Greetings,

I have posted a preview release of Dynamite: http://www.ifhere.org/dynamite

Dynamite is a Ruby interface which gives "full" access to the Processing core libraries.  

Since Ruby is dynamic you can alter your code while the applet is running.  Or you could have your code alter itself.  I find Ruby to be a fascinating language.

Performance is currently slow since this is running the JRuby Ruby interpreter and Ruby is not a fast language. But it is usable. And JRuby will have more performance increases.

Only the core libraries have been tested, although other libraries should work fine.

At this point you can not make applets with this, there are security and other issues with running JRuby in an applet.

It requires that you have JRuby and Ruby installed and has only been tested on OS X.

http://jruby.codehaus.org/

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Let me know if you find it useful.  And thanks Ben and Casey for opening up the Processing code.  This couldn't have been done otherwise.

-j. weir