Just to throw something else into the mix, does anyone have any exposure to JRuby? I can happily witter on about my own experiences integrating java+ruby during my transformation into a ruby programmer, but I didn't use JRuby and that's clearly the way to do things now, so I'm not clear on how useful it would be.
<br><br>Anyone else done anything with JRuby?<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Sadler</b> <<a href="mailto:mtsbtt@googlemail.com">mtsbtt@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">I'm happy to do something on Metaprogramming.<div><span class="e" id="q_1133e4eb4199a84e_1">
<div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div>On 18 Jun 2007, at 10:17, Murray Steele wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Sorry to keep banging on about this, but Skills Matter need to know by the end of the week if we'll be running a BoF or not. From the overwhelming response I'm going to hazard a guess at not, but you never know.
<br> <br>Has anyone got any ideas about running a BoF for Java programmers interested in Ruby. I think Martin and James's ideas below were quite interesting, but we'd need a few folk willing to give up an evening to do one of the suggested lightning talks. Any takers?
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Muz<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Murray Steele</b> <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
murray.steele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just a reminder about this. If anyone has any ideas about running a BoF session, or taking part in it, grab me tonight. Skills Matter want to know soonish if we want to be involved, so tonight's as good a night as any to suggest stuff.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Muz<div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Adam</b> <<a href="mailto:james.adam@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
james.adam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 5/29/07, Martin Sadler <<a href="mailto:mtsbtt@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mtsbtt@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I know there was a Rails track at QCon that was held a while back. For those <br>> who attended<br>> what was the general consensus from Java developers on Ruby? <br><br>
My impression of the QCon audience was that it was comprised of people<br>who just wanted to know a bit more about Ruby, to see what all the<br>fuss was about.<br><br>> My first thought is to have a panel of recent Java to Ruby converts backed
<br>> up by some<br>> more experienced Rubyists. We could then do a series of lightening talks<br>> complimented<br>> with questions from the audience to the panel.<br><br>This sounds like a good format to me. For the lightning talks, it
<br>shouldn't be hard to do any of the following in 5 minutes:<br><br>* Your First Rails App<br>* The Joy of Rake<br>* Here's the Skinny about RubyGems, Y'all<br>* "Metaprogramming Voodoo"<br><br>.... basically any of these could be quick demos to be used as
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