http://rack.rubyforge.org/ may be something to look into, since it was modeled after WSGI, thus merb and 
ramaze and other frameworks that use rack could be implemented.

I think java and ruby will work.  And with java, jruby is a perfectly acceptable ruby
implementation.  I would prefer CRuby, but it would be nice to have java also.  Some
of us are multi-lingual like that.

The problem isn't a parallel to WSGI, it's a parallel to PyPy. PyPy is what allows the sandboxing that prevents 
system access and lets Google meter CPU usage. Unless Ruby has something similar, Google would have to 
engineer it on their own, and that's quite an effort.

Guys, they're counting stars (the one in the top left-hand corner) not +1 comments,
please stop spamming so that others have a chance to post useful information.

Like this http://heroku.com/ 

If you want Ruby on Rails, why don't you try out the Morph Application Platform?
www.morphexchange.com

Please stop plusing this, and just Star it. Same effect, but it doesn't clutter the
comments. Thanks! Also, every time you comment with +1 you are spamming everyone,
which isn't very nice, thanks!

Can the priority move higher than medium?

The way to increase the priority is to have more stars than Perl ;) that's probably a
very naive answer though. Someone should write some good stuff about why Ruby won't
suck if implemented on GAE and post it here. Or write code that improves Ruby's CGI
libraries. It's unlikely that RoR would get inside the App Engine because it relies
heavily on persistent processes to not be slow.

Please! Just star, don't comment! We're getting lots of spam!

Stolen from another thread:
Just a friendly reminder... if you're about to post a comment that says "me too!" or
"you've got my vote" or "+1"... please just star this issue and leave the
comments-space clean.  When you star the issue, your vote counts.  Issues with a
larger number of people starring the issue are likely going to get more attention. 
More comments, however, are just going to clutter the system and annoy those who have
already starred the issue, possibly encouraging them to unstar the issue, lowering
its perceived importance.  Again, comments should be used to update progress on the
issue itself, not for voting... please leave this to the star.  Thanks.

I apoligize for my earlier +1 :-P

Unstarring.  I don't need an email every time someone has to declare to the world
that he's an idiot.

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Please stop commenting with just +1.  If you're interested in this feature, click the
star to the left of the name near the top.

There are plenty of people who want to be notified if anything comes of this, but
don't want to get an email with every "+1" that gets posted.  Google Code's issue
tracker interface is designed around prioritizing the number of people who have
starred an issue, not the number of "+1" comments that get added.

Sandbox for Ruby - http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/sandbox/

Saying "+1" is counter-productive.  You're spamming everyone who's starred the issue,
causing people to unstar this issue, which devalues the issue.

Stop "+1" spamming.  Star the issue.  The star.  Beside the name of the issue at the
top of this page.  Click that.

These comments are for discussion of the issue itself. Comment threads are terrible
voting mechanisms.

(and, following my own advice, I'm shutting up)

What I would like to see is a way the community can help do things like port Ruby to this environment.  I'm sure 
there are special needs so what I would propose is to allow some sort of limited C API or something that the 
language must use during runtime as well as some simple call-backs or signals to handle.  With that in place, 
people could spend their own time porting languages of their choice. So please, add ruby support by adding an 
open harness for new languages that we can work on.

Instead of unstarring, perhaps add a filter to mailbox:

subject:(Issue 29 in googleappengine: Please add ruby support)
action: Skip Inbox

How do you star it without commenting?  You... you click the star.  The blue outline
of a star next to the issue at the top of the page.  Click it.  It becomes yellow and
filled in.  Noone gets spammed.

This isn't rocket surgery.

Ruby support would be pretty awesome, but as I understand your execution model for AppEngine you'd most 
likely have to wait for Rubinius to be farther along to get a VM that can be reasonably sandboxed. Perhaps some 
of that famous 20% time can be applied to that project to help Ruby support in AppEngine along?

+ 1 

Rails + Merb + DataMapper should be included as well.

Yes.... Google is the most trusted name and the best ever. I vote for google as well.
Google should make this as fst as possible to break the hype MS is creating for IronRuby.

As pr my knowledge... for many years MS just adpots the prpven technology. I am sure
they will adopt this AppEngine too.

