There’s a Portugese translation by Rodrigo Martins if you prefer. A quick summary of some of the new features of Ruby 2.0.0: Language Changes Keyword arguments 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 # Ruby 1.9: # (From action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb) def cycle(first_value, *values) options = values.extract_options! name = options.fetch(:name, 'default') # ... end # Ruby 2.0: def