From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-29T02:30:41+09:00
Subject: Re: DataVision, jRuby and Ruby

On 1/28/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> > So ... does anyone here know if it will work with the current jRuby? I
> > don't have any test cases yet -- about all I know is that it installed
> > correctly on Gentoo with jRuby 0.9.2.
>
> That's a good question...DataVision is one of the oldest users of JRuby,
> since long before I was around. However I don't know if the author is
> still maintaining it or how well it will work with the latest and
> greatest JRuby releases.
>
> I'd sure love to see DataVision up and going again, if it isn't.

I'll contact Jim Menard and see if he knows more about this.

However, as far as I know Ruport is very close to running on JRuby and
would be happy to help get it working there, if someone provided us
with some bug reports... (list.rubyreports.org)

-greg