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		rubinelli on April 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year... I think the biggest problem is the number of gems with native libraries. I switched to JRuby, and felt a lot less pain. Now if only it had a faster startup...

kunley on April 28, 2010 [–]

Btw you can try nailgun to start JRuby's JVM once. See your $jruby/tool/nailgun/

rubinelli on April 28, 2010 | [–]

I looked into it and it's definitely interesting. It's just a pity NetBeans doesn't use it (and given the current situation, probably never will). Anyway, thanks for the tip.

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