JRuby Everywhere!
summary
JRuby announces a concrete release and working demos: JRuby 1.4 released Nov 2 with ~300 bug fixes and Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility, provides native installers for Windows and runs on Android (IRB on emulator), and exposes a new embedding API plus JMX MBeans for live monitoring. Live demos show Java interop (loading MIDI and Swing to play music), a ~250-line 3D physics game, and Hibernate two-way persistence from plain Ruby code.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11JRuby updates
- 8:56JRuby 1.4 features
- 13:49Live Java integration demo
- 17:29Enterprise Ruby with JRuby
- 19:58JVM tools like JConsole
- 27:47JRuby on Android
- 29:523D game demo
- 33:09Garbage collection benefits
- 36:00Production JRuby use cases
- 37:23Future JRuby plans
- 40:38Installing JRuby
- 41:21Q&A








