Posted by jweiland, Thu Feb 03 12:30:00 UTC 2011

For our first speaker of the year, we'll have a join meeting with the Richmond Java Users Group and explore JRuby with Rob Heittman, Chief Technology Officer at Solertium in Williamsburg, VA. Please note that this is a non-standard meeting location and date.

Meeting Details

• Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
• Time: 5:30 PM
• Location: Dominion Resources in Innsbrook, Richmond's West End (5000 Dominion Blvd)

Abstract

Java < JRuby > Ruby

Lots of scripting languages run on the Java VM. JRuby has grown into something uniquely important, by embracing the strengths of both Ruby and Java culture. In lightning talk mode, we’ll survey some hybrid projects like celerity and RedCar that are only possible in JRuby, and look at the reasons why. We’ll look at warbler and some multicore metrics, to see how JRuby can help a Rubyist satisfy enterprise demands. For a brief dig into the internals, we’ll see an embedded JRuby interpreter used for web page templating inside an OSGi cloud platform. Finally we’ll take some BDD practices for a spin with Cucumber, to see how a little Ruby influence can impact any development project in any language.

Bio

Rob is a Rubyist who wishes “Javaist” was a word. He wields JRuby professionally every day in the course of developing Rails, GWT, J2ME and Android apps. Current projects include the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, mobile apps for Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and the upcoming 2011 Frequent Traveler Awards. In addition to JRuby, he is active in the Rubinius, Gerrit Code Review, and Restlet open source communities, and co-founded the ambitious Scala+GWT project. Rob is easiest to find on Twitter: @rfc2616

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