Ruby application talking to Java application (IPC suggestions please)

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

I'm wondering how can I make RoR application talk to Java application running in background. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of stuff? Anny suggestions welcome.

I am running Ruby on MRI, and Java application will run on the same machine but in JVM.

Thanks, H.

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+1 for restful web service, or perhaps run your rails app in jruby & then you can make java calls from ruby.

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Hi Hubert,

Hubert Lepicki wrote:

I'm wondering how can I make RoR application talk to Java application running in background.

Web Services; RESTFUL or otherwise. Though you can do SOAP on Rails, I recommend picking up "RESTful Web Services" by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby.

HTH, Bill

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Hi,

I went third route. I couldn't use web services as I was clearly told not to use any Java web container. I also couldn't use jruby, as I am dependent on some C++ libraries. Fortunately, there is nice library Ruby Java Bridge (http://rjb.rubyforge.org/) that helped me get around this issue and include my Java classes into project directly. Can't say much about resources consumption/memory leaks or stability yet, but all looks good for now.

Thanks, H.