3 <A href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/making-ruby-fast-the-rubinius-jit/">New post by Evan Phoenix</a>! 2010-03-09T23:25:21+00:00 false 3567 2010-03-09T23:25:21+00:00 590 Gimi Liang 2 Eventually, <a href="http://rubini.us/" rel="nofollow" >Rubinius</a> hits its <a href="evanphx/rubinius/tree/release-1.0.0-rc1" rel="nofollow" >1.0.0RC1</a> release. There is no release notes yet. Down load <a href="http://bit.ly/5q1OQk" rel="nofollow" >it</a> and follow the instructions in its <a href="http://rubini.us/" rel="nofollow" >home page to have fun!</a> 2009-11-26T03:28:58+00:00 false 3087 2009-11-26T03:28:58+00:00 0 Brian Ford just posted details on his current efforts to <a href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/improving-the-rubinius-bytecode-compiler/">improve the Rubinius Bytecode Compiler</a>; it's a good read! 2009-10-22T17:43:05+00:00 false 2908 2009-10-22T17:43:05+00:00 590 1 Brian Ford walks us through some of the cool parts of Rubinius, in this post about <a href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/5-things-youll-love-about-rubinius/">Rubinius as your college roommate</a>. 2009-09-17T19:38:10+00:00 true 2768 2009-09-18T02:59:31+00:00 590 0 If you're interested in trying out a bunch of different Ruby versions -- back to 1.0 -- as well as several current implementations (JRuby, Rubinius, Ruby Enterprise Edition), you can apply for a shell account at Ruby Versions. See <a href="http://ruby-versions.net" rel="nofollow" >the website</a> for details! Ruby Versions is brought to you by <a href="http://www.rubypal.com" rel="nofollow" >Ruby Power and Light, LLC</a>. 2009-07-14T22:07:21+00:00 true 2502 2009-07-15T19:10:38+00:00 905 5 You thought Rubinius was dead? You're wrong! Brian Ford <a href="http://blog.brightredglow.com/2009/2/12/all-shiny-and-new">reports on some new tweaks that have increased performance by over 4x.</a> <strong><em>Update: Make that a 2x increase. Sorry!</em></strong> 2009-02-13T11:55:25+00:00 false 1704 2009-02-13T13:05:18+00:00 5 1 rufus-tokyo is a ruby gem for handling Tokyo Cabinet databases. It's based on the ruby-ffi gem (mri, jruby and rubinius) and makes cabinets look like hashes. Version 0.1.0 has just been <a href="http://jmettraux.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/ruby-ffi-tokyo-cabinet/">released</a>. Source is on the <a href="http://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-tokyo">GitHub</a>. 2009-01-23T08:26:49+00:00 false 1571 2009-01-23T15:44:00+00:00 626 1 A <a href="http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/15/bridging-mri-jruby-rubinius-with-ffi/">hands-on example of using the new FFI gem</a> developed by Wayne Meissner to interface with native (C) extensions in a uniform way for Ruby MRI, JRuby and Rubinius. 2009-01-15T22:34:15+00:00 false 1527 2009-01-15T22:34:15+00:00 9 Tony 0 The long awaited Ruby virtual machine shootout is <a href="http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/09/the-great-ruby-shootout-december-2008/" rel="nofollow" >here</a>. In this report I’ve compared the performances of several Ruby implementations against a set of synthetic benchmarks. The implementations that I tested were Ruby 1.8 (aka MRI), Ruby 1.9 (aka Yarv), Ruby Enterprise Edition (aka REE), JRuby 1.1.6RC1, Rubinius, MagLev, MacRuby 0.3 and IronRuby. 2008-12-09T17:43:21+00:00 false 1320 2008-12-09T17:43:21+00:00 0 Nothing to counter last week's bad news than actually <a href="http://programblings.com/2008/11/25/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-3-try-rubinius-in-20-minutes/">trying out Rubinius in 20 minutes</a>. 2008-11-25T13:42:18+00:00 false 1256 2008-11-25T13:42:18+00:00 287 0 I’ve been messing with <a href="http://github.com/wmoxam/rubyrps/tree/master">RubyRPS</a> (Rock, paper scissors) lately, it’s a ton of fun! I thought it might be cool to benchmark the progression of Rubinius with RPS, and that little experiment turned into a full blown <a href="http://blog.viarails.net/2008/8/11/ruby-vm-shootout">ruby interpreter shootout</a> 2008-08-11T13:35:41+00:00 false 755 2008-08-11T13:35:41+00:00 350 0 After reading the code of Rubinius FFI. I write <a href="http://pluskid.lifegoo.com/?p=370">a blog post</a> to introduce it (with a simple example). The (almost) complete document for FFI is also presented, as well as a comparison to Python ctypes and a discussion on the future of FFI. 2008-06-17T10:02:32+00:00 false 507 2008-06-17T10:02:32+00:00 82 0 Adam Wiggins has put together a <a href="http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/6/12/quickstart_to_hacking_rubinius/">quick start guide to hacking on Rubinius</a>, an alternative Ruby implementation. 2008-06-13T20:07:16+00:00 false 493 2008-06-13T20:07:16+00:00 5 0 Evan <a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2008/05/17/rails-on-rubinius/">writes about successfuly serving of dynamic and static pages from a Rails app on Rubinius</a>. Huzzah! 2008-05-17T14:00:15+00:00 false 336 2008-05-17T14:00:15+00:00 122 0 <a href ="http://metaclass.org/2008/5/10/merb-on-rubinius">Rubinius now runs Merb</a> 2008-05-11T19:36:02+00:00 false 281 2008-05-11T19:36:02+00:00 122 0 MSpec and RubySpec become submodules of Rubinius now and <a href="http://novemberain.com/2008/5/9/why-separation-of-mspec-matters-to-me">it matters for your day to day development</a> if you use RSpec. 2008-05-09T09:28:18+00:00 false 267 2008-05-09T09:28:18+00:00 122 0 <a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/ruby-debuggers-survey">A Look at Ruby Debuggers</a> by Werner Schuster takes a look at the various debugger options available to Ruby developers (options for MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and Iron Ruby are included). 2008-04-23T23:37:41+00:00 false 197 2008-04-23T23:37:41+00:00 5 0 There are rumours that Ruby implementation authors finally may <a href="http://novemberain.com/2008/4/20/ruby-design-meetings">start collaborating more and on regular basis</a>. Maybe the MRI team will even consider switching to the Ruby specs suite Rubinius and JRuby use? 2008-04-20T15:00:49+00:00 false 151 2008-04-20T16:03:54+00:00 122 0 Part two of the Rubinius For The Layman series: <a href="http://programblings.com/2008/04/15/rubinius-for-the-layman-part-2-how-rubinius-is-friendly/">How Rubinius is Friendly.</a> It mostly focuses on Rubinius' more verbose and detailed error backtraces. 2008-04-16T12:20:20+00:00 false 127 2008-04-16T12:20:20+00:00 5