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The Future of Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto's C implementation of Ruby aka MRI (Version 1.8) is now considered the Quasi-Standard of the Ruby Language because there has never been an explicit language standard for Ruby. As the number of implementations grows a standard seems to become necessary to prevent the horror szenario of totally incompatible 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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Community

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 This implementation by Microsoft has been presented but not yet released.

Documentation

GUI Toolkit Bindings