Maybe wordy but updating this README.md every release is undesirable

jruby · Jun 14, 2017 · 74f3233 · 74f3233
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@@ -37,7 +37,16 @@ An alternative is to use one of the [Ruby version managers](https://www.ruby-lan
 
 For [`rbenv`](https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) you will need the
 [`ruby-build`](https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build) plugin. You may find that your system
-package manager can provide these. Then you can run:
+package manager can provide these. To see which versions of JRuby are available you should run:
+
+```
+$ rbenv install jruby
+```
+
+Note: if you do not regularly git update rbenv this list of versions may be out of date.
+
+We recommend always selecting the latest version of JRuby from the list.  The you can install that particular version (9.1.10.0 is just for illustration):
+
 
 ```
 $ rbenv install jruby-9.1.10.0