Charles Nutter
Over the past year, JRuby on Rails has become more and more stable, and has started to become the platform of choice for many applications. Performance meets or exceeds standard Ruby, deployment is getting simpler with Java web containers, Mongrel-like single-process servers, and Mongrel itself as options. Added to all this, you can call Java libraries and integrate with existing Java applications.
This session will take a simple Rails app and demonstrate JRuby-based deployment and integration options. You'll see several ways to run JRuby on Rails in various settings, and learn how easy it is to use Java libraries from Rails applications.
About Charles
Charles Oliver Nutter co-leads the JRuby project and is one of the three core developers. He joined Sun Microsystems in September 2006 and has since worked to improve and advance JRuby and other dynamic language support on the JVM. Charles has developed in Java for the past decade as well as having written Windows and .NET applications and led the LiteStep project's rewrite in the late 90s. Before coming to Sun, Charles was a lead Java EE architect, and now hopes to make dynamic languages ready for enterprise Java platform development.
