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TorqueBox OverviewCommunity Project

TorqueBox* takes the power of JBoss AS and mixes it with the beauty of the Ruby language, using JRuby. Not only does it provide a simple but powerful substrate for running your web

applications, it gives Ruby developers easy access to advanced enterprise functionality such as messaging, scheduled jobs, service daemons, and resource injection, not to mention cross-cutting capabilities like clustering and high-availability.

TorqueBox aims to be a comfortable environment for the pure Rubyist, at the same time allowing Java-speaking polyglots to encapsulate existing legacy code. While JavaEE is wonderful for creating stateless services that de�ne your domain's transactional boundaries, JSF componentry in the web tier can be complex and confusing. By allowing CDI components to be "injected" into Ruby objects, TorqueBox gives enterprise architects the option to leverage powerful Ruby web frameworks in the presentation tier without sacri�cing the sophistication of EJB/JPA in the model.

TorqueBox supports all popular Ruby web frameworks:

• Ruby on Rails (versions 2 and 3)• Sinatra• Any and all Rack-based frameworks

TorqueBox integrates many popular JBoss and third-party projects, exposing them through simple Ruby libraries.

• JBoss AS• JBoss HornetQ message broker• JBoss Infinispan data grid• JBoss mod_cluster• Quartz scheduler

�is is what we mean by mixing JBoss power and Ruby beauty: achieving the same result with one line of Ruby versus a dozen (or more!) lines of Java. Any developer familiar with JMS will appreciate this.

Additionally, TorqueBox provides an ecosystem of supporting applications:

BackStage: Provides access to the components TorqueBox exposes via JMX, including a message queue browser, along with tools for debugging application components, including evaluation of arbitrary ruby code against the server runtimes

StompBox: Provides easy application deployment using git, i.e. deployment is triggered automatically a�er pushing changes to a remote git repository.

Find out more at http://torquebox.org/, or join #torquebox on irc.freenode.net

* TorqueBox is currently available in the JBoss community - it is not yet a JBoss Enterprise Middleware product.