new to ruby and java. looking for recommended path to start

Hi, I generally develop in PHP/PERL. I’m interested in not having my code openly available as some scum bags have taken it done some generally nasty things.

That said I was contemplating using RoR because I hear good things about it’s ability to rapidly deploy web applications. Searching for “compiling ruby” lead me to this jruby project.

I have no experience with Java. Should I go about learning that first? is there some good documentation that can take me through configuring and setting up server to use jruby and building a small compiled app?

I’m just looking for a little direction so I can try redesigning one of my apps and deploy it to a production environment with the code protected.

Any tips would be great!

Hi,

JRubyStack lets you to develop your application on Ruby On Rails and deploy it on top of the Java virtual machine. It is not necessary to learn about Java, you only should know how to develop your Ruby On Rails application. Then you can choose to deploy on top of a regular RubyStack or JRubyStack. If you want to protect your code JRubyStack is the best option. A good example is github:fi which has released his application using JrubyStack http://github.com/blog/441-announcing-github-fi

Cheers.