Google should make thuis fast to leave MS years behind.

mats.ekblom, they're doing the same thing in every other ticket. The Google guys
might decide to just close these tickets down because of all the spam :P

This +1 madness inspired me to write a blog post:
http://www.ryantm.com/blog/2008/04/11/more-evidence-that-programmers-arent-smarter-than-other-people/

** NO FLAMEWARS PLEASE! **

Every time you add a comment it sends out an EMAIL to everybody. Our inboxes are
filled with hundreds of useless mails that says "+1". We are drowning in SPAM :-(

>>>>>>> TO VOTE FOR RUBY - DO THIS INSTEAD <<<<<<<<<<<<

1) Look for the blue outline of a star next to Issue 29: at the top of this page.
2) Click on it. The star becomes yellow and filled in.
3) Now you have voted for ruby. Well done :-)

N O T E : It is the number of stars that counts, not the comments!

Once again:

DO **NOT** ADD A COMMENT (unless you have something IMPORTANT to say). IT SENDS AN
EMAIL TO EVERYBODY ELSE!!

I just mailed code@google.com with this feedback and suggest those of you annoyed by
the '+1 spam' let them know what you think as well. Those of you considering posting
yet another '+1' comment, please refer to the previous comment #479.

Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Subject: Please fix '+1' SPAM
To: code@google.com

Hi,

Can you please check comments for '+1' using something like (/\+\s*1/) and warn users
to make use of the built in 'starring' functionality, giving them a chance to avoid
spamming everyone. Here's a good example, where almost a thousand people are spammed
with every '+1' post: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=29

Thanks,

Sam

Please voice your support for issue comment filtering by *starring*  Issue 203 

+1 spam and some of the related anti-spam comments removed. I'll remove the rest of
the anti-spam comments once things have settled.

As others have stated, star the issue if you're interested in showing your support.
+1 and "me too!" posts don't have any positive impact, and only serve to annoy other
users.

Those concerned with why their comments were removed are free to contact me privately.

Justin, interesting that you say they're using PyPy (for the CPU monitoring). Do you
have any links to info about this - can't find any.

Python est un excellent langage mais avoir le choix rendra google app meilleur !!
Saigon

May be of interest:

http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html

Please add support for Ruby and web app framework sitting on the top of Ruby like:
Rails, Merb etc .... I think adding also additional stacks of languages will position
Google to become a leader in that space ...
Openess and flexibility ...
Also adding support for various admin and deployment tools, managed by community etc.
could positon Google to be good ASP hosting provider even for evil corp apps :)

Great job Google people, thank you for various solutions ...

Robert K

+1

+1 

+1

rsalvado+joshuashen+jaikogu = 3 ;)
I'm waiting for people that disagree with this issue to post "-1" comments! :)
#415 blog post is really funny!

definitely would love this, got some really good stuff to upload

Actually the Freaky Freaky Sandbox would work. It does allow everything that PyPy
does. (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/sandbox/)

Please add support for Ruby 

Pls add support for ruby.  Thx.

Ruby please :)

Hopefully Google is already planning on supporting PHP. They are probably in the 
process of making a GQL PHP API and locking down PHP like they did for Python.

another vote for ruby

yep, vote for ruby...

I love ruby!

I love ruby!

Ruby! Ruby! Ruby! Ruby! Ruby!

Ruby rulles :)

It would be great to see Ruby support in App Engine ;)

-1, stay on python and add features. no reason for other languages

No reason of pricks like you.

One more vote for Ruby

I believe that language diversity is the key to this success. Not
 necessarily just Ruby, I'm talking about other languages too. Not
 everybody knows python, and not everybody should have to.

+1 for Ruby.

I think it's well within Google's power to add new languages, without hurting Python
features.

+ 1 for Ruby

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Okay, what does status: acknowledged mean?

+1 for Ruby.

+1 comment. count me in. ooops. how do i vote?



kidding. ;)

Sorry, think it's time for another of these posts

** NO FLAMEWARS PLEASE! **

Every time you add a comment it sends out an EMAIL to everybody. Our inboxes are
filled with hundreds of useless mails that says "+1". We are drowning in SPAM :-(

>>>>>>> TO VOTE FOR RUBY - DO THIS INSTEAD <<<<<<<<<<<<

1) Look for the blue outline of a star next to Issue 29: at the top of this page.
2) Click on it. The star becomes yellow and filled in.
3) Now you have voted for ruby. Well done :-)

N O T E : It is the number of stars that counts, not the comments!

