John Woodell
Web Developer, Google, Inc.

John Woodell is a web developer at Google, and a Ruby enthusiast. He started developing web pages in the early ‘90s, and spent over a decade hacking together sites in Perl, Java and PHP. John discovered RubyOnRails in 2005 and has been a dedicated Rubyist ever since. He maintains the App Engine APIs for JRuby and contributes to related projects. John manages the JRuby on App Engine blog and tweets as johnwoodell.

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1:50pm Wednesday, 06/09/2010

Scaling Rails on App Engine with JRuby and Duby

General
Location: Room 307 - 308

Ryan Brown (Google, Inc.), David Masover (Forkbox), John Woodell (Google, Inc. )

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(2.75, 16 ratings)

More and more Rails apps are being deployed to App Engine. Generated AR scaffolding works unaltered with DataMapper, and critical gems like redcloth and mechanize are working too. Spin-up time is less of an issue, and Duby has matured to provide unprecedented performance. Our latest development tools make the development process painless. Best of all, it's free to get started. Read more.