Presentation: "JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language"

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Stanford

Abstract:

JRuby is fast becoming the standard Ruby in large enterprises and Java organizations. JRuby on Rails runs multiple production sites and applications. JRuby with Swing is becoming a popular GUI development combination. Ruby has arrived on the Java platform!

In this session, we'll demonstrate several reasons why Ruby is such a great language on the JVM, calling Java libraries and integrating frameworks quickly and easily. We'll demonstrate bringing a JRuby on Rails application up on a Java webapp server and show how to call Java APIs from Rails. And we'll demonstrate the advanced capabilities of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE.

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Charles Nutter, Sun

Charles Nutter

Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996, recently working as the senior Java architect at Ventera Corp and in September moved to Sun to work full-time on JRuby! He led the open-source LiteStep project in the late 90s and came to Ruby in the fall of 2004.

Since then he has been a member of the JRuby team, helping to make it a true alternative Ruby platform. Charles presented JRuby at RubyConf 2005 and co-presented at JavaOne 2006 with Thomas Enebo. He hopes to co-write a JRuby book this fall with Thomas to follow up a planned JRuby 1.0 release.