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Rubinius - Under the Hood and Behind the Curtain

Evan Phoenix (Engine Yard), Brian Ford (Engine Yard), Wilson Bilkovich (Engine Yard)
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Location: D135-136

Rubinius is a virtual machine built from the ground up to provide a robust, high-performance runtime for Ruby code. The Rubinius team is guiding the development of 20,000+ specifications that define the Ruby language. Members of the Rubinius team will talk about the ins and outs of Rubinius, answering questions and showing the power and uniques features you can expect from this new Ruby environment.

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Evan Phoenix

Engine Yard

Evan Phoenix is the lead Rubinius developer, working on Rubinius fulltime, funded by Engine Yard.

Brian Ford

Engine Yard

Brian knew within 2 minutes of reading Evan’s blog post on adding Continuations that Rubinius was going to be successful – he grabbed the code and hasn’t looked back since. Brian was enamored with RSpec and decided a full set of specs for Ruby would be key to developing Rubinius as fast as possible. Ruby is his all-around favorite language and his hope for Rubinius is to make it possible to continue adopting the best features of other languages into Ruby. Brian is finishing his math degree at Portland State and snowboards on the weekends on Mt Hood.

Wilson Bilkovich

Engine Yard

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