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I just released BiteScript 0.0.2, which mainly fixes some issues defining packages and non-public classes. BiteScript is basically just a si...

A number of you have asked how you can help JRuby development. Well there's actually an easy way: fix RubySpec failures. You may have n...

Today David R. MacIver pinged me in #scala and asked "headius: Presumably you guys have spent quite a lot of time trying to make things...

I've merged changes into master (to be 1.3 soon) that should make Nailgun easier to use. And 1.3 will be the first release to include a...

In the spirit of Nick Sieger's short statement on the recent uproar over Matt Aimonetti's "pr0n star" talk, I'm posti...

I figured I'd give Typo a try on JRuby today. It has been working for quite a while, but with the GlassFish gem improving so much I thou...

It occurred to me today that a lot of people probably want a JRuby deployment option that works with a front-end web server. I present for y...

There's been a lot of supposition about the future lately, and I've certainly read and succumbed to the temptation of the prognostic...

We have successfully migrated JRuby development to Git! The main repository is on the JRuby kenai.com project , but most folks will just wan...

At least once a year there's a maelstrom of posts about a new Ruby implementation with stellar numbers. These numbers are usually based ...

Sigh. It must be that time of year again. Another partially-completed Ruby implementation has started to get overhyped because of early perf...

I have finally released the first version of BiteScript , my little DSL for generating JVM bytecode. Install it as a gem with "gem inst...

I did another pass on compiler2 , and managed to wire in signature support. So let's look at a couple examples: class MyRubyClass def h...

"Compiler #2" as it has been affectionately called is a compiler to turn normal Ruby classes into Java classes, so they can be con...

With JRuby 1.2 almost out the door, I want to talk a bit about where we should go with JRuby 1.3. There's always more work to do, but in...

A number of folks have asked us over the years whether JRuby could run on a Java ME-enabled device. I've always said I believed it would...

Ok, so I intentionally made my last post a bit of a "tease". You can't fault me for trying to drum up a little buzz, yeah? An...

# cat test.rb require 'java' import java.lang.System class Ruboto def greet(who) puts "Hello, #{who}!" end end name = Sy...

We get a lot of bug reports on the JRuby project. No, it's not because JRuby's a buggy POS. It's because we're implementing ...