Michael Papp wrote:
It sounds like this would be a great ancillary project to JRuby - building gems or all-in-one distributions that bundle JRuby with Rails and other Java/Ruby libraries (an Eclipse distribution would be a natural as well). There is growing interest in this "value-added" approach to bundling open source projects into "install and run" solutions for developers and end-users alike. My time is somewhat limited, but I would certainly consider initiating and contributing time to a project that creates and distributes bundled JRuby deployments. Especially if I can enlist the support and maybe some time from others on this list. From my reading on this list, the actual mechanics of building is neither terribly difficult nor (relatively) time-consuming. The real trick is coming to agreement on what to offer in terms of bundled solutions. But the Rails package is a no-brainer, and would represent a good way to kick off this project. But I don't want to step on anyone's feet - perhaps Charles/Thomas/Nick would prefer to keep these distros under their control.
I'd like to see a first version of the "jruby-rails" gem come up to speed under the jruby-extras project on RubyForge. It has been a great place to get projects started, despite gforge's inadequate tooling. There are also many committers there with an interest in seeing ARJDBC, GoldSpike, and the rest integrated "properly", so I'm sure they'd love to have a hand in making a "complete" Gem run the way it ought.
If someone would like to head up this effort, and you're not already a jruby-extras committer, let me know. Ideally, you would put something primitive together as a seed for the project, and we can incorporate it into the jruby-extras repo.
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