I've been a little out of touch lately -- crazy accounting project for school -- but was able to carve out a little time to chat with the guys at Engine Yard who are doing some cool things with Ruby. Engine Yard employs Evan Phoenix, the founder of the Rubinius project. The project aims to deliver a virtual machine for Ruby and will be previewing Rails running on Rubinius at RailsConf 2008 later today. According to Evan, Rubinius is an implementation of a Ruby platform, just like the standard Ruby interpreter, IronRuby, MacRuby, JRuby, or countless other implementations. What's interesting... READ MORE