tinyrb

A tiny Ruby VM for you to love and play with

tinyrb is the smallest Ruby VM to date. It won't run all your Ruby code, but it's fast and fun to play with.

Goals

• Small code base, easy to understand
• Fast
• Low memory usage
• Embedable
• Portable
• Fun and awesome

Try it!

git clone git://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb.git

cd tinyrb; make

./tinyrb your_script_that_will_crash.rb

Contribute

To discuss and share about tinyrb, comment on the commits feed on GitHub or join me on #tinyrb on freenode.

VM specs

• Register based, (like Lua)
• Boehm GC
• Very small < 64K, ~2000 sloc
• Method caching and some inlining
• Lexer/parser in peg