Rails on Ruby on Java on AOLserver?

I've been thinking for a while about how to have ruby web applications running under AOLserver. <warning: opinions ahead> I think it would be a neat combination: the most elegent agile object language hosted on the fastest and most flexible threaded web server. </opinion>

I got started with embedding the ruby interpreter in an aolserver module. It turned out to be quite easy, but the Ruby interpreter is not thread safe, so it's never going to work.

Then today on the train I had a brainwave. I wasn't even thinking about anything remotely related (why do great ideas always come this way?). Why not use JRuby running under nsjava.

Think about it. JRuby maps Java method calls to Ruby calls and vice versa, nsjava maps all aolserver api calls to Java calls (native and tcl procs), and allows full introspection from Java. This should mean that with the thinnest of Java shims I can have fully threaded Ruby 1.8.2 hosted by AOLserver.

"You're all talk" I hear you say, "show us the money". Yeah, well it's ten o'clock at night and I have a cold, so it's going to have to wait my friends. If someone else feels like whipping up a configuration let me know!

PS: I know that there would be no point running all of the Rails framework, since AOLserver already has advanced "routing" functionality, but certainly all of the Active* classes would be great.