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Thursday August 28, 2008
Typo on GlassFish v3 - Ruby-on-Rails Blogging Engine
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Typo is an open-source Blogging Engine written using Ruby-on-Rails framework. It provides a lean engine that makes blogging easy. It's main attribtues are ease of use, usability, beauty and excellent support of web standards. |
I found out about this application from Sang "Passion" Shin's Lab 5543 (part of FREE 20-week course on Ruby-on-Rails started on Jul 15, 2008). But instead of using standard WEBrick/Mongrel deployment, I describe the steps to deploy this application using GlassFish v3 that supports native deployment of Rails applications.
- Typo can be installed as Gem
or from
Sources. Installing as gem
gives the following error:
JRuby limited openssl loaded. gem install jruby-openssl for full support.
http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Builtin_OpenSSL
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
/Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb:7: JRuby does not support native extensions. Check wiki.jruby.org for alternatives. (NotImplementedError)
from /Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb:1:in `require'
from extconf.rb:1
ERROR: Error installing typo:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/bin/jruby extconf.rb install typo
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out
This is discussed here. In the meanwhile, download and unzip Typo 5.1.2 as:
~/samples/jruby >unzip ~/Downloads/typo-5.1.2.zip
Archive: /Users/arungupta/Downloads/typo-5.1.2.zip
creating: typo-5.1.2/
creating: typo-5.1.2/app/
creating: typo-5.1.2/app/apis/
. . .
inflating: typo-5.1.2/vendor/uuidtools/lib/uuidtools.rb
inflating: typo-5.1.2/vendor/uuidtools/rakefile
inflating: typo-5.1.2/vendor/uuidtools/README - Create the database:
~/samples/jruby >sudo mysqladmin create typo_dev
Typo 5.1.x works with Rails 2.0.x only and so migrate as shown below:
~/samples/jruby/typo-5.1.2 >~/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3/bin/jruby -S rake db:migrate
(in /Users/arungupta/samples/jruby/typo-5.1.2)
== 1 InitialSchema: migrating =================================================
-- create_table(:users)
-> 0.0377s
-- create_table(:articles)
-> 0.0189s
-- add_index(:articles, :permalink)
-> 0.0094s
-- create_table(:categories)
-> 0.0069s
. . .
== 69 AddModulesToProfile: migrating ==========================================
-- add_column(:profiles, :modules, :text)
-> 0.0072s
== 69 AddModulesToProfile: migrated (0.0454s) =================================
== 70 AddUsersToNonAdmins: migrating ==========================================
== 70 AddUsersToNonAdmins: migrated (0.0488s) ================================= - Download GlassFish (nightly,
promoted
or build-your-own)
and install by unzipping. I tried the nightly of 8/24
as:
~/tools/glassfish/v3/8-24 >unzip ~/Downloads/glassfish-snapshot-v3-prelude-08_24_2008.zip
Archive: /Users/arungupta/Downloads/glassfish-snapshot-v3-prelude-08_24_2008.zip
creating: glassfish/
creating: glassfish/docs/
creating: glassfish/docs/css/
creating: glassfish/docs/graphics/
. . .
inflating: glassfish/lib/templates/login.conf
inflating: glassfish/lib/templates/profile.properties
inflating: glassfish/lib/templates/server.policy - Start GlassFish as:
~/tools/glassfish/v3/8-24/glassfish >java -DJRUBY_HOME=/Users/arungupta/tools/rails20/jruby-1.1.3 -jar modules/glassfish-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Aug 26, 2008 5:56:10 PM com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain main
INFO: Launching GlassFish on Apache Felix OSGi platform
Welcome to Felix.
=================
Aug 26, 2008 5:56:11 PM HK2Main start
INFO: contextRootDir = /Users/arungupta/tools/glassfish/v3/8-24/glassfish/modules
Aug 26, 2008 5:56:11 PM OSGiFactoryImpl initialize
. . .
INFO: APIClassLoader = Class Loader for Bundle [GlassFish-Application-Common-Module [66] ]
Aug 26, 2008 5:56:13 PM CommonClassLoaderManager Skipping creation of CommonClassLoader as there are no libraries available
INFO: urls = []
Aug 26, 2008 5:56:13 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.AppServerStartup run
INFO: Glassfish v3 started in 2176 ms - And deploy Typo as:
~/samples/jruby >~/tools/glassfish/v3/8-24/glassfish/bin/asadmin deploy typo-5.1.2
Command deploy executed successfully.
Typo 5.2 (scheduled in 3 days) will work with Rails 2.1.
Also check out Redmine, Substruct and Mephisto on GlassFish v3. There are some performance issues when running Typo on GlassFish and this is tracked at Issue #5662.
If your Rails application does not work on the gem, file bugs here with "jruby" as "subcomponent" (default version is "v3").
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Posted by Arun Gupta in web2.0 | Comments[4]
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This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.
thank you
Posted by piercing on August 28, 2008 at 01:43 PM PDT #
Hey thanks for the post! In your opinion is Glassfish v3 prelude good app server for Jruby on Rails applications or is it better to stick with v2u2? Is v3 prelude also ready for enterprise deployment for Jruby on Rails?
Posted by Nabeel Zafar on November 05, 2008 at 04:59 PM PST #
Nabeel,
Great timing for your comment!
GlassFish v3 Prelude is released this morning and can be used for deploying all your JRuby-on-Rails applications, natively without any packaging. It is certainly ready for enterprise deployment and you can even buy production support for all your apps. Read more details at:
http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/glassfish_v3_prelude_now_available
Many more blog entries on Rails/GlassFish are available at:
http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/tags/rubyonrails+glassfish
Posted by Arun Gupta on November 06, 2008 at 06:48 AM PST #
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