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Re: GlassFish v3 gem for JRuby on Rails v0.1.1 released at RubyForge

From: Barbara Louis <Barbara.Louis_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:48:08 -0800

Thank you for sending out this email to all these alias!
Barbara

Pramod Gopinath wrote:
> Hi
> After having released v0.1.0 last week and having seen the positive
> response for this gem, I have decided to release a new version of the
> gem to address some of the common issues that were reported. Hence
> today I have pushed out v0.1.1 of the gem at RubyForge. Please give it
> a couple of hours for the gem to be reflected on the various servers.
>
> More details about this release can be found at my blog
> <http://blogs.sun.com/pramodg/entry/glassfish_v3_gem_v0_11>.
>
> The main issues being addressed in this release of the gem :
> 1. The name of the gem is being changed from GlassFish to glassfish.
> The rails naming convention for the gems is with all lower case or
> with names that contain underscore.
> 2. Support for the applications to be deployed at the Root Context
> ("/") of the server. The Webrick and Mongrel servers deploy the
> application to the root context by default.
> 3. Change the default port the server to be 3000 from 8080. Port 8080
> has been the default http port of the GlassFish application server,
> but since we are targetting the Ruby on Rails market with this space,
> it is better to have the http port set to 3000. At this stage I have
> also changed the SSL port from the GlassFish default of 8181 to 3131
> and the admin default port of 4848 to be 3838.
> 4. Provide command arguments to the script to specify the number of
> runtime to be created. In v0.1.0 of the gem one could specify the
> number of runtimes if it was passed in as a specified as a java system
> property. With this version one could use the command - jruby -S
> glassfish_rails mephisto -n 2
> to create 2 rails instance.
> 5. Create instances of rails in parallel. This would speed up the
> startup of the v3 gem
>
> Thanks
> Pramod Gopinath
> http://blogs.sun.com/pramodg
>