JRuby: Calling Ruby’s ActiveRecord from Java Using the Bean Scripting Framework
Here we need to use the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) since Java 5 doesn’t have the built-in scripting support that Java 6 has. I will also use 2 helper classes (JRubyHelper.java and BSFHelper.java) provided by ociweb.com. For brevity I will leave out the source of the helper classes and concentrate on the actual code to make a call to a Ruby script from Java:
Line 31: initializes an empty ArrayList that will be passed into the Ruby script.
Line 32: declares (or registers) the books by name which can then be referenced
in the Ruby script.
Line 33: actually executes the Ruby script.
Lines 36-40: just looping over the books and printing the titles.
Here I’ve created an arjava directory under the Rails plugins directory:
book_titles.rb is the script called from Java:
models.rb defines the book Ruby object and extends ActiveRecord::base
query.rb is just a script to test the models.rb dependency.
For simplicity and just to prove the call to Ruby’s ActiveRecord will work from Java, I setup an Ant target to test it:
That’s it for now. For a good write-up on ActiveRecord, Bruce Tate wrote an article on developerWorks: “Crossing borders: Exploring ActiveRecord”
July 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hi
is it possible to provide a working example for this article?
Thanks!
July 27th, 2007 at 1:53 am
I want to ask you about integration JRuby to Idea, without highlighting errors in: require ‘rubygems’
July 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I’m using the latest version of the IDEA EAP IDE as well as the latest version of the Ruby plugin.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:10 am
Just tried your code. I had an error with connection to database. After knocking my head on the keyboard I found a mistake in your code (at least for me it was a mistake).
In the code ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection … you wrote :user => “root” - well it should be :username => “root”.
The way I found out the error was - I ran the script and got a error for mysql connection - connection from root@192.168.*.* is forbidden. But I set :user => ‘my_correct_login’. So as :user was not valid option it was just ignored, so “root” was used instead by default.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
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