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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Posted by Charles Nutter on Apr 18, 2008 04:00 AM

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
JRuby,
Language
Tags
QCon San Francisco 2007,
RSpec,
BDD,
TDD,
ActiveRecord,
Swing,
Rake,
Buildr,
JRuby,
QCon
Summary
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.

Bio
Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996, recently working as the senior Java architect at Ventera Corp and in September moved to Sun to work full-time on JRuby! He led the open-source LiteStep project in the late 90s and came to Ruby in the fall of 2004. Since then he has been a member of the JRuby team, helping to make it a true alternative Ruby platform.

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