Videos tagged with Ruby1.9

Summary In this talk from FutureRuby Adam Blum shows Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing apps with access to device features for all major smartphone devices. Bio Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile , the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime founder/CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce On...

Summary A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise. Bio Jason Seifer is a web developer and 1/2 of RailsEnvy.com, where he helps produce a weekly news podcast for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers. His programming interests include Ruby, Rails, Javascript, full text search, and Objective-C. Ab...

The second keynote of the night was given by Matz on Ruby's "Past, present, future" I always find it hard to sum up Matz's presentations. They are funny, inspirational, and touching in a way that doesn't lend it self to summary. You come away with the feeling that this man really wants to write a language that will make you a happier person. Topics he discussed include: Why Ruby is si...

Ruby 1.9, currently in development, has already introduced a wide range of syntax and language feature changes to the Ruby language (some of which have been backported into 1.8.7). We’ll focus on 1.9’s changes and emphasize concrete steps needed to update existing Ruby 1.8 applications. The talk will address specific points of difference between the two versions; the new object lite...

Summary Nick Sieger talks about the future of JRuby, Java Integration, and his work on JEE deployment tools for Ruby on Rails like Warbler. Bio Nick Sieger is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems where he has been working on a team building a large JRuby on Rails application. He is a member of the JRuby core team, leading the effort to improve Rails deployment in a Java environment.

Summary Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer Bio Eric Ho...