1 JRuby - A Java implementation of the Ruby language
3 Authors: Stefan Matthias Aust, Anders Bengtsson, Geert Bevin,
4 Piergiuliano Bossi, Johannes Brodwall, Rocky Burt, Paul Butcher,
5 Benoit Cerrina, Wyss Clemens, David Corbin, Thomas E Enebo, Robert Feldt,
6 Russ Freeman, Chad Fowler, Joey Gibson, Kiel Hodges, Xandy Johnson,
7 Kelvin Liu, Alan Moore, Akinori Musha, Charles Nutter, Takashi Okamoto
8 Jan Arne Petersen, Tobias Reif, David Saff, Ed Sinjiashvili, Daiki Ueno
9 Matthias Veit, Jason Voegele, Sergey Yevtushenko, Robert Yokota,
10 Ola Bini, Nick Sieger, and many gracious contributions from the community.
12 Project Contact: Thomas E Enebo <enebo@acm.org>
14 JRuby also uses code generously shared by the creator of the Ruby language,
15 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>.
19 JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter
22 The Java version is be tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script
23 any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application.
24 See the 'docs' directory for more information.
30 interprets the file 'rubyfile.rb'.
32 == Compiling from source
37 * Apache Ant (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/) 1.6.2 or greater.
39 To compile, just type:
43 This will create a jruby.jar file in the projects 'lib' directory.
47 In order to run the unit tests, copy the build_lib/junit.jar file to either
48 $ANT_HOME/lib/junit.jar or ~/.ant/lib/junit.jar.
50 See 'docs/README.test' for more information.
54 Visit http://jruby.codehaus.org for more information.
58 Read the COPYING file.