In my rather unique application needs, I've had to make a patch to JRuby-1.7.26. However, I've learned that Warbler (that uses jruby-jars) embeds it's own copy of JRuby into my lib/ directory. How can I configure either Warbler or jruby-jars to consider my patch when it compiles JRuby?
you need to build a custom version of jruby-jars gem (from the JRuby source)
and then specify that version to be used in the Gemfile :
gem 'jruby-jars', '1.7.26.PATCH', require: false