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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.
Tuesday June 24, 2008
JRuby-on-Rails and MySQL on GlassFish on OpenSolaris in Virtual Box VM
My primary development machine is Mac OS Leopard
on Intel Core 2 Duo (read osxtips).
But the beauty of virtualization
is that I can run multiple Operating Systems on a single powerful
machine. And what better virtualization product than Virtual Box.
And Open
Solaris has crossed leaps and boundaries making installation
and getting started extremely simple :)
So here is an application stack that I tried:
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Rails 2.1
+ My
SQL 5.0.51a JRuby 1.1.2 GlassFish v3 TP2 OpenSolaris 2008.05 Virtual Box 1.6.2 Mac OSX Leopard Intel 2.4 G Hz Core 2 Duo |
You can easily deploy your Rails applications using MySQL database on GlassFish installed on OpenSolaris in a Virtual Box VM on Mac OS Leopard running on an Intel 2 Duo processor machine. Overall a happy experience :)
The complete instructions to install OpenSolaris using Virtual Box are very useful.
Here are basic steps ...
Create a new VM (settings given in the instructions):
Once all the options are chosen, the generated VM settings are shown as below:
Booting the Virtual Machine from the Live CD shows the following GRUB:
Pick the default options (GRUB, Keyboard & Language) and then the following default screen is shown:
Read and Close the license screen. And then click on the "Install Open Solaris" icon to continue the installation process. This step is important otherwise you'll keep booting from LiveCD every time (I messed up on this few times ;).
After choosing the Region, Location & Timezone and taking other defaults, the summarized installation options are shown:
And finally the installation is complete:
After the installation is complete, shutdown the VM by either selecting "System, Shut Down..." or click on the X on the VM window and selecting "Power off the machine". Change the boot sequence order to bring "Hard Disk" at the top by clicking on "Settings", "Advanced" tab and changing the order as shown below.
And finally, you can easily deploy a Rails 2.1 application on this newly configured machine as explained in Rails 2.1 on GlassFish. TOTD #35 explains how Rails Database connection need to be configured on Solaris.
The final output of the application looks like:
Here are some pointers for you to get started:
- Virtual Box 1.6.2
- OpenSolaris 2008.05
- GlassFish v3 TP2
- JRuby 1.1.2
- Rails powered by the GlassFish Application Server
Stay in touch with us by posting your questions/comments/concerns to GlassFish Web Tier Forum or webtier@glassfish.
Technorati: rubyonrails jruby ruby opensolaris virtualbox mac glassfish v3
Posted by Arun Gupta in web2.0 | Comments[4]
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Hi Arun,
Its a great blog, covering an end to end scenario
Here is one more related blog from Ming on JRuby-on-Rails with JPA on GlassFish V3 TP2 and Eclipse Link
http://blogs.sun.com/quality/entry/ming_s_blog_on_jruby
Thanks,
Gopal
Posted by Gopal Jorapur on June 24, 2008 at 02:11 PM PDT #
Hi Arun,
Did you get networking to work so you can actually access the VM from Leopard. I got trouble getting around that.
Any help is welcome!
Great blog, since it looks familiar to what I did, up to the Ruby bit. :-)
-Davy
Posted by Davy on July 16, 2008 at 04:48 AM PDT #
Davy, I did not try accessing the VM from Leopard. However you can try asking your question on OpenSolaris forums at:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa
-Arun
Posted by Arun Gupta on July 21, 2008 at 02:11 PM PDT #
Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on January 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM PST #