I agree with the approach you have outlined. I could certainly put together a basic "jruby-rails" gem based on your documentation and the list archives (and good old experimentation). I am not a jruby-extras committer but would be willing to get this effort started if you will add me to the list. As you suggest, let me put a basic package together and then we can discuss next steps.
Michael On 5/27/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. - Charlie
