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by dragonwriter 4701 days ago
> JRuby is of course incompatible with C extensions to Rails

The fact that old-style native extensions are tied to MRI is one of the motivations for Ruby FFI, which provides a common mechanism for interfacing to native libraries on MRI, JRuby, and Rubinius (and maybe some other implementations, as well.)