December 28, 2017

Finding Thread errors early with Thread.report_on_exception

Ruby 2.4 introduced Thread.report_on_exception to print exceptions to $stderr when a Thread dies from an exception. However, it was disabled by default. In Ruby 2.5, I made

November 28, 2016

Running Optcarrot, a Ruby NES emulator, at 150 fps with the GUI!

TruffleRuby runs Optcarrot, a NES emulator written in Ruby, at 150 fps while playing a NES game. As we can see in the GIF, performance gets better...

July 29, 2015

RubySpec is Reborn!

Reposted from the ruby/spec blog post and slightly updated. TL;DR The Ruby Spec Suite is actively maintained at ruby/spec and MRI, JRuby, Opal and...