GoldSpike allows you to deploy your standard Rails web application
to a J2EE server. You can package up your application as a WAR file for
distribution, or simply run it in an expanded form.

GoldSpike is a sub project of jruby-extras at RubyForge.

The latest documentation for GoldSpike can be found at:
http://www.headius.com/jrubywiki/index.php/Rails_Integration

Quick start for an existing Rails application
+ Install the plugin and try it out
  script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/jruby-extras/trunk/rails-integration/plugins/goldspike
+ Build a war file and run it in Jetty
  rake war:standalone:create
  rake war:standalone:run
+ Browse to http://localhost:8080/

Prerequisites for building GoldSpike
+ Install Maven 2 from Apache
+ The following gems:
  + Rake
  + Rails (version must match your application)
  + ActiveRecord-JDBC

Building GoldSpike
+ Locate the gems for the tests
  Unix: export GEM_HOME=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  Windows: set GEM_HOME=c:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8
+ Run "mvn install"
  This should compile, test, and install the GoldSpike JAR
  into your local maven repository.
  If you want to skip over the tests, use "mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true"

Testing out the samples
+ Change into samples/helloworld-{rails version}
+ Run "rake war:standalone:run".
  This will run a web server, serving the helloworld Rails application
  from its current location.
+ Browse to http://localhost:8080/