This is exactly why our company is using a combination of JRuby and Java. There's some big "infrastructure" bits (like search) that really are better done in J

This is exactly why our company is using a combination of JRuby and Java. There's some big "infrastructure" bits (like search) that really are better done in Java, and it's wonderful to be able to leverage that while still using nice terse Ruby for the majority of our code. There are those that prefer to use MRI or YARV with C, and more power to 'em. However, I'm getting too old and lazy to spend all my time chasing down memory bugs.