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….