http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/kyle-maxwell-jruby-in-the-wild en-us 40 <p>Jruby is already kind of an easy sell in big companies. It&#8217;s the quickness of rails with the familiarity of java.</p> <p>But&#8230;</p> <p>I&#8217;m not trying to to sell JRuby to enterprises [well clearly, or else he wouldn&#8217;t be giving this talk at rubyconf].</p> <p>JRuby can work well, even for startups &#8211; it&#8217;s just about choosing the best tool for the job.</p> <p>Why might one choose JRuby?</p> <ul> <li>performance</li> <li>library support (in fact, we wanted Lucene for search!)</li> <li>extending the language without using C</li> </ul> <p>Getting started:</p> <ul> <li>easy install</li> <li>don&#8217;t use textmate to code java</li> <li>casting can be tricky (java needs arrays to have only one type of object in them, ruby not so much)</li> </ul> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:56:00 -0700 urn:uuid:3f1cbf41-244d-42d2-8451-bd34cfa829dc Kevin http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/kyle-maxwell-jruby-in-the-wild Rubyconf http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/trackback/1868