Avoid Dependency Whack-a-mole with Bundler

We’ve all been there. At one time or another, we’ve installed a gem that has other dependencies that conflict with other gems on our system, and we end up playing dependency whack-a-mole or monkey-patching our way to a working environment. Along comes Bundler, a tool with a goal to be the solution to this problem.

JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote a small article including a handy ruby script to help you transition from ruby on rails to an enterprise class jruby on rails deployment environment. The script will download and install torquebox, set up your paths for you, and install jruby-openssl in an automated process.

JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons talks about debugging jruby applications with IntelliJ IDEA.

JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote an article about using JRuby & Java to integrate with proprietary C libraries. Includes high-level example JRuby, Java, JNI & C code, along with rake & Makefiles.

JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons posted an article covering the tools he uses to fully automate his packaging and deployment to staging and production environments. He gives an example config/warble.rb file used in a real application, and also provides us with a lib/tasks/deploy.rake file that can be easily modified to work with any warbled app.

JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote an article about combining jruby, rails, rake and cron into a powerful automation tool set. This technique is both useful and pragmatic. Never worry again about running a periodic process. Let the system do the work.