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Arun Gupta is a GlassFish Evangelist focusing on Web Tier at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.
Monday August 27, 2007
ActiveRecord-JDBC 0.5 - simplified database configuration
ActiveRecord-JDBC 0.5 is now available. As mentioned earlier, one of the main features in this release is simplified database configuration for JRuby-on-Rails applications. From the release notes:
It is no longer necessary to specify :driver and :url configuration parameters for the mysql, postgresql, oracle, derby, hsqldb, and h2 adapters.
This means that if you deploy a Rails application as a WAR file on GlassFish as described here, then there is no need to specify the JDBC adapter, the JDBC driver class name or the database connection URL. The ActiveRecord-JDBC uses the native MySQL adapter to connect directly to the database. And so there is no need to even copy MySQL Connector/J driver JAR file in GlassFish\lib directory.
This means the database configuration
production:
adapter: jdbc
driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/helloworld_development
username: root
password:
can now be written as
production:
adapter: mysql
database: HelloWorld_production
username: root
password:
host: localhost
And this is the default configuration generated by Rails app anyway.
This really simplifies the database configuration for deploying Rails applications on GlassFish. As a result the steps described here (bullet 2 & 3), here (bullet 4.2.1 & 4.2.2) and in screencast #web6 (10:52 - 11:56) are not required any more.
I'd like to point out that it's not necessary to specify this
information. But if you have any applications deployed with these settings,
they'll continue to work. Installing the plugin using the standard way (jruby script\plugin
install activerecord-jdbc) will give you the latest version anyway.
I'm particularly excited about this change as it brings C-based Ruby and JRuby applications one step closer to each other.
Tom explained other simplifications.
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Posted by Arun Gupta in web2.0 | Comments[6]
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good.....
Posted by jiop on August 27, 2007 at 01:28 AM PDT #
Posted by Nick Sieger on September 01, 2007 at 09:47 PM PDT #
Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on September 07, 2007 at 05:36 AM PDT #
Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on November 15, 2007 at 06:19 AM PST #
as for me good
Posted by satılık on January 26, 2008 at 12:21 AM PST #
hi, then what about the connections for oracle and glassfish? i have tried creating 1 but it kept giving me error saying cannot cast etc.
please enlighten me
Posted by ivy on October 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM PDT #