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A Look at Ruby Debuggers

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Runtimes,
JRuby,
Dynamic Languages,
Debugging

A misconception lingers in the Ruby world: Ruby has no debugger. This is blatantly wrong - Ruby has debuggers, GUIs for debuggers and APIs for debuggers. InfoQ takes a close look at the state of debugging tools in the Ruby world - and finds that its debugging support is more than sufficient.

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MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Language,
Performance & Scalability,
Database Design,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails

OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.

Ruby Implementations Roundup: Ruby Spec, New Design Meetings, Rubinius uses C++

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Language,
Runtimes,
Dynamic Languages

Busy times for Ruby implementors recently, with regular design meetings set up (next one 30th April). The work on a Ruby Spec is continuing - with projects in GSoC and plans for continous integration for Ruby 1.8.x set up. Rubinius switched from C to C++ to implement it's core VM, but continues to use Ruby as implementation language.

MountainWest RubyConf 2008 Videos

Community
Ruby
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Language,
Programming,
Community

The videos from MountainWest RubyConf 2008 are all available for downloading from the Confreaks website. We selected a few videos and provide an overview and some entry points into the talks.

Ruby and Git Roundup: Rails, Rubyforge, APIs

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Open Source,
Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is just one of many Ruby projects moving its repository to GitHub. We take a look at the Git news in the Ruby space, such as RubyForge's new Git repositories, new Git documentation and books and applications like GitWiki that use Git's repository in new ways.

Articles about Rubinius

Ruby Concurrency, Actors, and Rubinius - Interview with MenTaLguY

Community
Ruby
Topics
JRuby,
Performance & Scalability,
Programming

With Erlang popularizing Actors, Rubinius adding its Multi-VM, and Ruby 1.9 adding another concurrency primitive with Fibers (Coroutines), a lot of things are going on in the Ruby concurrency world. So we interviewed MenTaLguY, who works on Rubinius, JRuby and many aspects of concurrency in the Ruby world.

Interviews about Rubinius

Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius

Community
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Language

Wilson Bilkovich is one of the core developers of the Rubinius project - a Ruby implementation written in Ruby. Wilson is also one of the members of the Ruby Hit Squad, developers of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer. In this interview with InfoQ, Wilson discusses the implementation of Rubinius, and its current status with Werner Schuster.

Evan Phoenix on Rubinius

Community
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Language,
Dynamic Languages

Evan Phoenix discusses Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. The goal is to build a fast, efficient VM with the latest research in dynamic language implementations

Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier Decide if Rails is Enterprise Ready

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Enterprise Architecture,
Open Source,
Ruby on Rails

Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez at RailsConf to explore some of the reasoning behind setting up the mongrel project, getting adoption in enterprise and dealing with developers who just aren't ready. Watch the interview to find out how much Shaw's Enterprise Mongrel product will cost, where the support contracts are and who'll come out on top when the vultures land.