Thanks John. The water was definitely much less inviting the last time I stuck my toe in the JRuby pool. I hadn't heard of TorqueBox but it definitely looks promising. I'll probably set it up to serve our internal Rails applications and go from there.
Andreas On Dec 20, 2011, at 11:10 AM, John Lynch wrote: > Andreas, I have worked on several JRuby apps that are in production, and I > would say that the best thing about JRuby is the ability to deploy a > Rails/Rack app on "enterprisey" app servers. TorqueBox 2.x is my current > favorite, which is a nice wrapper around JBoss 7. All the enterprise, none > of the XML. Clustering is a breeze, and with InfiniSpan you get the > equivalent of a distributed memcached for free, plus built-in message > queueing and background jobs, etc. > > There are certainly rough edges that will cut you, but if you use Rails you > are used to that anyway. Both JRuby and TorqueBox have full-time, paid > developers working every day on improving them. On the small chance you find > a gem you cant use in JRuby, there is certainly a Java jar you can use > instead. If you think Ruby has a robust gem ecosystem, wait until you see > what Java has to offer. > > Bottom line is, come on in, the water's fine! > > Regards, > > John Lynch > [email protected] > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Andreas Kirn <[email protected]> wrote: > "Compared to JRuby on Java 6, JRuby on Java 7 without invokedynamic is around > 25% faster, and JRuby with invokedynamic is nearly 3 times faster." > > http://blog.jruby.org/2011/12/getting_started_with_jruby_and_java_7/ > > I think it's time to give JRuby another try. I dismissed it as buggy and > irrelevant when I first played with it a few years ago, but it's starting to > look more and more interesting. Does anybody here use JRuby in production? > Any war stories to share? Bugs? Gem support issues? > > Thanks, > > Andreas > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
