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Amazon this week announced Elastic Beanstalk , a managed Apache Tomcat service for AWS. Naturally, I had to try JRuby on it. First, the bad...

JRuby is an implementation of Ruby, and in order to achieve the high level of compatibility we boast we've had to put in some extra work...

Sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference in the world. For a long time, we've extolled the virtues of the amazi...

Another present for you JRubyists out there! JRuby has had notoriously bad startup times. Not as bad as, say, IronRuby (sorry guys!), but de...

This should be a great Christmas present for many of you. After over three years, the "ruby-debug" gem finally installs properly o...

This was going to be a reply to a friend on Twitter, when I realized it would be several tweets and I might as well put them in one place. G...

(This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2004, which I stumbled upon this evening and thought worthy of a reprint. Feel free to rip it up ...

As you've probably heard by now, Oracle has decided to file suit against Google, claiming multiple counts of infringement against Java o...

As part of the Ruby Summer of Code, Tim Felgentreff has been building out C extension support for JRuby. He's already made great progre...