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JRuby - A Java implementation of the Ruby language
# JRuby - A Java implementation of the Ruby language

Authors: Stefan Matthias Aust, Anders Bengtsson, Geert Bevin,
Piergiuliano Bossi, Johannes Brodwall, Rocky Burt, Paul Butcher,
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JRuby also uses code generously shared by the creator of the Ruby language,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>.

== About
## About

JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter
in Java.
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any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application.
See the 'docs' directory for more information.

== Run
## Run

bin/jruby rubyfile.rb

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If you checked out from the repository or downloaded the source distribution,
see the next section to build JRuby first.

== Compiling from source
## Compiling from source

You will need:

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This will create a jruby.jar file in the projects 'lib' directory.

== Testing
## Testing

In order to run the unit tests, copy the build_lib/junit.jar file to either
$ANT_HOME/lib/junit.jar or ~/.ant/lib/junit.jar.

See 'docs/README.test' for more information.

== More Information
## More Information

Visit http://jruby.org for more information.

== License
## License

Read the COPYING file.