Theine is a Rails application pre-loader designed to work on JRuby.
It is similar to Zeus, Spring and Spork. The problem with Zeus and Spring is
that they use fork
which doesn't work on JRuby.
time rails runner "puts Rails.env"
48.31s user 1.96s system 242% cpu 20.748 total # normal
time theine runner "puts Rails.env"
0.12s user 0.02s system 32% cpu 0.449 total # Theine