#376 JRuby Basics

Aug 30, 2012 | 10 minutes | Performance, Tools

JRuby is a polished and stable Ruby implementation. Here I show the basics of setting it up and executing Java from within Ruby. I also see how it compares with MRI at running threads.

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          terminal
        
rbenv install jruby-1.7.0-preview2
rbenv shell jruby-1.7.0-preview2
ruby -v
jruby -v
jirb
irb
ruby swing.rb
ruby fib.rb
rbenv shell 1.9.3-p194
ruby fib.rb
rbenv shell jruby-1.7.0-preview2
gem install rails
# or jruby -S gem install rails
rails new blog
gem install sqlite3
rails g scaffold article name
rake db:migrate
rails s
time (rails runner nil)

          console
        
h = java.util.HashMap.new
h.put(:foo, "bar")
h.get(:foo)
h[:foo]
h.java_class
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(nil, "Hello World!")
Java::JavaxSwing::JOptionPane.show_message_dialog(nil, "Hello World!")

          swing.rb
        
require "java"

java_import javax.swing.JFrame
java_import javax.swing.JButton
java_import javax.swing.JOptionPane

class HelloWorld < JFrame
  def initialize
    super "Example"

    setSize(150, 100)
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE)
    setLocationRelativeTo(nil)

    button = JButton.new("Say Hello")
    add(button)

    button.addActionListener do |e|
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(nil, "Hello World")
    end

    setVisible(true)
  end
end

HelloWorld.new

          fib.rb
        
def fib(n)
  n < 2 ? n : fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
end

start = Time.now

1.upto(5).map do |n|
  Thread.new { puts "Thread #{n}: #{sleep(0.5)}" }
end.each(&:join)

puts "Time: #{Time.now - start}"

          Gemfile
        
platform :jruby do
  gem 'activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter'
  gem 'jruby-openssl'
  gem 'therubyrhino', group: :assets
end

platform :ruby do
  gem 'sqlite3'
end