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Tom posted the announcements already, but JRuby 1.0.0RC3 is out in the wild! This release is our most important yet, because we intend for ...

One thing often touted as a missing feature in Ruby is the lack of a constructor form that initializes fields. A few other languages have th...

I love how meta-programmable Ruby is. JRuby doesn't support annotations because Ruby doesn't support annotations. So what! We can ex...

I've started a Google Group for all those interested in the future of alternative languages (i.e. not Java) on the JVM. A number of you ...

I've been invited to this year's Foo Camp . Since it sounds like a great time and there's a bunch of other folks going I'd l...

We're within weeks of a final JRuby 1.0. We've pared down the bugs that we think we can or must fix for 1.0 and this email is a su...

I just came across this amusing entry from an old, now-defunct blog of mine on LiveJournal. The last line pretty much says it all. I must ha...

Today Tom and I met with fellow language implementers Oti Humbel, Charlie Groves, and Tobias Ivarsson to start discussions about JSR-292 (in...

Big news today from ThoughtWorks Studios! Their collaborative development project management solution Mingle (think SourceForge, but pretty...

Yes, I've managed to secure a small order of JRuby t-shirts for giveaway at JavaOne and RailsConf. And they're pretty sweet, have a ...

Tom and I are giving our JRuby on Rails talk twice at JavaOne next week, and while wrestling with ScheduleBuilder I discovered something su...

Ok folks, this is the beginning. I'm going to try, in the midst of JavaOne Day Zero chaos, to run the first big *open* JVM dynamic langu...

The latest Ruby Blogging Contest hits close to home: What changes would make Ruby into a better language without making it into something th...

Since it looks like Antonio Cangiano is going to delay the next running of the bulls until Ubuntu 7.04 is released, I figured the next JRub...

Remember way back when the IRB applet was first thrust upon the world, and I promised that you truly could now use Ruby in the browser? At t...

Well friends, the countdown has begun. Within the next several weeks, we're looking at getting a 1.0 release out in either beta or RC fo...

I haven't blogged a solid JRuby update recently...and this one isn't going to be as solid as I'd like, but it should let you all...

# scripting.rb include Scriptable x = 'Hello' y = 'world' groovy << G def z = 'multilanguage' println("${...

I've spent some time this weekend looking over the Grails codebase. After a truly gigantic checkout (Grails bundles production JARs for...

See, here's the deal. I'm not a very advanced IDE user. I used Eclipse for years and JDE before that, and I wouldn't ever have c...