Boot up JBoss

October 16th, 2008

On my path towards clustering a Rails app on JBoss on EC2, I stumbled across Bryan Kearney and the other Thincrust guys. With their help, I now have a JBoss AS5 + jboss-rails “appliance” ready to roll.
Grab the raw image or the VMWare image, and play along at home.
Fire up the image in your favorite [...]

Stumbling through technology

October 11th, 2008

It can sometimes be funny, the paths we take.
Once I’d verified that a Rails app deployed on JBoss would indeed cluster, I sat in my farmhouse, looking at my lone little Mac.  Not much of a cluster to play with.
So I started looking at Amazon EC2, which is truly very nice, particularly when paired with [...]