https://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack

Rack for JRuby and Java appservers
https://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack

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Rack for JRuby and Java appservers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack
• Owner: jruby
• License: mit
• Created: 2008-05-14T02:57:24.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-21T20:26:11.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T22:53:29.680Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: deployment, jruby, jruby-rack, rack-application, rack-environment, servlets, tomcat, warbler
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 7 MB
• Stars: 397
• Watchers: 26
• Forks: 137
• Open Issues: 18
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: History.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# JRuby-Rack

JRuby-Rack is a lightweight adapter for the Java Servlet environment that allows

any (Ruby) Rack-based application to run unmodified in a Java Servlet container.

JRuby-Rack supports Rails as well as any Rack-compatible Ruby web framework.

For more information on Rack, visit http://rack.github.io/.

**This README (master) targets JRuby-Rack 1.2 (unreleased) please use the

[1.1-stable](https://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack/tree/1.1-stable) branch for

current stable 1.1.x releases.**

[![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/jruby-rack.png)][8]

[![Build Status][9]](http://travis-ci.org/jruby/jruby-rack)

## Compatibility

JRuby-Rack 1.1.x aims to be compatible with JRuby >= 1.6.4 (we recommend 1.7.x),

Generally, any container that supports Java Servlet >= 2.5 (JEE 5) is supported.

JRuby-Rack 1.2.x is expected to officially support JRuby >= 1.7.10 and will be

compiled against the Java Servlet 3.0 API.

## Getting Started

The most-common way to use JRuby-Rack with a Java server is to get [Warbler][1].

Warbler depends on the latest version of JRuby-Rack and ensures it gets placed

in your WAR file when it gets built.

If you're assembling your own WAR using other means, you can install the

**jruby-rack** gem. It provides a method to locate the jar file:

    require 'jruby-rack'

    FileUtils.cp JRubyJars.jruby_rack_jar_path, '.'

Otherwise you'll need to download the latest [jar release][2], drop it into the

*WEB-INF/lib* directory and configure the `RackFilter` in your application's

*web.xml* (see following examples).

Alternatively you can use a server built upon JRuby-Rack such as [Trinidad][3]

with sensible defaults, without the need to configure a deployment descriptor.

### Rails

Here's sample *web.xml* configuration for Rails. Note the environment and

min/max runtime parameters. For **multi-threaded** (a.k.a. `threadsafe!`)

Rails with a single runtime, set min/max both to 1. Otherwise, define the size

of the runtime pool as you wish.

    

      rails.env

      production

    

    

      jruby.min.runtimes

      1

    

    

      jruby.max.runtimes

      1

    

    

      RackFilter

      org.jruby.rack.RackFilter

      

      

        resetUnhandledResponse

        true 

      

      

        addsHtmlToPathInfo

        true 

      

      

        verifiesHtmlResource

        false 

      

    

    

      RackFilter

      /*

    

    

      org.jruby.rack.rails.RailsServletContextListener

    

### (Other) Rack Applications

The main difference when using a non-Rails Rack application is that JRuby-Rack

looks for a "rackup" file named **config.ru** in  `WEB-INF/config.ru` or

`WEB-INF/*/config.ru`. Here's a sample *web.xml* configuration :

    

      RackFilter

      org.jruby.rack.RackFilter

      

    

    

      RackFilter

      /*

    

    

      org.jruby.rack.RackServletContextListener

    

If you don't have a *config.ru* or don't want to include it in your web app, you

can embed it directly in the *web.xml* as follows (using Sinatra as an example):

    

      rackup

      

        require 'rubygems'

        gem 'sinatra', '~> 1.3'

        require './lib/app'

        set :run, false

        set :environment, :production

        run Sinatra::Application

      

    

Be sure to escape angle-brackets for XML !

## Servlet Filter

JRuby-Rack's main mode of operation is as a filter. This allows requests for

static content to pass through and be served by the application server.

Dynamic requests only happen for URLs that don't have a corresponding file, much

like many Ruby/Rack applications expect. The (default) filter we recommend

using is `org.jruby.rack.RackFilter`, the filter supports the following

(optional) init-params:

- **responseNotHandledStatuses** which statuses (when a filter chain returns)

  should be considered that the response has not been handled (default value:

  "403,404,405") and should be dispatched as a Rack application

- **resetUnhandledResponse** whether an unhandled response from the filter chain

  gets reset (accepts  values "true", "false" and "buffer" to reset the buffer

  only), by default "true"

- **addsHtmlToPathInfo** controls whether the .html suffix is added to the URI

  when checking if the request is for a static page

- **verifiesHtmlResource** used with the previous parameter to make sure the

  requested static resource exists before adding the .html request URI suffix

The application can also be configured to dispatch through a servlet instead of

a filter, the servlet class name is `org.jruby.rack.RackServlet`.

## Servlet Environment Integration

- servlet context is accessible to any application through the Rack environment

  variable *java.servlet_context* (as well as the `$servlet_context` global).

