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

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

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

7. People who write libraries

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

12. Haskell process:

13. 1. No side effects

14. 2. Profound embarassment

15. 3. ???

16. 4. Awesomeness

18. DSLs

19. method_missing

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

23. Functional programming Ruby

24. Ruby that fails fast

25. How to optimize Ruby

28. Everyday scripting with Ruby

29. Eloquent Ruby (for n00bs, anyway)

30. The Pickaxe

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

35. It's called Ruby

37. Not being a boofhead is its own reward

39. Unprofessional

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