All About Merb
Steven Bristol, Ruby on Rails Core Contributor, Less EverythingMerb is a ruby web development framework that is fast, lightweight, and powerful that can be a great alternative to Rails. Merb doesn't have any opinions: you can use any ruby database abstraction library, any javascript library, and any template engine. In this presentation we'll take a look at the history of merb, how to get up and running, and when you should replace a heavy Rails action with a merb equivalent. We'll also do a live code demonstration where we build a sample application.
REST with Rails
Steven Bristol, Ruby on Rails Core Contributor, Less EverythingWhat is REST and how to write in the “RESTful Rails” style. Why skinny controllers and fat models are all the current “Best Practice” and how to do it. This talk will cover exposing your application as a REST API/interface and how to use ActiveResource as a consumer for another RESTful interface.
Introduction to JRuby
Michael Johann, IT Consultant, GuruJRuby is currently the fastest Ruby-Interpreter on earth. In this session you will learn how to use JRuby to integrate your Java libraries with the Ruby programming language the easy way. The session demonstrates the concepts and proves them with many live coding, so that attendees will get the most out of it. In the second half of the talk, Michael is showing you how to create a simple Rails application and how to deploy it as a WAR file into an application server like Glassfish.
Introduction to JRuby on Rails
Michael Johann, IT Consultant, GuruRuby on Rails is the star in the field of full stack web development frameworks today. This session will demonstrate how to use Rails on the JRuby interpreter in your regular VM environment. Many live coding will help you to understand the concepts of Rails and how to leverage the framework in your existing Java projects. You will also get information about available IDE’s and typical deployment szenarios for JRuby on Rails.
Dive Into Grails
Harshad Oak, Rightrix SolutionsGrails is one of the many web frameworks for the Java platform. However it shines through by its ability to use the best ideas from the Ruby on Rails world while at the same time continuing to leverage the tried, tested and trusted Java platform as well as established frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. With Grails' tight integration with Java, Groovy based features, growing popularity and improved support from IDEs, Grails looks poised to become the RAD framework of choice for the Java platform. This session takes you through the features of Grails, it's working and how Grails utilization of meta programming and coding over convention can get you major productivity boosts as compared to traditional Java web applications.
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