- the (native) servlet request and response objects could be obtained via the

  *java.servlet_request* and *java.servlet_response* keys

- all servlet request attributes are passed through to the Rack environment (and

  thus might override request headers or Rack environment variables)

- servlet sessions can be used as a (java) session store for Rails, session

  attributes with String keys (and String, numeric, boolean, or java

  object values) are automatically copied to the servlet session for you.

## Rails

Several aspects of Rails are automatically set up for you.

- `ActionController::Base.relative_url_root` is set for you automatically

  according to the context root where your webapp is deployed.

- `Rails.logger` output is redirected to the application server log.

- Page caching and asset directories are configured appropriately.

## JRuby Runtime Management

JRuby runtime management and pooling is done automatically by the framework.

In the case of Rails, runtimes are pooled by default (the default will most

likely change with the adoption of Rails 4.0). For other Rack applications a

single shared runtime is created and shared for every request by default.

As of **1.1.9** if *jruby.min.runtimes* and *jruby.max.runtimes* values are

specified pooling is supported for plain Rack applications as well.

We do recommend to boot your runtimes up-front to avoid the cost of initializing

one while a request kicks in and find the pool empty, this can be easily avoided

by setting *jruby.min.runtimes* equal to *jruby.max.runtimes*. You might also

want to consider tuning the *jruby.runtime.acquire.timeout* parameter to not

wait too long when all (max) runtimes from the pool are busy.

## JRuby-Rack Configuration

JRuby-Rack can be configured by setting these key value pairs either

as context init parameters in web.xml or as VM-wide system properties.

- `rackup`: Rackup script for configuring how the Rack application is mounted.

  Required for Rack-based applications other than Rails. Can be omitted if a

  *config.ru* is included in the application root.

- `public.root`: Relative path to the location of your application's static

  assets. Defaults to */*.

- `rails.root`: Root path to the location of the Rails application files.

  Defaults to */WEB-INF*.

- `rails.env`: Specify the Rails environment to run. Defaults to 'production'.

- `rails.relative_url_append`: Specify a path to be appended to the

  `ActionController::Base.relative_url_root` after the context path. Useful

  for running a rails app from the same war as an existing app, under a

  sub-path of the main servlet context root.

- `gem.path`: Relative path to the bundled gem repository. Defaults to

  */WEB-INF/gems*.

- `jruby.compat.version`: Set to "1.8" or "1.9" to make JRuby run a specific

  version of Ruby (same as the --1.8 / --1.9 command line flags).

- `jruby.min.runtimes`: For non-threadsafe Rails applications using a runtime

  pool, specify an integer minimum number of runtimes to hold in the pool.

- `jruby.max.runtimes`: For non-threadsafe Rails applications, an integer

  maximum number of runtimes to keep in the pool.

- `jruby.runtime.init.threads`: How many threads to use for initializing

   application runtimes when pooling is used (default is 4).

   It does not make sense to set this value higher than `jruby.max.runtimes`.

- `jruby.runtime.init.serial`: When using runtime pooling, this flag indicates

  that the pool should be created serially in the foreground rather than

  spawning (background) threads, it's by default off (set to false).

  For environments where creating threads is not permitted.

- `jruby.runtime.acquire.timeout`: The timeout in seconds (default 10) to use

  when acquiring a runtime from the pool (while a pool maximum is set), an

  exception will be thrown if a runtime can not be acquired within this time (

  accepts decimal values for fine tuning e.g. 1.25).

- `jruby.runtime.env`: Allows to set a custom ENV hash for your Ruby environment

  and thus insulate the application from the environment it is running. By setting

  this option to en empty string (or 'false') it acts as if the ENV hash was

  cleared out (similar to the now deprecated `jruby.rack.ignore.env` option).

- `jruby.runtime.env.rubyopt`: This option is used for compatibility with the

  (deprecated) `jruby.rack.ignore.env` option since it cleared out the ENV after

  RUBYOPT has been processed, by setting it to true ENV['RUBYOPT'] will be kept.

- `jruby.rack.logging`: Specify the logging device to use. Defaults to

  `servlet_context`. See below.

- `jruby.rack.request.size.initial.bytes`: Initial size for request body memory

   buffer, see also `jruby.rack.request.size.maximum.bytes` below.

- `jruby.rack.request.size.maximum.bytes`: The maximum size for the request in

   memory buffer, if the body is larger than this it gets spooled to a tempfile.

- `jruby.rack.response.dechunk`: Set to false to turn off response dechunking

  (Rails since 3.1 chunks response on `render stream: true`), it's on by default

  as frameworks such as Rails might use `Rack::Chunked::Body` as a Rack response

  body but since most servlet containers perform dechunking automatically things

  might end double-chunked in such cases.

