March Meeting: Android and Ruby
Posted by jweiland, Thu Mar 03 08:30:00 UTC 2011
Come out to our March meeting, where we'll peer into the world of Android through ruby-tinted glasses with Joe O'Brien of Edgecase. Please note that this is a non-standard meeting location.
Meeting Details
- Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- Time: 5:30 PM
- Location: SnagAJob, 4880 Cox Rd #200, Glen Allen (Google Maps link)
Abstract
With the advent of JRuby many doors have been opened that were not before for Ruby. One particular place is the android platform. Using Ruby, we can easily leverage the Android platform and API's to create incredible applications. Since we are using Ruby, testing becomes a trivial exercise. I'll walk through the options we have for developing full feature-rich applications for both the Android tablet and the phone. I'll show how we can use Mirah, a JRuby cousin for Android development.
Bio
Joe (@objo) is a father, business owner, speaker and developer. In 2006 he co-founded EdgeCase, a leading Ruby and Ruby on Rails training and consulting company. They have had a tremendous amount of success helping companies as large as GAP and AT&T Interactive as well as those startups still in the inception stage. Through a partnership with the Pragmatic Programmers, he has been giving training for well over three years on testing and development with Ruby on Rails. He is a speaker and has spoken at conferences ranging from RailsConf to numerous regional conferences and countless user groups.
