DataVision, jRuby and Ruby

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I'm exploring DataVision, a Java-based reporting application. It turns
out that it has Ruby scripting support via jRuby. When I went to the
documentation section on jRuby, it appeared that it was using an old
version of jRuby:


15.4 JRuby

JRuby is a Ruby interpreter for Java. You can find it at
http://jruby.sourceforge.net. Its authors are:

* Jan Arne Petersen
* Stefan Matthias Aust
* Alan Moore
* Benoit Cerrina
* Ed Sinjiashvili
* Chad Fowler
* Anders Bengtsson
* Jason Voegele

JRuby is released under a dual GPL/LGPL license. You can use it,
redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL (see
the GNU General Public License (GPL)
<cid[email protected]> below) or under the terms of
the LGPL (see the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
<cid[email protected]> below).


So ... does anyone here know if it will work with the current jRuby? I
don't have any test cases yet -- about all I know is that it installed
correctly on Gentoo with jRuby 0.9.2.

 

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

So ... does anyone here know if it will work with the current jRuby? I
don't have any test cases yet -- about all I know is that it installed
correctly on Gentoo with jRuby 0.9.2.

That's a good question...DataVision is one of the oldest users of JRuby,
since long before I was around. However I don't know if the author is
still maintaining it or how well it will work with the latest and
greatest JRuby releases.

I'd sure love to see DataVision up and going again, if it isn't.

- Charlie

 

[Gregory Brown]

That's a good question...DataVision is one of the oldest users of JRuby,
since long before I was around. However I don't know if the author is
still maintaining it or how well it will work with the latest and
greatest JRuby releases.

I'd sure love to see DataVision up and going again, if it isn't.

I'll contact Jim Menard and see if he knows more about this.

However, as far as I know Ruport is very close to running on JRuby and
would be happy to help get it working there, if someone provided us
with some bug reports... (list.rubyreports.org)

-greg

 

[Jim Menard]

That's a good question...DataVision is one of the oldest users of JRuby,
since long before I was around. However I don't know if the author is
still maintaining it or how well it will work with the latest and
greatest JRuby releases.

Jim here. No, I don't actively support DataVision any longer. (After
five years of support, I got bored.) DataVision itself is alive and
kicking, though there havent' been any updates recently. Frank W.
Zammetti has taken up project leadership.

That said, I can think of no problem in using the latest version of
JRuby with DataVision. Try it and see.

[Thanks to Greg Brown for pinging me and letting me know about this
thread. I subscribe to ruby-talk but normally auto-archive
everything.]

Jim