We've been very productive on JRuby over the past week. Progress is being made on many fronts, and I'm more excited than ever about JRuby's potential. Here's a few updates on Rails, IRB, and JRuby's future for those of you following along. It's a long post, but each subsection stands...

I will admit it. I'm fed up with Ant.
My current charge has me as architect for a number of larger applications and the platform on which they run--perhaps over 1Mloc total from DB to front-end. These applications must be deployable across several environments (dev, integ, qa, ua, prod, prod...

I've been making good progress on my end of the Rails-on-JRuby work. I have been focusing on getting the "generate" script working, and as a result fixing multiple bugs and minor issues as they come up. Here's an update.
The most recent issue, now apparently mostly fixed, involved evaluating a...

I heard from a friend of mine at Object Partners that JRuby was being used with Spring and Hibernate for rapid prototyping of applications, and today I stumbled across a blog entry by the guy that's doing it.
Bogle’s Blog » Ruby On Spring...

We're on for the second meeting of the Twin Cities Ruby Users Group (official name pending). The details are available on the group's home page, but the basics are that it's at Digital River in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, on January 31st at 7:30PM CST. We're hoping to have a big...

I think it's perfect to start this blog with some good news: Tom Enebo and I have been accepted to present JRuby at this year's JavaOne conference. It will be a technical session (yay!) and we hope to pack in as much practical and technical information as possible on all...

I've been up for 24 hours, working on JRuby for about 20 of those. I thought it might be a good time to start a tech blog of my own.
More to come...