HOWEVER
Ruby's libraries suffer from one major flaw: they frequently expect that all .rb files are loose on a filesystem somewhere, available to be File.open'ed. IRB is perhaps the worst offender; it loads its localization script by doing a *manual search* of the load path in $:. The only option I've come up with for this is to make RubyFile an "uberfile" that can be backed by URLs, Jar URLs, local filesystem paths ( java.io.File), and other tricker like "unevalling" a compiled script so it can be "read" again. At a minimum, supporting URLs, Jar URLs, and FS paths would be required. It's another one of those "big pieces" that neither of us have had time to tackle.
Whatever-in-a-Jar is the ultimate goal, however, especially for Rails-in-a-Jar deployed to a Java EE cluster. We'll get there somehow.
On 7/11/06,
Nick Sieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you guys lent any thoughts to having a distro of JRuby that amounts to the entire thing in a .jar? Will it "just work" to build an uber-jar that contains *.rb files as resources in the jar, that would make usage in embedding applications easier?
Also, it would be nice to get a copy of jruby.jar out onto www.ibiblio.org/maven (and maven2) so that other projects can have dependencies on the embeddable uber-jar.
For the last step we'll need to write a pom (I can do that, have experience w/ maven 2) and follow the steps outlined in [1].
Thoughts?
/Nick
[1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-maven-evangelism.html
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