From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T23:43:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 0.9.8 released

Thomas Enebo wrote:
> The JRuby team is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 0.9.8.
> 
> Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
> Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/
> 
> This release has some great improvements:
> 
> - Ruby on Rails support. We have been working hard on getting Rails own 
> unit
> tests running and over 98%* of them now run successfully. We feel things 
> are
> running well enough to invite Ruby users to kick the tires and help root 
> out
> any final issues.

We are actively looking for folks with pure-Ruby Rails apps (i.e. no 
critical extensions) to help test them out on JRuby 0.9.8. I've already 
heard from a couple folks whose apps started up and "just worked". We 
know things aren't going to be perfect with Rails support, but it's 
pretty darn close.

Feel free to communicate with me or Tom directly about issues you find, 
or even better: join the mailing lists and report issues at jruby.org.

- Charlie