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Links and posts about JRuby

rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = winDecember 1

In case you missed it, rails 2.2 recently got released, finally promising thread safety among some other things. Thread safety has always been neglected by the rails core team, the standard way to scale up in rails (pre 2.2) is to run multiple processes, which makes deployment a lot harder (I think there’re at least 10 different ways to deploy rails apps at the moment, and people still come up with new solutions: apache+fcgi, mongrel, mongrel_cluster, thin, phusion, rack…).

Interview with the JRuby Cookbook's AuthorsNovember 27

Henry Liu and Justin Edelson wrote JRuby Cookbook, a new book full of useful JRuby tips and "recipes" and available from O'Reilly. Timothy M O'Brien spoke with Henry and Justin about the book and the JRuby ecosystem in general.

The Closet JRubyistsNovember 25

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Glassfish with RMagickNovember 12

Deploying a JRuby on Rails app with Glassfish is a relatively simple process, and in my opinion much easier than with Mongrel. Takes about 15 minutes.

JRuby 1.1.5 ReleasedNovember 4

JRuby 1.1.5 is the fifth point release of JRuby 1.1. The fixes in this release are primarily obvious compatibility problems and performance enhancements.