# Oracle Mix, powered by JRuby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 13, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104 "2007-11-13T19:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alexeyv)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104/1 "2007-11-13T19:53:17Z")
Hi all, This Sunday Oracle launched a new customer interaction web app called Mix. Implementation-wise, it’s a rather regular Rails application, running on JRuby, Oracle Application Server (Oracle’s J2EE stack) and Oracle database. Three days later, it’s still alive and kicking at [http://mix.oracle.com](http://mix.oracle.com). The project team had lots of fun. Both good and bad variety of fun, but mostly the good old “gee, look how much functionality we can crank out before the Big Marketing Event” fun. Hopefully, this helps some of you push (J)Ruby into your own day job. 🙂 [http://oracleappslab.com/2007/11/11/mix-is-live/](http://oracleappslab.com/2007/11/11/mix-is-live/) > **[Oracle Mix has launched](http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/2007/11/oracle-mix-has-launched.html)** > > The last 5 weeks, a team consisting of me, Alexey Verkhovsky, Matt Wastrodowski and Toby Tripp from ThoughtWorks, and Rich Manalang from Ora... – Alexey V. CruiseControl.rb [[http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com](http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com)] RubyWorks [[http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com](http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com)] ---
**Author:** ![alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alexeyv)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104/2 "2007-11-14T20:51:49Z")
Cool stuff! I’m at Oracle Open World and got a chance to meet Jake and Rich and talk about this. On Nov 13, 10:52 am, “Alexey V.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alexeyv)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104/3 "2007-11-20T22:12:39Z")
Will Oracle ever release Instant Client for Mac Intel? (So we can use ruby-oci8) If you’re a [mix.oracle.com](http://mix.oracle.com) user, please +1 this: [https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/release-instant-client-for-mac-intel](https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/release-instant-client-for-mac-intel) (I understand this isn’t a problem for JRuby users, but it’s very frustrating for those of us using the seemingly reasonable combination of Ruby/Intel-Mac/Oracle) Also, I’d like XE ported please, thanks Oracle. ---
**Author:** ![alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alexeyv)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104/4 "2007-11-20T22:30:13Z")
On Nov 20, 2007 3:11 PM, Dean H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Will Oracle ever release Instant Client for Mac Intel? (So we can use ruby-oci8) You’re not missing much. The ruby-oci8 driver has given me a lot of problems when using it on Linux. Thread deadlocks and such. > Also, I’d like XE ported please, thanks Oracle. Recently I started using PostgreSQL in development, then deploying to Oracle in production. Having my desktop machine use all 2GBs of ram for XE was just silly. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alexeyv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alexeyv)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-mix-powered-by-jruby/120104/5 "2007-11-20T22:41:19Z")
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:29, Greg D. wrote: > Oracle in production. Having my desktop machine use all 2GBs of ram > for XE was just silly. I wouldn’t be surprised if you got your wish. IBM announced at IOD recently that they are going to release a port of DB2 Express-C for Mac for development use. Here’s a blog entry which talks about this - > **[DB2 on Mac | Programming Zen](https://programmingzen.com/db2-on-mac/)** > > Python and DB2 We now have a working Python driver for DB2 which is currently undergoing internal testing. The driver is similar to the Ruby and PHP ones, which means that you get an advanced and very easy to use API. It also means that if you are... If that proves successful, the big-O is likely to follow suit as the database world is very much a “me too” one as far as the commercial vendors are concerned. Phil