I just changed jobs and am now a Rails developer at “tolingo.com”:http://tolingo.com, which is an online translation broker. When I started out working on my new desk, I had to setup my iMac development environment. There are tons of articles of “how to compile/install/run stuff like MySQL”:http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-leopard, to get you started on OS X, but […]
Tag: JRuby
Distinguish Ruby Runtimes with WhichRuby
Nowadays there are several decent Ruby runtimes available besides MRI ranging from alpha-versions to production-ready status. Using RVM these different interpreters become more and more interchangeable. h2. current problems Since switching between runtimes became as easy _rvm use x_ more care has to be taken to support a wide range of interpreters and versions. This […]
Ruby in Java, Java in Ruby, JRuby or Ruby Java Bridge?
Hosting (J)Rails applications on a high availability Java infrastructure with clusters, loadbalancers and all that shit stuff is great, if you already have it in place. But does running an app on the “JRE”:http://java.com/de/ make it a “JRuby”:http://jruby.org/ application by default? Do you really want to be stuck on JRuby? I really like the idea […]
(X)Ruby on the Mac
===================================================================== ===================================================================== _Update Aug. 2010_ The “RVM installer”:http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/ should be prefered over installation via gem: bash < ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0] # update your OS X Rubygems sudo gem update --system # check Gem version gem -v => 1.3.5 # install RVM as a Gem to the defaut OS X Ruby sudo gem […]
Savon vs. Handsoap: JRuby
This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/! p. First of all, both client implementations can be run using JRuby. Since Savon is a pure Ruby implementation you get JRuby support for free. The drawback is, that it’s slow on MRI. Using native C Libraries by default, Handsoap is bleezing fast. But when […]