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Thomas Sondergaard

9/29/2003 11:51:00 AM

I'd like to get to better understand how the ruby interpreter works. I have
grabbed the CVS and started rumaging around, but I got to think that someone
must have been here before and may have written a 4-10 page document
covering the architecture, tricks and what not used in the ruby interpreter.

Anyone knows of such a document? Any other pointers to make it easier to
grok the ruby source are also welcome!

Cheers,

Tom
5 Answers

Simon Strandgaard

9/29/2003 1:08:00 PM

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:51:21 +0200, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:

> I''d like to get to better understand how the ruby interpreter works. I have
> grabbed the CVS and started rumaging around, but I got to think that someone
> must have been here before and may have written a 4-10 page document
> covering the architecture, tricks and what not used in the ruby interpreter.
>
> Anyone knows of such a document? Any other pointers to make it easier to
> grok the ruby source are also welcome!


The README.EXT distributed with Ruby, gives a short overview
of Rubys code, which files is the core, which is modules.. etc.

I don''t know about other documents. If there exist other documents then I
am also interested in reading them :-)

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Mauricio Fernández

9/29/2003 5:08:00 PM

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:54:59PM +0900, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> I''d like to get to better understand how the ruby interpreter works. I have
> grabbed the CVS and started rumaging around, but I got to think that someone
> must have been here before and may have written a 4-10 page document
> covering the architecture, tricks and what not used in the ruby interpreter.
>
> Anyone knows of such a document? Any other pointers to make it easier to
> grok the ruby source are also welcome!

This is the only info I know of on this:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-...

not a lot but I hope it''s helpful.

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daz

9/30/2003 12:09:00 AM

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"Thomas Sondergaard" <thomas@FirstNameGoesHereSondergaard.com> wrote:

> ... someone must have been here before and may have written a
> 4-10 page document covering the architecture, ...
>
> Anyone knows of such a document? Any other pointers to make it easier
> to grok the ruby source are also welcome!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>


I can''t remember who said: "A picture is worth a 4-10 page document",
but here''s a sketch I drew to help get an overview of the interaction
between eval and the parser.


Unofficial, you understand (and probably flawed).


http://www.d10.karoo.net/ruby/ruby_interp... (.PNG - 27k)

(Comments expected, but action not guaranteed ;)


daz

Thomas Sondergaard

9/30/2003 1:13:00 AM

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> http://www.d10.karo.../ruby_interp... (.PNG - 27k)

Neither this

http://www.d10.karo...

nor this

http://www.d10....

is valid. How do I get to see the rest of the slides. I''m just curious to
see what else is there.

Cheers,

Tom

daz

9/30/2003 3:15:00 AM

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"Thomas Sondergaard" <thomas@FirstNameGoesHereSondergaard.com> wrote:

> > http://www.d10.karo.../ruby_interp... (.PNG - 27k)
>
> Neither this
>
> http://www.d10.karo...
>
> nor this
>
> http://www.d10....
>
> is valid. How do I get to see the rest of the slides. I''m just curious to
> see what else is there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>

There''s no slide-show, sorry -- it''s just a one-off.

''Dream on'' for a Ruby Internals website :-)


daz