= TinyRb

A tiny subset of Ruby with a Lua'esc VM.

Everything in TinyRb should run in the big Ruby.
(except bugs and things that don't comply to the principle of least surprise.)
But not everything in the big Ruby should run in TinyRb.

This is a work in progress and not usable for "real things" yet.
See TODO for a couple of those things that need to be done.

http://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb
#tinyrb on freenode

== Install
Install Ragel v6.3 or greater:

  wget http://www.complang.org/ragel/ragel-6.3.tar.gz
  tar xzf ragel-6.3.tar.gz
  cd ragel-6.3
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

Compile tinyrb:

  make
  make test # optional
  ./tinyrb -h

== What WON'T be in tinyrb
* alias keyword (see alias_method)
* undef keyword (see undefine_method)
* throw, catch
* Alternate string delimiters (%q, %Q, etc.)
* heredoc strings
* Parallel assignment (a, b = 1, 2)
* :: as . (Class::new)
* Character code literal (?c)
* protected, private, public (yes everything is public, mind you)
* ObjectSpace
* Regexp literal (not sure about this one yet)
* $SAFE (but Sandbox mode at the VM level)
* ... other to come for sure.

== Credits
Inspired by:
 lua,     http://www.lua.org
 tinypy,  http://tinypy.org
 potion,  http://github.com/why/potion

kvec.h and khash.h (c) 2008, by Attractive Chaos <attractivechaos@aol.co.uk>
GC Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers

(c) Marc-Andre Cournoyer <macournoyer@gmail.com>