Posted in Rails, JRuby on August 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Ikai Lan’s excellent article “JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish” obsoletes my September 2007 article on this subject. The importance of disconnecting from the database between queries is elaborated in the comments to the article.
glassfish, jruby
Posted in IT Architecture, JRuby, Web 2.0 on November 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
Oracle Mix may be the first production deployment of JRuby, and is certainly the first deployment of JRuby in an Oracle Application Server. I got a chance to meet and talk with Rich Manalang and Jake Kuramoto who have been working on getting the site up. It took a mere two weeks to put the […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, JRuby, Sun on September 27th, 2007 No Comments »
You might not think these things are related but they are.
I was around, and actually participated in, the bloody revolution that left glass-house mainframe data center operations in virtual flames. I was working on large, and I mean to say scary, scary large, construction projects. These projects had a typical burn rate in the hundreds […]
Posted in Rails, JRuby on September 12th, 2007 No Comments »
If you would like to use the command line to configure Glassfish for JDBC/JNDI resources, versus the web GUI method described in my previous post, Arun has has provided this in step 5 some instructions. This replaces the Glassfish GUI steps in my post. Jagadish has some more detailed instructions for configuring JDBC connection pools […]
Posted in Rails, JRuby on September 11th, 2007 10 Comments »
This post is a synthesis of information from several sources and provides step-by-step instructions for building and deploying a Ruby in Rails application to Glassfish that uses J2EE standard JDBC connection pooling mechanisms. This is the preferred method for production deployments to a J2EE server of any scale, since
it leverages J2EE deployment mechanisms, […]
Posted in Rails, JRuby on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Arun Gupta was at the tutorial also, and his blog entry has additional information, including some code snippets.
jruby, railsconf2007, ror
Posted in Rails, JRuby on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
i thought I was doing well in blogging on Your First Day with JRuby on Rails within 45 minutes of the session completion, but no! Joel Duffin beat me by half an hour!
jruby, railsconf2007
Posted in Rails, JRuby on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I attended the JRuby tutorial. Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the lead developers of JRuby who joined Sun about 8 months ago, gave the talk. The combination talk and demonstration focused on how easy and “real” development and deployment of JRuby based Rails applications is. An important part of the discussion was around the JRuby value […]