[Chirb] Rails Scaling Experience?

[Sean Lynch]

The java based netbeans ide (v 6.1) from Sun integrates  JRuby and Rails
pretty well. having something from Sun that supports Ruby and Rails so
prominently will probably quiet any grumbling from Java folks.

It seems smart to play on your shop's strengths. If they have J2EE
deployment experience, they will feel more comfortable wrapping up a Ruby on
Rails app developed in JRuby as a war file and dropping it in a web
container for deployment.



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Peter K Chan <peter at oaktop.com> wrote:

> Troy,
>        Since you mentioned that your operation folks are comfortable
> with Java, you may want to consider exploring Rails on JRuby. You can
> package your app as a war file, which for all purposes looks just like a
> regular Java web app on the outside. You get the benefit of developing
> in Ruby, and deploying on JVM.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org
> [mailto:chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of
> Troy Denkinger
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:01 PM
> To: Chirb discussion list
> Subject: [Chirb] Rails Scaling Experience?
>
> All,
>
> I'm right in the midst of advocating for use of Rails on a project I'm
> in the middle of.  I manage a team that has created a service that
> runs on Rails.  To date we've been in development and haven't had any
> serious outside usage, nor have we deployed on production-ready
> hardware.  We are very happy with the ease of development, how
> responsive we can be to the business requirements, and the support
> we've found within the community at large.
>
> Recently we have been asked to merge our service into an existing
> company that has always used a Java stack in their development.  They
> have a couple developers and an operations team that is comfortable
> with Java.  The major concern about using our Rails code is that they
> are concerned with scaling of Rails apps in general, and they are
> using that concern to advocate a port of the existing Rails code to
> their Java stack.
>
> I know one thing that would make the Ops team happy is to talk to
> someone who has actual experience with large-scale Rails deployments.
> I think they're being rightly pragmatic about this, and I'd like to
> find them someone to talk to.  Anyone know anyone who would be willing
> to talk a bit about what they've done to scale a Rails installation?
> I'm sure I could work up some sort of compensation for someone with
> relevant experience who'd like to share it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Troy
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