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ramius345 on March 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Weird Ruby

I know this is in the vein of hacky solutions, but I tend to use jruby for the purpose of packaging up ruby applications.

_qc3o on March 7, 2015 | [–]

This is a good solution. I've used this approach as well for server daemons.

delsalk on March 7, 2015 | [–]

Do you still require the JVM installed in the same way you would the Ruby's VM?

ramius345 on March 8, 2015 | [–]

JRuby's ruby VM runs on top of whatever JVM you choose. You just have to make sure you have the JVM in your path.

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