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

It is not a standardized specification like the ISO one, and does not aim to become one. Instead, it is a practical tool to describe and test the behavior of Ruby with code. Every example code has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...