DEV_MEM.dump_to(:blog)

In case nobody noticed, but next February 25 and 26 there will be a huge conference, called Ruby Mastesr Conf (See the banner bellow)

And yes, the conference will be online with an excellent line up of speakers

Video, chat, slides and interaction with the speakers all using e-Genial online platform, kinda cool, isn’t?

Is cheap! R$ 35 (Brazil reais) is around 21 USD. You gain access to all the talks and if you couldn’t watch them live, you can see the videos 15 days later.

And the awesome part? Their objective is collect money for open source projects, like Phusion Passenger and, wait for it… RubyInstaller !!!

What are you waiting for?

Been a while since the last list of supported Ruby versions was published. So, time of updates!

All of the above results were obtained using rake-compiler 0.7.5.

Compilers

All the tests of compilation where performed against the following compilers:

While there are other cross compilers available out there, I haven’t done any testing against them, so can’t verify it’s correctness in the above results.

I would personally recommend the usage of mingw-w64 compilers since are fresh and updated quite often.

Recommendations

If you’re creating extensions, it is recommend you use both 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 as test-beds for your extensions. That will ensure maximum compatibility with future versions of Ruby.

Next version of rake-compiler will bump the default version to 1.8.7, so is better you start preparing now.

¹ 1.8.6 compilation fails when used with mingw-w64 compiler (i686-w64-mingw32 host)

² You can download mingw-w64 compiler from SourceForge Automated Builds