Comments on: JBoss on Rails: Deploying Rails Apps to a JBoss App Server

By: stf

stf — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:19:44 +0000

Wrong in the sense of getting access to at least halfway integrated stack of infrastructure for messaging, deployment, clustering, thread- and connection-pooling etc.?! Instead of perpetuating the very same prejudices against running rails on a full blown jee-stack, I'd really liked to see some more projects exploiting the fact that you don't have to jump through hoops (even if it is only in the backgrounDRb...) just to get something processed asynchrounosly....

By: purzelrakete

purzelrakete — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:45:00 +0000

@petercooper jboss brings back memories of developing with struts, spring and hibernate. not that there's anything wrong with jboss. much like rails + websphere... it's just... wrong! ;)

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:15:50 +0000

In a "it feels so wrong but so right" type way, or just a "totally wrong" way?

By: purzelrakete

purzelrakete — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:16:20 +0000

That feels so wrong, I don't even know where to begin.

By: Brian Ketelsen

Brian Ketelsen — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:39:46 +0000

I just posted a review of this on my blog : http://brianketelsen.blogspot.com/2008/11/jboss-rails-plugin.html To answer one of the previous questions by my esteemed Florida neighbor, JBoss clustering will allow you to deploy to one server and the app will propagate to all the other servers in the cluster. It will also allow shared in-memory sessions. There are a lot of good benefits to running Rails on a full application server, and this plugin is a really good start towards making it dead simple.

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:23:15 +0000

Not to downplay the benefits of easy deployment and updating of applications, and not having to install new software (Mongrel, Apache), what are the other benefits? Do Java app servers run Rails faster? Can you scale the applications across servers easier?

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:00:32 +0000

Thanks for the clarification - I've added it to the post.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:56:51 +0000

FYI -- Rails on other Java appservers is old news. ThoughtWorks runs Mingle on Jetty (early '07), Oracle runs http://mix.oracle.com on Oracle App Server (Oct '07), and I've seen one or two other sites running on WebLogic.