Msan Msan wrote in post #969134: > On 17 December 2010 17:50, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Msan Msan wrote in post #969090: >>> There is someone using jruby? >>> I'd like to know some experiences and some opinions about jruby on >>> rails. >> >> I use JRuby for one non-Rails project. In most situations, I don't see >> much point in using it for Rails, largely because I don't like >> server-side Java deployment options. >> >> What's your actual question? > > No specific question, I would only know some opinions about the use of > jruby. > I've used ruby with rails but pretty soon I've tried jruby with rails. > I've found it much simpler to setup and upgrade, you need only the > .tar or .zip file and extract it on pc.
Same for any other Ruby, particularly if you use RVM. > The deployment is very simply too, you have to create the .war file > and deploy it on tomcat or glassfish or whatever servlet container and > that's all. I wouldn't call anything involving servlet containers "simple". Passenger is a lot simpler. > Also about all the gems are supported by jruby Not true. Any gem with C extensions won't run on JRuby unless the extensions have been ported. (Last I heard, even such a well-known gem as Nokogiri didn't work on JRuby.) > and, not least, it run > on the jvm then it has the jvm thread support. How often do you find yourself needing this, at least for Rails? > I think jruby is really a good choice. For some projects, yes -- I'm using it (with Monkeybars) to create a Swing desktop application in Ruby. But I don't think I'd want to use JRuby for a typical Rails project. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] Sent from my iPhone -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
