From: Charles O Nutter Date: 2006-08-03T14:40:17+09:00 Subject: [ANN] JRuby Extras - making Ruby apps spectacular in the Java world ------=_Part_79183_6726644.1154583615426 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I'm happy to announce the JRuby Extras project, on RubyForge as jruby-extras. This project is intended to be a community-maintained nursery of plugins and extensions to extend JRuby's capabilities and to provide Java-based versions of many popular C extensions. Here's a short list of projects to be nurtured under the JRuby Extras banner: - A Mongrel for JRuby, with Java-based http11 and tst extensions - An ActiveRecord JDBC adapter, which will eventually promise full database independence for Rails apps - A set of Java-aware Rake tasks to finally allow poor, sad Java developers to eliminate ten-thousand-line Ant scripts for their builds - An "AntBuilder" project, to allow defining those ten-thousand-line ant scripts in something less similar to angle-bracket insanity - And much more to come! JRuby opens up a whole new world to Rubyists, but there are little gaps to fill to support all the popular apps. JRuby Extras will be the answer to those gaps. Success for Ruby on the JVM means more success for Ruby overall...and that's what we all want, isn't it? Anyone interested in porting an extension to Java or making their favorite Ruby app run under JRuby should join the project! Visit jruby-extras at RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/jruby-extras/ And for those of you interested, JRuby has moved to Codehaus as of this week. We're blazing ahead on performance and compatibility initiatives, and the future is looking great for Ruby on the JVM. Visit http://www.jruby.org Thank you! -- Contribute to RubySpec! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com Ruby User @ ruby.mn JRuby Developer @ www.jruby.org Application Architect @ www.ventera.com ------=_Part_79183_6726644.1154583615426--