Reinstalling JRuby

I’m still getting everything back together after the iMac upgrade fiasco. JRuby, my favorite Ruby implementation, is still missing. I think I’ll fix that now.

• Grab the binary of 1.03 from the JRuby site.
• cd /usr/local
• sudo tar xfvz ~/jruby-bin-1.0.3.tar.gz
• sudo ln -s /usr/local/jruby-1.0.3/ /usr/local/jruby
• Add JRuby details to my (somewhat busy) bash profile

    # ~/.bash_profile
export JRUBY_HOME="/usr/local/jruby"</strong>
# OS X is normally conservative about paths, while I am generous about them.
export LOCALBINS=/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
export APPBINS=$JRUBY_HOME/bin
export PATH=$APPBINS:$LOCALBINS:$PATH

if [ -r ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi
  

Source the file and test my path …

$ . ~/.bash_profile
$ which jruby
/usr/local/jruby/bin/jruby
$ which gem
/usr/local/jruby/bin/gem

Test with the sample code from Getting Started on the JRuby wiki.

    require "java"

include_class "java.util.TreeSet"

puts "Hello from JRuby"
set = TreeSet.new()
set.add( "foo" )
set.add( "Bar" )
set.add( "baz" )
set.each { |v| puts "value: #{v}" }
  

Run it.

$ jruby call_java.rb

Wait a very long time (why does Java startup have to be so slow on our Mac and how the heck can I make it faster? It’s one thing that’s significantly worse on our Mac compared to my PC). Eventually see:

$ jruby call_java.rb
Hello from JRuby
value: Bar
value: baz
value: foo

Excellent, it worked. It’s 2:46 now. I better post this and go to bed.