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IronRuby on Rails

John Lam (Microsoft), Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft)
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Location: Portland Ballroom 252

IronRuby is an implementation of Ruby that runs on Microsoft’s Dynamic Language Runtime. This talk looks at the work that we’ve done to enable Ruby and Rails to run well on top of the CLR.

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John Lam

Microsoft

John Lam works on the IronRuby Open Source project at Microsoft.

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Jimmy Schementi

Microsoft

Jimmy Schementi is a Program Manager on the Dynamic Languages team at Microsoft. He’s focused on making Silverlight application-authoring a fun and productive experience with Dynamic Languages, such as Ruby and Python. Though he’s passionate about all dynamic languages, Ruby has had his attention for the last couple of years, and regularly blogs about Silverlight, Ruby on Rails, and web development in general at http://jimmy.schementi.com/blog

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