YARV and Rails

why just pointed to an entry in Minero Aoki's blog, concluding that Rails is running against the current YARV codebase.

They're not not quite there yet. I just pulled the latest code from the YARV SVN repository, built it on cygwin and tried it out. What is shown in that blog entry does run. You can compile Ruby 2.0/YARV, install it, install rubygems, copy over all your rails related gems, and start up webrick. But it can only spit out static files, like the supplied index.html file.

I tried running against one of my own rails projects, and received errors about the method exclusive missing from the YARV implementation of the Thread class. I also tried clicking the "About your application's environment" link on the supplied static homepage with Rails - and received a segmentation fault.

Sorry, I hate to be a downer. But we're just not close to running a full blown rails instance on YARV right now. But, if enough of us bother to test out YARV, maybe we can help out ironing out the bugs standing in our way. Stay tuned for instructions for the poor Windows folks on getting the latest YARV, building it and running it...