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Nick Sieger, a Sun coworker and fellow JRuby core team member, has posted the results of benchmarking his team's large Rails-based proje...

We're looking to do releases of a 1.1 beta and 1.0.2 over the next couple weeks, and we're hoping to pull in help from the community...

I've discovered a really awful bottleneck in REXML processing. Look at these results for parsing our build.xml: read content from stream...

As some of you may know, I've been busily migrating all method binding to use Java annotations. The main reasons for this are to simplif...

It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete. Tom and I have been traveling in Europe the past two weeks, first for ...

Recently, the JRuby team has gone through the motions of getting a definitive JRuby book underway. We've talked through outlines, some s...

At conferences and online, Tom and I have long been talking about a mystery deployment option coming soon from the GlassFish team. It would ...

Answer: Very Easy! Get the Code svn co http://svn.codehaus.org/jruby/trunk/jruby cd jruby ant Run Your Built JRuby export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/bi...

A couple interesting "Bossies" were awarded by InfoWorld this week: Best Open Source Programming Language - Summary: Ruby gets m...

Hello again friends! It's time to update you on the status of the JRuby compiler. Compiler Status I've been working feverishly for t...

I know, I know. It's got native code in it, and that's bad. It's using JNI, and that's bad. But damn, for the life of me I ...

I'm in the airport, but I wanted to add to the blogs reporting that JRuby 1.0.1 and Jython 2.2 have been released. JRuby 1.0.1 is basic...

OMG NetBeans Ruby support is so awesome. I just picked up some of the recent dailies, and it does stuff I just can't believe. But don...

We need diversity in the JVM Languages group , and it's been brought to my attention that some popular/key/interesting languages may not...

The facts: Sun and many other organizations have started considering moves to Mercurial . In Sun's case, it's a mandate for all Sun...

Someone pointed out to me the other day that the Alioth "Compuer Language Benchmarks Game" (as they call it now) had started to in...

Can it be true? Of course it can! Graeme Rocher blogs about a new feature in upcoming Groovy 1.1 beta 3: support for Ruby-style "method...

John Rose , lead of the "invokedynamic" effort ( Java Specification Request 292 ), has posted some exciting articles about the fut...

Compilers are hard. But not so hard as people would have you believe. I've committed an update that installs a CallAdapter for every com...

One of the most attractive aspects of Ruby is the fact that it has relatively few sacred keywords. In most cases, things you'd expect to...