https://rubyinside.com/Recent content on Ruby InsideHugoen-usWed, 06 May 2026 15:56:41 +0100https://rubyinside.com/spinel/Wed, 06 May 2026 15:56:41 +0100Peter Cooperhttps://rubyinside.com/spinel/<p><em>A complete look at what <a href="https://github.com/matz/spinel">Spinel</a> is, how it works, where it came from, what it can/can&rsquo;t do, and where it might eventually fit into the broader Ruby ecosystem.</em></p> <p><img src="https://rubyinside.com/spinel/header_hu_4946ff9d9099db05.webp" srcset="https://rubyinside.com/spinel/header_hu_4946ff9d9099db05.webp 1x, https://rubyinside.com/spinel/header_hu_eae443caae8b7c60.webp 2x" width="800" height="306" alt="" class="bordered" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></p> <h1 id="what-is-spinel">What <em>is</em> Spinel?</h1> <p>From the <a href="https://github.com/matz/spinel">README</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Spinel compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables. It performs whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code, achieving significant speedups over CRuby.</p> <p>Spinel is self-hosting: the compiler backend is written in Ruby and compiles itself into a native binary.</p>https://rubyinside.com/we-are-returning/Sun, 03 May 2026 19:32:44 +0100Peter Cooperhttps://rubyinside.com/we-are-returning/<p>Twenty years ago – on May 13, 2006 – <a href="https://rubyinside.com/hello-world-1.html">I said &ldquo;Hello world&rdquo;</a> on this blog, which ran non-stop through to October 2014 whereupon I devoted my efforts to <a href="https://rubyweekly.com/">Ruby Weekly</a> instead.</p> <p>Well.. <em>Ruby Inside</em> is coming back! I have lot of Ruby related things I want to blog about, but I kept putting it off as I didn&rsquo;t have a good venue to use.. so why not bring Ruby Inside back?</p>