Quick update: As part of the effort to replace the rake tasks with a command line tool, I've add the `jpi` executeable to the jenkins-plugin gem, and ported the :server Rake task over to the CLI.
This means that if you grab jenkins-plugin >= 0.1.7, then you can start the server in the ruby plugin via
jpi server (or just `jpi s` for short ala rails)
There are stubs for the other commands (new, generate, build, etc...) which should provide a way forward even if they don't work yet.
cheers,
Charles