# Any news on JRuby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-news-on-jruby/81091>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 3, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-news-on-jruby/81091 "2007-01-03T19:48:00Z")\
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I saw a post on some board a while ago and wanted to know if anybody had  
heard anything about the current state of JRuby? Some folks on  
technical governance board at work were asking about it.

Last I heard was that maybe 80% of Rails 1.1 was working. Or am I  
incorrect?

Thanks!

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-news-on-jruby/81091/2 "2007-01-03T20:06:09Z")

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On 1/3/07, Steve K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I saw a post on some board a while ago and wanted to know if anybody had  
> heard anything about the current state of JRuby? Some folks on  
> technical governance board at work were asking about it.
> 
> Last I heard was that maybe 80% of Rails 1.1 was working. Or am I  
> incorrect?

It’s around that, yes, but we sure would appreciate folks who have the  
time  
to try their apps out and let us know where there are holes. There is  
some  
documentation of test results here which look promising [1](http://www.headius.com/jrubywiki/index.php/Rails_Support), but it’s a  
little out of date.

Cheers,  
/Nick

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-news-on-jruby/81091/3 "2007-01-03T20:55:35Z")

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Wow! Thanks for the quick response!

I’m definately interested in this…and it would make sellign RoR to  
management a lot easier.

I’ll have to try downloading it and giving it a shot.

Thanks

MudDawg

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-news-on-jruby/81091/4 "2007-01-04T07:01:58Z")

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Steve K. wrote:

> 

Keep an eye on Charles Nutter’s blog:

> **[Headius](http://headius.blogspot.com/)**
>
> Helping Ruby and Java Evolve Together

JRuby seems to be making good progress, and both Charles Nutter and  
Thomas E., the lead developers, are now employed by Sun to work full  
time on it.

Rails on JRuby is basically working (I think it’s very slow in  
development mode but tolerable in production mode) - it was demonstrable  
at RailsConf Europe back in mid-September. I know that having full Rails  
functionality is regarded as a criterion for reaching version 1.0 of  
JRuby, so that’s a milestone to watch for.

If your organisation is using Java/Spring/Hibernate you might also find  
Groovy and Grails interesting:

[http://grails.codehaus.org/](http://grails.codehaus.org/)

regards

Justin F.