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Rails on GlassFish - "most performant of all", "simpler and just works", "blazing speed"

Here are some quotes about running Rails applications on GlassFish from user@jruby mailing list:

I find the glassfish gem to be the most performant of all -- and I don't need to war-up my app.

I also have some mongrel cluster stuff, but glassfish is simpler and just works.

Voila...blazing speed, can handle lots of traffic. Note that I am also cominging into apache from a dyndns name. So, whatever IP I have, I can go straight to execution on the glassfish gem and NO warring up! What could be easier deployment, or a faster execution?

It's running fantasticly and performing like nothing I've seen before :) Completely stable memory, no wirings or anything bad for 5 days now.. (with several ab/htperf stresstests).

It's always exciting to get good endorsements of our efforts in the GlassFish team :)

Other similar stories for using Rails/GlassFish in production are described at rubyonrails+stories.

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OPIN Systems - Financial Application using JRuby-on-Rails on GlassFish

OPIN Systems has chosen JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish for a customer-facing financial application. Why ? "Easy to setup Rails application and add more intense logic in JRuby calls"

Learn more about it in this video:



Thanks to Ben Leadholm for the quick story! Check out other GlassFish Production Stories.

Check out Ben's "Dude, Where's my pass ?" entry:


Read several other Rails/GlassFish success stories.

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Ruby-on-Rails and Ramaze production deployments on GlassFish

Published three new JRuby/GlassFish production deployment stories in as many days:

Who ?	Recipe	Why GlassFish ?
	JRuby + Rails + GlassFish v2 + MySQL + Apache Web Server + memcached	The GlassFish processes have been among the most stable of our deployment. and (The) GlassFish team has been extremely helpful along the way with tuning and diagnosing performance issues.
	JRuby + Rails + GlassFish v2 + MySQL + Solaris Zones	GlassFish works and provides useful error messages.
	Recipe: JRuby + Ramaze + GlassFish v2 + MySQL/H2	What's essential for me is that I spend my time doing development, not sysadmin work, so I settle for a working solution.   I've had no trouble for a few months now, and redeploy using simple scripts.

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Sea Change Affinity - Why JRuby/GlassFish ?

At Rails Conf 2009, Jay McGaffigan from Sea Change talked about why they choose JRuby/GlassFish for their product Affinity. Here are some of the reasons he quoted:

• Performance characterisitics (of GlassFish) have been excellent
• Picked GlassFish based upon the recommendations from the people in industry
• Dramatically more throughput on our GlassFish installation, 400 requests/sec instead of 100 requests/sec comapred to Tomcat

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JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish - "Easiest Rails stack in the world"!!!

@grantmichaels is one happy JRuby/Rails/GlassFish user. Here are some of his comments ...

http://twitpic.com/22b5o - the easiest rails stack in the world, jruby 1.2rc, rails 2.3rc, glassfish v3 - (tweeted here)

and

@arungupta had wiped/restated one of my linodes to refront w/ nginx instead of passenger and it took only 1-2 mins to setup jruby/glassfish -  (tweeted here)

and

@arungupta can only have praise for how simple it is to get a working, deployable jruby/rack/glassfish stack for sinatra/rails/ramaze etc - (tweeted here)

and

too easy to run jruby/rack/glassfish behind nginx - going to bed a happy camper tonight ... (tweeted here)

We are very happy to know that users find JRuby and GlassFish easy-to-use for running their Rails applications!

Want to know who else is using GlassFish and Rails together ? Read here.

Did you know that you even deploy your Merb and Grails applications on GlassFish ? glassfish-scripting.dev.java.net provides all the details.

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Involver.com - JRuby-on-Rails and GlassFish powering an online video marketing platform

Involver.com is an online video marketing platform that allows brands to build, promote, manage, and track video campaigns on social networks for targeted audiences. The platform is powered by Ruby-on-Rails, JRuby 1.1.6, and GlassFish v2 UR2.

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Kenai - High Throughput and Scalable Rails on GlassFish

Kenai (pronounced 'keen-eye') is a fictional character from Disney's Brother Bear series. It's also a river, mountain range, national park, peninsula and a city in the southern coast of Alaska in the United States. But that's got nothing to do (as much as I know) with either Rails or GlassFish.

But Project Kenai was announced last week. It's a developer hub with SCM, issue tracking, forums and similar stuff you need for hosting your open source projects. And it is a Rails application deployed on GlassFish v2.

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LOTD #4: Rails running on GlassFish @ LinkedIn

Light Engineering team (BumperSticker fame) at LinkedIn has chosen GlassFish for running their Rails application. One of the developers on the team reports:

Using Warbler, we successfully wrapped our Rails applications into WAR files and deployed on Glassfish (we’ll probably write a more detailed tutorial of this at a future date). A WAR file is completely self contained application that can be deployed simply by copying to an autodeploy directory. No more Apache/Nginx reverse proxy, no more Capistrano, no more installing gems on a production container, no more of any of that madness. This was a huge win, and we broke out the champagne bottles.

Read the complete entry at:

JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on GlassFish

Stay tuned for more details!

NetBeans development and GlassFish deployment already provide an ideal environment for Rails deployment. You can read about successful deployments of Rails and GlassFish here.

All previous entries in this series are archived at LOTD.

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Single Sign On using Sun Access Manager and JRuby

A couple of emails to achieve Single Sign On using Sun Access Manager in a Rails app - that's pretty cool! A brief summary of the solution is:

Warbler builds a war file out of your Rails app using jruby-rack. Drop your .jar libraries in the rails lib dir. Muck with your web.xml so you can make it use a filter. Drop the .war file on your server. Done. A little method called servlet_request is now magically available to you. Call servlet_request.getUserPrincipal : it's populated. It's not magic- it's JRuby!

Read complete details here. And guess what, this is deployed on GlassFish :)

The blog summarizes the power of Java and agility of JRuby/Rails:

Anyway, that's why JRuby is even more awesome. Let them write Java- I'll call it if I need it.

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GlassFish + JRuby + JRuby-Rack + Warbler = Blog Deployment Platform

Nick decided to walk the talk and upgraded his blog deployment platform from Mongrel to JRuby/GlassFish.

Read more details.

Yet another successful deployment of JRuby-on-Rails on GlassFish. Read other similar stories.

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JRuby and GlassFish v2 - Another successful deployment @ WorldxChange Communication NZ

From proof-of-concept to production in 8 weeks, WorldxChange Communication NZ's online billing system is another succes story of JRuby and GlassFish v2. The portal is designed solely using NetBeans 6.1 IDE.

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JRuby-on-Rails deployed on GlassFish - Success Story

There are several reasons you may deploy JRuby-on-Rails application on GlassFish:

• Java EE is a long tested deployment platform and GlassFish is Java EE 5 compliant.
• GlassFish "green" deployment model - just create a WAR and dump it in autodeploy directory. Typical Rails deployment requires to spawn multiple Mongrels, front-ended by Apache and then manage them through Capistrano.
• Java EE and Ruby-on-Rails applications can be easily integrated in one container. This allows to host JRuby-on-Rails applications in organization who have already made investment in Java EE.
• GlassFish comes with out-of-the-box clustering and high-availability support. Rails applications can certainly benefit from them.
• GlassFish offers database connection pooling allowing you to reuse your database connections.
• Last, but not the least, JRuby-on-Rails can leverage the extensive set of Java libraries.

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