Ruby and the Lisp
summary
Shows a working hack that renders Rails views via Clojure: one custom ActionView template calls into a Clojure hiccup library packed as a single Uber JAR and executed on JRuby to generate HTML, glued by eval and namespace imports. The code runs inside Rails 7/8, mixes the JVM and CRuby worlds, and returns rendered HTML to Rails; it is hacky but functional and exposes practical integration steps and tooling.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 0:42From Ruby to Lisp journey
- 3:35Why explore Lisp dialects
- 8:16Lisp vs Ruby comparison
- 11:28Mixing Rails with Clojure
- 15:24Demo and challenges
- 17:14Resources and closing
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