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It's very relevant, and very active.

Evan Phoenix (the creator) left in 2012 to work for LivingSocial. EngineYard, his former employer, had been funding work on it last I heard, but there haven't been any releases since 2011.

http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2012/03/28/a-new-door-opens/

Only in the same sense that there haven't been any Arch releases...

EDIT: Just checked. If you `rvm install rbx`, you get code written today.

> there haven't been any releases since 2011.

Every commit is a release of rbx. Yay continuous integration!

That said, there hasn't been a numbered release in a while, through there will be a 2.0.

Yes, sorry for not being clearer. I'm basing the "there hasn't been a release since 2011" comment off of the Rubinius homepage, where the last numbered release is 1.2.4.

The Rubinius 2.0 preview release came out in June 2011: http://rubini.us/2011/06/07/inside-rubinius-20-preview/

I really wish Rubinius has become Ruby 2.0. Making Ruby more Ruby and less C opens lots of doors.