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My friends, the end of the road is in sight for official Rails support. Tom, Ola, and I have been working over the past week to get remainin...

I created JRUBY-501 to track performance improvements to Java integration, since it's come to light recently that it may be one of our ...

Roundup! Martin Fowler enjoys using JRuby with Velocity Jean Lazarou creates an F3 clone with JRuby Ashish Sahni posts a walkthrough for...

Times they are a-changing. I posted previously on JRuby's compiler work. There have been various iterations of the compiler, many purely...

Who knew writing a compiler could be so much fun. I managed to accomplish two things tonight. It's late and I have a flight home tomorro...

Tor, you sneaky devil. You tagged me before anyone else had a chance. You grabbed the brass ring. Kudos. So to continue the "5 Things...

The headline says it all, really! The TIOBE Programming Community Index measures language popularity based on "the world-wide availabi...

I've been cranking away on the new compiler. I'm a bit tired and planning to get some sleep, but I've gotten the following worki...

Over time I've become less convinced that hotswappable classes would be an absolute requirement for the proposed invokedynamic bytecode...

Congratulations to the Groovy team on their release of Groovy 1.0! Groovy is another dynamic language for the JVM inspired by features in Sm...

The team has grown again! After I asked the JRuby community to nominate a new team member, based on past code, mailing list, documentation, ...

Evan Phoenix (of Rubinius fame) were discussing dynamic dispatch today on #rubinius, sharing our caching strategies and our dispatch woes. W...

This week (what's left of it) I'm spending on performance again. It's officially a holiday for Sun, so I'm not technically o...

There will be two JRuby talks at JavaPolis. The first is part of the "University" sessions tomorrow. We're the middle hour of ...

Another conference, another meetup! JRuby JavaPolis Meetup Join us! We haven't decided on a location, and we're taking suggestions. ...

Damian Steer, regular JRuby contributor, has taken the IRB applet and run with it . He's gotten readline working (history, line editing,...

Ashish Sahni has posted instructions for packaging a Rails app as a WAR on his blog, based on the work of a number of JRuby community membe...

Tor Norbye is a programming machine on par with the legendary Ola of Bini. He's the one-man force working on NetBeans Ruby support, and ...

Now this is really cool. Tony Hursh, commenter on the previous "Advanced Rails Deployment" post, put together an OS X Application ...

I'm trying to be 100% NetBeans these days, and I'll be documenting tips and tricks as I learn them. Hopefully others going through t...