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JRuby 1.1.3 Released

Robert Dempsey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:37:58 GMT

JRuby 1.1.3 was released on July 19th. This release includes "primarily obvious compatibility problems and performance enhancements." The highlights of this release, per the official post by Thomas Enebo are: - RubyGems 1.2 - Greatly improved interpreter performance - jrubyc compiler usability improvements and bug fixes - Reduced memory usage and object churn - Dozens of IO-related and core class RubySpec fixes + reduced memory for IO - ThreadGroup fixes to resolve Mongrel "dead thread" issues - New options/properties for tweaking JIT, thread pooling, and more - Block invocation performance improvements - Much faster Time performance - Much better support for --debug - Mentioning that context classloader fix would be nice (since it quite user visible, and many users seen/asked for it). JRUBY-2495 - 82 issues resolved since JRuby 1.1.2 Read the official release: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/07/19/JRuby+1.1.3+Released Download the 1.1.3 release at http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/

Rolling a JRuby Desktop Application

Peter Cooper — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:52:15 GMT

An in-depth look at how to package together and deploy a JRuby application as a JAR.

JRuby Swing IRB with antaliasing

Martin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:35:16 GMT

How to set up antialiasing for jirb_swing on Windows

JRuby Screencasts

Mario Aquino — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:07:17 GMT

I have posted two JRuby/Swing-related screencasts: the first on Cheri (cheri.rubyforge.org) and the second on Monkeybars (monkeybars.org). The site isn't exclusively for JRuby content, that just happens to be what the first two screencasts are on.

Glassfish JRuby gem 0.3.0 released

JRuby Inside — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:01:18 GMT

I just released GlassFish gem 0.3.0. This is a bug fix release with few enhancements.

Glimmer - Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces

JRuby Inside — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:16:04 GMT

Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate synchronizing UI with domain models. The goal of the Glimmer project is to create a JRuby framework on top of Eclipse technologies to enable easy and efficient authoring of desktop applications by taking advantage of the Ruby language. With Glimmer having just become an Eclipse project, it's a good time to find out more.

The Future of JRuby with Thomas Enebo - Core JRuby Developer

JRuby Inside — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:46:11 GMT

JRuby is by far the most popular Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. The 1.1.2 version has just been released with improvements in startup time, performance and threading. Thomas Enebo, one of the main JRuby developers, recently talked to me about the popularity of the language, the JRuby project, and when it's right to use Ruby over Java.

JRuby 1.1.2 Released

Chumney Warner — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:38:23 GMT

Thomas Enebo has announced the latest point release of the JRuby 1.1 series. JRuby 1.1.2 features about 100 bug fixes along with some performance enhancements.

JRuby Pre-RailsConf Hackfest on Thursday

JRuby Inside — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:25:00 GMT

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JRuby on Rails Fighting Infectious Disease

JRuby Inside — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:24:00 GMT

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