TorqueBox Install

I’m playing with latest version of TorqueBox (Currently 2.x.incremental.245) the easiest way to install it is via a gem:

gem install torquebox-server --pre --source http://torquebox.org/2x/builds/LATEST/gem-repo/

Full details on the TorqueBox blog (http://torquebox.org/news/2011/06/10/torquebox-gem/).

Error

Anyhoose when doing the gem install on my dev server (CentOS 5.6) I got the error:

Error: Your application used more memory than the safety cap of 500m. Specify -J-Xmx####m to increase it (#### = cap size in MB).

Fix

After a bit digging around it turns out you need to set the heap size when running the gem install:

jruby -J-Xmx900m -S gem install torquebox-server --pre --source http://torquebox.org/2x/builds/LATEST/gem-repo/

More details on stackoverflow.

Hope that helps someone or maybe me if have to do this again!