We assumed Rails 2 would never work without rubygems, and we committed to gem bunlder for JRuby on App Engine, so we were waiting for Rails 3. Fortunately, Takeru Sasaki was able to patch the Rails 2.3.5 calls to rubygems, and now we have it working. Rails 2.3.5 currently spins up several seconds faster than Rails 3, and just a few seconds behind Sinatra.
See the TinyDS version also: gist.github.com/269075
The gems for the development environment include a pre-release appengine-tools gem that provides a pre-release version of jruby-rack.
sudo gem install google-appengine
Create a folder for your app
mkdir rails_app; cd rails_app
Download and run the setup script
curl -O http://appengine-jruby.googlecode.com/hg/demos/rails2/rails2_appengine.rb ruby rails2_appengine.rb
Start development server
./script/server.sh
Open local console
./script/console.sh
Publish to production
./script/publish.sh
We disable rubygems in the development environment, and the generators from Rails 2 perform various Gem dependency checks that are too difficult to patch, so we run the generators from the MRI. We also use Josh Moore’s rails_dm_datastore integration plugin.
sudo gem install rails -v "2.3.5" sudo gem install rails_dm_datastore sudo gem install activerecord-nulldb-adapter
Generate a restful controller and add it to config/routes.rb
./script/generate scaffold contact title:string summary:text \ birthday:date url:string address:string phone:string -f --skip-migration
Generate a model for DataMapper
./script/generate dd_model contact title:string summary:text \ birthday:date url:link address:postal_address phone:phone_number -f
You’ve created a RESTful controller, and a DataMapper model