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Joe Kutner edited this page Jul 27, 2015 · 3 revisions

Note: unless you use a Jarfile you can just use the regular Ruby buildPack to run a JRuby application on Heroku. This article describes how to have both a Gemfile and a Jarfile in the same project.

Using the Ruby Buildpack

Most apps will want to use the standard Ruby buildpack. To do so, you must create a Rakefile and add an assets:precompile task that executes JBundler:

task "assets:precompile" do
  require 'jbundler'
  config = JBundler::Config.new
  JBundler::LockDown.new( config ).lock_down
  JBundler::LockDown.new( config ).lock_down("--vendor")
end

Add this file to Git along with your Jarfile and Jarfile.lock, like so:

$ git add Rakefile Jarfile Jarfile.lock
$ git commit -m "Added jbundler config"

Then deploy to Heroku as normal:

$ git push heroku master
...
remote:        Gems in the groups development and test were not installed.
remote:        Bundled gems are installed into ./vendor/bundle.
remote:        Bundle completed (17.52s)
remote:        Cleaning up the bundler cache.
remote: -----> Precompiling assets
remote:        Running: rake assets:precompile
remote:        Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx768m -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
remote:        Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx768m -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
remote:        Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx768m -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
remote:        jbundler provided classpath:
remote:        ----------------
remote:        jbundler runtime classpath:
remote:        ---------------------------
remote:        /app/.m2/repository/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.28.Final/netty-all-4.0.28.Final.jar
remote:        jbundler test classpath:
remote:        ------------------------
remote:        --- empty ---
remote:        Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx768m -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
remote:        Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx768m -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
remote:        complete classpath:
remote:        file:/tmp/build_32bb67a007294c97b4d2c688fc600f50/vendor/ruby-2.2.2-jruby-9.0.0.0/lib/ruby/stdlib/jline/jline/2.11/jline-2.11.jar
remote:        file:/tmp/build_32bb67a007294c97b4d2c688fc600f50/vendor/ruby-2.2.2-jruby-9.0.0.0/lib/ruby/stdlib/readline.jar
remote:        file:/tmp/build_32bb67a007294c97b4d2c688fc600f50/vendor/ruby-2.2.2-jruby-9.0.0.0/lib/ruby/stdlib/psych.jar
remote:        file:/tmp/build_32bb67a007294c97b4d2c688fc600f50/vendor/ruby-2.2.2-jruby-9.0.0.0/lib/ruby/stdlib/org/yaml/snakeyaml/1.14/snakeyaml-1.14.jar
remote:        file:/app/.m2/repository/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.28.Final/netty-all-4.0.28.Final.jar
remote:        Asset precompilation completed (228.80s)
...
remote: Verifying deploy..... done.

You will see JBundler run during the pre-compilation step.

Using the Java Buildpack

This describes how to deploy your JRuby app as a Java application on Heroku. the bridge between the java, jruby and heroku is Ruby-Maven which will use the Gemfile, the Jarfile and produce a pom.xml which allows to deploy the application on heroku.

the starting point is the Mavenfile from Rack-Application-with-Ruby-Maven where you need to add three more declarations for heroku.

to use the Jarfile add

 jarfile :classpath => :java

which tells Ruby-Maven to add to the java-classpath and not to the jruby-classloader. to setup heroku add

 properties 'tesla.dump.pom' => 'pom.xml', 'tesla.dump.readOnly' => true

 plugin( :dependency, '2.3',
         :phase => :package ) do
   execute_goal( :copy,
                 :artifactItems => [ { :groupId => 'com.github.jsimone',
                                       :artifactId => 'webapp-runner',
                                       :version => '7.0.22',
                                       :destFileName => 'webapp-runner.jar' } ] )
 end

the properties just tells Ruby-Maven to dump a pom.xml. the plugin declaration installs the webrunner for heroku. with this you also can start your application locally with

 $ rmvn package
 $ java -jar target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar target/*.war

note the rmvn which will generate the pom.xml needed for heroku !

the whole Mavenfile looks like this

gemfile

packaging :war

pom( 'org.jruby:jruby', '1.7.13' )
jar( 'org.jruby.rack:jruby-rack', '1.1.14', 
     :exclusions => [ 'org.jruby:jruby-complete' ] )

jruby_plugin!( :gem,
               :includeLibDirectoryInResources => true,
			   :includeRubygemsInTestResources => false,
               :includeRubygemsInResources => true )
			   
plugin( :war, '2.2',
        :warSourceDirectory => '${basedir}/public',
        :webResources => [ { :directory => '${basedir}',
                             :targetPath => 'WEB-INF',
                             :includes => [ 'config.ru' ] } ] )

jarfile :classpath => :java

properties 'tesla.dump.pom' => 'pom.xml', 'tesla.dump.readOnly' => true

plugin( :dependency, '2.3',
        :phase => :package ) do
  execute_goal( :copy,
                :artifactItems => [ { :groupId => 'com.github.jsimone',
                                      :artifactId => 'webapp-runner',
                                      :version => '7.0.22',
                                      :destFileName => 'webapp-runner.jar' } ] )
end

now you need a Procfile for heroku:

 web:    java $JAVA_OPTS -jar target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar --port $PORT target/*.war

IMPORTANT is to create the heroku application with picked buildpack

 heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-java

now you can install you application on heroku the usual way. for more info see also https://github.com/heroku/java-sample#configure-maven-to-download-webapp-runner.

when you deploy to heroku maven will download the gems and the jars declared in Gemfile and Jarfile.

for different application layout like rails see again Rack-Application-with-Ruby-Maven

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