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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Presented by Charles Nutter on Apr 18, 2008

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Language ,
JRuby
Tags
QCon ,
Swing ,
TDD ,
BDD ,
RSpec ,
QCon San Francisco 2007 ,
Buildr ,
Rake ,
JRuby ,
ActiveRecord
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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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No voice by Ali Motaz Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:38 AM
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From today I'm not able to watch any presentations:((( (Firefox 2.0.0.14) by Sergey Rassokhin Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:04 PM
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    Apr 21, 2008 4:38 AM by Ali Motaz

    for the first two or so minutes there were no voice
    when does the voice picks up!

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    Apr 21, 2008 4:58 AM by Ali Motaz

    the headphones were not plugged properly!! silly

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