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Substruct is an open-source E-Commerce project written using Ruby-on-Rails framework. It provides a simple e-commerce platform, content management system and customer response system – all in one.

I found out about this application from Sang “Passion” Shin’s Lab 5542 (part of FREE 20-week course on Ruby-on-Rails starting on Jul 15, 2008). But instead of using standard WEBrick/Mongrel deployment, I describe the steps to deploy this application using GlassFish v3 Gem. The GlassFish Gem installation is described here.

1. Download and install Substruct

   ~/samples/jruby >gunzip -c substruct_rel_1-0-a3.tar.gz  | tar xvf - substruct_rel_1-0-a3/ substruct_rel_1-0-a3/app/ substruct_rel_1-0-a3/app/controllers/ substruct_rel_1-0-a3/app/controllers/application.rb . . . substruct_rel_1-0-a3/vendor/rails/railties/test/rails_info_test.rb substruct_rel_1-0-a3/vendor/rails/railties/test/secret_key_generation_test.rb substruct_rel_1-0-a3/vendor/rails/Rakefile substruct_rel_1-0-a3/vendor/rails/release.rb

2. Install the required gems for Substruct
   

   ~/samples/jruby >~/testbed/jruby-1.1.2/bin/jruby -S gem install RedCloth fastercsv mime-types mini_magick ezcrypto jruby-openssl –no-ri –no-rdoc JRuby limited openssl loaded. gem install jruby-openssl for full support. http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Builtin_OpenSSL Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Successfully installed RedCloth-3.0.4 Successfully installed fastercsv-1.2.3 Successfully installed mime-types-1.15 Successfully installed rubyforge-1.0.0 Successfully installed hoe-1.5.3 Successfully installed mini_magick-1.2.3 Successfully installed ezcrypto-0.7 Successfully installed jruby-openssl-0.2.3 8 gems installed

3. Create the database
   

   ~/samples/jruby/substruct_rel_1-0-a3 >~/testbed/jruby-1.1.2/bin/jruby -S rake db:create (in /Users/arungupta/samples/jruby/substruct_rel_1-0-a3) [SUBSTRUCT WARNING] Mail server settings have not been initialized. Check to make sure they’ve been set in the admin panel.

4. And bootstrap it as
   

   ~/samples/jruby/substruct_rel_1-0-a3 >~/tesbted/jruby-1.1.2/bin/jruby -S rake substruct:db:bootstrap (in /Users/arungupta/samples/jruby/substruct_rel_1-0-a3) Checking requirements… Initializing database… [SUBSTRUCT WARNING] Mail server settings have not been initialized. Check to make sure they’ve been set in the admin panel. — create_table(“content_nodes”, {:force=>true})    -> 0.3020s — add_index(“content_nodes”, ["name"], {:name=>”name”})    -> 0.0140s — add_index(“content_nodes”, ["type", "id"], {:name=>”type”}) . . . — initialize_schema_information()    -> 0.0200s — columns(“schema_info”)    -> 0.0650s Clearing previous data… Removing all sessions… Loading default data… …done. ================================================================================ Thanks for trying Substruct 1.0.a3 Now you can start the application with ’script/server’ visit: http://localhost:3000/admin, and log in with admin / admin. For help, visit the following:   Official Substruct Sites     – http://substruct.subimage.com     – http://code.google.com/p/substruct/   Substruct Google Group – http://groups.google.com/group/substruct – Subimage LLC – http://www.subimage.com

5. And finally run it on the GlassFish as:
   

   ~/samples/jruby >~/testbed/jruby-1.1.2/bin/jruby -S glassfish_rails substruct_rel_1-0-a3 May 28, 2008 1:47:46 PM com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain main INFO: Launching GlassFish on HK2 platform May 28, 2008 1:47:46 PM com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMainHK2 findDerbyClient INFO: Cannot find javadb client jar file, jdbc driver not available May 28, 2008 1:47:47 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyProxy start INFO: Listening on port 3000 May 28, 2008 1:47:47 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyEmbeddedHttpConfigurator configureSSL WARNING: pewebcontainer.all_ssl_protocols_disabled May 28, 2008 1:47:47 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyEmbeddedHttpConfigurator configureSSL WARNING: pewebcontainer.all_ssl_ciphers_disabled May 28, 2008 1:47:47 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyProxy start INFO: Listening on port 3131 May 28, 2008 1:47:47 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.GrizzlyProxy start INFO: Listening on port 3838 May 28, 2008 1:47:48 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.adapter.AdminConsoleAdapter setContextRoot INFO: Admin Console Adapter: context root: /admin May 28, 2008 1:47:48 PM com.sun.enterprise.rails.RailsDeployer registerAdapter INFO: Loading application substruct_rel_1-0-a3 at / May 28, 2008 1:47:48 PM  INFO: Starting Rails instances May 28, 2008 1:47:56 PM com.sun.grizzly.jruby.RubyObjectPool$1 run INFO: Rails instance instantiation took : 8800ms May 28, 2008 1:47:56 PM com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.AppServerStartup run INFO: Glassfish v3 started in 10403 ms

The welcome screenshot looks like

Now copy GlassFish logo image file to “public/images” directory of your application and add the following line to “app/views/layouts/main.rhtml” file (
on line 36):

<a href=”http://glassfish.org”><%= image_tag(‘/images/glassfish-logo.gif’, :alt => ‘GlassFish’) %></a>

The modified view looks like as shown below:

The updated output looks like:

I tried only the basic deployment and that seem to work. If you try slightly more advanced usecases then the functionality provided by RedCloth, fastercsv, mime-types, mini_magick and ezcrypto gems can be exercised as well. If you are running Substruct, try it and .

If your Rails application does not work on the gem, file bugs here with “jruby” as “subcomponent” (default version is “v3″).

Also check out Redmine on GlassFish v3.

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