Engine Yard (EY) is a enterpricy (serious support and hosting, but pricy) Rails hosting service. Two months ago at the JavaOne, Engine Yard announced that they will support JRuby. Since then a lot changed, Oracle bought Sun which raised a lot of questions about Sun’s products and frankly I don’t think it looks good [...]
I have been using 6.7 for about 3 months now and I also participated in the NetBeans CAT program. Because a couple of days ago NetBeans 6.7 final has been released, I decided to write a longer review/round up about it.
I start with an overview of the new features and then with my personal [...]
JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language. JRuby allows to build applications in Ruby (especially Rails) and include them in a Java environment (e.g. JEE). Despite the difficult it is already one of the fastest Ruby implementations available and invokedynamic it will further improve the performance.
With this release, the Java 1.4 support has been dropped. The [...]
I currently developing an application based on JRuby/Rails. I am pretty happy with that combination and I haven’t many issues until a few weeks ago. I am using NetBeans 6.1 and the shipped JRuby version 1.1.2. The problems began when I started to use ResourceBundles in Rails, hence, mixing Java and Ruby/Rails code. After that [...]
