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Comment on Check Out the Play Framework by Costis

Costis — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:20:14 +0000

After being disgusted from working for 5 years with ASP.NET (I am a victim of Webforms), I started looking for other frameworks that could bring happiness to my web development work. I spent a few months with Cakephp and Django. I liked both of them, especially Django, but I wasn’t feeling comfortable with PHP and Python. Then I stumbled upon Play! framework and never looked back. I’ve been using it for a month and I am totally pleased with it. The documentation is not very good (nothing compared to Django’s docs), but the support via the google group is excellent. Working with Java, Intellij IDEA and Play! framework is a joy. The pluggable architecture (like django), the code-test cycle, JPA for data access, no compiles, Groovy for templates and blazing performance with the included HTTP server are things that made me fall for this framework.

Comment on Check Out the Play Framework by Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:10:31 +0000

I am switching from Grails to Play, because it is faster, more stable and requires less restarts. They have an awesome browser based test runner for all your tests, which makes testing a lot faster and easiert as doing it with Grails. It is amazing. My Integration-Tests for Play run in microseconds, whereas with Grails it takes at least 10-30 seconds to bootstrap the entire environment and then run my tests.

Besides the screencast, there is the usual suspect – a tutorial about creating a blog application – that takes you through all of the basics of Play in a very nice way: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0.1/guide1

Comment on Distilling JRuby: The JIT Compiler by Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:11:32 +0000

Hey,

thanks for the fantastic writeup. I’m trying to diagnose an issue to do with Jruby performance and this was a great help. There is some info on the different command line JIT flags that can be set for Jruby here:

http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/PerformanceTuning#JIT_Runtime_Properties

Comment on JRuby “IO.foreach” Performance by Vladimir Sizikov

Vladimir Sizikov — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:59:41 +0000

Heh, this was fun to read, as it was real fun to watch the evolution of the fix.

Comment on Distilling JRuby: Tracking Scope by The Rubyist: September 2009 Edition

The Rubyist: September 2009 Edition — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:30:02 +0000

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Comment on Distilling JRuby: The JIT Compiler by Thiago Arrais (arrais) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 11:08:28 UTC - Identi.ca

Thiago Arrais (arrais) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 11:08:28 UTC - Identi.ca — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:08:57 +0000

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Comment on Distilling JRuby: Tracking Scope by R.J.

R.J. — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:21:27 +0000

Very cool – thanks for the tip!

Comment on Distilling JRuby: Tracking Scope by Thomas Enebo

Thomas Enebo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:32:47 +0000

Excellent article and continuation on exploring JRuby internals. I endorse these as good explanations of how things work inside JRuby. Keep up the good work…

One thing which probably could have saved you a little time: jruby -S ast -e ‘a = 3; b = a’
Unpublished, but very useful for debugging parser problems…

Comment on Distilling JRuby: Tracking Scope by R.J.

R.J. — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:44:01 +0000

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I spent the better part of a few evenings researching the JRuby scope code. I think this one was a little harder than the method dispatching, but mostly because it required more intimate knowledge of the Ruby scoping rules.

Comment on Distilling JRuby: Tracking Scope by Vladimir Sizikov

Vladimir Sizikov — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:43:46 +0000

Whoa, great article!!! How long did it take for you to figure this stuff out? I’ll be sure checking for more articles from you, keep up the great work!