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## What is Rubinius

Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.

Rubinius includes a bytecode virtual machine, Ruby syntax parser, bytecode compiler, generational garbage collector, just-in-time (JIT) native machine code compiler, and Ruby Core and Standard libraries.

Rubinius currently implements Ruby version 1.8.7.

## License

Rubinius uses the BSD license. See the LICENSE file in the source.

## Installing

Rubinius runs on Mac OS X and many Unix/Linux operating systems. Support for Microsoft Windows is coming soon.

To install Rubinius, use the following steps. For more detailed information, see Getting Started.

1. `git clone git://github.com/rubinius/rubinius.git`
2. `cd rubinius`
3. `./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/dir`
4. `rake install`

When the install process finishes, follow the directions to add the Rubinius executable (bin) directory to your PATH.

Rubinius comes with RubyGems built-in and has rake and rdoc gems pre-installed. To install the nokogiri gem, for example, run `rbx gem install nokogiri`.