Jetty Rails aims to run Ruby on Rails and Merb applications with the Jetty Container, leveraging the power of JRuby and jruby-rack.
Jetty is an excellent Java Web Server, being and at the same time extremely lightweight. This makes jetty-rails a good alternative for JRuby on Rails or Merb development and deployment.
The project has born from my own needs (read more). I needed to run JForum in the same context of my JRuby on Rails application. I had also to integrate HttpSessions (avoiding single sign on) and use ServletContext in-memory cache store.
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Uses JRuby Rack.
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Loads all jars inside your application lib/ dir, by default.
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Loads all classes inside your application classes/ dir, by default.
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Supports rails and merb applications out of the box.
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Doesn’t work with gems inside $HOME/.gem, because jruby-rack overwrites custom gem paths. Please install jruby in writable places, or install your gems with sudo
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Doesn’t work with JRuby 1.1.4: jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-2959
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To generate coverage report with jruby (>= 1.1) follow instructions from www.ruby-forum.com/topic/146252 and run (inside jetty-rails root dir):
jruby -S rake rcov
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Hoe in jruby has an issue reading the ~/.hoerc file. Just remove it.
cd myrailsapp jruby -S jetty_rails
help option shows usage details:
jruby -S jetty_rails --help
cd mymerbapp jruby -S jetty_merb
help option shows usage details:
jruby -S jetty_merb --help
jetty-rails requires jruby (>=1.1). Please make sure you already have it properly installed and inserted in your PATH environment variable.
jruby -S gem install jetty-rails
Using Lighthouse: fabiokung.lighthouseapp.com/projects/12666-jetty-rails
You can specify a configuration yaml file rather than command line switches. The file also allows specifying multiple servers and / or application contexts for single jetty container.
For example, you could set a context_path of /testA on port 8888 which is rails, /testB also that port which is merb. Or, you could have /testA on port 8888 and /testB on port 9999.
jruby -S jetty_rails -c path/to/config.yml
The configuration options are inherited, so if you specify the environment to be “production” at the top level, then any servers and application context will be “production” unless the choose to override the value.
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server settings:
:port,:jruby_min_runtimes,:jruby_max_runtimes,:thread_pool_max,:thread_pool_min,:acceptor_size -
application context settings:
:context_path,:base,:adapter,:environment,:lib_dir,:gem_path
As part of the configuration you have some control over jruby & jetty.
See spec/config.yml, spec/jetty_rails_sample_1.yml, and spec/jetty_rails_sample_2.yml for more examples.
If -c is not specified, by default jetty_rails will look for a config/jetty_rails.yml relative to where it is started.
Don’t forget to add this into your config/environment.rb ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = “/testA”
You can tweak the JRuby runtimes per application context:
jruby_min_runtimes: 1 jruby_max_runtimes: 2
You can also modify the jetty per server configurations:
Thread pool will define the thread pool available to the jetty server using a QueuedThreadPool.
thread_pool_max: 40 thread_pool_min: 1
The acceptor size is the number of acceptor threads available for that server’s channel connector.
acceptor_size: 20
See the jetty documentation for more information.
Jetty Rails is distributed under the terms of The MIT License. Copyright © 2008 Fabio Kung <[email protected]>
Read more details in the bundled Licenses.txt file. There are other pieces of software bundled with jetty-rails. Before using jetty-rails, make sure you agree with all of them.