The future of Ragel & Ruby

[ioquatix]

Thanks for creating ragel, it's great and I use it in a Ruby template parser: https://github.com/socketry/xrb

I'd like to understand a bit more about how I move forward as a user of ragel.

I see that 7.x was released, but 6.x is still commonly used.

I'm generating both C and Ruby implementations (as a fallback for JRuby/TruffleRuby/environments that don't have a compiler).

The Ruby code could be improved but I'm not sure how to contribute back those improvements. In other words, the actual Ruby code generated by Ragel 6.x chooses some less than optimal code generation strategies.

1. Should I start considering how to use Ragel 7 and if so, how do I generate Ruby output?
2. Is there a way to contribute back better Ruby code generation strategies to 6.x?