{"id":692,"date":"2008-06-24T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/692-ruby-interpreter-flaws-make-the-case-for-jruby.html"},"modified":"2008-06-24T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T06:59:16","slug":"ruby-interpreter-flaws-make-the-case-for-jruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/692-ruby-interpreter-flaws-make-the-case-for-jruby.html","title":{"rendered":"Ruby interpreter flaws make the case for JRuby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/en\/news\/2008\/06\/20\/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities\/\">official Ruby blog reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-forum.com\/topic\/157034\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matasano.com\/log\/1070\/updates-on-drew-yaos-terrible-ruby-vulnerabilities\/\">here<\/a>. The community is fixing the problems energetically; but they do appear serious, and some are struggling with compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<p>Since these seem to be bugs in the interpreter, it strikes me that this makes a good case for <a href=\"http:\/\/jruby.codehaus.org\/\">JRuby<\/a> or in due course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironruby.net\/\">IronRuby<\/a>, on the grounds that the Java and .NET runtimes are more mature. When I spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\/\">ThoughtWorks<\/a> about its extensive Ruby work, I was told that JRuby is almost always used for deployment, partly because enterprises are more comfortable with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1484dbea-b185-4bea-967e-17d5f264c48e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ruby\" rel=\"tag\">ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jruby\" rel=\"tag\">jruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ironruby\" rel=\"tag\">ironruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Ruby blog reports: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code. More discussion here and here. The community is fixing the problems energetically; but they do appear serious, and some are struggling with compatibility issues. Since these seem to be bugs in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/692-ruby-interpreter-flaws-make-the-case-for-jruby.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ruby interpreter flaws make the case for JRuby?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,70,75,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-ruby","category-security","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}