As you may have heard, the “Rails” organization was not accepted for
the Google Summer of Code this year (which seems to have gotten
extremely Python-heavy, or at least heavy with Google’s favorite
projects). So what do we do as good Rubyists? Take this sitting down?
Cry in the corner? NO! We run our own Summer of Code!
Thanks to Engine Y., Ruby Central, and several other folks, there
WILL be a Summer of Code for Rubyists this year!
http://rubysoc.org/
It’s donation-driven, since we don’t have billions of dollars of ad
revenue to spend, so PLEASE DONATE whatever you can. The more we get,
the more students we’ll be able to sponsor.
I’ve started an ideas page on the JRuby wiki here:
http://wiki.jruby.org/RubySummerOfCode2010
We’re hoping to get a few good projects out of this, so please post
your ideas and interest, sign up on the http://rubysoc.org site, and
reply here!
Yay for the Ruby Summer of Code!
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I’ve started an ideas page on the JRuby wiki here:
http://wiki.jruby.org/RubySummerOfCode2010
Here’s an idea:
“auto ruby->duby optimization”
Either by static analysis (hey–you only pass in floats to that method!)
or by running it.
ex 1: run the unit tests, and track which objects are passed to the
methods you want to optimize. When you run it again, expect those types
only (thanks to Caleb for this suggestion).
ex 2: Do the same as 1 but “automagically convert” the methods during
runtime.
Unfortunately I’m no longer a student (and I think they want somebody
that can actually work on it to get the grant) so can’t do it myself,
so if anybody’s interested…
I could be a mentor, but don’t have tons of duby/jruby experience, but I
could be something of a weak mentor (a duby pro would probably be more
appropriate).
Anyway I’ll add it to the wiki list.
Enjoy.
-rp
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Roger P. [email protected]
wrote:
ex 2: Do the same as 1 but “automagically convert” the methods during
runtime.
Yeah, sounds like a great idea. I’d probably be the mentor for it
anyway, and I’d love to see it happen. Someone interested in working
with Subbu to get the new optimizing compiler wired up would be
another great project (which I’ll add).
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Another possible suggestion would be: Work on JRuby’s compatibility in
1.9 mode. The task is more or less clear-cut. We have RubySpecs for
1.9, we have quite some number of failures, we have some
encoding-related stuff not fully working in 1.9 mode. And, we have a
lot of folks asking about support for 1.9, and wanting to use it.
MRI 1.9.2 is due out in Summer, and it would be great to close the
compatibility gap around that time! 
Thanks,
–Vladimir
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Charles Oliver N.
[email protected] wrote:
I’ve started an ideas page on the JRuby wiki here:
ex 1: run the unit tests, and track which objects are passed to the
I could be a mentor, but don’t have tons of duby/jruby experience, but I
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I added a bunch more ideas, like Hibernate/JPA backed for DataMapper,
Polyglot Maven integration, and so on. Looks like Chuck R. added
Win32OLE. Lots of great opportunities. If you have any other thoughts,
go ahead and add them
On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Roger P. [email protected] wrote:
method!)
Unfortunately I’m no longer a student (and I think they want somebody
Enjoy.
-rp
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Yeah good call. Want to add it to the wiki? I bet a lot of non-JRuby
Rubyists will even like that since it will help them safely move to
1.9.2.
On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Vladimir S. [email protected]
wrote:
–Vladimir
“auto ruby->duby optimization”
ex 2: Do the same as 1 but “automagically convert” the methods
but I
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Roger P. [email protected]
wrote:
Yeah or windows 1.9.2 compatibility–that one has quite a few JIRA’s
against it
Yeah, I’m hoping we can hit 1.9 support hard in the JRuby 1.6 cycle,
since 1.9.2 is much better-defined now. It would be nice to be the
first Ruby impl to pass a high 90% of 1.9-specific specs.
I don’t think there’s anything there other than some tedious work
duplicating functionality. If people can provide said functionality
entirely in Ruby, that would be an acceptable first step too.
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Vladimir S. wrote:
Another possible suggestion would be: Work on JRuby’s compatibility in
1.9 mode. The task is more or less clear-cut. We have RubySpecs for
1.9, we have quite some number of failures, we have some
encoding-related stuff not fully working in 1.9 mode. And, we have a
lot of folks asking about support for 1.9, and wanting to use it.
Yeah or windows 1.9.2 compatibility–that one has quite a few JIRA’s
against it 
-rp