Rubinius Explained

Rubinius
Developer:	Evan Phoenix, Brian Shirai
Latest Release Version:	5.0
Latest Release Date:	^[1]
Operating System:	Unix-like
Programming Language:	C++ and Ruby
Genre:	Ruby programming language compiler
License:	Mozilla Public License

Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,^[2] Rubinius seeks to"provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."^[3]

Goals

Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.^[4]

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.^[5] Evan Phoenix now works at HashiCorp.^{[6] [7]}

PowerPC64 support

Since version 2.4.0, support on PowerPC64 is enabled.^[8]

See also

• Jikes RVM
• JRuby
• MacRuby
• MagLev
• Parrot virtual machine
• PyPy
• Squawk
• Squeak
• YARV

External links

• • 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
  • The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008): Rubinius compared to other common Ruby VMs
• Web site: How to install Rubinius on Mac OS X . October 5, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012100030/http://sam.aaron.name/2007/9/22/rubinius-on-os-x/ . October 12, 2007 . dead . mdy-all .
• Is It Rubinius?- Community-powered gem compatibility for Rubinius

Notes and References

1. Web site: Releases - rubinius/rubinius. GitHub. 17 May 2020.
2. Book: Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation. 0-201-11371-6. registration. Goldberg. Adele. Robson. Dave. 1983.
3. Web site: Rubinius README. Rubinius Project. 2009-02-22.
4. Web site: Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls. Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible.. 2008-04-27. Nutter. Charles. 2009-02-22.
5. https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/the-future-of-rubinius The future of Rubinius
6. Web site: Vektra Joins HashiCorp. www.hashicorp.com. 2017-06-29.
7. Web site: Home . hashicorp.com.
8. Web site: Release 2.4.0. 2020-01-06. Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa, Vitor de Lima, Leonardo Bianconi. GitHub. 2014.