jruby works as a deployment VM under windows(!)

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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] Rails 2.2 released, looking for user stories - JRuby - Ruby-Forum