Fwd: JRuby RedCloth progress

Has anyone done any work on JRuby RedCloth? If so, please respond
(see below). Also respond if you have ideas about getting around this
problem without it getting too ugly.

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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Jason G. [email protected] wrote:

Has anyone done any work on JRuby RedCloth? If so, please respond (see
below). Also respond if you have ideas about getting around this problem
without it getting too ugly.

To help shed more light on the situation…

In my port attempt (http://github.com/chadj/redcloth/tree/jruby) I was
planning on using the annotation enabled routines for binding Java
methods to JRuby methods. My intent was to sub-class RubyString
directly in Java to implement RedCloth::TextileDoc. Well, that
approach won’t work until RubyString can be subclassed
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3039).

I’m curious to see what approach the other folks who’ve attempted the
port have taken.

-Chad J