JRuby - The JRuby Tutorial Part 1 - Getting Started

This is the first installment in a series of tutorials I will write about how to use JRuby for fun and profit. I'm planning on covering a wide range of things you can do with JRuby, from Web frameworks with JDBC to writing your own JRuby extensions in Java. This time I'll take some time covering the basics; what you can do and how you can do it. I'm writing these tutorials on Windows 2003, but mos