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Is it possible to use Ruby as a

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scripting language for the JobScheduler?

• JRuby should be possible. We use the the Javax scripting framework to allow implementation of

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• Third Party scripting engines.

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• Read more about this in our JobScheduler and Script Languages document.
  • You
  can
  • will find further information
  on
  • in the jruby web site
  :
  •  and
  and JRuby
  • Ruby examples: here

Calling Ruby in a job script

The language identification would be javax.script:jruby like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<job  title="sample job">
    <params />
 
    <script  language="javax.script:jruby"

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> <![CDATA[
		// put you Ruby code here
    ]]></script>
 
    <run_time />
</job>

Calling the Ruby scripting engine programmatically

 ScriptEngine jruby = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("jruby");