When Ruby Meets Java - The Power of Torquebox

When Ruby Meets Java

T h e P o w e r o f T o r q u e b o x

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- S u r p r i s e ! !

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Coolest Thing About JRuby(1.6) ?

Pop Quiz

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The Enterprise

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What If...Wouldn’t it be great if

- I could use the power of Java libraries with the ease of Ruby

- I could use the power of a proven Java Server without writing any XML

- I could deploy my JRuby app and test it without rebuilding it and restarting the server

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TORQUEBOX

Built upon JBoss 7Built using JRuby (1.6.7)Supports Rack, Rails, SinatraEverything in one box

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TORQUEBOX

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Installation- Download the distribution from torquebox.org

OR

- rvm jruby (1.6.7) jruby -J-Xmx1024m -S gem install torquebox-server --pre

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Our Sh***y App

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SchedulingUses the battle-tested Quartz Java library

Zero XML

Minimal configuration

No manual thread / process management

No messing with cron

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Schedulingconfig/torquebox.yml

jobs: mail_notifier: job: MailNotifier cron: '*/5 * * * * ?' description: Deliver reminder email

class MailNotifier

def run send_reminder_notification end

def send_reminder_notification puts "Sending mail ..." #UserMailer.reminder_email(User.find(1)).deliver end

end

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ServicesLong running services with 3 line configuration

Full access to the Rails environment

JVM threads!

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Servicesconfig/torquebox.ymlservices: MessageNotifier: config: name: hello

class MessageNotifier def initialize(opts={}) @name = opts['name'] end def start Thread.new { run } end def stop @done = true end def run until @done do_something #todo sleep(5) end endend

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MessagingJMS supported out-of-the-box (HornetQ)

Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP)- RabbitMQ

Supports STOMP out of the box

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AMQP

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MessagingIn a long running service -...def do_something puts "Checking the queue for messages ..."

bunny = Bunny.new(:logging => false)

# start a communication session with the amqp server bunny.start

# declare a queue q = bunny.queue(@name)

# get message from the queue msg = q.pop[:payload]

puts "This is the message: " + msg.to_s

# close the connection bunny.stopend

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BackgroundableAs easy as A, B, C ...

class User < ActiveRecord::Base include TorqueBox::Messaging::Backgroundable

always_background :send_signup_notification

validates_confirmation_of : ...

def send_signup_notification(user) UserMailer.welcome_email(user).deliver end end

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Clusteringtorquebox run --clustered

Does everything

Servers in a LAN are automatically clustered

Top it up with mod_cluster from JBoss

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CachingTorqueBox provides an implementation of the Rails 3.x ActiveSupport::Cache::Store that exposes your application to the Infinispan data grid.

Uses Infinispan by default

Can utilize the cluster with minimal config

Share the cache across the cluster - FTW!

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Performance

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Performance

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Risks- Version 2 is quite stable but still at RC1

- Upgrading JRuby will not help sometimes

- You will be on a cutting edge open-source technology but documentation is great, help is available online and on IRC

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Surprise!!!

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Questions?

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Thank You

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