JRuby is a way into the enterprise for Rails.

…. and believe me the enterprise needs Ruby and Rails and well yes Oracle too ….

Glad to see Sun and Oracle embrace Rails and Ruby so passionately in recent months.

Check out Oracle Mix.

Ruby, my favourite programming language is taking over the world. I have proof:

1. JRuby reached V1 this year
2. I can run Ruby on Rails apps on GlassFish
3. IronRuby runs in a browser via Silverlight (meaning .NET does Ruby)
4. Ruby is pioneering Behavior Driven Development with RSpec and RBehave
5. …..and we have BuildR - a Java build tool written in Ruby

Ruby promotes Language Oriented Programming - we need domain specific languages to do the task at hand not Java or C# syntax to do any job.

I’ve waited patiently for a year and a bit and now finally it looks like I can deploy my rails apps on Tomcat. Digital Sanctum has posted a nifty tutorial. An additional deployment platform is always welcome but this means that Rails can finally ‘enter the enterprise’. Not that Rails was ever not ‘ready for the enterprise’, it was really the enterprise not being ready for Rails and placing barriers in its way without considering the flexiblility, productivity and joy it brought to programmers. Sadly programmer happiness does not count for much but now at least I can rapidly prototype apps in Rails and deploy on Tomcat. …and if those Rails apps never get ported to Superior Enterprise Language (I wont mention names), yet are fully functional then so be it….