[ramius345]

I know this is in the vein of hacky solutions, but I tend to use jruby for the purpose of packaging up ruby applications.

[dkarapetyan]

This is a good solution. I've used this approach as well for server daemons.

[delsalk]

Do you still require the JVM installed in the same way you would the Ruby's VM?

[ramius345]

JRuby's ruby VM runs on top of whatever JVM you choose. You just have to make sure you have the JVM in your path.