It's time to build Drip support into the 'jruby' command.

gistfile1.txt

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ ls -l
total 48
-rw-rw-rw-  1 headius  staff  1123 Dec 23 16:52 Gemfile
-rw-rw-rw-  1 headius  staff  3051 Dec 23 16:52 Gemfile.lock
-rw-rw-rw-  1 headius  staff   478 Dec 23 16:52 README.rdoc
-rw-rw-rw-  1 headius  staff   252 Dec 23 16:52 Rakefile
drwxrwxrwx  8 headius  staff   272 Dec 23 16:52 app
drwxr-xr-x  2 headius  staff   170 Dec 23 16:52 bin
drwxrwxrwx  5 headius  staff   340 Dec 23 16:52 config
-rw-rw-rw-  1 headius  staff   154 Dec 23 16:52 config.ru
drwxrwxrwx  2 headius  staff   204 Dec 23 16:55 db
-rw-r--r--  1 headius  staff    60 Dec 23 16:56 dripmain.rb
drwxrwxrwx  4 headius  staff   136 Dec 23 16:52 lib
drwxrwxrwx  2 headius  staff   170 Dec 23 16:55 log
drwxrwxrwx  2 headius  staff   238 Dec 23 16:52 public
drwxrwxrwx  8 headius  staff   306 Dec 23 16:52 test
drwxrwxrwx  3 headius  staff   102 Dec 23 16:52 tmp
drwxrwxrwx  3 headius  staff   102 Dec 23 16:52 vendor

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ cat dripmain.rb 
require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby -e 1

real	0m1.361s
user	0m1.983s
sys	0m0.193s

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby --drip -e 1

real	0m0.219s
user	0m0.061s
sys	0m0.074s

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby -S gem list > /dev/null

real	0m2.268s
user	0m3.334s
sys	0m0.302s

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby --drip -S gem list > /dev/null

real	0m0.331s
user	0m0.060s
sys	0m0.071s

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby -S rake -T > /dev/null

real	0m4.715s
user	0m6.449s
sys	0m0.570s

system ~/projects/jruby/testapp $ time jruby --drip -S rake -T > /dev/null

real	0m0.643s
user	0m0.063s
sys	0m0.075s