Getting Started Guide: Update reference about JavaScript runtimes

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Guillermo Iguaran
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@@ -450,7 +450,13 @@ start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running:
$ rails server
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TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and the absence of a runtime will give you an +execjs+ error. Usually Mac OS X and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. +therubyracer+ and +therubyrhino+ are the commonly used runtimes for Ruby and JRuby respectively. You can also investigate a list of runtimes at "ExecJS":https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs.
TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and
the absence of a runtime will give you an +execjs+ error. Usually Mac OS X
and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. +therubyracer+ gem is
added commented to Gemfile for new apps and you can uncomment if you need it.
+therubyrhino+ is the recommended runtime for JRuby users and is added by default
to Gemfile in apps generated under JRuby. You can investigate about all the
supported runtimes at "ExecJS":https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme.
This will fire up an instance of the WEBrick web server by default (Rails can
also use several other web servers). To see your application in action, open a