JRuby: The Other Red Meat
JRuby enables a better Rails experience through a number of double plus good features. By supporting Native Threads, JRuby can spawn multiple runtimes and also trivially spawn background jobs. By having access to large numbers of Java libraries, you can easily access virtually any technology known to mankind. By virtue of being written in Java, it is simple to deploy JRuby applications like Rails in a Java application server. All of these features in addition to being a highly-compatible and highly-performant Ruby implementation makes JRuby a great choice for Rails development.
This session will give an overview of JRuby and explain how JRuby’s unique featureset helps a Ruby and Rails developer get work done.
Thomas Enebo
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Thomas is a core developer of the JRuby project and he is also an employee of Sun Microsystems. Tom has been using Java for over a decade and Ruby over half a decade. At Sun, he is working to make JRuby a piece of software that will capture the hearts and minds of Ruby and Java developers everywhere. Tom is also working to make Ruby a first-class citizen on the JVM. Tom, along with Charles Nutter, will be writing a book on JRuby this year.
