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The only gems that do not work are those which are not pure ruby. For the popular gems I think there have been rewrites. I haven't looked into JRuby but it has
by boundlessdreamz 14y ago
The only gems that do not work are those which are not pure ruby. For the popular gems I think there have been rewrites. I haven't looked into JRuby but it has changed quite a bit in the last year from what I read
- johnb 14y agoI don't think that's true. There are plenty of threadsafe gems with C extensions, and plenty of non-threadsafe pure ruby gems that mutate class/class-instance variable willy-nilly.
- boundlessdreamz 14y agogems with C extensions are not supported https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/C-Extension-Alternatives https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/C-Extension-Alternatives I forgot about thread safety in pure ruby gems but that is not a huge problem - https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Gems-known-not-to-be-threadsafe https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Gems-known-not-to-be-thr...