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News from RubyKaigi2008—the Japanese Ruby conference held at Tsukuba from June 20 through 22—concerning the planned Ruby standardization, the Ruby 1.9 roadmap and a glimpse at upcoming features in future versions of Ruby.
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By Kaz Tajima and Mirko Stocker
on Jul 03, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Unit Testing,
- Agile Techniques
The RubySpec project aims to create a complete and executable specification for the Ruby language and recently got its own website. We also talked to two GSoC students who will help improve these specifications.
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By Mirko Stocker
on May 26, 2008,
- 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.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 30, 2008,
- 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.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 29, 2008,