I'm trying to embed and evaluate ruby code from within a Java application. Instead of putting jruby-complete.jar in my classpath, I need to be able to use jruby environment that's installed with rvm. I can execute basic kernel code, but I'm having issues requiring standard libraries (fileutils, tmpdir, etc.).
I created the test file below that uses a JRuby installed via RVM, anyone should be able to compile+run it if you have a local rvm + jruby installation (change JRUBY_VERSION to a version installed). I realize the jruby.jar I'm referencing isn't the same as jruby-complete.jar, but I'm hoping there is a way to load standard libraries without downloading an external jar.
import java.io.File;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
public class Test {
private final static Logger LOG = Logger.getAnonymousLogger();
private final static String JRUBY_VERSION = "jruby-1.6.7";
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
final String rvmPath = System.getenv("HOME") + "/.rvm/rubies/";
addFileToClasspath(rvmPath + JRUBY_VERSION + "/lib/jruby.jar");
final ScriptEngine rubyEngine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("jruby");
rubyEval(rubyEngine, "puts 'hello world!'"); // works
rubyEval(rubyEngine, "require 'tempfile'"); // fails to load 'tmpdir'
rubyEval(rubyEngine, "require 'fileutils'"); // fails to load 'fileutils'
}
private static void rubyEval(ScriptEngine rubyEngine, final String code) {
try {
rubyEngine.eval(code);
} catch (final Throwable e) { LOG.throwing(Test.class.getName(), "rubyEval", e); };
}
public static void addFileToClasspath(final String path) throws Throwable {
final File file = new File(path);
final URLClassLoader sysloader = (URLClassLoader) ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
final Class<?> sysclass = URLClassLoader.class;
final Method method = sysclass.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", new Class<?>[] {URL.class});
method.setAccessible(true);
method.invoke(sysloader, new Object[] {file.toURI().toURL()});
}
}