Ruby on Google App Engine

Upgrade to Google App “Turbo” Engine

Joseph Ku (Chieh-Fang Ku)

chiehfang.ku@gmail.com
 Outline
What’s Google App Be prepared
Engine?
What’s JRuby
Why Google App
Engine? Why Sinatra and why
not Rails?
Free quotas and
limits Hack! Hack! Hack!

Significant References
features

v1.2.0
Build 201105111230
 Who am I?
Joseph Ku (Chieh-Fang Ku)(@josephku)

Male

Single, but not rich

A Linux user since 1996

Fed by embedded Linux and Android

Ruby lover and Guitar Hero rocker

 Before we start...

Don’t take any notes. This slide will be

published with CC BY-NC-ND.

Don’t judge my look and shape. It’s cold, and

I need Calories.

Don’t play Angry Birds during my presentation

...including Angry Birds Seasons edition

 Before we start...

You CAN interrupt me anytime.

You CAN take pictures anytime.

You CAN go to the toilet anytime.

What’s Google App Engine?

GAE (Google App Engine) lets you run your

web apps on Google's infrastructure.

Reliable PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Easy to use, maintain and scale

Almost free!
What’s Google App Engine?

GAE (Google App Engine) lets you run your

web apps on Google's infrastructure.

Typical PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Only supports Python and Java runtime

environments

Who did choose GAE?...

Why Google App Engine?

World-class infrastructure

Light-weight PaaS

Booming of Client-Side JavaScript

Obey its limitations

Free quotas and limits
Free Quotas (without 1 GB shared
enabling billing) Datastore/
Blobstore size
43,200,000
requests per day 6.5 CPU-hours per
day
45,200 requests
per minute 1 GB shared
bandwidth in/out
per day
Reduced again and
again...and again?
Free quotas and limits
Limits

10 apps for 150 MB app code

developer account size

30 sec per request 1,000 deployments

10 MB HTTP 200 indexes

response size
 Significant features
Schedule tasks Google account
integration
Schedule tasks -
Like Cron service URL fetch

Every minutes! Mail

Up to 20 tasks Memcache

Task queues - only Image manipulation

support Python
What’s URL Shortener?
Such as:

TinyURL.com

bit.ly

goo.gl

t.co

fb.me
Create your own URL
shortener
I want this: http://mrku.co/j3Rs7k

Base 62 (0-9, a-z, A-Z)

Generated by O(1) algorithm

I want my service fast

I don’t wanna pay

I ♡ Ruby!
 Why this happen?

You just said GAE could only support Python

and Java...

Mighty JVM

JRuby

DataMapper

appengine-jruby project (John Woodell)

 Be Prepared

Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

Ruby

RubyGems

JRuby

(...Wh...Where is GAE?)
 Be Prepared

Install all packages we need:

$ gem install google-appengine

(rack, jruby-rack, jruby-jars, appengine-rack, appengine-apis,
appengine-sdk, bundler08, rubyzip, appengine-tools, google-
appengine)
 Be Prepared

Create a GAE app and test it:

$ appcfg.rb generate_app myapp

$ dev_appserver.rb myapp

Go and check http://localhost:8080/

...That’s all?
 Wake up!!
This world is NOT
perfect!
Be prepared for the real
world

Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6

Ruby 1.8.7-p330 or 1.8.7-p334

RubyGems 1.3.7

JRuby 1.5.6
Be prepared for the real
world

Suggestions:

Use “RVM” to deploy your Ruby

environment on Linux or Mac

Use “Pik” to deploy your Ruby environment

on Windows
Be prepared for the real
world
Install all packages we need:

$ gem install google-appengine

And do some tricks...

$ gem uninstall appengine-sdk

$ gem install appengine-sdk -v "1.4.0"

Be prepared for the real
world
Create a GAE app and test it:

$ appcfg.rb generate_app myapp

$ echo “gem 'jruby-rack', '< 1.0.6'” >> myapp/

Gemfile

$ dev_appserver.rb myapp

Go and check http://localhost:8080/

 What’s JRuby
100% Java implementation of the Ruby
programming language

We could call Ruby MRI, “CRuby.”

Open source, Started in 2001

Always aiming for compatibility with current

Ruby version

Latest release: 1.6.1 (update to 2011.05.11)

Why Sinatra and why
not Rails
Sinatra is lighter than Rails

Sinatra’s CGI-friendly is more close to GAE

Tons of problems while trying to deploy a

Rails app to GAE

Big performance issues in Rails apps on GAE

Besides...
Why Sinatra and why
not Rails
There is Heroku!!

$ gem install heroku

$ heroku create myapp

$ git push heroku master

Go and check http://myapp.heroku.com

Hack! Hack! Hack!
 References

Google App Engine: Quotas

http://code.google.com/intl/en/appengine/
docs/quotas.html

JRuby

http://www.jruby.org/
 References

DataMapper

http://datamapper.org/

appengine-jruby project

http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/

John Woodell (woodie@google.com)

 References
RVM: Ruby Version Manger

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

Pik: Ruby version manager for Windows

https://github.com/vertiginous/pik/

Sinatra

http://www.sinatrarb.com/
Any questions?