Engine Yard has delivered JRuby on its cloud platform to enable Java developers programming in Ruby to innovate faster and scale their apps.
Engine Yard has announced the general availability of JRuby on the Engine Yard Cloud.
With JRuby support, the Engine Yard
Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) brings together the combination of Java
performance and Ruby agility. JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby
programming language, is a popular open source package that enables
Ruby applications to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). JRuby
allows Java developers to use Ruby to efficiently expand the
capabilities of Java applications or create new applications that
leverage existing Java software.
"We are thrilled to announce that customers can now use JRuby in
Engine Yard Cloud and leverage the power of Java on the Engine Yard
platform." said Dr Nic Williams, vice president of technology at Engine
Yard, in a statement. "This is huge in that it is the first truly
threaded implementation of Ruby to have full production support.
Customers can get the performance benefits of real concurrency in an
enterprise-grade environment. Engine Yard is the first platform to make
available all stable, production-ready Ruby implementations, including
JRuby, MRI, and Rubinius."
The JRuby Ruby implementation runs on the JVM and delivers all of
the advantages of Ruby along with Java interoperability and access to
the full range of Java platform functionality, Engine yard officials
said. Moreover, Ruby applications running on JRuby benefit from the
JVM's multi-threading and other performance strengths.
"JRuby provides unique productivity benefits to Java teams,
including the ability to deploy Ruby code on the same servers, use the
same libraries, and integrate with existing Java software that they are
familiar with," said Charles Nutter, co-lead of the JRuby team at
Engine Yard, in a statement. "Complementing the Engine Yard JRuby
support offering, JRuby on Engine Yard Cloud enables businesses and
developers to realize a greater ROI on their Java investments."
Three of the JRuby open source project's four core contributors work
at Engine Yard, including Thomas Enebo, Nutter and Nick Sieger. Engine
Yard also sponsors the development of Trinidad and employs its primary
developer, David Calavera. Trinidad is an application server designed
to run Rack applications within Apache Tomcat, a lightweight Java web
server and a key enabler for JRuby support.
To try JRuby on Engine Yard Cloud with 500 compute hours for free, please visit: engineyard.com/tryjruby.
For more details on the benefits Ruby can offer Java teams and how to
get started with JRuby, developers are invited to download the
quick-start guide at: http://bit.ly/97UaoD. Engine Yard will be an exhibitor at the upcoming JavaOne conference, which runs October 2-6 in San Francisco.
Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.
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