Comments on: Rails: The Demonstration http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/ Johannes Brodwall's Musings on Software Architecture and Programming Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marius Mårnes Mathiesen http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-6754 Marius Mårnes Mathiesen Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:15:59 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-6754 As this thread is a few months old and a lot has happened since, here's a small update. Jruby is now in 1.0, and runs Rails perfectly. It actually outperforms C-ruby, and one of the really cool things that has spun off it is the Gold spike plugin, which lets you create WAR files from a standard Rails project. This war includes everything needed to run your Rails app inside a java app server, including JRuby itself, any JDBC drivers (unless, of course, you prefer the pure Ruby database drivers), the java ports of OpenSSL - the works. Gold spike probably isn't ready for production use yet, though, but Sun is working hard on it. As for the general readiness of Jruby on Rails, Thoughtworks recently announced RubyWorks (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/rubyworks) an offering where they provide support for Jruby/Rails apps. My recommendation is to give JRuby on rails a try. Try running Jruby with mongrel (the java port) and run it the traditional way behind Apache if you like. I'm sure you'll be satisfied! As this thread is a few months old and a lot has happened since, here’s a small update. Jruby is now in 1.0, and runs Rails perfectly. It actually outperforms C-ruby, and one of the really cool things that has spun off it is the Gold spike plugin, which lets you create WAR files from a standard Rails project. This war includes everything needed to run your Rails app inside a java app server, including JRuby itself, any JDBC drivers (unless, of course, you prefer the pure Ruby database drivers), the java ports of OpenSSL – the works.

Gold spike probably isn’t ready for production use yet, though, but Sun is working hard on it. As for the general readiness of Jruby on Rails, Thoughtworks recently announced RubyWorks (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/rubyworks) an offering where they provide support for Jruby/Rails apps.

My recommendation is to give JRuby on rails a try. Try running Jruby with mongrel (the java port) and run it the traditional way behind Apache if you like. I’m sure you’ll be satisfied!

]]> By: Marius Mårnes Mathiesen http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-84617 Marius Mårnes Mathiesen Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:15:59 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-84617 As this thread is a few months old and a lot has happened since, here's a small update. Jruby is now in 1.0, and runs Rails perfectly. It actually outperforms C-ruby, and one of the really cool things that has spun off it is the Gold spike plugin, which lets you create WAR files from a standard Rails project. This war includes everything needed to run your Rails app inside a java app server, including JRuby itself, any JDBC drivers (unless, of course, you prefer the pure Ruby database drivers), the java ports of OpenSSL - the works.<br><br>Gold spike probably isn't ready for production use yet, though, but Sun is working hard on it. As for the general readiness of Jruby on Rails, Thoughtworks recently announced RubyWorks (<a href="http://studios.thoughtworks.com/rubyworks">http://studios.thoughtworks.com/rubyworks</a>) an offering where they provide support for Jruby/Rails apps. <br><br>My recommendation is to give JRuby on rails a try. Try running Jruby with mongrel (the java port) and run it the traditional way behind Apache if you like. I'm sure you'll be satisfied! As this thread is a few months old and a lot has happened since, here's a small update. Jruby is now in 1.0, and runs Rails perfectly. It actually outperforms C-ruby, and one of the really cool things that has spun off it is the Gold spike plugin, which lets you create WAR files from a standard Rails project. This war includes everything needed to run your Rails app inside a java app server, including JRuby itself, any JDBC drivers (unless, of course, you prefer the pure Ruby database drivers), the java ports of OpenSSL – the works.

Gold spike probably isn't ready for production use yet, though, but Sun is working hard on it. As for the general readiness of Jruby on Rails, Thoughtworks recently announced RubyWorks (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/rubyworks) an offering where they provide support for Jruby/Rails apps.

My recommendation is to give JRuby on rails a try. Try running Jruby with mongrel (the java port) and run it the traditional way behind Apache if you like. I'm sure you'll be satisfied!

