As it pertains to system updates, Eclipse has a long way to go in the "inform your users" department.

Part Three in my "Distilling JRuby" series talks about a key figure in the performance of JRuby: The JIT Compiler

I show how to develop your own functional MBeans for managing and monitoring your application.

Part Two in my "Distilling JRuby" series talks about how variable scope is tracked inside the JRuby runtime.

The JRuby guys have some details on what they are planning for JRuby 1.4

Hot of the presses - Eclipse 3.6 M2!

Part One in my "Distilling JRuby" series covers the "basics" in method to method dispatching in JRuby

A technique for cleaning up array method parameter syntax from the outside.

A tip for reducing the noise in annotation parameter values.

I show how you can use Java libraries in your Ruby application for the betterment of your sanity.