jRuby 1.6.8 / 1.7.0.RC1

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Ruby is closely integrated with Java to allow embedding of the interpreter into any Java application with dual access between the Java environment and the Ruby scripts.

jRuby it's platform independent and has built-in support for Rails, RSpec, Rake, and the RubyGems frameworks.

Here are some key features of "jRuby":

· Platform independent
· Easy to install and migrate
· Documentation
· High performance environment
· Threading
· Works with Ruby 1.8.7 & 1.9.2

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Many 1.9.x compatibility fixes
· invokedynamic has been disabled for now on Java 7 (still on by default on Java 8)
· Performance and concurrency improvements
· Java 5 support dropped (Java 6+ required)
· Several IO transcoding issues
· YAML now encodes scalars properly instead of using Java locale
· Kernel#exec now does a true native exec on all platforms
· Improvements and fixes to Java integration and embedding
· Fix several native support issues on Solaris

Via: jRuby 1.6.8 / 1.7.0.RC1