The document discusses using Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and compares Ruby and Java. It describes how JRuby allows Ruby code to run on the JVM, gaining performance benefits from features like just-in-time compilation and garbage collection. JRuby allows using Java libraries from Ruby and supports Rubygems and the Rails framework. While Ruby has advantages in expressiveness, JRuby addresses issues like performance and deployment by running Ruby on the robust and widely used JVM.