gdp's Comments

The TorqueBox Project : TorqueBox: Benchmarking TorqueBox

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:31:12 +0000

@Evan, I suspect for the Torquebox guys it is relevant to compare deployment scenarios that people commonly use. Torquebox+JRuby against common MRI deployments is what they are competing against. Taking Ruby impl as an independent dimension does not buy them much in attracting users (although it would be interesting to see).

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:54:08 +0000

Give our jruby-1.6.0.RC1 native installer a try. This installer ships with our new win32ole implementation which may or may not work better than a cygwin build of Ruby (it is a new implementation and all). http://www.jruby.org/download. All you should need to use it is "require 'win32ole'".

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:53:15 +0000

Weird...I swear I have responded to this once...seems to be lost in the commenting system. The installer is free to use, but I think you mean the installer software we used to make the installer? If so, then the software use for the installer is install4j which is a commercial product.

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:47:09 +0000

That would be an excellent tutorial. We will probably do a tutorial (or blog entry) like that in the future. We learned quite a bit from setting up Hudson and we should share that knowledge.

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:44:18 +0000

We have heard comments similar to yours from others. What were some of the your worst pain points? Do you think JRuby would have helped in those cases? If we can make all Ruby impls improve on Windows that would be ideal, but if there is something JRuby can address we can probably make it a reality quickly.

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:40:47 +0000

The installer is of course free to use, but we use the commercial project install4j to generate it for us. So it was not made with free software.

Union Station : JRuby on Windows

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:39:42 +0000

Thanks...quite right about the check. We really need to lobby for an RbConfig::windows? or some place to make this much easier to check.

Union Station : Rake and Ant Together: A Pick It n' Stick It Approach

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:22:25 +0000

Dependency management is something we will tackle, but not for this first iteration. The boundaries of mixing ant and rake together is fairly clear. Dependency management is a little less straightforward (at least to me). We do have some folks who are working on exposing all maven artifacts as Ruby gems, but this is only for retrieving a graph of dependencies and not specifying them.

Union Station : J is for JVM: Why the 'J' in JRuby?

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:34:37 +0000

In addition to Quercus there is also project zero: http://www.projectzero.org/php/

Union Station : J is for JVM: Why the 'J' in JRuby?

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:48:31 +0000

Yeah, I limited my comments almost exclusively to the moving parts of the JVM and stayed away from all of the Java libraries which exist. Java Libraries and especially pure-Java libraries are a huge arsenal of extra options for someone using JRuby. This is doubly important if you are at a job where people have a lot of proprietary Java code in-house.

Union Station : J is for JVM: Why the 'J' in JRuby?

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:32:51 +0000

Go!

Union Station : J is for JVM: Why the 'J' in JRuby?

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:30:47 +0000

Thanks for giving us a chance or at least renewed consideration. Responses like this get us pumped up to keep improving JRuby.

Union Station : J is for JVM: Why the 'J' in JRuby?

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:28:43 +0000

Yeah, dynamic optimization takes more time to warm-up than static compiler optimizations since it needs to profile things, but it is truly amazing in what it can accomplish.

Union Station : 3 Ruby Quirks You Have to Love

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:35:15 +0000

heh...I am not sure if it is my font size, but that snippet makes my eyes blur a little. :) Single and double quotes right next to each other never look quite right to me. I just tried: a = %q{"double"} %Q{'single'} expecting the feature to work and it broke! Still I can see why you are doing it and it is making me think this feature is used a little more than I thought.

Union Station : 3 Ruby Quirks You Have to Love

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:38 +0000

Yeah I knew you could continue lines with backslash and spaced it out when I was writing this. It definitely makes the feature a tiny bit more useful. I am still thinking I like heredocs a bit better in cases for perhaps all but two-line cases?

Union Station : 3 Ruby Quirks You Have to Love

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:38:18 +0000

As a reply to your last sentence I am not sure I follow what you are asking? You don't think that everything being an expression allows executable code in class bodies ... or you don't see being able to do this as an advantage?

Union Station : 3 Ruby Quirks You Have to Love

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:33:53 +0000

Thanks for the info. You solved the mystery for me :)