TorqueBox

We're thrilled to announce the release of TorqueBox 2.3.1! This is a small update to TorqueBox 2.3.0 to fix a few outstanding bugs while we continue the main development work for the upcoming TorqueBox 3.0 series. ... [More] This release was delayed a couple of weeks from the original schedule because of a new addition to the TorqueBox team. Connor Benjamin Browning joins us after spending 9 months in a startup before things went belly-up. He'll be fulfilling the role of release manager and be the primary driver of schedules while my wife and I handle the change control duties. Download TorqueBox 2.3.1 (ZIP) Browse Getting Started Guide ... [Less]

Scheduled jobs? TorqueBox has had support for scheduled jobs since the beginning of the project. Scheduled jobs can be very helpful when you want to do something not necessarily now but at some point in the ... [More] future. If you are familiar with cron expressions you even already know how to define the job trigger expression. If you don't - don't worry - it's easy to understand. Jobs are implemented as plain Ruby classes that are only required to implement a run method. That's all. TorqueBox takes care of firing the job at the correct time. Simple and still cool. But there was one issue related to scheduled jobs - you could... [Less]

Keeps getting better After my last post about bringing TLS/SSL to TorqueBox's STOMP subsystem, we decided to take it a step further. A commenter asked about other technologies, mostly to support fallback for ... [More] when WebSockets either were not available in the browser, or in the case of proxies between the client and server preventing their effective use. Alternatives to WebSockets There are a few different alternatives for browser-push: WebSockets Pseudo-WebSockets using Flash Server-Sent Events Long-Poll/Lingering-GET (Comet) WebSockets, we've already covered. There are libraries in the wild that implement the WebSocket API and network protocols using a faceless Flash app, for browsers that might... [Less]

TorqueBox has supported STOMP-over-WebSockets for quite a while, now, but due to popular request, we've taken it one step further and added support for SSL/TLS. Now you can connect using your WebSocket client using ... [More] the wss:// scheme to enable encryption. Configuring for SSL traffic Since WebSockets are closely aligned with normal HTTP traffic, the secure WebSocket channel piggy-backs on the web container's SSL configuration. The JBoss-AS documentation goes into greater detail, but the bottom-line is that you need to edit standalone.xml (or whichever configuration you're using) to setup an additional connector [Less]

We're very excited to announce the release of TorqueBox 2.3.0! We hit a couple of unexpected delays with this release but hopefully the list of new features and bug fixes will make it worth the wait. ... [More] Download TorqueBox 2.3.0 (ZIP) Browse Getting Started Guide Browse HTML manual Browse JavaDocs Browse Gem RDocs Download PDF manual Download ePub manual What is TorqueBox? TorqueBox is a Ruby application server built on JBoss AS7 and JRuby. In addition to being one of the fastest Ruby servers around, it supports Rack-based web frameworks, and provides simple Ruby interfaces to standard JavaEE services, including scheduled jobs,... [Less]

We're very excited to announce the immediate availability of TorqueBox 2.2.0! This release has a substantial amount of new features and bug-fixes over 2.1.2 and is a recommended upgrade for anyone running TorqueBox ... [More] 2.1.x Download TorqueBox 2.2.0 (ZIP) Browse Getting Started Guide Browse HTML manual Browse JavaDocs Browse Gem RDocs Download PDF manual Download ePub manual What is TorqueBox? TorqueBox is a Ruby application server built on JBoss AS7 and JRuby. In addition to being one of the fastest Ruby servers around, it supports Rack-based web frameworks, and provides simple Ruby interfaces to standard JavaEE services, including scheduled jobs, caching, messaging, and services. Highlights... [Less]