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The Future of Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto's C implementation of Ruby aka Main Ruby Implementation is considered the Quasi-Standard of the Ruby Language since there has never been an explicit language standard for Ruby. As the number of implementations grows, however, a formal standard seems to become necessary to prevent the horror scenario of various non-conform interpreters. Read on ...

Extending Ruby in C

Extending Ruby with C functions is quiet easy. After you have learned the principles and worked through the ambiguous usage of the API functions you get the power of the Ruby language to your C program. Then it is possible to solve the time critical tasks at the C program and the complex part by Ruby. We created a simple tutorial to get quickly familiar with the Ruby C extension API. Read on ....

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external links

Community official Ruby home Ruby Forum mirrors the ruby-talk mailing list. Ruby Application Archive Wikipedia article on Ruby

Different Implementations JRuby A very complete implementation of the interpreter in Java. YARV The site of the virtual machine which has been merged into 1.9. Ruby.NET Still incomplete and unoptimized .NET compiler for Ruby. Rubinious An implementation based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 VM architecture. Iron Ruby The (yet far from complete) C# implementation by Microsoft designed for .NET interoperability.

Documentation Ruby Tutorial Programming Ruby Free online version of the legendary "Pickaxe". CORE STDLIB CORE-1.9 The Ruby Hacking Guide English translation of the japanese book by Minero Aoki. The translation is not yet finished. C API doxygen docs Ruby Syntax

GUI Toolkit Bindings FXRuby Ruby bindings to the FOX Toolkit. A GUI designer is available too: FoxGUIb. WxRuby GTK Ruby-Qt