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by astrodust 3981 days ago
Define "newer" and define "poor"? The JRuby team has done a fantastic job of keeping things working. Do you have any specific problems other than vague grumblings?

Anyone married to the MRI ecosystem because of dependencies on modules with no JVM equivalent may have problems, but new projects usually have no such issues.
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aurochs 3981 days ago
Rails 4.2 was released 7 months ago.

When I last experimented with creating a standard Rails 4.2 app with the AR JDBC adapter and a database model a few weeks ago, it still didn't work. I haven't looked at things since then.

The workaround some people will suggest is "replace ActiveRecord with Sequel" but for existing projects a migration to a less standard Rails stack may not be viable.

I agree the JRuby team is doing a great job - however Rails is a big use case for any Ruby implementation, so my comment was not intended as a criticism, more in the line of a bug report and something it would be nice to have working now the new JRuby release is out the door.

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exelius 3981 days ago
Yeah; but at the same time when you're building and scaling an app you run into all sorts of issues like this. JRuby is almost a platform of its own: you get the scalability and benefits of the JVM with the flexibility of Ruby. IMO it's a decision you make pretty early in the product lifecycle. If you're already on Rails, there are other solutions that give you many of the same benefits with an easier migration path (i.e. app containers like Docker).
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amalag 3981 days ago
I don't want to complain because it is a free product. But there is no doubt a big lag with activerecord. Rails 4.2 is still not supported: https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/issues/59...
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juliangregorian 3981 days ago
Currently, there's $1700 in store for whoever does support it: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5831191-tasks-to-finish-...
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ch4s3 3981 days ago
Yep, I've put up money for it myself, and regularly be on twitter for other folks to do the same. I wish a big company that uses jRuby would step up and support the tools they use :/
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headius 3981 days ago
Agreed.
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ch4s3 3981 days ago
Know anyone? ;)
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codeodor 3980 days ago
I've used JRuby on a Rails 4.2 project and everything turned out fine on it. Many projects may not use what's not yet supported.
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