My experience architecting a software development stack with JRuby, OpenJDK, and Roda - Retro Axis

During the past several months I have been actively developing a browser-based, database application in order to catalog, rate, and review the various retro game systems and software titles in my collection. As a jumping off point to accerlate the project, I combined my experience and portions of code from the IonFalls BBS project, and combined it with the Roda routing tree web framework. In this article, I will discuss the overall technology stack, and how I decided to use these components together. If you prefer to skip to the instructions on setting up a similar environment, scroll down to the section below titled: “Putting it all Together“.In this article you will learn:Why I selected the various components of my stack,How to use Java libraries into Ruby code,To download and configure a self-contained development runtime,Creation of the framework’s MVC directory structureStarting a Roda application running on Puma.