Jruby nuby developing on Ubuntu, deploying to windows tomcat. Anyone done this?

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I’m about to start learning Rails 3 and using JRuby to do it. I have a
small web app project I want to do for my son to cut my teeth on, and am
using an Ubuntu (guest in VirtualBox) for the development, but will
probably
deploy it to tomcat on the Windows 7 host for him and a few friends of
his
to hit.

I assume that Tomcat is pretty vanilla and I can test and develop in
Ubuntu
and then just move the war file to the Windows box and it should work,
but
I am wondering if anyone has done this already, and if so if there are
any
gotchas or other pitfalls I should be aware of?

Also, I’d love any recommendations on development/deployment practices.
I’m using rvm, and plan to use Bundler for dependency management and
Warbler
for packaging the rails app to a war file. Am I treading along the
right
path for this sort of thing? I’ve been out of the ruby sphere for 5 or
6
years and a lot has happened in that time! So many options now.

Thanks,

michael

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If you need a simple web container for Ruby web apps, have a look at
trinidad.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Michael C. <

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Thanks, I will. My interest in Tomcat is because this is just a
practice
app for my boy. The next step is rewriting an existing (java servlet;
struts + ibatis) app my wife’s company uses, and it’s being hosted on a
site
that has tomcat, which I plan on keeping. So I want to play around with
a
Jruby + tomcat deployment to find any gotchas before I start on her
stuff.

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Michael C. wrote in post #961390:

Thanks, I will. My interest in Tomcat is because this is just a
practice
app for my boy. The next step is rewriting an existing (java servlet;
struts + ibatis) app my wife’s company uses, and it’s being hosted on a
site
that has tomcat, which I plan on keeping. So I want to play around with
a
Jruby + tomcat deployment to find any gotchas before I start on her
stuff.

Thanks you for the post.

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Michael C. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, I will. My interest in Tomcat is because this is just a practice
app for my boy. The next step is rewriting an existing (java servlet;
struts + ibatis) app my wife’s company uses, and it’s being hosted on a site
that has tomcat, which I plan on keeping. So I want to play around with a
Jruby + tomcat deployment to find any gotchas before I start on her stuff.

Well you will need something like warbler then. Trinidad is fine for
running
Rack compatible ruby/jruby apps as is, but for deploying to Java web
containers you will need to use a tool that bundles jruby as well.