How can I run JRuby scripts using the RTC Java client API?

0	Nick Edgar (6.5k●7●11) \| asked Nov 16 '13, 5:56 a.m. JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Nov 16 '13, 6:31 a.m. Is it possible to use JRuby (or other JVM-based scripting languages) to run scripts against RTC, using its Java client API? Are there any examples showing how?

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Nick Edgar (6.5k●7●11) | answered Nov 16 '13, 6:19 a.m.
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edited Nov 16 '13, 6:24 a.m.

Yes. I've started a wiki topic for this: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JRubyScripting

"JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language (and libraries), running on top of the Java runtime. It also makes it easy to call existing Java code, in a way that's idiomatic to Ruby. As an interpreted, dynamically typed language, it's easy to try things out and to iterate quickly, with quite concise code."

The examples there are Build-centric at the moment, but the same approach could be used for scripting other components in RTC / Jazz Foundation.

A similar approach could be taken with other JVM-based scripting languages, e.g. Groovy, Jython.

I'm considering switching these scripts to Groovy, since it's more "native" / common in the Java world (even though I personally quite like [J]Ruby).

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Nick Edgar commented Nov 16 '13, 6:29 a.m.

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I gave a lightning talk on this at Innovate 2013. The BuildEnginesAndDefinitions.rb script is a slightly tweaked version of the one I walked through then.

0	permanent link sam detweiler (12.5k●6●194●201) \| answered Nov 16 '13, 8:26 a.m. very cool.. working to move a couple of my client apps over now. I missed Innovate this year.

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