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JRuby Regular Expressions

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
The Regular Expression support in JRuby is about to be revamped. I will here detail my plans for this work, and also some of the reasons for it. This post...

Post Rails meetup

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Last evening was very nice. We usually have a good time at the Rails meetups, hosted by Valtech. Yesterday it started out with Dr Nic William, who spoke...

Some JRuby updates

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
So, there is prime time for JRuby now. So much, in fact, that I haven't had time to blog properly for a while. And won't have for a few days more. In the...

On ActiveRecord-JDBC performance

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I have been a bit concerned about the performance of our component that connects ActiveRecord with JDBC. Since ActiveRecord demands that every result of...

SuperRedCloth

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
RedCloth is cool. SuperRedCloth is cooler, faster, nicer, and all in all such a treat. And it works on JRuby now. At the time of writing, I haven't really...

Mongrel in JRuby

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
As I have told you before, we have been working on getting Mongrel working in JRuby off and on for a long while. One or two months ago, I got the Ragel...

Can your Ruby do this?

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Recipe (should be baked with Java 6 for maximum pleasure):Take one large Rails application with good Selenium test baseConvert database configuration to...

ActiveHibernate - Any takers?

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
This is a call for action. JRuby on Rails is getting more stable each day, and JRuby performance is consistently improving. This means that JRuby on Rails...

The State of JRuby

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
It's been sort of quiet on the JRuby front for a few weeks, so I thought I'd give a heads up on what things we're working on at the moment. At the moment...

Me presenting JRuby

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I totally forgot about this; 4-6 weeks ago, I did a presentation for the local Railsgroup here in Stockholm; since Dr Nic was there, I decided to improve...