Nick Sieger: Three Years of JRuby on Railstag:blog.nicksieger.com,2005:TypoTypo2009-05-27T12:48:55+00:00Kotlina Klodzkaurn:uuid:d1024c9f-e56a-454e-9388-38bacd5d09102009-05-27T12:48:52+00:002009-05-27T12:48:55+00:00Comment on Three Years of JRuby on Rails by Kotlina Klodzka<p>Congratulations! May the next 3 years be at least as successful as the last. Keep up the good work.</p>Jakeurn:uuid:88b71f09-9a22-4aab-acfd-f2570dcbbee82009-05-14T16:34:27+00:002009-05-14T16:34:29+00:00Comment on Three Years of JRuby on Rails by Jake<p>We’ve been active with JRuby beyond Oracle Mix. Its internal sibling, Connect, is also JRuby. We recently did a redesign you can read about here:
<a href='http://theappslab' rel="nofollow">http://theappslab</a>.com/2009/05/12/whats-new-in-connect-40/</p>
<p>Keep up the excellent work.</p>Justinurn:uuid:873c8747-bee1-4b2a-a0d3-624c2470573e2009-05-14T15:53:09+00:002009-05-14T15:53:11+00:00Comment on Three Years of JRuby on Rails by Justin<p>Congratulations guys. You’ve been a big help to me!</p>Mike McKinneyurn:uuid:4ef70823-41f9-4397-b6ea-0840432432f72009-05-13T23:22:16+00:002009-05-13T23:22:18+00:00Comment on Three Years of JRuby on Rails by Mike McKinney<p>Cheers!!!</p>Nick Siegerurn:uuid:5784f974-c56e-4e9f-81a2-6cd7a56aa45d2009-05-13T21:21:37+00:002009-05-13T21:21:37+00:00Three Years of JRuby on Rails<p>Just yesterday the <a href="http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/05/and-they-said-jruby-was-dead.html">3-year mark of JRuby running Rails passed by</a>. In the intervening period since JRuby first started to run Rails, we’ve seen:</p>
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<li><a href="http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/sources/main/revision/2fc4a1817ce86cfdbc7af416f9c8595be5b5d248">6715 commits to JRuby</a> and counting (via <code>git-rev-list --pretty=oneline 2fc4a18..HEAD | wc -l</code>)</li>
<li><a href="http://jruby.markmail.org/">Over 40,000 messages to the JRuby mailing lists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY">3645 issues opened, 3019 of those already closed</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby">18 JRuby releases</a> (0.9.0 to 1.2), with <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2009/05/01/JRuby+1.3.0RC1+Released">1.3 coming soon</a></li>
<li>The birth of <a href="/articles/2006/05/15/jruby-on-rails-and-activerecord-on-jdbc">activerecord-jdbc</a>, <a href="/articles/2008/05/08/introducing-jruby-rack">jruby-rack</a>, <a href="http://jetty-rails.rubyforge.org/">jetty-rails</a>, <a href="http://glassfishgem.rubyforge.org/">glassfish gem</a> and many other projects to make running Rails on JRuby as seamless as possible</li>
<li><a href="http://kenai.com">Kenai.com</a>, <a href="http://mix.oracle.com/">Oracle Mix</a>, and a <a href="http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Success_Stories">growing list of production sites running JRuby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.headius.com/2008/10/ffi-for-ruby-now-available.html">FFI support</a> allowing JRuby to interact with native code</li>
<li><a href="http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/">JRuby and Rails running on Google App Engine</a></li>
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<p>And yet, JRuby still has plenty of untapped potential and room for growth and adoption: in the existing Ruby and Rails communities where JRuby is showing promise as a stable, performant, concurrency-enabled, and leak-proof platform; and as a transformative force to capture the mindshare of a huge army of Java developers who aren’t even aware that there’s a language and runtime that allows them to preserve their skills and existing code while developing new applications faster and with much greater enjoyment.</p>
<p>Here’s looking to the future of continued growth for JRuby over the next three years. The best is yet to come!</p>