Mingle from ThoughtWorks Studios to Be the First Commercial Software in JRuby
Mingle from ThoughtWorks Studios to Be the First Commercial Software in JRuby Mingle is a software application that helps teams manage Agile IT projects. It supports software delivery by providing entire teams a single place to share all project output, using a framework based on over ten years of ThoughtWorks’ Agile experience. Mingle provides project intelligence by enabling real-time decisions driven by Agile metrics collected from everyday activities. Further product information can be found at studios.thoughtworks.com.
“Mingle is built on the Ruby on Rails web framework,” said Cyndi Mitchell, vice-president of strategy for ThoughtWorks Studios. “Rails allowed our development team to be immensely productive, but the Ruby platform still presents some deployment challenges to a typical enterprise. We needed an approach that would allow Mingle to fit right into our customers’ existing IT landscape. JRuby gives us that.”
JRuby is a pure Java, open-source implementation of the Ruby language. Two of its core developers, Nutter and Thomas Enebo, were hired last year by Sun Microsystems to work full time on JRuby.
Because Mingle is engineered in JRuby, it can easily be deployed into large, complex, and controlled corporate IT environments. For companies that have invested in the Java platform, supporting Mingle will not require investment in additional platforms and tools.
