From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2010-03-01T02:10:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Do you recommend deploying Rails applications as WARs?

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Hussein B <hubaghdadi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> Does deploying Rails application via JRuby on Java web container has
> any disadvantages?
> IMHO, I think deploying Rails applications as WAR is best approach and
> the most comforting one.
>

We're deploying on JBoss with warbler (JBoss 4.x on Java 5, so we can't use
TorqueBox).  I think it's a great solution when you're dealing with a
separate deployment team with Java experience but no Ruby experience.  Just
hand them a WAR file and... done!

One of the big issues we've run into is accessing the outside filesystem.
Right now we're using JBoss-specific APIs to do that, and can only access
files within the JBoss CLASSPATH.  This is fine for reading files from the
external filesystem, but AFAICT if you need to write to the outside
filesystem you're SOL.  Maybe there's someone else who knows more about
that.

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Tony Arcieri
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