JRuby -  Ruby interpreter for Java
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Authors: Jan Arne Petersen <japetersen@web.de>, 
         Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>,
         Alan Moore <alan_moore@gmx.net>,
         Benoit Cerrina <b.cerrina@wanadoo.fr>,
         Ed Sinjiashvili <slorcim@users.sourceforge.net>
         Chad Fowler <chadfowler@chadfowler.com>
         Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se>
         Jason Voegele <jason@jvoegele.com>

We also use some code created by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>.

JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter
in Java.

The Java version is be tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script
any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application.


Run
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    java -jar jruby.jar rubyfile.rb

interprets the file 'rubyfile.rb'.

You can also use the utility scripts 'jruby.sh', 'jruby.rb' or 'jruby.bat'
to run the interpreter.


Compiling from source
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You will need:

* JDK 1.4 (earlier versions may work, but are not tested).
* Apache Ant (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/).

To compile, just type:

    ant

If everything goes well, you will find the file jruby.jar in the
lib/ directory.


More Information
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Visit http://jruby.sourceforge.net for more information.

License
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Read the COPYING file.

This product includes software developed by the
Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
