Hello, JRuby!

Posted by Jeremy Voorhis Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:06:00 GMT

By now, I’m sure you have read that Sun is serious about JRuby. I have no practical reason to use JRuby myself, but I decided to kick the tires anyway. Here is a screenshot of a session where I am playing with JRuby’s high-level Java integration.

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  1. ifhere said about 17 hours later:

    Being able to have access to Java graphics libraries via Ruby is pretty great.

    I have started a small project going using it, http://ifhere.org/dynamite

    Dynamite give you access to the http://processing.org api. Lots of fun, although not super fast.

  2. somekool said 4 days later:

    looks pretty cool. have you tried QtRuby as well. its darn easy to write multiplateform GUI in Ruby with it.

  3. JV said 4 days later:

    QtRuby is good, and it’s definitely a more appropriate option than SWT for “serious” applications. Because Java classes that you subclass with Ruby are not visible to Java, there are many things you just cannot do with JRuby and SWT yet. That should change when we have a bytecode compiler.

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