Try JRuby page is not working

[headius]

It's a 404. Must not have made the transition from the old server to Github Pages.

[headius]

From jruby/jruby#3168:

I started to fix it but we need to do a few extra things to make it work:

Both the jnlp and the applet require a signed jruby-complete.jar.
The complete jar does not currently contain either JRubyApplet or IRBConsole in usable forms, since they are both part of the jruby-readline library now. That needs to be fixed.
At least the page is there and formatting right, though :-)

@mkristian I know how to sign a jar, but I'm not sure the best way to get a usable complete jar with JRubyApplet and IRBConsole available at top-level. Thoughts?

[headius]

Applets have been EOL by Oracle, so the only thing we really want here is the webstart binary working.

[headius]

Webstart has also been EOL by Oracle. I was hoping we might able to redirect folks to tryruby.org, but that no longer appears to be the JRuby-based, sandboxed version based on _why's tutorial.

@enebo Maybe we should just remove the link? Make it a "getting started" walkthrough?

[headius]

Redirecting to the old tryruby site (by _why) is not an option now because it was shut down when Code School was absorbed by Pluralsight. I'm trying to figure out where the old tryruby went so we can get it up and running again.

[olleolleolle]

Adding some 2024 details:

1. A Try Ruby website which is currently up is hosted at https://try.ruby-lang.org/ -- EDIT: and this is what is linked in the page we are discussing (d'oh!)
2. It lists two choices for runtime: CRuby, Opal.

[headius]

Sadly I tried to find a version of the old dry ruby that ran on JRuby but it seems to have been lost to time

probably never open sourced either.

If the new version is running Ruby on the server, it could easily accommodate JRuby, but I suspect it may be compiling to webassembly and running in the browser. That's also possible with JRuby but only through a commercial product that provides a webassembly JVM.

[jeremyevans]

I ran into this today. I recommend removing the Try It! section from the Getting Started page.

[headius]

I removed it from the header some time ago but forgot about the link in Getting Started.

We would still like to have a way for users to play with JRuby in a browser, but it would require a server environment and some hardening we don't have time to do.

I'll remove the section for now