What is JRuby?
JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter in Java. The Java version is tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application. See the docs directory for more information.
JRuby is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
JRuby is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 830 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to JRuby's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses JRuby?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use JRuby in their tech stacks, including Groupon.com, Soundcloud, and esa.
Developers
41 developers on StackShare have stated that they use JRuby.
Why developers like JRuby?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use JRuby
JRuby Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to JRuby?
Ruby
Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
Groovy
Groovy builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Go
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
JRuby's Followers
53 developers follow JRuby to keep up with related blogs and decisions.
