Using RabbitMQ, Spring AMQP and Spring Integration

31 Aug 2010

I've recently done a proof of concept using RabbitMQ, Spring AMQP and Spring Integration. This...

21 Jul 2010

In over ten years of experience building software, there are patterns and nuances that you...

Growl for JRuby

13 Jul 2010

I set out to find an elegant solution to providing growl notifications for a JRuby...

heroku no app specified

05 May 2010

I've started playing around with Heroku lately and ran into an issue when I created...

Function-based Indexes in Oracle

30 Apr 2010

I've been meaning to investigate something that came to mind a while back and just...

JRuby 1.1 Beta Faster than MRI

Published: 05 Nov 2007

Exciting news for those of you that are following the break-neck pace of JRuby. Thomas Enebo has announced that the JRuby 1.1 beta (released this past weekend) is faster than the original implementation.

Today, Charles Nutter also announced that JRuby is currently faster than Ruby in 14 out of 18 benchmarks and gives specific reasons for the 4 tests that still lag behind.

What does all of this mean? Well, combined with the ever growing Ruby and JRuby community and the increasing performance of JRuby, expect to see an explosion of JRuby implementations including in the enterprise. Since JRuby is now the fastest implementation of Ruby on Rails you can expect to see tons of Java developers as well as Ruby enthusiasts to start giving JRuby more than just a once over.