# Getting Discourse running on JRuby

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-discourse-running-on-jruby/81273
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-discourse-running-on-jruby/81273 "2018-02-23T00:14:59Z")
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#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-discourse-running-on-jruby/81273/14 "2018-02-26T17:06:24Z")

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I started porting Rinku and quickly realized that 99% of it is just raw C code working with character arrays.

So I started poking around for a Java autolinking library, and I found this: [autolink 0.8.0 javadoc (org.nibor.autolink)](http://javadoc.io/doc/org.nibor.autolink/autolink/0.8.0)

Even better, it accepts CharSequence, which means we should just be able to pass it a Ruby string (or one of our representations of it) and it will function mostly without pre-transcoding everything into Java characters.

I’ll see if I can get some basic API equivalent wrapper around it.

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