From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T22:47:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 15:00:06 schrieb Mark Thomas:
> On Apr 14, 4:21 am, Michael Neumann <mneum...@ntecs.de> wrote:
> > Sure. But does it give us more quality? My own (limited) experience
> > with Java was that it's very hard to find a usable, bug-free HTML
> > parser in Java (TagSoup without bugs), which on the other hand was
> > very easy in Ruby (Hpricot).
>
> Hmm...
>
>  > jruby -S gem install hpricot
>
>  JRuby limited openssl loaded. gem install jruby-openssl for full
> support.
>  Successfully installed hpricot-0.6.161-java
>  1 gem installed
>  Installing ri documentation for hpricot-0.6.161-java...
>  Installing RDoc documentation for hpricot-0.6.161-java...

Notice my use of "was", where "was" means Summer 2007 :)

And it's definitively great to be able to use hpricot on JRuby!

Regards,

  Michael