Job scheduling with JRuby and Rails

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Job scheduling with JRuby and Rails. For the past year, I’ve looked at several background schedulers for JRuby on Rails apps (Bj, BackgroundRB, Rufus Scheduler, etc.) and have come up with solutions that have been sub-optimal.  Looks like I missed this post from Jens Krämer running down some other options including using the popular Quartz [...]

Have a need to compile your Rails app (o …

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Have a need to compile your Rails app (on JRuby)? If you’re shipping a Rails app as a product and need to protect your IP, JRuby can compile your *.rb files to first class Java class files… but you’ll need this patch.
After applying that, you can simply do this:

jrubyc app/ lib/
rm `find app/ lib/ -name [...]