I've released v1 of a project that may be of interest to JRuby
dev/users:
http://hashdot.sourceforge.net/
Hashdot has the modest goal of simplifying the startup process for
Java-based script interpreters. In a nut-shell, it supports a direct
unix-style hashbang line and allows a script to specify directly or via
profiles, all relevant JVM options and system properties:
#!/usr/bin/jruby
#.hashdot.vm.options += -Xmx256m
puts "hello world!"
Thus avoiding the need to use wrapper scripts to maintain equivalent
environment variables
and command line options. Other niceties include clean process
reporting and daemon support.
Sadly, I needed to write this in C. The current source download
includes a simple Makefile (see INSTALL instructions) and I could use
some help with autoconf and any necessary porting. Best to try it out
first on Linux.
I'd appreciate any and all feedback, either on or off list.
--David
