JRuby Meetup!

For those of you who are live in the Bay Area (East Bay in particular), I’ll be speaking at the East Bay Ruby Meetup next Tuesday.  Here’s the talk abstract:
JRuby is fast becoming a solid (and possibly preferred choice) for deploying Rails apps. Rich Manalang from Oracle will talk about how he and a small [...]

Mix Gets a Plug at Google

Ola Bini of ThoughtWorks, who worked with Rich on the initial development of Mix last Fall, gave a tech talk at Google last week on “JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby“. He mentions Mix at about minute 61 and talks briefly about the project, built on the “red stack”, i.e. JRuby running on Oracle [...]

JRuby on Rails: Oracle SSO Integration

Laurent reminded me that I promised a write up of how we accomplished the Oracle SSO integration for Mix.  So, I’ve created an Oracle Wiki page that has details on how it works.  If you have any experience with Oracle SSO and Rails (or is working on a project that requires this), please add your [...]

Mix President’s Day Release: JRuby 1.1RC2 and a bunch of other stuff!

Since U.S. based Oracle employees don’t get President’s Day off, Anthony and I decided to deploy some new changes while everyone is off enjoying their day off.  Actually, that’s not true, we deployed the new Mix changes early Sunday morning.  What should have taken 10 minutes lasted 2 hours — it was a big release.
We [...]

Mix So Far

We just got site analytics installed on Mix. It would have been nice to see the traffic patterns the week of OpenWorld. Sometimes duh stuff like that takes longer than anticipated, but oh well.
We’re about three weeks in, give or take a holiday, so I figured I’d check out the ideas and share some thoughts.
Most [...]

Mix Rake Stats

Artem Vasiliev asked for the Mix rake stats… here they are:
+———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+
| Name                 | Lines |   LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
+———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+
| Controllers          |  1825 |  1504 |      22 |     145 |   6 |     8 |
| Helpers              |   248 |   217 |       0 |      28 |   0 |     5 |
| Models               |   [...]

Mix, JRuby on Rails, Small Teams, Agile, and it’s Effects on the World

A week after going live with Oracle Mix, we’ve gotten a considerable amount of buzz and interest from every aspect of Mix. Most everyone we’ve talked with are really happy to see Oracle becoming more transparent. Mix is a huge part of that. There are a lot of tool heads out there [...]

Let’s Mix

Hi all. Remember me? I used to blog here until of course Paul and Jake buried me with a crazy project that seemed impossible. Anyway, now that it’s out, I can talk about what I’ve been working on since all the fun we had with Connect this Summer.
So, far the buzz on [...]

JRuby on Rails Application on an Oracle AppServer

Finally, something to blog about! Progress is being made. More to come later…