Rubinius
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| Developer(s) | Evan Phoenix |
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| Stable release | 1.2.4 / July 5, 2011 |
| Written in | C++ and Ruby |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Ruby programming language interpreter |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | http://rubini.us/ |
Rubinius is an alternative Ruby programming language implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,[1] Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."[2]
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[edit] Goals
Rubinius follows in the Lisp[3] and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.[4]
It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.
[edit] Sponsorship
Engine Yard funds two full-time engineers to work exclusively on Rubinius.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation. ISBN 0-201-11371-6. http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf.
- ^ "Rubinius README". Rubinius Project. https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/blob/master/README. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
- ^ Gabriel, Dick. "Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp". http://www.se-radio.net/2008/01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-on-lisp/. Retrieved 2011-05-20. "'Well, you know if I took that piece of code and hand compiled it, then that could be an interpreter for Lisp.' So he did that and it surprised John McCarthy and overnight they had a running implementation of Lisp."
- ^ Nutter, Charles (2008-04-27). "Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls". http://blog.headius.com/2008/04/promise-and-peril-for-alternative-ruby.html. Retrieved 2009-02-22. "Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible."
- ^ Cangiano, Anthony (2008-01-15). "Why Engine Yard, Rubinius, and Merb matter". http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/01/15/why-engine-yard-rubinius-and-merb-matter/. Retrieved 2009-03-08. ""A while ago they also hired Evan Phoenix to work full-time on Rubinius, a promising alternative Ruby implementation and a rigorous spec for the language.""
[edit] External links
- Rubinius web site
- Evan Phoenix's Blog
- Evan Phoenix's video at RubyConf 2007
- Evan Phoenix's video at MountainWest RubyConf 2008
- Evan Phoenix's presentation at RubyConf 2008
- Rubinius code repository
- The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008): Rubinius compared to other common Ruby VMs
- How to install Rubinius on Mac OS X[dead link]
- Is It Rubinius? - Community-powered gem compatibility for Rubinius[dead link]
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