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Jruby lets your ruby code use any Java library and gui toolkit. This is quite useful. Also, if you work at a Java shop having stuff run on the JVM affords a w

Jruby lets your ruby code use any Java library and gui toolkit. This is quite useful. Also, if you work at a Java shop having stuff run on the JVM affords a way to sneak in new tech. :)

moondowner 13y ago
In my opinion (I'm a Java dev), the main benefits are being able to run RoR apps on TorqueBox[1] or some other JRuby server[2] and benefit the clustering, HA and other stuff that go with it; and 'the use of "true" native threads'[3]. [1] http://torquebox.org/ http://torquebox.org/ [2] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Servers https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Servers [3] http://www.restlessprogrammer.com/2013/02/multi-threading-in-jruby.html http://www.restlessprogrammer.com/2013/02/multi-threading-in...