]]> By: Johannes Brodwall http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-3920 Johannes Brodwall Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:27:24 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-3920 Good questions, Niraj Rails have no problems with scalability for most usages. See <a href="http://railsexpress.de/blog/" rel="nofollow">RailsExpress</a> for lots of tips on how to make it scale. My impression is that people are running Rails with 100s of hits per second without too much effort. JRuby has <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/jruby-almost-ready" rel="nofollow">just recently</a> come to a state where it can run Rails. I would wait a little with that. Unless you absolutely MUST use a J2EE-container, I think you're better of with Apache/lighttp + Mongrel + Capistrano, anyhow. For some cool usages of blocks, see <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/19/blocks-rock" rel="nofollow">Jamis Buck's blog</a>, <a href="http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/2006/8/29/developing-a-rails-model-using-bdd-and-rspec-part-1" rel="nofollow">BDD from Luke Redpath</a>, and hopefully soon, rbehave from <a href="http://dannorth.net" rel="nofollow">Dan North</a>. For the underlying justification, see Artima's interview with <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/closures.html" rel="nofollow">Matz</a>. Good questions, Niraj

Rails have no problems with scalability for most usages. See RailsExpress for lots of tips on how to make it scale. My impression is that people are running Rails with 100s of hits per second without too much effort.

JRuby has just recently come to a state where it can run Rails. I would wait a little with that. Unless you absolutely MUST use a J2EE-container, I think you’re better of with Apache/lighttp + Mongrel + Capistrano, anyhow.

For some cool usages of blocks, see Jamis Buck’s blog, BDD from Luke Redpath, and hopefully soon, rbehave from Dan North. For the underlying justification, see Artima’s interview with Matz.

]]> By: Johannes Brodwall http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-84616 Johannes Brodwall Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:27:24 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-84616 Good questions, Niraj<br><br>Rails have no problems with scalability for most usages. See <a href="http://railsexpress.de/blog/" rel="nofollow">RailsExpress</a> for lots of tips on how to make it scale. My impression is that people are running Rails with 100s of hits per second without too much effort.<br><br>JRuby has <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/jruby-almost-ready" rel="nofollow">just recently</a> come to a state where it can run Rails. I would wait a little with that. Unless you absolutely MUST use a J2EE-container, I think you're better of with Apache/lighttp + Mongrel + Capistrano, anyhow.<br><br>For some cool usages of blocks, see <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/19/blocks-rock" rel="nofollow">Jamis Buck's blog</a>, <a href="http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/2006/8/29/developing-a-rails-model-using-bdd-and-rspec-part-1" rel="nofollow">BDD from Luke Redpath</a>, and hopefully soon, rbehave from <a href="http://dannorth.net" rel="nofollow">Dan North</a>. For the underlying justification, see Artima's interview with <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/closures.html" rel="nofollow">Matz</a>. Good questions, Niraj

Rails have no problems with scalability for most usages. See RailsExpress for lots of tips on how to make it scale. My impression is that people are running Rails with 100s of hits per second without too much effort.

JRuby has just recently come to a state where it can run Rails. I would wait a little with that. Unless you absolutely MUST use a J2EE-container, I think you're better of with Apache/lighttp + Mongrel + Capistrano, anyhow.

For some cool usages of blocks, see Jamis Buck's blog, BDD from Luke Redpath, and hopefully soon, rbehave from Dan North. For the underlying justification, see Artima's interview with Matz.

]]> By: Niraj Manandhar http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-3850 Niraj Manandhar Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:36:57 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-3850 Dear sir Do you think that the word scalability goes together with the dynamic languages like Ruby or PHP. Recently i have been hearing and doing JRUBY Can you guide me on how can i develop a rails application in JRuby and run that application in Jetty or any JavaEE web container. Last thing is can you tell me where do i use blocks in more partical way rather than listing element of an array Dear sir

Do you think that the word scalability goes together with
the dynamic languages like Ruby or PHP.

Recently i have been hearing and doing JRUBY
Can you
guide me on how can i develop a rails application in
JRuby and
run that application in Jetty or any JavaEE web container.

Last thing is can you tell me where do i use blocks in more partical
way rather than listing element of an array

]]> By: Niraj Manandhar http://johannesbrodwall.com/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-84615 Niraj Manandhar Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:36:57 +0000 http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2007/04/21/rails-the-demonstration/#comment-84615 Dear sir<br><br>Do you think that the word scalability goes together with<br>the dynamic languages like Ruby or PHP.<br><br>Recently i have been hearing and doing JRUBY<br>Can you <br>guide me on how can i develop a rails application in<br> JRuby and <br>run that application in Jetty or any JavaEE web container.<br><br>Last thing is can you tell me where do i use blocks in more partical <br>way rather than listing element of an array Dear sir

Do you think that the word scalability goes together with
the dynamic languages like Ruby or PHP.

Recently i have been hearing and doing JRUBY
Can you
guide me on how can i develop a rails application in
JRuby and
run that application in Jetty or any JavaEE web container.

Last thing is can you tell me where do i use blocks in more partical
way rather than listing element of an array

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