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Ruby Shim is a set of modules that provide the libraries and the
additional features that will appear in the next version of Ruby.

Shim between 1.6 and 1.8 includes:

    features/ruby18 Hooks to support ruby 1.8 extensions
    dl      Interface to dynamic linker
    erb     Tiny eRuby implementation
    racc-runtime    Racc runtime module
    stringio    IO interface for String
    strscan     Fast string scanner
    benchmark   Benchmark module
    fileutils   File & directory manipulation
    ipaddr      Manipulates an IP address
    open-uri    An easy-to-use wrapper for net/http and net/ftp
    optparse    Advanced command line option parser
    pp      Pretty printer (prettier version of `p')
    set     Set class
    tsort       Topological sorter