From: Richard Conroy Date: 2011-10-17T05:33:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and threading --0016367f9fb81200e704af7068d4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Josh Cheek wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Alexey Petrushin > wrote: > > > Is there any big projects using jRuby? It seems that jRuby is available > > for a long time, but still has not very much attention. > > > > > Obtiva (who is now owned by Groupon) gave a JRuby workshop at Red Dirt Ruby > Conf. The presenters, Tyler Jennings, and Noel Rappin, said that they were > using JRuby on a large client site, which was initially written in Java, > and > then their new portion was written in Rails, and they were coexisting via > JRuby. > In London there are a few big name companies following this MO. They wrap up a legacy Java app with Ruby based acceptance tests (cucumber/capybara is popular), and then extend the app with Ruby based extensions (no new production code with Java). JRuby glues up a lot of it - companies have put a lot of investment in a Java-based operations backend. JRuby lets them keep it. Its just the JSP grunge that they want to be rid of. -- http://richardconroy.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/RichardConroy --0016367f9fb81200e704af7068d4--