JRuby-based Chat Server using Terracotta

Two technologies are currently capturing my imagination, JRuby and Terracotta. JRuby is simply for my purposes the most effective language to tackle most of my computing challenges. Terracotta allows me to take those problems and solve them on large clusters of cheap servers in clouds such as those provided by Amazon EC2. Getting started with JRuby+Terracotta requires a bit of trial and error as its not as well documented as good old Java+Terracotta. The only post you’re likely to find is one by Jonas Boner (see below). During subsequent revisions of both Terracotta as well as JRuby, the example had...