JRuby at techvalley.rb

We covered a little JRuby at tonight's techvalley.rb meeting. Tom Porter did a nice job giving a high level overview and we covered quite a bit of ground in a relatively short period of time; everything from getting started (downloads, gems, environment, etc.) to eventually creating a small Rails app, raking up a WAR file, and running it on Apache/Tomcat. I haven't given JRuby too much thought before tonight, so my head was spinning trying to keep up, but it was a lot of fun....As all our meeting are!

We also took a few minutes to collectively hack away at a problem one of the members was having in a Rails app.

If you are even close to the capital region of NY, aka Albany, aka, Techvalley, on the 4th Wednesday of any month and want to join a bunch of folks that love to talk ruby, we would love to have you stop by and say hello. Event information can be found on the website.