[Rubygems-developers] Ability to require jar-files

[Ola Bini]

Hi,

We have been speaking earlier about adding some support for 
JRuby-specific extensions to RubyGems. One small feature that would be 
very welcome for us would be to make it possible to require jar-files in 
the regular load-path. We have added support for JRuby such that executing
require 'bin_ext'
will search for bin_ext.rb and bin_ext.jar on the load path. If the same 
would be possible with gems, it would mean we can package extensions and 
people can use them the same way .so-extensions are used.

Regards
-- 
  Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com)
  JvYAML, RbYAML, JRuby and Jatha contributor
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