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TOTD #79: Getting Started with Sinatra applications on JRuby and GlassFish Gem

Posted by arungupta on April 28, 2009 at 6:16 AM PDT


cellspacing="2">
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src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/ror/ruby-frameworks-glassfish.png">		 Sinatra
is a DSL for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby with minimal
effort. Like Rails and Merb, Sinatra is not an MVC framework and
basically follows a flat-file structure instead. The framework define
conventions such as location of static files and
views, bootstrap, dev/production/test environment variables, filters,
helpers, TDD, and much more.  Read href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html">Getting Started
for complete details. Even though Sinatra is not a MVC framework but href="http://github.com/quirkey/sinatra-gen/tree/master">sinatra-gen
may be used to generate new Sinatra projects.



GlassFish
Gem can easily run Rails,
Merb, href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra, and any
other Ruby framework applications based upon href="http://rack.rubyforge.org/">Rack. href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_70_jruby_and_glassfish">TOTD
#70 shows how to run Rails applications and href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_53_scaffold_in_merb">TOTD
#53 shows to run Merb applications. This TOTD will explain
how to run a trivial Sinatra application. A later blog will describe
how to plug
a generic Rack-based framework.



Lets see how to get started with Sinatra using JRuby and GlassFish gem.

  1. Install Sinatra gem as:


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    ~/tools/jruby > style="font-weight: bold;">./bin/jruby -S gem install
    sinatra

    JRuby limited openssl loaded. gem install jruby-openssl for full
    support.

    http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Builtin_OpenSSL

    Successfully installed sinatra-0.9.1.1

    1 gem installed

    Installing ri documentation for sinatra-0.9.1.1...

    Installing RDoc documentation for sinatra-0.9.1.1...


  2. Create a directory "sinatra-sample", create a file
    "hello.rb" in that directory with the contents shown below:


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    cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
    require 'rubygems'

    require 'sinatra'

    get '/hi' do

      "Hello World!"

    end


  3. Run your sample using GlassFish gem as:


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    cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
    ~/tools/jruby/samples/sinatra-sample
    >../../bin/jruby
    -S glassfish

    Log file
    /Users/arungupta/tools/jruby-1.2.0/samples/sinatra-sample/log/development.log
    does not exist. Creating a new one...

    Starting GlassFish server at: 192.168.1.145:3000 in development
    environment...

    Writing log messages to:
    /Users/arungupta/tools/jruby-1.2.0/samples/sinatra-sample/log/development.log.

    Press Ctrl+C to stop.



    And then the output is available at "http://localhost:3000/hi" and
    looks like:



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    src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/ror/sinatra-hello-world-output.png">

Neat and simple!



You'll hear all about it at href="http://blog.arungupta.me/2009/04/27/glassfish-and-netbeans-at-rails-conf-2009.aspx">Develop
with Pleasure, Deploy with Fun: GlassFish and NetBeans for a Better
Rails Experience at href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/">Rails Conf
next week.



Here is the order in which I'll seek any help:

The next blog will show how to create a Sinatra CRUD application and
run it using GlassFish.



Please leave suggestions on other TOTD (Tip Of The Day) that
you'd like to see.
A complete archive of all the tips is available href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/tags/totd">here.


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