Haven't tried Rubinius yet myself, but being able to run rails on it is a huge milestone. Some of the benefits of Rubinius, from what I've heard so far: - use

Haven't tried Rubinius yet myself, but being able to run rails on it is a huge milestone. Some of the benefits of Rubinius, from what I've heard so far: - uses modern techniques to decrease memory usage and increase throughput - less memory change per additional mongrel instance - capability for precompiled code (similar to java .jar files) - better performance - better error reporting - profiling has less impact on performance I think it could totally change the rails landscape as we know it. http://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/d2t1p3_rubinius.html http://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/d2t1p3_rubinius.html http://www.slideshare.net/evanphx/rubinius-improving-the-rails-ecosystem/ http://www.slideshare.net/evanphx/rubinius-improving-the-rai...