I'll agree that its outside the mainstream, but certainly less so than in the past. But I'll say that being outside the mainstream isn't necessarily a bad thin

I'll agree that its outside the mainstream, but certainly less so than in the past. But I'll say that being outside the mainstream isn't necessarily a bad thing when so many gems rely on C extensions that tend to be flaky. Watching proceedings for any ruby conference a reoccurring theme is that people doing things that everyone is interested in tend to be doing it on the jruby implementation.