Screencast #26: Develop/Run/Debug Rails application using NetBeans IDE and GlassFish v3 Prelude

November 7, 2008

Screencast #26: Develop/Run/Debug Rails application using NetBeans IDE and GlassFish v3 Prelude

Filed under: web2.0 — arungupta @ 5:00 am

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GlassFish v3 Prelude is now available. It allows Rails applications to be deployed natively using JRuby and without the need of any WAR packaging or Servlet container. An integrated NetBeans tooling provides a comprehensive development and deployment platform for all your Rails applications. And you can even purchase enterprise support as well!

This screencast shows how you can create a simple Rails application using NetBeans IDE, deploy it directly on GlassFish v3 and then debug it.

Typo, Redmine, Substruct, and Mephisto are some of the applications I’ve tried deploying on GlassFish. Have you tried deploying your Rails app on GlassFish ?

File Rails/GlassFish related bugs here using “jruby” sub-component and ask your questions on .

All other GlassFish related screencasts are available here.

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I just finished watching this. Great job on the screencast – thanks for taking the time to do it. I love that NetBeans makes Ruby on Rails a first-class platform in the IDE, and its integration with GlassFish is top-shelf.

I have one question. I noticed that when you started your sample app normally it deployed it at context /GlassFishV3Rocks. When you started it in debug mode, though, it launched it at the root context. Was that expected?

It caught my eye because I’ve not yet been able to make sense of NB’s "Deploy all Rails applications at root context" setting under Tools -> Servers -> GlassFish v3 Prelude -> JRuby tab. When unchecked, NB deploys things at /. When checked, it seems to give them a context matching the application’s name. This seems reversed.

Comment by Bill Kocik — November 7, 2008 @ 6:48 am
NetBeans 6.5 enables Rails debugging by running a small Grizzly + Rails stack. This small stack is managed similar to the way WEBrick and Mongrel are managed, so deployments are at context root and the HTTP port is dynamically selected.

Due to technical limitations (which are being resolved for the next version of NetBeans), it was not possible to enable debugging of Rails apps against the "full server". Thus the experience is slightly different because the runtime scenario actually is slight different.

I can’t explain your observation of a reversal of the "Deploy at /" setting. You’re correct that what you describe happening is the opposite of what should happen. You can check how an application is actually deployed by looking in domain.xml (in domains/[domain folder]/config/domain.xml) near the top. Or you can go the services tab in NetBeans, browse the deployed applications and select "Open in Browser" to access one of them and see what URL is used. That will indicate how the application is actually deployed, which should match whatever you read out of domain.xml. If "Deploy at /" is checked, then no context should be used. You may need to "Run" the application after making changing the properties setting, to ensure it takes effect. If this last thing seems counterintuitive, please file an RFE against serverplugins/glassfish_v3. I think there are some things I can do about that.

Comment by Peter Williams — November 7, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
I just downloaded NB 6.5 IDE RC2 — Ruby Pack and when I make a new Rails app using jruby 1.1.4 the only server listed is Webrick …?

Comment by Stephen Bannasch — November 7, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
Ahh … I had to use the NB menu option: Tools/Servers and add the GF server that was in the NB app bundle (this is MacOS X).

I’m subscribed to the GF-dev list — is there a better list for discussion of ruby web applications and GF?

Last question for now.

I have an app environment that combines Tomcat running a Java web start server, and two Rails apps.

Can I use NB and GF to deploy and debug all three apps?

Comment by Stephen Bannasch — November 7, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Rails debugging is supported only on GlassFish v3. I suspect you are deploying your Rails app on Tomcat as WAR files. You can deploy them natively (no packaging or Servlet container) on GlassFish v3 Prelude. And then you should be able to debug them easily

As mentioned in the blog, please direct your questions to .

Comment by Arun Gupta — November 7, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
FYI: all these tests are in JRuby

I claimed the previous message had the last question — I guess that wasn’t true.

I copied a dir with a current Rails app and opened it in NB. This somewhat confusing error appeared in a dialog titled "Error":

Rake tasks fetching failed with (working directory: /Users/stephen/dev/rails/sds_auth_nb

hmm …?

There is no obvious console output that describes in more detail what NB was doing to generate this message.

I noticed that creating and running a simple test app in NB and GF the test app specified the mysql adapter in config/database.yml

When I normally run rails apps that access mysql in jruby I use the ar jdb gem/driver and spec my adapter as:

jdbcmysql

Actually the line really looks like this so I can easily switch back and forth between jruby and cruby:

adapter: <% if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/ %>jdbcmysql<% else %>mysql<% end %>

I also use this in environment.rb:

if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/
require ‘rubygems’
RAILS_CONNECTION_ADAPTERS = %w(jdbc)
end

Comment by Stephen Bannasch — November 7, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Starting NB_GF on my existing imported Rails app displays this in the GF console:

Unrecognized VM option ‘+UnlockDia’
Could not create the Java virtual machine.

The Server Startup progress bar shows activity but the server never starts.

Comment by Stephen Bannasch — November 7, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Stephen, can you run the IDE with -J-Dglassfish.level=FINE and send the server JVM start command that will be written to the netbeans log file to ? We can resume the discussion there.

is the right alias for asking all your Rails/NetBeans related questions.

Comment by Arun Gupta — November 7, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
Hi Peter -

I’m definitely seeing some strangeness with contexts and routing when loading a Rails app into GF v3 from NB 6.5. But rather than pollute Arun’s blog with my issues, I’ve posted them to the mailing list.

Thanks again to both of you.

Comment by Bill Kocik — November 8, 2008 @ 8:30 am
Hi Stephen,

Regarding the error you saw, please see
http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqRubyRakeFetchingFailed for more info on that. Basically the IDE tried to fetch the descriptions for the Rake tasks in the project using ‘rake -D’ and it failed.

Erno

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Comment by Arun Gupta's Blog — November 17, 2008 @ 5:53 am
Hi Arun,

thanks for the nicely done, concise screencast.

Debugging RoR in NB6.5 isn’t working for me, probably because I got the concept wrong? I am on Mac OSX Leopard, using a MacPorts installation of Ruby / RubyGems.

When I start the NB 6.5 debugger in my RoR project (choosing server side ruby debugging), Firefox will launch with the start page of my RoR project on localhost:3000 (Mongrel). Now, when I navigate to the controller I set my breakpoint in, the breakpoint in the IDE doesn’t get hit.

In the NB sessions window, I can see the session being started at localhost:53353. The status is always "starting". Entering the address localhost:53353 in the browser does nothing, the request stalls.

Hence my question: Is it possible debugging my RoR application on Mongrel? If so, how do I set the debugger to work together with it?

Comment by Benny — December 17, 2008 @ 4:08 am
Benny, I posted your question to . Please follow up at:

http://ruby.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=users&by=date&from=2008-12-01&to=2008-12-31&first=1&count=110

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I’ve tried using mysql Server 6 many times, but it fails.
Please, let me know how to fix that problem.

Thank you

Comment by D Stephen — December 26, 2008 @ 11:05 am
This is now answered at:

http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_60_configure_mysql_6

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But what about rapid development ?
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