RoRaWAR stands for Ruby on Rails as Web ARchive.

The rails integration (under the jruby-extras umbrella) project's purpose is to WAR'up a RoR application. And it's great to see how far the project has come along since its inception a few months ago !

The creation of a web archive from a RoR application is as simple as

• svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/jruby-extras/trunk/rails-integration rails-integration
• cd rails-integration; mvn install;

the couple of steps above are one time only


• cp -R <rails-integrations>/plugins/war <rails-app-dir>/vendor/plugins/
  cp -R <rails-integrations>/plugins/war-snapshot/* <rails-app-dir>/vendor/plugins/war
• cd <rails-app-dir>; rake war:standalone:create or rake war:shared:create ;
  #standalone mode will archive the rails framework libraries whereas the shared mode will not

Note: There are a few implied dependencies here - JRuby, maven2, rails framework libraries. Also, since the rails-integration project is trying to utilize the latest and greatest JRuby releases, you might have to install the jruby.jar into maven2 repository via the maven install:install-file command. Eventually, the first couple of steps will not be needed once the rails-integration libraries are downloadable as a binary release, but until then ...