From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T15:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby still under development?

The JRuby mail list seems to indicate a 0.8 release in the next week or so.

Development has been active- the current recomendation on the JRuby
list is to grab CVS HEAD if you want to work around some of the 0.7
limitations.


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:17:06 +0900, Matt Mower <matt.mower@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm looking into using the Drools (www.drools.org) rule engine for a
> work project.  It's a RETE based rule engine implemented in Java which
> has pluggable semantic frameworks allowing rules & consequences to be
> expresed in a range of languages including Java, Groovy and Python.
> But not Ruby.
> 
> I'm very interested in the possibility of writing rules using domain
> specific languages.  Watching how Rails is evolving a simple language
> for MVC web applications it seems to me that Ruby would actually be a
> great fit with Drools.
> 
> However JRuby development appears to have stalled last March and the
> lastest release (v0.70) available from
> http://jruby.sourceforge.net/index.shtml is described as:
> 
>     "Interpreter now thinks it is a ruby 1.8 interpreter (though it
> still sometimes behaves like a 1.6 interpreter)"
> 
> Does anyone know what the status of the JRuby project is?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> --
> Matt Mower :: http://matt.blogs.it/
> 
> 


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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg