Backgroundrb devel - Nov 2006 - Making it work under JRuby

I''ve been having problems starting the daemon under JRuby, has anyone
else tried this?

What I''m trying to accomplish is running Rails on regular ruby and
BackgroundRB on
JRuby. I''m working on a project that requires me to use a java-api to
communicate with
a service and it should work so that when a user logs on to the rails
app, it actually
authenticates through the java-api and the returned session object
should stay alive
while the user''s browsing session stays alive and that is where
BackgroundRB fits in.

Suggestions for alternative approaches also appreciated.

* Kimmo Lehto (kimmo.lehto at gmail.com) [061109 04:05]:
> I''ve been having problems starting the daemon under JRuby, has
anyone
> else tried this?
the short answer is:

   /opt/jruby/bin/jirb
   irb(main):001:0> read, write = IO::pipe
    NoMethodError: undefined method `pipe'' for IO:Class

The slave library we are using, use pipes and domain sockets, which are
not available with jruby. As with Windows - if someone where to
implement a library with a similar interface to Slave, then it would be
relatively straight forward for us to use this.

What I was hoping we could get wourking, was to run the MiddleMan client
part with JRuby, so that Rails on Ruby or ?ny other client code could
communicate with a BackgrounDRb server.

Right now this doesn''t work either, and there is a jira bug for this:

   http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-248

to the extent we are tracking this, it will be in:

   http://backgroundrb.devjavu.com/projects/backgroundrb/ticket/25

/skaar

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