Ola Bini is one of the core team of developers working on JRuby and the author of Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects, announced separately here on Ruby Inside. In conjunction with the launch of the book, I wanted to ask Ola some questions about his involvement with JRuby, how he used his knowledge to write the book, and where JRuby’s future is heading from here….

Bringing the power of what seems to be the world’s most popular Web application framework, Rails (Ruby on Rails), to Java is now simpler than ever thanks to the JRuby project.

To help learn, understand and use the JRuby project, the highly anticipated Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects by JRuby core developer, Ola Bini, has published and is already available on Amazon.com and other retailers.

This book will empower you to develop Rails applications, even if you’ve never used Ruby. And you later perhaps integrate into your already existing Java/Spring stack. The power of Rails is now in your hands, using this book. Enjoy.

From PCWorld.com: “Don’t expect much to be added to Ruby on Rails this year. …he’s (David Heinemeier Hansson) as likely to talk about what’s coming out as what’s going in…”

Apress has just published this firstPress book: Raven: Scripting Java™ Builds with Ruby. This firstPress book by Raven founder and lead Matthieu Riou is the first and only book on this important open source Java/Ruby project…

Enough debate over Ruby/Rails vs. Java, etc. Can’t we all just get along? There is a melting pot happening in Java…

From InfoQ.com, Stuart Halloway of Relevance recently wrote a series of blog posts on “Ruby vs. Java Myths”...

The following JavaOne Day Four report is re-purposed from Ablog, and written by Rob Warner …

The new Practical Ruby Gems is ideal for Java Web developers who now use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects…

For those Java developers considering Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, you may want to read this first available excerpt on Installing Ruby from this recently published Apress book, Beginning Ruby, by Peter Cooper.

The 2007 TheServerSide Java Symposium – Las Vegas show report can be found here.

InfoQ.com interviews the esteemed Ola Bini, one of the JRuby leads.

TheServerSide.com is pointing to 2007: What to Expect in the Java Universe by Elliotte Harold, Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic University, has an interesting analysis…

Are today’s Java developers looking for Web-tier alteratives to Struts, JSF, and even Ruby on Rails. What about PHP or even better – PHP on Rails?

In this JavaWorld.com article, Joshua Fox shows how JRuby can bring the power of Ruby on Rails to your Java application, in whole or as Web tier solution in broader enterprise Java application.

The CodeMash Conference is dedicated to educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP.

Springy lets you use a simple DSL based on JRuby to wire up your Spring context. See Wiring up Spring with JRuby for an introduction.

On Ruby took a few minutes to interview Charles Nutter, Michael Studman, and Aslak Hellesoy for an article I wrote for InfoQ.

For more JRuby as well as overall blogging on Java, Ruby, Lisp, etc. – check out Ola Bini’s blog. Ola was recently added to the JRuby project as the third project lead.

Indeed, there is lot of work going on right now that’s focusing in on the various mechanisms for deploying JRuby-based applications; and this article will summarize some of the work happening currently: Advanced Rails Deployment with JRuby.

InfoQ.com posts this on Raven: Building Java with Ruby. Its “a new alternative in the building tools space is Raven. Raven allows you to use Ruby tools such as Rake and Gem to build Java projects. Build scripts are Ruby scripts, rather than being XML files, and it imports your local Maven repository and handles dependencies…”

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.