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I find it pretty cool that Sun is already able to run Rails on JRuby, and actually is doing so in production according, to Igor Minar:

…I suggested that we could try to rewrite the app in Rails and deploy it in a regular Java web container, thanks to JRuby and Goldspike. It took some time for Rama to give us a go-ahead, but finally in late September, two other colleagues (with no Rails or JRuby experience) and I started to work on the rewrite alongside our other projects (forums.sun.com and wikis.sun.com).
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The ability to access and seamlessly integrate with existing or new Java code is a huge plus without which we would not have been able to launch this project successfully

The site in question is mediacast.sun.com.

That’s eating your own dog food.

I am very impressed by the speed with which JRuby seems to be coming along, a perception born of notable milestones like this and the continued updates that Charles Nutter posts to the ruby-talk mailing list. I like it.