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I think the biggest problem is the number of gems with native libraries. I switched to JRuby, and felt a lot less pain. Now if only it had a faster startup...

• kunley 17y ago
  Btw you can try nailgun to start JRuby's JVM once. See your $jruby/tool/nailgun/
  • rubinelli 17y ago
    I looked into it and it's definitely interesting. It's just a pity NetBeans doesn't use it (and given the current situation, probably never will). Anyway, thanks for the tip.