jruby works as a deployment VM under windows(!)

rubyonrails-talk
#1

As a note, appears from the stories of Jruby [1] that you can actually
use it as a nice stable rails deployment VM--on windows. That's right.
It has acceptable speed on windows. Wowza.

-=r

[1] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/171481#new