Re: jruby here?

Fidel Viegas
Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:30:43 -0000

On 12/18/10, Marnen Laibow-Koser
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> But first you have to make the WAR file -- a totally unnecessary task
> given that neither Passenger or the glassfish gem makes you do it.  And
> my experience with Tomcat has been that setup of Tomcat itself is not
> easy, even when deploying a prepackaged WAR file.
>

I don''t really use JRuby, so I haven''t had the chance to try
the
glassfish gem. But I do use Grails, which generates War files, and the
process isn''t any difficult. At least to me. I don''t really
mind
generate the war file with "grails war" and then deploy it in a
servlet container.

At the moment, I use primarily Rails with apache and passenger, but
oftentimes I do have the need to work with Java based apps, hence the
use of Grails which I find easier to deploy than JRuby on Rails. At
least, I wasn''t aware of the glassfish gem and when I tried to play
with it, it generated a bunch of errors that I did not have the time
to deal with.

I read a bit about the glassfish gem and it does sound easier to deal
with, since Glassfish is integrated into the whole server stack.

Anyway... Passenger has made Rails deployment an easy process. So, on
this one, I do agree with you.

All the best,

Fidel.