A lot of different hacks has existed for a while now to run JRuby on Heroku but thanks to a new Heroku feature called buildpacks is now easy to implement and run your own runtime on Heroku.
I did therefore create a buildpack which basically downloads JRuby, install Bundler and run bundle install. After that it behaves exactly like a normal Heroku Ruby application!
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Read more about the JRuby buildpack at github.com/jruby/heroku-buildpack-jruby
Take a look at an example application here: github.com/carlhoerberg/heroku-jruby-example
Update 2012-04-22
The buildpack is moved and now maintained under the JRuby organization: github.com/jruby/heroku-buildpack-jruby
If you already have created an application with the old buildpack url you can just update the environment variable to the new url:
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