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This is an article in a multi-part series called “A Rubyist’s Walk Along the C-side” In this article, we’ll explore how you can set up and build your very first Ruby C extension. At the end of this article, you will be able to write the following Ruby script, in C! This probably doesn’t look very exciting to you, bu...

How 1.5 is the Midpoint Between 0 and Infinity in Ruby — So maybe 3 is the meaning of life rather than 42? :-) Fun with Range#bsearch (which is a fun method to be familiar with, if you aren’t already) follows.

Hunting Down the Ruby 'Inplace' Bug — A writeup of an epic quest to find and slay a string corruption bug in Ruby that lurked in the bowels of C.

Peter's Adventures in Ruby: Garbage Collection in Ruby — A walk through the C source of the garbage collector that also explains the mark and sweep algorithm it uses. As Peter himself says: “I’ve been working on improving the GC in Ruby for several months now. The GC is pretty complex but also very interesting.”