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The Ruby VM: Episode III

In this interview, we get the scoop on the past and future of Ruby's threading support…

No Longer the Fastest Game in Town

Some speed demons are faster than me. Let's take a look at the new efforts in CSV parsing…

The Ruby VM: Episode II

In this interview, we discuss all of the alternate Ruby implementations that have sprung up and what they mean for language and developers…

I believe in Ruby

This is just a fun little note I put together for a blogging contest…

The Ruby VM: Episode I

This first interview covers who I'm talking with, what we are talking about, and when we will see the results of their labor…

The Ruby VM Serial Interview

This article outlines a new series where we will see Matz and Koichi discussing the beating heart of our favorite programming language…

news_to_mail.rb

Here's the code for the other half of the Ruby Talk Gateway. This code pulls posts from Usenet and emails them to the Ruby Talk mailing list…

mail_to_news.rb

Here's a breakdown for half of the Ruby Talk Gateway code. This script pushes mail messages up to our Usenet host…

Hacking the Gateway

Here are the rules for getting changes into the Ruby Talk Gateway code…

What is the Ruby Talk Gateway?

The article describes and old, but still in common use, feature of the Ruby community: The Ruby Talk/comp.lang.ruby Gateway…