As I understand it, prior to Ruby 1.9, MRI and YARV were two separate implementations of the Ruby programming language. What exactly changed in Ruby version 1.9? Was MRI abandoned in favour of YAR...

I have two MR acquisitions where the first one is a 3D acquisition (1x1x1 mm3) and the second is a 2D acquisition (2.24 x 2.24 x 5.00 mm, axial slices). The high resolution dataset is a full head 3...

I am trying to understand when memory allocated off the Ruby heap gets returned to the operating system. I understand that Ruby never returns memory allocated to it's heap but I am still not sure a...

I'm considering updating our ruby interpreter to JRuby, it's been quite a headache because we've had to remove any 2.x specific syntax from our app and resort to ruby 1.9.3 compatibility. Which isn...