Here is an interview with two of the Diamondback Ruby developers. You can read more about how there system works in this paper: Static Type Inference for Ruby.
It is interesting that they took the approach to compromise by neither being too aggressive nor to permissive; in other words they wanted to make sure that people [...]
Tag Archives: Ruby
Adding Soft Typing to Ruby
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Macros in Ruby
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
This looks like an interesting article about writing macros in Ruby.
Maglev Ruby
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ruby is often compared to Smalltalk; and I’m sure a bunch of folks have always wondered when someone would implement Ruby either on top of Smalltalk (or even in a similar manner to Smalltalk, aka Rubinius).
Avi Bryant wondered as such, and seems to have gotten a job out of it in producing Maglev Ruby [...]
Emacs influence on Ruby
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Who would’ve thought that Ruby’s block ‘end’ keyword was created to facilitate Emacs? Oh man!
When [Matz] was first starting out writing Ruby, he was coding the Emacs ruby-mode.el for it at the same time. He expressed some frustration with modes for other languages like Python and Pascal in which the editor could not look at [...]
Rubys Upto in a Scheme macro
Thursday, December 27, 2007
For a lot of folks, Ruby has a syntax that is really irresistible. Iteration is one of the things in particular that is described as being quite simply, fun. Here is how it works: