Red Hat announces TorqueBox for developers

BANGALORE, INDIA: Open source solution provider has announced the availability of TorqueBox for developer community.

TorqueBox, a JBoss Community project, builds upon the JBoss Application Server community project, mixing in JRuby, to provide a scalable platform for Ruby applications, including Rails, Sinatra and other Rack-based frameworks.

"TorqueBox enables developers to leverage the speed and efficiency of developing Ruby applications. And combined with JBoss Application Server, TorqueBox delivers additional stability, performance and enterprise features," said a member of JBoss Team in a blog post.

He further added, a key component to our JBoss Open Choice strategy is enabling developers to select the development languages and frameworks that work best for them, and supporting those applications on the JBoss Application Server.

Because flexibility and choice are integral to Red Hat as a whole, we are pleased to introduce TorqueBox 1.0, added the blog post.

Some of the features of TorqueBox 1.0 include:

Rack:

TorqueBox supports Rack 1.1.0, including Rails 2.3.x, Rails 3.x, Sinatra and others. Rack applications are served as first-class resources within the web container.

In addition, the web container is clusterable, and web sessions may be shared between nodes without any additional configuration.

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC):

High-performance tried-and-true Java Database Connectivity drivers power your ActiveRecord and other database access.

Daemons:

TorqueBox provides the framework to manage your daemon-like Ruby components, and starts and stops them with your application.