Lightning Talks
summary
Johnson is a JavaScript-to-Ruby bridge that evals JS inside SpiderMonkey, converts JS functions into Ruby blocks and is on GitHub so you can run browser-like code on the server; Arepa is a Puppet alternative implemented as a Ruby DSL that runs parallel SSH with exec/unless dry‑run support; Prawn is a new PDF writer aiming for Ruby 1.9, Unicode, faster output and a full spec suite; a behavior‑based robot DSL shrinks an 821‑line C++ controller to 59 lines; Rubinius fixes autoload with two C calls and accompanying specs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Johnson
- 6:20Delmont
- 11:30Gregory Brown
- 18:00Dan DiMaggio
- 22:15Phil Matarese
- 29:30Peter Jaros
- 44:30Luke Miglia
- 54:02Wilson








