JRuby 1.7.0. Released

&#62; InvokeDynamic support<p>This is the big one, in my opinion. See here[1] for some benchmarks of JRuby + invokedynamic. We're talking orders of magnitude for some benchmarks.<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.headius.com/2011/08/invokedynamic-in-jruby-constant-lookup.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.headius.com/2011/08/invokedynamic-in-jruby-const...</a>

Biggest things stopping me from using jruby:<p>1. Incomplete integration with postgresql. The ActiveRecord jdbc adapater doesn't have all the features that the standard pg adapter does.<p>2. Slow startup / test runs. At one point, loading large amounts of files (like during rails bootup) was much slower on jruby than MRI.

JRuby is really great. I use it every day for both work and personal projects.<p>Big thanks to all the contributors!

Looking forward to installing it and trying it out with Torquebox ( <a href="http://torquebox.org/" rel="nofollow">http://torquebox.org/</a> ) for a new project.

Not only does it default to 1.9 after one year, it catches up all the way to 1.9.3-p286, released only ten days ago.

Congratulations to all devs, committers, documentation maintainers, supporters, donators, secret lovers and overall alternative ruby enthusiasts.

Is JRuby worth using if JVM language integration isn't needed? E.g. A fairly standard Rails app.

cool. "rvm install jruby-1.7.0" works :-)

Best Ruby implementation so far.