Presentation: "JRuby: Power on the JVM"

Time: Friday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

JRuby has gone from being an alternative to MRI, to being the preferred way of working with Ruby in many situations. The perfomance, usability and integration with the Java platform makes JRuby more than just an alternative.

After this talk you will know:

  • What JRuby is, and how it's implemented
  • What performance optimizations JRuby uses
  • Why you might want to use JRuby
  • What people are using JRuby for
  • What's new in the 1.1 release
  • How you can get started with JRuby today
  • Some cool things you can do with JRuby

Ola Bini, ThoughtWorks

Ola Bini

Ola Bini is a Swedish developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London, United Kingdom. He has been one of the core developers for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of the APress book Practical JRuby on Rails. He has much experience with Java, Ruby and LISP, and has been involved with several other open source projects - but nowadays JRuby takes most of his time.

He has been known to like implementing languages, writing regular expression engines, YAML parsers and other similar things that exist at the border of computer science.