I thought I'd be racy this week and convert a rather large application from Ruby on Rails to JRuby using Netbeans. Learned a lot. Not all the gems come across but the 'show stopper' for me was the Rmagick gem which I obviously use to store my photos in the database. JRuby claims to have a Rmagick4j but it after 'Googling' I found it doesn't work and the project seems to be on someone's shelf that doesn't really want it. Is there anyone out there saving photos to a database and sizing them in JRuby? Sure appreciate any ideas or links to a smart JRuby person. Thank you, David
You should go for image_voodoo, not RMagick -> http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/03/27/imagevoodoo-0-1-released
we use mini_magick fine with JRuby
RMagick4j [1] is in decent shape, it was a summer of code project last year. That said, there still could be some things that might not work. Please let us know on the JRuby lists [2] if you encounter uses where it doesn't work. See [3] for an example that uses RMagick4j.
/Nick
[1]: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting. [2]: http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/jruby/lists [3]: http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/19/ruby_graphs_and_java_monitoring_with_jruby
