Rubinius
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Developer(s) | Evan Phoenix |
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Stable release | 2.5.2
/ January 30, 2015 |
Repository | |
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]
Goals
Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.[3]
It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.
Sponsorship
From 2007 to 2013, Engine Yard funded one full-time engineer to work exclusively on Rubinius.[4] Evan Phoenix is now CEO of Vektra.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation (PDF). ISBN 0-201-11371-6.
- ^ "Rubinius README". Rubinius Project. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
- ^ Nutter, Charles (2008-04-27). "Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls". Retrieved 2009-02-22.
Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible.
- ^ https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/the-future-of-rubinius
- ^ http://vektra.com/
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]