A better Ruby for Windows, better Ruby libraries for Windows, and a mix of open source and commercial support.
May 30, 2012
May 19, 2012
There has been some concern from the community about having another fork of Ruby will be "bad" for the community. This notion is patently false. There are already many forks... Read more
May 5, 2012
How will WinRuby help with testing? Let's start with continuous integration. The plan is to setup a series of Windows servers with different (server) versions of the Windows operating system.... Read more
May 4, 2012
Ruby on Windows has earned a somewhat poor reputation on Windows for being slow, with IO operations coming in for particular criticism. One of the major problems is that Ruby... Read more
May 3, 2012
I've been a critic of the Ruby standard library for some time and I'm not the only one. Mike Perham ranted a couple years ago [1] that the Ruby standard library... Read more
May 2, 2012
In the world of Unix you can find out information about files via the statfunction. This gives you a stat struct that contains such information as size, mtime, atime,... Read more
May 1, 2012
The phrase "code cleanup" is often a vague term but in the case of my Ruby distribution I can be very specific about at least one thing: Windows 95. You... Read more
April 30, 2012
To give you just one idea of how I would improve Ruby on Windows, let's take a look at the Process.killmethod. Seems simple, right? Just pass it a signal... Read more
