Hey y’all this is a bit outdated, but I figured it should be posted here anyway. Me + Gracious Eloise were featured on the JRuby blog.
Courtesy of JRuby Collateral
I hesitated about using JRuby at first. I spend days beefing up on Java, which I hadn’t used in years. Even though I had been using Ruby on Rails for about a year, I felt more intimidated by JRuby than going back to Java. To be fair, the project I was working on involved integrating with complicated, legacy code. I started from a place of FUD.
It took me fighting with Spring MVC to get it to return JSON without a view to say “Fuck it” and try JRuby on Rails. It was a revelation … just like the first time I used Rails itself. Eventually, that code got moved from JRuby on Rails to JRuby Resque jobs and it was then that I realized the true power of JRuby. (more…)
