From: "fkc_email-news @ yahoo dot com" Date: 2007-05-18T18:00:05+09:00 Subject: Re: relocatable ruby distribution On May 3, 3:12 am, "Richard Conroy" wrote: > On 5/1/07, Logan Capaldo wrote: > > > On 4/30/07, fkc_email-news @ yahoo dot com wrote: > > > Is there a std way to do this? > > > Seems like, since you are already using java, that it would be better to use > > jruby.http://jruby.codehaus.org/ > > Yes I second that. JRuby has some excellent features, but one of the nicest > for a Java shop is that you can bundle Ruby code in java containers (jar/war). > Which I think would really help the OP, if he wants a convenient way to > organise the Ruby elements under SVN. > My problem is the already developed apps use a number of C extension/c library backed apps, so w/o needing to create substitute libs to be able run under jruby isn't in the cards. However, I've already added jruby to our dists and have extended ant to support jruby scripting, and plan to leverage jruby in other situations. Jim Weirich was telling about Charles and Tom's (hi guys) tutorial this morning and the way he described them deploying to mongrel, then glassfish, then hot refresh under glassfish seems quite promising. I used JRuby about 2.5 years ago on a project that needed to communicate w/JMS, JRuby has come quite a ways since then. > Though I have to wonder about about storing the Ruby runtime - thats kind of > overkill isn't it? > It's all about configuration mgmt - ensuring that we have the same env anywhere we deploy got my gems and extensions that I need.