Whither the GlassFish Gem? Alternatives for Deploying JRuby Web Applications

Topics

JRuby,

Glassfish,

Ruby,

JVM Languages,

Application Servers,

Dynamic Languages,

Java,

Web Frameworks,

Languages,

WOA,

Grizzly,

Programming,

Architecture,

Jetty,

Warbler,

Tomcat

When Oracle released its GlassFish roadmap, a notable absence was the GlassFish gem. This gem-based server for Rails, Merb, and Sinatra applications has become a common deployment option for the JRuby platform and has been widely recommended to the JRuby community. The gem allows Rails users running in multithreaded mode to take advantage of the JVM by running multiple threads per server instance.

•  By  Paul Blair on Apr 21, 2010,
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