Once again:

DO **NOT** ADD A COMMENT (unless you have something IMPORTANT to say). IT SENDS AN
EMAIL TO EVERYBODY ELSE!!

+1

+ for ruby, ftw! :)

+ for ruby ! and rails

+1

+1

+1, please!

+1

Would love to go back to ruby & start developing apps.

+1 ,please! Hope for the support for ruby!

*

please add ruby on rails

pls, pls, pls.... ruby+rails

ruby support is a must!!

Give me AppEngine for Ruby! Plz!!

And while we are at it: One "please click on the star and don't just write +1"
message would suffice.

@justin.fagnani
With respect to sandboxing: Other than python, ruby has already __some__ support for
that builtin -- see the -T command-line option.

I personally would prefer java + jruby though.

Interesting library for google data on Ruby On Rails:

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html

Seems that google have started to develop something for ruby/rails...

Ah and please: + 1/0 for ruby ;)

add one from me

 Issue 1152  has been merged into this issue.

Hint for people who are bored of +1-like comments. If you use Gmail, you can press M
while a message is open, and mute the entire conversation. Bye bye comments.

Please do that instead of un-starring this bug.

Ruby On Rails

Rack would be great. That would support Merb, Sinatra, and also home-made frameworks, 
and I think that's what Google is aiming for with Google App Engine (which is, for it 
to be customisable for developers).

What about JRuby ? Due to Java-Support you are able to use it right now. No need for
native Ruby-Support anymore ?

See here for a few articles about JRuby on GAE by Ola Bini:
http://olabini.com/blog/tag/gae/

one more vote for ruby

one more vote for ruby, i love ruby so much.
from China.

Ruby support would be a great thing. It's my favourite language ever. (And I have 
seen quite a lot of them come, stay and go.)

when ruby support ?

http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/
http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/

This is not native Ruby support, so it's probably slower than it should be. But it
works. If you have time, please consider helping out. I wish I would.

Actually, JRuby is faster than MRI (the standard Ruby 1.8.x interpreter implemented
in C) in most cases. I'd call this issue closed now that JRuby works.

ROR is my favorite! Hope I use it on appengine soon!

ghs.google.com has been blocked in some countries, which means that your 
users/clients in these countries are not able to access your GAE services with your 
own domain name.

See http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1269 for more details.

yes,ruby supput is nc

Unfortunately, I do not think JRuby has 100% compatibility. Plus, Ruby 1.9.1 is much
faster than JRuby.

Ruby support would be awesome. And also Rails please.

+1 on Ruby support - RoR/Sinatra would be excellent.

ditto for rails support!

Yes, ruby and frameworks would be great. Something that looks like Rack might integrate nicely with Rails, 
merb, sinatra, et. al.

Please add Ruby and RoR support

I like Ruby, though.

Yes!. RUBY! I need ruby ;)

I'd like to try Ruby.

Sinatra would be perfect for GAE.

Rails too. Unfortunately, even though Java has been added, JRuby does not have 100%
compatibility:

{:e => 'x', :a => 'e'}.collect{|k,v|puts "#{k.inspect} => #{v.inspect}"}

The code above works just fine in C Ruby, but does not work at all in JRuby.

Devyn.Cairns: Odd, it seemed to work just fine when I ran it in JRuby a second ago, producing the exact same 
results as 1.8 and 1.9.

Hmm... It appears I was mistaken.

But otherwise, C Ruby extensions do not work in JRuby, of course. So that makes many
gems not work. Anyway, it would still be nice to have C Ruby.

C extensions would not work even if C Ruby were supported.  

No, but I suppose you could send a request to Google for a gem to be installed.
Then you could.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter. But I really like the C Ruby implementation. I
probably will just use JRuby, but I do hope that Google chooses to support Ruby.

It's too bad they didn't choose to support Java first, because then the Python people
would be forced to use Jython.

非常需要这个

JRuby is better than the MRI, Google AppEngine already has support and it is quite easy:

http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/

I definatly wouldn't mind ruby support  Hell by the time it comes out i may actually
be able to code rails effectively.

I think given jruby works on app engine now, you cant expect google to hack on the
internals of MRI to get into a decent enough shape to run app engine on. 

i want too

add it

ruby is a must

Ruby and Rails, pleeeeeease!

Rails 3 on App Engine:
http://rails-primer.appspot.com/