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FFI for Ruby Now Available

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
One of the largest problems plaguing Ruby implementations (and plaguing some other language implementations, so I hear from my Pythonista friends) is the...

Using Rubinius's Kernel in JRuby

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
After a long day fixing bugs, ya gotta hack on something frivolous once in a while.I've started to play with a proof-of-concept branch that uses Rubinius...

Duby Presentation at Ruby Users of MN

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Here's the presentation I gave tonight on Duby. I'm putting together an in-depth post for release this week....

A First Taste of InvokeDynamic

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Greetings, readers!Over the past couple weeks I've had a few departures from typical JRuby development. I consider it a working vacation. I'm hoping to...

The Elephant

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I'll make this a short one.I was just having a conversation with a friend, a Rubyist whose opinion I respect, who clued me in that he really hates when...

A Few Thoughts on Chrome

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I'm just reading through the comic and thought I'd jot down a few things I notice as I go. Take them for what they're worth, high-level opinions.Browsers...

A Duby Update

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I haven't forgotten about my promise to post on FFI and MVM APIs, but I've been taking occasional breaks from JRuby (heaven forbid!) to get some time on...

Zero to Production in 15 Minutes

over 3 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
There still seems to be confusion about the relative simplicity or difficulty of deploying a Rails app using JRuby. Many folks still look around for the...

Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

almost 4 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
There's been a little bit of buzz about David Heinemeier Hansson's announcement that Josh Peek has joined Rails core and is about to wrap up his GSoC project...

'Twas Brillig

almost 4 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
It's been a long time since I posted last. I figured it was time to get at least a basic update out to folks.JRuby's been clicking along really well. Perhaps...