JRuby 1.0.3 was recently released and so was Rails 2.0. I decided to try JRuby 1.0.3 +
Rails 2.0 and realized that a few additional steps (because of
Rails 2.0) are required to get a trivial Hello World applcation
up and running. Here are the steps:
Using the instructions followed in JRuby Hack Day and taking some help from Nick, I figured out how to use the JDBC connection pools configured in GlassFish using the JNDI names.
All the commands given below are relevant for GlassFish but the same concept will work where ever you deploy your WARed up JRuby on Rails application.
The NetBeans IDE has simplified the steps to deploy JRuby on Rails application on GlassFish. This blog explains the steps and is an update to screencast #web6.
Download" button in the Ruby
column.
New
Project...". Take all the defaults as shown
below:ActiveRecord-JDBC 0.5 is now available. As mentioned earlier, one of the main features in this release is simplified database configuration for JRuby-on-Rails applications. From the release notes:
It is no longer necessary to specify :driver and :url configuration parameters for the mysql, postgresql, oracle, derby, hsqldb, and h2 adapters.
This means that if you deploy a Rails application as a WAR file on GlassFish as described …
[Read more]Based upon a user request, this is a follow up entry to show how jMaki on Rails For Dummies work on NetBeans 6 Milestone 10. Some of the steps are simplified and more details are provided. The updates from the previous blog entry are highlighted in this color.
Craig announced jMaki on Rails. Here I provide detailed steps to read data from a MySQL database and display it in a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget.