

20. monkeypatching They're showing off what Ruby can do, rather than help you accomplish your mundane task

21. Should I have to read “Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns” in order to know how to program in Ruby ?

22. What needs to be written about? How to write maintainable Ruby code And rescue poorly written Ruby code Object oriented Ruby

23. Functional programming Ruby

24. Ruby that fails fast

25. How to optimize Ruby

26. My ideal second Ruby book 1. A n00b is doing it wrong on Stack Overflow 2. I say “Ah – you're doing antipattern X. Please see page 42 of 'U R doing it wrong in Ruby'” 3. The n00b is enlightened Why? Because I'm still a bloody n00b!

27. Some books that are pretty decent Metaprogramming Ruby

28. Everyday scripting with Ruby

29. Eloquent Ruby (for n00bs, anyway)

30. The Pickaxe

31. Ruby community How much are we learning?

32. Why can't we get more non-beginner-level questions on Stack Overflow? Do you honestly think you know everything?

33. Ruby community Starting to realize that persistence might be separate from business logic Gee, ya think!

34. Ruby community I want you guys to learn an awesome language

35. It's called Ruby

36. Less discriminatory humour I'm not opposing sexism in the hope that it'll lead to a more diverse community

37. Not being a boofhead is its own reward

38. Why I'm sick of sexism Intrinsically bad

39. Unprofessional

40. Makes me ashamed to by a (Ruby) programmer

41. Last and not least I want it to scale!