On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:58:34 GMT, rawhiteside / my-deja.com <rawhiteside / my-deja.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Ruby newbie here (that has a nice ring to it, > eh?). Welcome aboard! > I guess the strategy would be to fire up the JVM, > then fire up a Ruby interpreter via JNI, giving > Ruby enough context to invoke the appropriate > Java class methods. Comments? There is a Java-Ruby module that does exactly that (and I believe it is bi-directional). However, I think active development stopped and it's only valid for an antique (1.1.3) version of Java. It's at ftp://ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby/contrib/java-module-0_5.tar.gz But it probably wouldn't be too much effort to dust it off and bring it up to speed. Please let us know how it turns out! /\ndy -- Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Innovative Object-Oriented Software Development web: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com email: andy / pragmaticprogrammer.com -- Books by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas: "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Addison-Wesley 2000) "Programming Ruby" (Addison-Wesley 2001) --