Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design, Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."
Goals Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.
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.The future of Rubiniusengineyard.com 2013
PowerPC64 support Since version 2.4.0, support on PowerPC64 is enabled.
See also
Jikes RVM JRuby MacRuby MagLev Parrot virtual machine PyPy Squawk Squeak YARV
References
External links
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
Is It Rubinius?- Community-powered gem compatibility for Rubinius