Crate - Packaging Standalone Ruby Applications

CRATE Packaging Standalone Ruby Applications Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@copiousfreetime.org @copiousfreetime

COPIOUS FREE TIME Fedora Ruby Packaging Gems •beanstalkd •amalgalite •haproxy •crate •libtomcrypt •keybox •libtommath •launchy •nginx •heel •ragel •hitimes •tinyproxy •htauth •rabal •stickler

Crate & Amalgalite

SURVEY

PRE HISTORY RubyConf 2007 (Charlotte, NC)

PRE HISTORY RubyConf 2007 (Charlotte, NC) • Sploitin’ with Ruby • Aaron Bedra

PRE HISTORY RubyConf 2007 (Charlotte, NC) • Sploitin’ with Ruby • Aaron Bedra • Deploying Ruby Runtimes • Bruce Williams & Rich Kilmer

STORYTIME

PERL 4, 1993

NO CONTROL

NO CONTROL • interpreters? - perl probably, python maybe, ruby most likely not

NO CONTROL • interpreters? - perl probably, python maybe, ruby most likely not • what libraries? - openssl? zlib?

NO CONTROL • interpreters? - perl probably, python maybe, ruby most likely not • what libraries? - openssl? zlib? • compiler? - quite possibly not

What do you do, when only thing you know about your deployment location, is the Operating System?

AND YOU LOVE RUBY.

YOU MAKE CRATE.

SO WHAT IS CRATE?

embedded Ruby

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions + main wrapper

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library + application code

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library + application code Crate based application

RUBYSCRIPT2EXE ?

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe Ruby Application rubylib exe Extension dlls gems sitelib application.exe eee.exe eee.gz trailer

MY NEEDS

MY NEEDS • Minimally Invasive • do not unpack to a temporary location • small as can be

MY NEEDS • Minimally Invasive • do not unpack to a temporary location • small as can be • Wide deployment capabilities • more than linux, mac, windows, cygwin

embedded Ruby + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library + application code Crate based application

embedded Ruby C + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library + application code Crate based application

embedded Ruby C + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library Ruby + application code Crate based application

Statically Compile embedded Ruby C + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library Ruby + application code Crate based application

Statically Compile embedded Ruby C + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library Ruby + application code Crate based application Amalgalite

Statically Compile embedded Ruby C + ruby extensions + main wrapper + standard library Ruby + application code Crate based application Pack into Amalgalite

1 CREATE TABLE rubylibs ( 2 id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, 3 filename TEXT UNIQUE, 4 compressed BOOLEAN, 5 contents BLOB 6 );

Inexact Size Measurements Executable + C Ruby libs extensions Ruby 1.8.6 2.4 M 8.4 M Crate/ruby 1.8.6 2.9 M 1.9 M

1 module Kernel 2 # alias the original require away to use later 3 alias :amalgalite_original_require :require 4 5 # 6 # hook into the system 'require' to allow for required text or blobs from an 7 # amalgalite database. 8 # 9 def require( filename ) 10 loaded = amalgalite_original_require( filename ) 11 rescue LoadError => load_error 12 if load_error.message =~ /#{Regexp.escape filename}z/ then 13 loaded = Amalgalite::Requires.require( filename ) 14 else 15 raise load_error 16 end 17 end 18 19 private :require 20 private :amalgalite_original_require 21 end

Amalgalite ruby driver is bootstrapped in its C extension

BOOTSTRAPPING

ISSUE #1 - AUTOLOAD

ISSUE #1 - AUTOLOAD • Problem • bypasses the require chain setup by amalgalite • used by rack, active_support, active_record

ISSUE #1 - AUTOLOAD • Problem • bypasses the require chain setup by amalgalite • used by rack, active_support, active_record • Solution • Port tree style patches? • custom gem builds?

ISSUE #2 - VIEWS IN WEB FRAMEWORKS

ISSUE #2 - VIEWS IN WEB FRAMEWORKS • Problem • layout and templates loaded from disk

ISSUE #2 - VIEWS IN WEB FRAMEWORKS • Problem • layout and templates loaded from disk • Solution • wait for Rails 3 • sinatra, others, make patches for upstream, if needed.

ISSUE #3 - CLASS RELOADING • Problem • Development mode reloads classes • Solution ( for now ) • production mode when running as crate based apps

ISSUE #4 - NOT WINDOWS FRIENDLY ( YET )

QUESTIONS?

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