“In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at
a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby. I also promised I’d follow
up on them. Here’s what’s been going on so far.“The rubinius gang is going for the ‘application driven plan.’
For a 0.9 release in early September, they want to have rake
working correctly. Then for their 0.10 October release, they’re
targeting RubyGems. 1.0 will come when they can run Rails, so there
may be another release or two after 0.10…”
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