Rubinius

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Rubinius
Latest release	1.0 preview / May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15); 25 days ago
Written in	C and Ruby
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Ruby programming language interpreter
License	BSD license
Website	http://rubini.us/

Rubinius is a virtual machine and compiler for Ruby 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]

Contents 1 Goals 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Goals

• Rubinius intends to be thread-safe and embeddable. It does not currently meet this goal due to some components borrowed from the mainline Ruby interpreter.
• Clean, readable code that is easy for users to understand and extend.
• Reliable, rock-solid code. Valgrind is used to help verify correctness.
• Bring modern techniques to the Ruby runtime. Pluggable garbage collectors and code optimizers are possible examples.

[edit] See also

• Squeak
• YARV
• JRuby
• Squawk
• Parrot virtual machine

[edit] References

1. ^ Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation.
2. ^ Rubinius' Readme (text). Retrieved on 2007-12-13.

[edit] External links

• Rubinius web site
• Evan Phoenix's Blog
• Evan Phoenix's video at RubyConf 2007
• Rubinius code repository
• Ruby implementations shootout: Rubinius compared to other common Ruby VMs (Updated)
• How to install Rubinius on Mac OS X

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