Trinidad
Trinidad allows you to run a rails or rackup applications within an embedded Apache Tomcat container.
- Mail list: http://groups.google.com/group/rails-trinidad
- Bug tracker: http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad/issues
- Irc channel on Freenode: #trinidad
Installation
$ jruby -S gem install trinidad
Usage
$ cd myapp
$ jruby -S trinidad
Configuration
Trinidad allows you to configure some parameters when the server is started from the command line, the following is a list of the currently supported options:
* -p, --port PORT => port to bind to.
* -e, --env ENVIRONMENT => rails environment.
* -c, --context CONTEXT => application context path.
* --lib, --jars LIBS_DIR => directory containing jars.
* --classes CLASSES_DIR => directory containing classes.
* -r, --rackup [RACKUP_FILE] => run a provided rackup file instead of a rails application, by default it's config.ru.
* --public PUBLIC_DIR => specify the public directory for your application, by default it's 'public'.
* -t, --threadsafe => shortcut to work in threadsafe mode. Setting jruby_min_runtimes and jruby_max_runtimes to 1 in the configuration file the server behaves as the same way.
* -l, --load EXTENSION_NAMES => load extensions to use their command line options.
* --address HOST => set the server host.
* -g, --log LEVEL => set the log level, default INFO.
* --apps APPS_BASE_DIRECTORY => set the applications base directory.
You can also specify a default web.xml to configure your web application. By default the server tries to load the file config/web.xml
but you can modify this path by adding the option default_web_xml
within your configuration file.
Other advanced options can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.github.com/trinidad/trinidad/advanced-configuration
Yaml comfiguration
The server can also be configured from a yaml file. By default, if a file is not specified, the server tries to load the file config/trinidad.yml
. Within this file you can add other options like jruby.min.runtimes(:jruby _ min _ runtimes) or jruby.max.runtimes(:jruby _ max _ runtimes).
$ jruby -S trinidad --config my_custom_configuration.yml
---
port: 4000
address: 0.0.0.0
Ruby configuration
You can use pure ruby to configure Trinidad. Actually, the yaml configuration file is mapped directly into this configuration. It follows the same convention as the yaml configuration so the file config/trinidad.rb
is loaded by default if if exists.
Trinidad.configure do |config|
config.port = 4000
config.address = '0.0.0.0'
end
Hot deployment
Although the early versions of Trinidad used an extension to let deploy applications monitorizing a file, since Trinidad 1.1.0 this feature is integrated into the core. When the file tmp/restart.txt
is modified, the server reloads the application that the file belongs. This file can be modified with the option monitor
.
Virtual hosts
It's posible to configure Trinidad with multiple hosts and load the applications under them automatically. Take into account that each host must have its applications in a different directory.
Trinidad.configure do |config|
config.hosts = {
# applications_path => host_name_list (the first one in the list is real host name, the other ones are aliases)
'app_local' => ['localhost', '127.0.0.1'],
'apps_lol' => ['lolhost', 'lol'],
'apps_foo' => 'foo'
}
end
If the applications are configured via the web_apps section, the host for each app can be added with the key hosts
under each application. If several applications belong to the same host put them under the same directory and specify the name of the host for each one:
Trinidad.configure do |config|
config.web_apps = {
:mock1 => {
:web_app_dir => 'rails_apps/mock1',
# host_name_list (the first one in the list is real host name, the other ones are aliases)
:hosts => ['rails.virtual.host', 'rails.host']
},
:mock2 => {
:web_app_dir => 'rails_apps/mock2',
:hosts => 'rails.virtual.host'
},
:mock3 => {
:web_app_dir => 'rack_apps/mock3',
# host_name_list (the first one in the list is real host name, the other ones are aliases)
:hosts => ['rack.virtual.host', 'rack.host']
}
}
end
Extensions
From the version 0.8.0 Trinidad allows to extend the server with more Tomcat features, here there is a list with the current available extensions:
- Database connection pooling: https://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_dbpool_extension
- Daemon based on Akuma (ala GF gem): http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_daemon_extension
- Init services based on Apache Commons Daemon (supports Unix and Windows systems): http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_init_services
- Sandbox, management console and REST api: http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_sandbox_extension
- Logging, enhance the Trinidad's logging system: http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_logging_extension
- Lifecycle, application and server lifecycle management: http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_lifecycle_extension
- Scheduler, based on Quartz: http://github.com/trinidad/trinidad_scheduler_extension
You can find further information on how to write your own extension in the wiki: http://wiki.github.com/trinidad/trinidad/extensions
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2011 David Calavera[email protected]. See LICENSE for details.