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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby)

Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.

Allen Rohner
on Aug 16, 2012

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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)

Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.

Mark Rendle
on Jul 31, 2012

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Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge

Yoko Harada introduces RedBridge, aka JRuby Embed, a Java API for calling JRuby code that is treated as regular Java objects, explaining its relation to JSR223 and demoing how to use it.

Yoko Harada
on Mar 28, 2012

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DataMapper on Inﬁnispan: Clustered NoSQL

Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.

Lance Ball
on Nov 28, 2011

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JRuby: Apples and Oranges

Thomas Enebo explains the basics of JRuby, showing what’s different from Java, how Java and JRuby interact with each other, and some examples demonstrating the usefulness of a complementary language.

Thomas Enebo
on Feb 09, 2011

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Towards a Universal VM

Alex Buckley presents some of the challenges for JVM to become a universal VM, serving the needs of Java and non-Java languages, static and dynamic languages, and an ever growing number of features.

Alex Buckley
on Jun 04, 2010

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Basking in the Limelight

Micah Martin introduces Limelight, a JRuby GUI library that uses the theater metaphor for writing GUIs. The talk introduces basic concepts, how to style GUIs, and much more.

Micah Martin
on Mar 28, 2010

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JRuby: You've Got Java in my Ruby

Tom Enebo explains reasons for choosing JRuby: Hotspot optimizations, JVM Garbage Collectors, tools like profilers. Also: how JRuby helps to write cleaner, more expressive code with Java libraries.

Tom Enebo
on Feb 11, 2010

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JRuby, Duby, and Surinx: Building a Better Ruby

Charles Nutter discusses JRuby, invokedynamic, JRuby performance, Duby, Duby syntax, future Duby plans, Surinx, the motivation for making Duby and Surinx, and how Duby and Surinx are helping JRuby.

Charles Nutter
on Dec 10, 2009

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Three Years of Real-World Ruby

Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.

Martin Fowler
on Jul 12, 2009

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JRuby: Power on the JVM

In this presentation from QCon London, Ola Bini shows how JRuby is implemented, how it's optimized and what it can be and what it is used for.

Ola Bini
on Apr 17, 2009

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Evolving the Java Platform

Ola Bini talks about the current status of the JVM regarding languages running on top of it and the need to evolve in order to support dynamic languages.

Ola Bini
on Mar 23, 2009

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