Ruby Summer of Code

Evan Phoenix

Los Angeles, CA


Mentor, Project #18

GitHub: evanphx

Twitter: evanphx



Bio: Evan started Rubinius in 2006 as a new Ruby interpreter, most of which is written in Ruby, which means Ruby developers can contribute to the language. He is currently employed by Engine Yard.

Presented by



  • Engine Yard Rails Hosting
  • Ruby Central
  • Ruby on Rails Core Team

Full Project Sponsors


  • 37signals
  • Phusion
  • Pivotal Labs
  • New Relic
  • O'Reilly
  • Entryway
  • Heroku
  • Hashrocket
  • Shopify
  • VMware
  • Thoughtbot
  • Yammer

Half Project Sponsors


  • entp
  • The Frontier Group
  • Intridea
  • Braintree
  • Aptana
  • Harvest
  • Blue Box Group
  • Chargify
  • RubyMine
  • Puppet Labs
  • CUBox