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I've been toying with the idea of rewriting the JRuby compiler in Ruby, or at least writing the appropriate plumbing that would allow so...

You know Ruby. You've been coding up Ruby apps for a while now. You've seen the power and the magic that Ruby offers developers, and...

In response to my post about the Ruby community needing an autotranslator for the key mailing lists, due to the language barrier between En...

For those of you that don't know, RejectConf started last year at RubyConf 2006 in Denver because Ryan Davis (zenspider; author of the m...

As many of you know, Ruby was created in Japan by Yukihiro Matsumoto, and most of the core development team is still Japanese to this day. T...

Oh yes, you all know you love the Alioth Shootout. Isaac Gouy has updated the JRuby numbers, and modified the default comparison to be with ...

A bit ago, I was catching up on my feeds and noticed that Neal Gafter had announced the first prototype of Java closures . I've been a f...

I've posted about TIOBE here before. The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languag...

The latest craze at conferences, especially those associated with O'Reilly or Ruby, is the game Werewolf (historically known as Mafia, b...

I'm at RubyConf this weekend, the A-list gathering of Ruby dignitaries. Perhaps one day I'll be considered among them. At any rate, ...

For those of you looking to start helping JRuby along, here's a few open 1.0.2 bugs that would be pretty easy for a newb to look at. The...

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...