Comments on: Engine Yard Adds JRuby Support

By: binaryfever

binaryfever — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:59:05 +0000

Pretty much awesome!

By: Nick French

Nick French — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:23:04 +0000

Hi Roderick – we're aiming for early July for beta support of JRuby on Engine Yard Cloud.

By: Roderick van Domburg

Roderick van Domburg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:14:58 +0000

Do you have a timeframe for the JRuby support?

By: The Critic

The Critic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:50:10 +0000

The entire post is phrased in terms of Java's (perceived) lackings. The web frameworks are all worse than Rails, Ruby is so much better than Java, and why wouldn't you want to move all your libraries to Ruby?

If you're advertising to the Ruby Faithful, it makes sense, but it sure seems like the idea is to target Java (or JVM-based-language) developers who may want to leverage Ruby for the front-end.

By: Integrum

Integrum — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:35:56 +0000

This is good news for Ruby community in general. Kudos Engine Yard

By: Michael Mullany

Michael Mullany — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:36:20 +0000

I'm a pretty polite guy, I find it difficult to understand why you would consider this post to be "taking a swipe at Java people", that "their platform blows" or how this could conceivably be characterized as "Ruby is the Future of Programming embodied". None of which was either intended or I believe expressed.

By: A Critic

A Critic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:52:13 +0000

Taking a swipe at Java people while announcing something at Java one is pretty poor form.

"Rails: easier to learn, and faster to code than Java frameworks, and with Rails 3 coming—even simpler to extend."

In some cases you're right, but you won't win over any Java people by telling them that, categorically, their platform blows.

"For various reasons, they sometimes prefer Java native integration over the more ideal method of exposing old code via web-services."

This is a simple one. If you already have a re-usable library, why on earth would you want to bolt on a service architecture to it?

"These folks like JRuby because it gives them an easy way to transition from Java to Ruby without having to re-write all their existing libraries on day one with Ruby (or completely swap out their platform and tools)."

Ruby isn't nirvana, and perhaps you consider that Java developers appreciate that the JVM can now host:
– Java
– PHP
– Ruby
– JavaScript
– Scala
– Clojure

… just to name a few. Some of us might be interested in this offering because we see the value in being able to use the best libraries and frameworks for a job, regardless of the language, not because we think Ruby is the Future of Programming embodied.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:10:45 +0000

At this point I'm convinced that jruby is a better platform than mri. It's awesome to see commercial options available for jruby!!!

By: Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Ezra Zygmuntowicz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:46:14 +0000

We haven't commited to any specific application server yet, I am researching all the options right now and working on what our running jruby stack looks like. None of it is set in stone.

I will blog about my journey through all the different deployment options for Jruby apps as the investigation continues.

By: Roderick van Domburg

Roderick van Domburg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:02:10 +0000

What will this look like, technically? Which application server will be used and what will administration look like?