Artichoke is a platform for building MRI-compatible Ruby implementations. Artichoke provides a Ruby runtime implemented in Rust that can be loaded into many VM backends. Rubies implemented with Artichoke will be source and C API compatible with MRI Ruby 2.6.3.

Artichoke Ruby Wasm Playground

You can try Artichoke in your browser. The Artichoke Playground runs a WebAssembly build of Artichoke.

If you would prefer to run a local build, you can set up a Rust toolchain and launch an interactive Artichoke shell with:

cargo run -p artichoke-frontend --bin airb

Artichoke is designed to enable experimentation. The top goals of the project are:

• Support WebAssembly as a build target.
• Support embedding and executing Ruby in untrusted environments.
• Distribute Ruby applications as single-binary artifacts.
• Implement Ruby with state-of-the-art dependencies.
• Experiment with VMs to support dynamic codegen, ahead of time compilation, parallelism and eliminating the GIL, and novel memory management and garbage collection techniques.

Artichoke aspires to be a Ruby 2.6.3-compatible implementation of the Ruby programming language. There is lots to do.

If Artichoke does not run Ruby source code in the same way that MRI does, it is a bug and we would appreciate if you filed an issue so we can fix it.

If you would like to contribute code 👩‍💻👨‍💻, find an issue that looks interesting and leave a comment that you're beginning to investigate. If there is no issue, please file one before beginning to work on a PR. Good first issues are labeled E-easy.

If you'd like to engage in a discussion outside of GitHub, you can join Artichoke's public Discord server.