The App on the VM (plus a half-hearted attempt at JRuby)

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In part inspired by Sinclair Bain's presentation on JRuby and in-part inspired by the lateness that I returned home from said meeting, I think that I will try to get my Sinatra application running under JRuby. Specifically, I would like to get it running under glassfish (with the glassfish gem)

The first thing that will be require is JRuby itself. On my Debian VM:

sudo apt-get install jruby1.2

That takes a long because of the sheer number of dependencies

I install some gems that I know that I am going to need:

cstrom@debian:~$ jruby -S gem install sinatra
cstrom@debian:~$ jruby -S gem install glassfish
cstrom@debian:~$ jruby -S gem install json-jruby

I am going to need my couch_docs gem as well, so I need to add Githib to my gem sources:

cstrom@debian:~$ jruby -S gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

And then try to install the gem:

cstrom@debian:~$ jruby -S gem install eee-c-couch_docs
JRuby limited openssl loaded. gem install jruby-openssl for full support.
http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Builtin_OpenSSL
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/lib/jruby1.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and
          /usr/lib/jruby1.2/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /home/cstrom/.gem/jruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
          gem executables will not run.
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
/usr/lib/jruby1.2//lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb:7: JRuby does not support native extensions. Check wiki.jruby.org for alternatives. (NotImplementedError)
        from /usr/lib/jruby1.2//lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb:1:in `require'
        from extconf.rb:1
ERROR:  Error installing eee-c-couch_docs:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/lib/jruby1.2/bin/jruby extconf.rb install eee-c-couch_docs


Gem files will remain installed in /home/cstrom/.gem/jruby/1.8/gems/json-1.1.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/cstrom/.gem/jruby/1.8/gems/json-1.1.7/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out

Aw, nuts! I need to figure out how to make my gem dependent on json-jruby or plain old json. On top of that, Pony (for sending email) is also not available on JRuby (pony-gae seems to be a drop-in replacement).

The combination of those two non-supported gems are enough to defeat me tonight. Still, I would like to get the whole stack of Sinatra / Couch running on the VM. First, I create my CouchDB database:

curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/eee

When trying to run my rake tasks to load the CouchDB design documents, it becomes apparent that I need to install rake:

sudo apt-get install rake

I also have to edit my Rakefile to require rubygems (not sure why that is not necessary on my local desktop) and to rename CouchDesignDocs to CouchDocs (need to double check that I do not have local changes queued up tomorrow).

Once I have my edited Rakefile, I can load my design documents:

cstrom@debian:~/repos/eee-code$ rake couchdb:load_design_docs

Before I can get the application to start, I need to install the Pony, RedCloth, and Haml gems. With that, I finally get:

cstrom@debian:~/repos/eee-code$ ruby eee.rb
== Sinatra/0.9.4 has taken the stage on 4567 for development with backup from WEBrick
[2009-08-11 19:47:17] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2009-08-11 19:47:17] INFO  ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12) [i486-linux]
[2009-08-11 19:47:17] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=20430 port=4567

And:



Nice. I have some work to do in the Rakefile tomorrow. I also need to consolidate my installation notes. Still, it is nice to know that I get the application up and running in a VM so quickly.