It was only a week ago I was waxing philosophically about Enterprise Software and mentioned that Ruby was in the early stages of running on the JVM and .NET CLR and just today Sun announced that they're hiring the JRuby developers to continue their work full time at Sun. Wow! That's big news. Maybe mainstream Ruby on Rails development won't be far behind... Ahh the winds of change.
P.S. I tried JRuby a few weeks ago after Rails went to 1.1.6. The Gem system actually worked to fetch rails and I was able to create a skeleton rails app and start webbrick. It didn't work much more than that (which was still very impressive) and it was definitely slow but that proof of concept gives my high hopes for this project.
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