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 racc-runtime Racc runtime module stringio IO interface for String strscan Fast string scanner benchmark Benchmark module fileutils File & directory manipulation optparse Advanced command line option parser pp Pretty printer (prettier version of `p') tsort Topological sorter