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Ruby “Enterprise” Edition

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Since I’ve been talking about Ruby VM’s lately, I thought it’d be interesting to bring up another “segway” technology that is being offered by my friends at Phusion: The Computer Science Company. They call it: Ruby Enterprise Edition. What makes it enterprise? Nothing really :), Its pretty much a marketing name, from what they told me. But, if you look behind the name, you’ll see some serious benefits to utilizing their edition of the Ruby runtime.

Highlights

Allows your Ruby on Rails applications to use 33% less memory on average, when used in combination with Phusion Passenger.

100% compatible with the official Ruby interpreter, version 1.8.6.

Well-tested and extremely stable.

Easy to install, either via a native Linux package or via the included installer.

Can be installed in parallel with regular Ruby. 100% self-contained, 0% installation risk!

The smart folks over at Phusion have improved the built-in Ruby garbage collector by 33%, and according to their benchmarks, its performance is quite substantial.

This edition of Ruby, in my mind, is more of an interim, “drop-in”, replacement until things like MagLev become more prevalent. While improving the garbage collector is definitely helping us in the performance arena, its still not addressing other core needs.

Regardless, as far as what my clients and services will be running in the next months? Passenger has proven itself time and time again to me (they are already to version 2.0 in under a month, amazing release too!), and with the integration of Phusion’s new Ruby interpreter, I can’t wait to see my apps soar!


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  1. Matias on November 14, 2008 5:00 pm

    Great.
    I’m already trying Passenger. It works great.
    I have to try that Ruby Enterprise.
    lol