This document discusses TorqueBox, an open source platform that allows Ruby on Rails applications to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and take advantage of Java libraries and services. It highlights features like scheduling, services, messaging, background jobs, clustering, caching and performance. The document includes code samples and discusses how TorqueBox makes these enterprise features easy to use from Ruby. It also notes some risks of using an emerging technology but says the documentation is good and help is available online.
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