Posted by rue, Mon Feb 11 00:50:00 UTC 2008

The cat is out of the bag, so I can finally publically express a huge "YAY" for the opportunity to work full-time on Rubinius, courtesy of Engine Yard. I will specifically be architecting and implementing the mod_rubinius approach to simplifying Ruby web application deployment while keeping it as (or more) performant (mainly Rails, obviously, but others will benefit equally.)

I will still have plenty of time to do what I have been doing thus far with Rubinius, too. Might even have time to regularly publish the Newsletter again! After all, everything up to now has been on my spare time and I am just trading 10 hours of wasted time at my previous job and commute for 9-10 hours of mod_rubinius work--and I still have the same amount of free time to work on the project as I have had before! I think I need to come up with a way to get out of the house for a bit every day, though, to avoid cabin fever.

The mod_rubinius work itself will of course necessarily involve a lot of Rubinius work, initially at least in the realm of multi-VM (Rubinius can run completely separate interpreters one per native thread), Rubinius' own C interface (as opposed to Subtend) and the basic I/O layer.

You have a say in what happens with mod_rubinius, too! Hop over to Ezra's post to tell us exactly how you deploy your Merb/Ramaze/Rails/Nitro/IOWA/plain CGI/whatever applications in your wildest dreams.

Lastly, a huge thanks to Engine Yard for letting me invest my full energy in this! I cannot overstate how great everyone at EY has been throughout my transition, and honestly I do not think I could hope to do better than to be able to make a living from what started as a hobby.

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