Charles Nutter remembers when, working as a Java architect, he
attended a conference and saw the Ruby programming language for the first time. And
he was blown away.
“I was just stunned that I understood every piece of code, every
example, without knowing the language at all,” recalls Nutter. “It
was super easy for me to understand the code.”
As a Java developer, Nutter began looking for an existing way to
run Ruby within a Java runtime environment, specifically a Java
virtual...