# Rails vs JRuby/Rails vs Grails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vs-jruby-rails-vs-grails/165304>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 11, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vs-jruby-rails-vs-grails/165304 "2009-04-11T21:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwt137)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vs-jruby-rails-vs-grails/165304/1 "2009-04-11T21:44:47Z")

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Greetings,  
I’m about to start up a new home project and am kicking around the  
possibilities listed above. This is a hobby which may turn into a  
commercial  
project, should I find enough time to do so.  
A rather important feature of this project is going to be the ability to  
work in offline mode, synching up to a server when going into online  
mode.  
I’ve poked around some with the available ways to do this with Rails  
(Slingshot, Gears on Rails), but was unable to determine if these  
approaches  
might work on JRuby/Rails as well. I’m not too thrilled about Slingshot  
simply because I don’t have the money to pay for the toolkit unless it’s  
very cheap, so I’m looking for free ways to achieve offline capability  
in my  
application.

I’m interested in hearing peoples opinions on Rails vs JRuby/Rails vs  
Grails, and particularly interested in hearing what people have to say  
in  
regards to getting any of these frameworks operating in an offline  
fashion.

Regards,

Chris

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**Author:** ![cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwt137)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vs-jruby-rails-vs-grails/165304/2 "2009-04-13T23:37:57Z")

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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chris T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> might work on JRuby/Rails as well. I’m not too thrilled about Slingshot
> 
> Chris

Do you not have admin access to your offline dev environment? You  
should be  
able to install what you need locally and do your development and  
testing  
that way. Unless you are going to be going “live” in a violently  
different  
environment I don’t see a huge problem.

–  
“Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions  
speak  
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)