Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments.

The current JRuby team members are all passionate hackers with intimate knowledge of Ruby, Java, and of course JRuby. That said, none of us were on the team at the project’s original inception. I assume the JRuby pioneers thought JRuby would be a good idea—I know I did, when I first heard about it. For a lot of folks though, it’s somewhat less obvious. Why is writing JRuby on top of the JVM a good idea, they ask. Are we nuts, evil geniuses, or is using the JVM just a solid pragmatic decision?

Using Oracle with Rails

Creating a new application

To create a new Rails application that uses the Oracle adapter:

$ rails -d oracle my_rails_app

Next, edit config/database.yml with the proper settings.

database.yml example

development:
adapter: oracle
username: scott
password: tiger
database: database_name
timeout: 5000

Using Oracle with Rails

Creating a new application

To create a new Rails application that uses the Oracle adapter:

$ rails -d oracle my_rails_app

Next, edit config/database.yml with the proper settings.

database.yml example

development:
adapter: oracle
username: scott
password: tiger
database: database_name
timeout: 5000