June Meeting: Hiro Asari on JRuby
Posted by jweiland, Sat May 28 08:00:00 UTC 2011
For our first meeting of the summer, we have a very special guest: Hiro Asari, a core contributor to JRuby. This will be a join meeting with the Richmond Java Users Group. Please register for the meeting here.
Meeting Details
- Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
- Time: 5:30 PM
- Location: Dominion Innsbrook Technical Center (5000 Dominion Blvd., Ground Floor Auditorium, Glen Allen, VA, 23060)
Abstract
As a Ruby implementation on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), JRuby provides a unique ability to interact with the vast array of Java libraries from Ruby (and vice versa).
In this talk, Hiro Asari, a JRuby committer, shows you how one can explore a Java library interactively with IRB (Ruby's REPL shell) with many examples.
Bio
Hiro Asari is a JRuby Support Engineer at Engine Yard, a PaaS company specializing in Ruby on Rails hosting. He has been involved with the JRuby project for 2 years.
