Oracle Mix, Powered by JRuby on Rails

November 30th, 2007

Oracle AppsLab Blog
"Mix is Live"
http://tinyurl.com/2hcp8p
An announcement of the Mix application we built in partnership with Oracle. In case you had forgotten, we have a logo/link at the bottom of every page of the application -- there for Oracle's 300,000 customers to see. By the end of the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference, the Mix had over 1,500 signups.

Oracle AppsLab Blog
"Let's Mix"
http://tinyurl.com/26fal3
The Mix application built in less than 5 weeks "with the help of the wonderful people at ThoughtWorks." Mike Royle, Toby Tripp, Matthew Wastrodowski and Sid Pinney were all part of this relationship.

InfoQ
Oracle Mix: First large JRuby on Rails app online
http://tinyurl.com/yqjzqb
ThoughtWorks, JRuby and Ola mentioned in excerpts

Oracle AppsLab Blog
Mix, JRuby on Rails, Small Teams, Agile, and it’s Effects on the World
http://tinyurl.com/26fg5p
A good post about JRuby and its role in the Mix development. Ola Bini and ThoughtWorks are mentioned.

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JRuby on Rails: A Tale of Two Worlds

November 23rd, 2007

Jini说脚本语言唯Java马首是瞻，Alexey（在一个邮件里）说Ruby就是新时代的COBOL。两种说法的意思是一样的：在Java平台上跑Ruby程序，同时收获两个世界最好的东西。

Oracle已经尝试了。Oracle Mix是一个社会网络站点，也是第一个大型的JRuby on Rails的应用。效率？效率真的不错。Oracle的同志说，Mix每秒能处理400～600个请求。比较不理想的是内存使用情况，这里有一个已知的问题存在。不过在Oracle那样的强大服务器上，这个已经不成问题，于是也没有人去动它。

更好的想象来自Hibernate。ActiveRecord的不足是显而易见的，但用Ruby重新实现一个Hibernate不是件很轻松的事，特别是考虑到Hibernate支持那么多数据库。那么，Hibernate加一个Convention over Configuration的Ruby API又如何呢？把Hibernate融入Rails又如何呢？Alexey正在着手做一些东西。

近在眼前的，JRuby on Rails感觉上更像是一个Java的框架，而不是另一个平台，这让它更容易被比较保守的企业和政府客户接受，特别是那些已经在J2EE服务器上投入了大量成本的客户。现在好了，你的投资重新焕发青春，开发效率提升5倍。谁会不喜欢呢？

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