[withjive]

A few years back the Graal compiler from Oracle caught my attention as it was able to accelerate ruby code on the JVM with incredible results.

However it was not able to support any real world code / frameworks— ie. Rails. (At the time I even downloaded the compiler myself, but it was quite experimental)

Are we any closer to achieving that yet?

[chrisseaton]

We're not done yet, but we do pass, for example, 100% of the specs for ActiveSupport and ActiveModel. Most of the other parts of Rails need database drivers, and that's what we're fixing with these C extensions.