# Pledgie drive for Rubinius

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pledgie-drive-for-rubinius/89493>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pledgie-drive-for-rubinius/89493 "2007-03-20T20:55:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pledgie-drive-for-rubinius/89493/1 "2007-03-20T20:55:35Z")

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Just thought I’d get the word out:

Rubinius ([http://rubini.us](http://rubini.us)) is having a Pledgie fund-raiser:  
[http://pledgie.com/campaign/show/87](http://pledgie.com/campaign/show/87)

It’s a great cause. The ten-second pitch is that it’s a next-  
generation VM for Ruby with large portions being written in Ruby, and  
the current roadmap is for 1.0 (MRI compatible, but higher  
performance) to drop at RubyConf in October!

If that’s not something we can get excited about as a community I’m  
not sure what is. 🙂

The goal of the drive is (at least in part) to help subsidize the cost  
of a Mac capable of running Parallels to spread the cross-platform  
goodness.

Disclaimer: I’m not a committer to the project, just really excited  
about it, so to me, it’s great to have the opportunity to contribute  
in this way.