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The Future of Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto's C implementation of Ruby aka Main Ruby Implementation (as time of this writing the stable version of the MRI is Ruby 1.8) is considered the Quasi-Standard of the Ruby Language since there has never been an explicit language standard for Ruby. As the number of implementations grows, however, a formal standard seems to become necessary to prevent the horror scenario of various non-conform interpreters. Read on ...

Extending Ruby in C

Extending Ruby with C functions is quiet easy. After you have learned the principles and worked through the ambiguous usage of the API functions you get the power of the Ruby language to your C program. Then it is possible to solve the time critical tasks at the C program and the complex part by Ruby. We created a simple tutorial to get quickly familiar with the Ruby C extension API. Read on ....

external links

Community

official Ruby home
Ruby Forum mirrors the ruby-talk mailing list.
Ruby Application Archive
Wikipedia article on Ruby

Different Implementations

JRuby A very complete implementation of the interpreter in Java.
YARV The site of the virtual machine which has been merged into 1.9.
Ruby.NET Still incomplete and unoptimized .NET compiler for Ruby.
Rubinious An implementation based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 VM architecture.
Iron Ruby This implementation by Microsoft has been presented but not yet released.

Documentation

Ruby Tutorial
Programming Ruby Free online version of the legendary "Pickaxe".
CORE
STDLIB
CORE-1.9
The Ruby Hacking Guide English translation of the japanese book by Minero Aoki. The translation is not yet finished.
C API doxygen docs
Ruby Syntax

GUI Toolkit Bindings

FXRuby Ruby bindings to the FOX Toolkit. A GUI designer is available too: FoxGUIb.
WxRuby
GTK
Ruby-Qt

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 = The Future of Ruby =
-Yukihiro Matsumoto's C implementation of Ruby aka MRI (Version 1.8) is now considered the '''Quasi-Standard of the Ruby Language''' because there has never been an explicit language standard for Ruby. As the number of implementations grows a standard seems to become necessary to prevent the horror szenario of totally incompatible interpreters. [[The Future of Ruby|Read on ...]]
+Yukihiro Matsumoto's C implementation of [[Ruby]] aka '''M'''ain '''R'''uby '''I'''mplementation (as time of this writing the stable version of the MRI is Ruby 1.8) is considered the '''Quasi-Standard of the Ruby Language''' since there has never been an explicit language standard for Ruby. As the number of implementations grows, however, a formal standard seems to become necessary to prevent the horror scenario of various non-conform interpreters. [[The Future of Ruby|Read on ...]]
 = Extending Ruby in C =