Chapter 2Creating a Deployment Environment
A production JRuby environment is simpler than you might expect. There aren’t any C extensions to compile, which means you won’t need to install any native libraries. And you’ll run your entire app in a single process, which eliminates the need for tools that do coordination and load balancing. In fact, many JRuby deployments have only one external dependency: the JVM itself. For that reason, the steps in this chapter form the basis for every kind of JRuby app.
In Chapter 1, Getting Started with JRuby, you created a small JRuby microservice. Now you’ll provision a new environment for this service and package it with the essential software it needs to run in production. But just because you’re deploying ...
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