Introduction to Rubinius

A short introduction to Rubinius with some background about other Ruby implementations. Was given at the Israeli Ruby Underground meetup (http://www.meetup.com/IsraelRubyUnderground/events/46244082/) on April 30, 2012.

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1. Introduction to Rubinius
2. Me Aviv Ben-Yosef @avivby http://codelord.net Coder @ BillGuard truby podcast http://rauchy.net/truby
3. Ruby in Ruby
4. Started by Evan Phoenix in 2006
5. Intention: Ruby as 1st class language And thread safety, and transparency, and...
6. Ruby Implementations MRI/CRuby JRuby Rubinius REE MacRuby mruby
7. Rubinius Status 1.8.7 compatible, quickly gaining on 1.9.2
8. How do you implement a language with no spec?
9. RubySpec saving us from language spaghetti
10. spec/ruby/language/if_spec.rb
11. Why should you care?
12. It’s awesome
13. Learn Ruby’s inner-workings
14. Super awesome open- source management
15. rvm install rbx --1.9 start using it today!
16. Quick hacking session Let’s remove “else” from “unless”!
17. Find relevant files $ git ls-files | grep unless spec/ruby/language/unless_spec.rb $ git ls-files | grep grammar lib/ext/melbourne/grammar19.y ...
20. ... And then just hunt down all the unless..else in rbx
21. A dozen “rake spec”s later
22. Do it yourself http://bit.ly/JweRYU