JRuby for the win
Über Conf
Denver · June 14 - 17, 2010
About this Presentation
JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language for the JVM. It gives full access to the Ruby language while running on top of Java. JRuby is the fastest and most fully-featured implementation of Ruby available.
This presentation will introduce JRuby, cover the reasons for its existance, some of the more useful tools, what's new and exciting in the JRuby world, and what new features JRuby 1.5 brings.
Language Geek, author of "Practical JRuby on Rails Projects"
Ola Bini works as a language geek for ThoughtWorks in Chicago. He is from Sweden but don't hold that against him. He is one of the JRuby core developers and have been involved in JRuby development since 2006. At one point in time, Ola got tired of all existing programming languages and decided to create his own, called Ioke. He has written a book called Practical JRuby on Rails Projects for APress, talked at numerous conferences, and contributed to a large number of open source projects.
His main passion lies in implementation languages, working on regular expression engines, trying to figure out how to create good YAML parsers.