1. JRuby on Rails
Tutorial – RailsConf 2009, Las Vegas
Nick Sieger
Sun Microsystems, Inc
nick.sieger@sun.com

2. Preliminaries

3. JDK
• JDK 6 preferred
• JDK 5 minimum
• Make sure you DON’T have GCJ

4. JDK: Linux
• http://openjdk.java.net/install/ – Ubuntu,
Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Debian
• http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml –
Gentoo
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
– Others
• JDK 6 Update 13

5. JDK: OS X
• included
• choose version from
preference pane

6. JDK: Windows
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
• JDK 6 Update 13

7. MySQL
• http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.4.html

8. GlassFish
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
downloads/v2.1-b60e.html

9. JRuby
• http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/1.2.0/
• Grab jruby-bin version
• jruby-bin-1.2.0.tar.gz, .zip