The XRuby project is a Ruby to Java bytecode compiler, which compiles Ruby source code (.rb) to Java bytecode (.class). The project is still under developement, and but project founders/leads expect to release the first stable version by the end of this year. Thanks goes to Ruby expert Pat Eyler for pointing this out.
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