The Ruby devroom is a focused developer room around the Ruby programming language and the open source projects which implement it. While the Ruby community does have a number of regional conferences devoted to its use, opportunities for those interested in the "how it works" of Ruby interpreters and virtual machines are practically non-existent. The goal of this developer room is to discuss:

• The current state of the Ruby language
• Techniques employed by various VMs and their effectiveness
• Upcoming Ruby language features, and the challenges/benefits that they provide
• Tools and practices used to certify Ruby language conformity and performance
• Costs and Opportunities provided by the multitude of implementations