would be nice if it compiled and could we please have a test/spec this time as well, thanks!

This compiles now. My bad for the missing }. Also I added a spec in my previous commit that should have broken the spec suite with the RangeError in question. I've compiled locally successfully but am unable to run specs under specs/ruby from my working copy directory. Do you have any tips on how to do that? Is there a doc describing how the ruby specs are meant to be used?

@kares, i can't seem to understand the Travis failure above. Can you help with that? Also please see my previous question as it relates to the best way to run specs.

@r6p obviously previous spec did not broke the test suite - so we're still need a correct spec here, thanks!

bin/jruby -S rake spec:ruby it is ... try rvm use system and/or mvn clean package before rake

@kares the fact that the ruby specs on master aren't failing is concerning to me. The same code path exercised via jirb fails. Thoughts?

cmd: bin/jirb
>> (0...2**64).max
RangeError: bignum too big to convert into `long'
    from org/jruby/RubyRange.java:662:in `max'
    from (irb):1:in `<eval>'
    from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:978:in `eval'
    from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1291:in `loop'
    from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1098:in `catch'
    from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1098:in `catch'
    from bin/jirb:13:in `<top>'

@kares, I finally figured out where to put the test so that it would fail as a part of the build when running the following suite.

 GEM_PATH=lib/ruby/gems/shared bin/jruby -S -Prake -Dtask=test:mri

I added the spec and amended the commit on this branch. You'll see that the test passes below.

$ GEM_PATH=lib/ruby/gems/shared bin/jruby -X-C -r ./test/mri_test_env.rb test/mri/runner.rb -q -- test/mri/ruby/test_range.rb
Run options: -q --

# Running tests:

Finished tests in 1.733000s, 19.0421 tests/s, 189.8442 assertions/s.
33 tests, 329 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

ruby -v: jruby 9.0.1.0-SNAPSHOT (2.2.2) 2015-08-04 34f5c8f Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.71-b01 on 1.7.0_71-b14 +jit [darwin-x86_64]

excellent, thank you!