# Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale

DevFeed: [Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shopify-invests-in-research-for-ruby-at-scale-1606.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-investment>)

Author: Chris Seaton

Published: 2022-05-16T14:00:02Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>)

Tags: [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [programming-language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming-language.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify is funding academic research to improve Ruby and address the needs of the Ruby community at scale. The article describes research into inline caching, C interpretation, dynamic-language optimization, and automatically generating a just-in-time compiler for Ruby.

## Source excerpt

Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.