Let me start off by saying that I love using vim and textmate for hacking sessions, however, when it comes to getting into the nitty gritty details of a running program to figure out what’s going on, it’s nice to have a debugger. The ruby-debug gem does not work in jruby directly, as it depends [...]
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17 Oct
Using Proprietary C libraries from JRuby
Let’s assume you work at big enterprise company X. Your company has assigned a new project to you, and one of its only requirements is to make sure you use this library… You have no control over the source code in the library, but you know you have to use it, because it contains some [...]
15 Oct
Using JRuby, Warbler & Rake to deploy Rails apps to JBoss
If you’re using JRuby, you’re likely going to need a way to automate your deployment to an enterprise-class application container, such as JBoss. As the Rails & JRuby community has evolved, so have the tools available to developers for everything from testing, to security, to deployment. We’ll cover some of the key tools that you [...]
