Mongrel, prepare for Glassfish!

A couple of days ago Charles Nutter announced the preview version of the Glassfish server gem for JRuby/Rails deployments.

What's the biggie about this you ask? Well, you get high performance JRuby on Rails support out of the box, with way better features han running Mongrel. In other words - you get the benefit of the features of a state of the art Java Application Server, as well as the ease of use of the Mongrel...! Ok, Glassfish+JRuby is not as fast as Mongrel+Ruby, but will (hopefully) be with JRuby 1.1.

You download the gem here:

http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish/com/sun/enterprise/glassfish/glassfish-gem/10.0-SNAPSHOT/

Then you install the gem with this command:

gem install glassfish-gem-10.0-SNAPSHOT.gem

You run the server using this command:

glassfish_rails testapp

Charles reports that Glassfish has blazing performance on static files. This will be a really attractive option (if not first choice) when JRuby 1.1 hits the road.

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