On the #jruby IRC channel today we were discussing what our ideal Rails
deployment setup of the future might be. The two existing options being
actively explored are:
- deploying JRuby with Mongrel behind some load-balancing software
(familiar to Rubyists)
- deploying JRuby as a WAR file within an app server like GlassFish
(familiar to Javaists)
But the discussion eventually turned toward Grizzly. Almost everyone
agreed that a "bare" Grizzly instance fronting N JRuby instances running
Rails would be perhaps the best balance of both worlds. But they also
all agreed that it would be necessary to have a "gem" of Grizzly users
could install, allowing them to get going as easily as with Mongrel.
gem install grizzly-rails
cd myapp
jruby script/server grizzly
...and a scalable server starts up
I'm not sure when one of us will have a chance to work on this, but if
anyone on the list is interested in such things you can feel free to get
it going. Obviously there's already Rails support in Grizzly, but it
needs to be updated to current JRuby and made cleaner/more configurable.
But I think there's a lot of potential here if we can make a one-shot
installable Grizzly-based server for JRuby on Rails.
- Charlie