I am pleased to announce a long awaited GlassFish gem ver 0.9.0, it is based on GlassFish v3 Prelude nucleus. This release of GlassFish gem has everything that GlassFish v3 Prelude has to offer plus some new features. See my post on JRuby on Rails support in GlassFish v3 Prelude.

Installation

jruby -S gem install glassfish

Key features

• Based on GlassFish v3 Prelude nucleus
• GlassFish v3 Prelude is a production quality application server and the nucleus is based on this final version.
• Rack based
• GlassFish gem is Rack based. This means it would be pretty easy to add any Ruby based web frameworks, such as Merb, Camping, Sinatra, etc.
• Merb support
• Not just Rails, you can start running your Merb applications, simply type glassfish in your Merb application directory.
• Autodetection of application framework
• Simply type glassfish and it will detect what app you are running, whether Rails or Merb
• It means you have to know about only one command glassfish. glassfish_rails is deprected and supported for now due to backward compatibility
• -port or -p option to specify on which port your application runs
• -environment or -e option to specify the Rails development environment, such as production, development or test
•  JRuby runtime pool configuration
• Much needed for scaling when running Rails 2.1.x applications
• Not required if running Edge Rails (2.2). Because it is supposed to be MT or atleast MT safe.
• Also, not required for Merb

Issues Resolved

3964  Provide -port option to specify port for v3 gem
6470  HTTP keep-alive not honored
4823  glassfish_rails command should attempt to load the current directory if none specified
5446  Jruby on Rails show request header in page
21080 Issues reported at rubyforge

How to use?

Simply type glassfish in your application directory. If not sure see help:

jruby -S glassfish -h

You can see the GlassFish gem documentation here. Try it out and send your feedback to the forum report issues at the issue tracker.