I’ve been ridiculously busy lately. Way too busy. Too busy to sleep, to hit the gym, and definitely maintain yet another website. Unfortunately, IsItJRuby.com didn’t get the love it deserved so I started hunting for someone to take my place. Alex Coles (@myabc) volunteered and is now the new maintainer. He already shared with me [...]
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Running Merb on JRuby 1.2 and Glassfish 2.1
So I’ve been trying to get Merb running on JRuby a good part of last night. I don’t know jack about Java, so this has been a little bit more challenging than it should have been. Most (if not all) of the tutorials I found were old and obsolete, so I decided to throw out [...]
Announcing install_gems.rb
Over the weekend, I was rethinking the way we should deploy our Merb application (our API) for Defensio. Everything I’ll say here applies to Rails as well. Managing gems has been painful lately. Like most people, we’re freezing them, which helps tremendously. However, there’s a few problems with this approach: We can’t freeze C extensions [...]
