Articles by Ikai Lan
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In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript and PHP, to name a few. Our weapon of choice is still Ruby on Rails, the popular MVC framework. Out belief is that Rails makes certain types of tasks easy, and others laughably trivial. That being said, LinkedIn is still primarily a Java shop, and for good reason. Java technologies are mature, proven, and all around solid. For this reason, LED has had a very vested interest in the development work that is going into JRuby.
We started a few months ago around the time JRuby 1.1.2 went live by switching some of our Rails applications to run on Glassfish. 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.
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