From: Carter Cheng Date: 2011-10-17T15:47:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and threading --20cf3079ba6831d02f04af78f915 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I gather then the 1.9.2. implementation at present does not "exploit" OS level threads (where as JRuby borrows them from the underlying JVM in some manner)? On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Richard Conroy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Josh Cheek wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Alexey Petrushin > > wrote: > > > > > Is there any big projects using jRuby? It seems that jRuby is available > > > for a long time, but still has not very much attention. > > > > > > > > Obtiva (who is now owned by Groupon) gave a JRuby workshop at Red Dirt > Ruby > > Conf. The presenters, Tyler Jennings, and Noel Rappin, said that they > were > > using JRuby on a large client site, which was initially written in Java, > > and > > then their new portion was written in Rails, and they were coexisting via > > JRuby. > > > > In London there are a few big name companies following this MO. > > They wrap up a legacy Java app with Ruby based acceptance tests > (cucumber/capybara is popular), and then extend the app with Ruby based > extensions (no new production code with Java). > > JRuby glues up a lot of it - companies have put a lot of investment in a > Java-based operations backend. JRuby lets them keep it. Its just the JSP > grunge that they want to be rid of. > > > -- > http://richardconroy.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/RichardConroy > --20cf3079ba6831d02f04af78f915--