What is the current status of named arguments (named method parameters, keyword arguments) in Ruby?

Question

I heard that method name arguments will be among the improvements in Ruby 2.0. Can someone include me in their current syntax in Ruby 2.0?

Answer 1

Update: here is Peter Cooper's excellent 6-minute screencast on Keyword arguments in Ruby 2.0.

Old. Check out this blog post about keyword arguments in Ruby 2.0 from yesterday.