From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2011-03-15T08:14:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Doubts about Ruby and JRuby

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Giuseppe luigi Punzi ruiz <
glpunzi@lordzealon.com> wrote:

> I readed with JRuby you can get something like a .pyc/.jar/"compiled"
> file (I'm not sure, for this reason I'm here). And access to the vast
> Java libraries, could be interesting.
>
> Then... Is good idea, to use JRuby for Desktop closed source
> applications instead Ruby MRI? For other type of projects, opensource
> for example, is better Ruby 1.9 performance than JRuby? Am I mixing
> concepts?
>
> The application I'm developing right now, is a little desktop closed
> source ERP for a customer. I need to develop a website too, with a
> customers area to make invoices, and this web and ERP needs to be
> communicated.
>
>
Hi,
    I am not sure what the exact problem you are communicating, but in a
nutshell:
- true, many corporate customers will not be familiar or comfortable with a
Ruby Runtime. They have invested in enterprise level app deployment options
that Ruby or any other interpreted language would not fit into.
- JRuby based apps can integrate invisibly into Java based shops
- source hiding is more of an issue - you want to prevent the end user
making modifications to fully interpreted source (creates support problems),
packaged software & installers avoids a lot of these problems.

regards,
Richard

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