So, http://www.sun.com/glassfishv3 suddenly stopped 404ing. I’ve been trying out various Prelude/Previews for a loooong time, so it’s really nice to see it finally ship. From a (J)Ruby viewpoint, this is the appserver that was wrapped up in the glassfish gem, only this time it’s a full-featured (and supported) product. I’ve run Sinatra / Rack apps on it [...]
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JRuby
I’m having lots of fun with JRuby lately. 1.4.0 just came out. reasons to try it if I ever have to break out of Ruby for performance, I want to breakout to Java, not C. the install is trivial (on almost all platforms) threads work you get to run rails/Sinatra/Rack apps on Glassfish the JVM [...]
postgres gem on ubuntu
Ubuntu put their postgresql client bits where gems can’t see them. Google turned up the answer in the past, but today I had to figure it out myself. So for the next time, here’s how to get the client bits needed for a gem build. planb $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-8.2 libpq-dev planb $ sudo [...]
