euruko2012/call-for-proposals — pull request #62 by iconara (2012-03-18 15:22:45+00:00)
Title: Standing on the shoulders of giants with JRuby

The JVM is an awesome platform, and the ecosystem around it has many of the best frameworks and libraries that developer-kind have created. Ruby is a well proven dynamic language with a rich toolset for testing and DSL:s. It’s a godsend for writing everything from proof of concepts, integration tools to web UI:s.

How can you use Ruby when you work in a Java-only environment? I’ll show you some ways to sneak the goodness in from the side in the form of JRuby, and make you look twice as productive as your co-workers.