- `jruby.rack.handler.env`: **EXPERIMENTAL** Allows to change Rack's behavior

  on obtaining the Rack environment. The default behavior is that parameter

  parsing is left to be done by the Rack::Request itself (by consuming the

  request body in case of a POST), but if the servlet request's input stream has

  been previously read this leads to a limitation (Rack won't see the POST paras).

  Thus an alternate pure 'servlet' env "conversion" is provided that maps servlet

  parameters (and cookies) directly to Rack params, avoiding Rack's input parsing.

- `jruby.rack.filter.adds.html`:

  **deprecated** use `addsHtmlToPathInfo` filter config init parameter.

  The default behavior for Rails and many other Ruby applications is to add an

  *.html* extension to the resource and attempt to handle it before serving a

  dynamic request on the original URI.

  However, this behavior may confuse other servlets in your application that

  have a wildcard mapping. Defaults to true.

- `jruby.rack.filter.verify.resource.exists`:

  **deprecated** use `verifiesHtmlResource` filter config init parameter.

  If `jruby.rack.filter.adds.html` is true, then this setting, when true, adds

  an additional check using `ServletContext#getResource` to verify that the

  *.html* resource exists. Default is false.

  (Note that apparently some servers may not implement `getResource` in the way

  that is expected here, so in that case this setting won't matter.)

## Initialization

There are often cases where you need to perform custom initialization of the

Ruby environment before booting the application. You can create a file called

*META-INF/init.rb* or *WEB-INF/init.rb* inside the war file for this purpose.

These files, if found, will be evaluated before booting the Rack environment,

allowing you to set environment variables, load scripts, etc.

For plain Rack applications, JRuby-Rack also supports a magic comment to solve

the "rackup" chicken-egg problem (you need Rack's builder loaded before loading

the *config.ru*, yet you may want to setup the gem version from within the rackup

 file). As we ship with the Rack gem bundled, otherwise when executing the

provided *config.ru* the bundled (latest) version of Rack will get loaded.

Use **rack.version** to specify the Rack gem version to be loaded before rackup :

    # encoding: UTF-8

    # rack.version: ~>1.3.6 (before code is loaded gem '~>1.3.6' will be called)

Or the equivalent of doing `bundle exec rackup ...` if you're using Bundler :

    # rack.version: bundler (requires 'bundler/setup' before loading the script)

## Logging

JRuby-Rack sets up a delegate logger for Rails that sends logging output to

`javax.servlet.ServletContext#log` by default. If you wish to use a different

logging system, configure `jruby.rack.logging` as follows:

- `servlet_context` (default): Sends log messages to the servlet context.

- `stdout`: Sends log messages to the standard output stream `System.out`.

- `slf4j`: Sends log messages to SLF4J. SLF4J configuration is left up to you,

  please refer to http://www.slf4j.org/docs.html .

- `log4j`: Sends log messages to log4J. Again, Log4J configuration is

  left up to you, consult http://logging.apache.org/log4j/ .

- `commons_logging`: Routes logs to commons-logging. You still need to configure

  an underlying logging implementation with JCL. We recommend using the logger

  library wrapper directly if possible, see http://commons.apache.org/logging/ .

- `jul`: Directs log messages via Java's core logging facilities (util.logging).

For those loggers that require a specific named logger, set it with the

`jruby.rack.logging.name` option, by default "jruby.rack" name will be used.

## Building

Checkout the JRuby-Rack code using [git](http://git-scm.com/) :

    git clone git://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack.git

    cd jruby-rack

Ensure you have [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) installed.

It is required for downloading jar artifacts that JRuby-Rack depends on.

Build the .jar using Maven :

    mvn install

the generated jar should be located at **target/jruby-rack-*.jar**

Alternatively use Rake, e.g. to build the gem (skipping specs) :

    jruby -S rake clean gem SKIP_SPECS=true

You can **not** use JRuby-Rack with Bundler directly from the git (or http) URL

(`gem 'jruby-rack', :github => 'jruby/jruby-rack'`) since the included .jar file

is compiled and generated on-demand during the build (it would require us to

package and push the .jar every time a commit changes a source file).

## Releasing

* Make sure auth is configured for "ossrh" repository ID in your .m2/settings.xml

* Update the version in src/main/ruby/jruby/rack/version.rb to the release version

* mvn release:prepare

* mvn release:perform (possibly with -DuseReleaseProfile=false due to Javadoc doclint failures for now)

* rake clean gem SKIP_SPECS=true and push the gem

## Support

Please use [github][4] to file bugs, patches and/or pull requests.

More information at the [wiki][5] or ask us at **#jruby**'s IRC channel.

[1]: https://github.com/jruby/warbler#warbler--

[2]: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/org/jruby/rack/jruby-rack/

[3]: https://github.com/trinidad/trinidad

[4]: https://github.com/jruby/jruby-rack/issues

[5]: https://wiki.github.com/jruby/jruby-rack

[8]: http://badge.fury.io/rb/jruby-rack

[9]: https://secure.travis-ci.org/jruby/jruby-rack.png?branch=master