* [urb](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/urb/) : A class library for handling URIs. * [rubydium](https://github.com/lypanov/rubydium) : (Description to be found ...

One of the largest problems plaguing Ruby implementations (and plaguing some other language implementations, so I hear from my Pythonista friends) is the ever-painful story of “extensions”. In general ...

"Rubinius is a project to watch", so says Charles Nutter in his post Rite, Rubinius, and Everything — I think he's right. Evan is hard at work making things work better in rubinius. He's now got ...

Alternative Ruby implementations seem to be on the move throughout the Ruby community. JRuby is the furthest along at this point, so I decided to talk to Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, two of the ...

People using Ruby generally have a way to install different Ruby versions, manage their packages (or gems), and manage their gem dependencies. ## Ruby Managers Some platforms have Ruby pre-installed ...

I was recently asked for a list of “hard problems” a Ruby implementation really needs to solve before reporting benchmark numbers. You know…the sort of problems that might invalidate early perf ...