ISBN: 9788184046427    Publisher: By Jesse Liberty Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 238        Language: English

This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the JRuby, the Java implementation of the Ruby language. Targeted recipes help you deploy Rails web applications on Java servers, integrate JRuby code with Java technologies, develop JRuby desktop applications with Java toolkits and more. Using numerous reusable code samples, JRuby Cookbook demonstrates how you can take advantage of JRuby's potential. If you're interested in JRuby, you probably don't need a tutorial on Ruby, Rails or Java you just need to know how to get things done. This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the Java implementation of the Ruby language, with targeted recipes for deploying Rails web applications on Java servers, integrating JRuby code with Java technologies, developing JRuby desktop applications with Java toolkits and more. Using numerous reusable code samples, JRuby Cookbook shows you how to: Install and update JRuby on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and IDEs such as Net Beans and Eclipse. Package and deploy Rails apps on Java Servlet containers and Java EE application servers, including JBoss, Tomcat and GlassFish. Integrate Ruby and Rails applications with popular Java EE technologies such as JMS, JMX, JPA, Spring and Hibernate. Develop desktop and client applications with cross-platform Java UI technologies and toolkits such as Swing, SWT and Java 2D. Maximize the flexibility of your testing and build environment, using both existing Java-based tools such as Ant and Maven and newer Ruby-based tools such as Rake, Raven and Buildr.
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Justin Edelson is the Vice President of Platform Engineering for MTV Networks. He was the co-author (with Brett McLaughlin) of Java and XML, 3rd Edition, published in December 2006. Henry Liu is an experienced software developer and game designer. He is currently a Senior Software Developer at MTV Networks. He maintains an Open Source Ruby project for collaborative filtering named slopeone-gem and is an active member of the New York City Ruby Users Group.
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