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Re:GitHub releases their CI server, Janky by viraptor on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @06:17AM (#3373007)
These guys did: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+plugin+d... (plugins in JRuby)

I don't really get the problem though. Java is trivial to learn for anyone. It's not your main product, it's not going to take a massive amount of time for a single plugin. Just write it and be done...

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Re:GitHub releases their CI server, Janky by Vitaly on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @08:13PM (#3375952)
It might be really easy to learn. But after having programmed Ruby for any significant time Java is very unpleasant to program ;)

Also just learning basics to do simple customizations is not enough. If something breaks you will not have a slightest idea how to debug and fix. With a Ruby CI server I can just stick a debugger and walk through the code.

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