How to make JRuby 1.6 default to Ruby 1.9?

Question

what is the best way to make JRuby to run in 1.9 mode by default?

i.e, I want to run rake test instead of jruby --1.9 -S rake test

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Answer 1

An alternative solution is to put the following line (and other settings) in your ~/.jrubyrc file

compat.version=1.9