[jruby-user] [ANN] jruby-maven-plugins, jbundler, jar-depenencies, ruby-maven, etc

jruby-maven-plugins version 1.0.4
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after a long time it reached 1.0.0 and got some more bug fixes already.

with those plugin you can run jruby with gem-artifacts, run tests (junit,
minitest, rspec, cucumber) using those gems or pack them as embeded gems
into jar or war files

gem artifacts are offered by http://rubygems-proxy.torquebox.org/

some info can be found on jruby-wiki

* JRuby scripting container packed as jar with embeded gems:
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Jruby-Scripting-container-using-Gems-with-a-Maven-Project

* JRuby scripting container inside a servlet packed as war:
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/JRuby-Scripting-container-in-Servlet-using-Gems-packed-with-Maven

* minitest, rspec, cucumber test for you ruby script:
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Running-Minitest-or-Rspec-over-serveral-JRuby-versions-with-Ruby-Maven

all those pages use a Ruby-DSL for Maven

Ruby-Maven 3.1.1.0.8
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basically a regular maven-3.1.1 installation with an extra thin wrapper
which "translates" a ruby file into a pom.xml

it comes with some "extras" feature to use a Gemfile, Jarfile or
gemspec-file as part of the POM. as well it leverages the
jruby-maven-plugins.

it also allows to execute code during a declared phase, i.e. like inlined
maven plugins written in ruby.


Rubygems-Servlets
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if you need Gem-Artifacts from your local rubygems repository you can use
https://github.com/torquebox/rubygems-servlets
to proxy gem repository and deliver gem-artifacts.

for a more advanced solution use sonatype.org/nexus with nexus-ruby-plugin
from:
https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-ruby-support

rubygems-servlets uses the same core as this nexus-plugin.

JBundler 0.6.1
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manage your jars for your ruby project with jbundler

* it uses ruby-maven now to lock down the version for the jars
* allows exclusions on jars (maven feature)
* uses jar-dependencies to "track and load" jars

the 0.6.x might break some existing project. in such a case please use
$ jbundle lock_down
instead of install and **open an issue**:
https://github.com/mkristian/jbundler


Jar-Dependencies 0.0.5
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* during runtime it tracks the version of loaded jars - if require_jar(...)
is used to load it
* it can "vendor" the jars declared as "jar dependency" inside the gemspec
file before packing them
* it can "vendor" the jars when you install the gem

see on how you can manage your jars with jbundler (and jar-dependencies):
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Using-a-different-Bouncy-Castle-version-via-JBundler

Clueing Things Together
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putting the Gemfile, Jarfile and some common maven-plugins, the
jruby-maven-plugins together. with the help of ruby-maven you can easily
pack

* a rack application ready to deploy on servlet-container:
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Rack-Application-with-Ruby-Maven

* or deploy it on heroku
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Rack-Application-with-JBundler-on-Heroku

LAST
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enjoy and please open issues if you have problems !