TorqueBox on OpenShift
A quick way to try out your Ruby application running in TorqueBox on OpenShift.
TorqueBox Lite
This is a smaller, web-only version of TorqueBox. The main goal is to provide a reliable and maintained JRuby web server option with a small footprint and very simple usage.
JRuby's built-in profiler
Did you know that JRuby has a built-in profiler? The simplest way is to just add the --profile flag on the commandline. But you can do even more with it. Read on following the link above.
Lance Ball’s presentation at RailsConf 2012 about “complexity that is eventually common to most modern Rails apps: background tasks, scheduled jobs, WebSockets, long-running services, caching and more.” He introdues TorqueBox for simple solutions to these complex problems.
JRuby and Thread-safe Rails Q & A
Charels Nutter’s short Q/A about what effect Rails thread-safety has on the Rails world, and especially the JRuby world.
JRuby-Lint: See how ready your Ruby code is to run on JRuby
JRuby-Lint allows you to check your Ruby code and configuration for common gotchas and issues that might make it difficult to run on JRuby.
Dr. Dobb's Language of the Month: JRuby
The above mentioned Dr. Dobb’s article explains why the combination of Ruby and the JVM is so convenient. And how developers can take advantage of this.
Neo4j.rb 2.0 – An Overview
A good introduction to the graph database Neo4j and the JRuby to Java binding.
Run multiple apps on the same web server
A walk through of an example of deploying two applications to one Trinidad server.
