This document discusses several Ruby virtual machines (VMs) including MRI, YARV, MacRuby, XRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby, and JRuby. It evaluates whether each VM is production ready. Only JRuby is identified as being fully production ready currently. The document recommends using JRuby for enterprise Ruby applications due to its corporate backing, ability to use existing Java code and infrastructure, performance, multi-threading support, and ability to deploy on Glassfish application servers.