SVRoR Meetup, 2009/02/25
Ikai Lan, JRuby
Rails 2.2 is thread safe. Threads are safe to use on the JVM. Use threads and use their performance advantage.
Warble (from Sun – Charles Nutter et al) will package a complete Rails app for deployment on a Java App Server.
Lacks the ease of Passenger.
Lots of weird incompatibilities. Timeout. RubyIO. Namespace issues. Metaprogramming. You can’t use packages that use C extensions, e.g. RMagick.
Adam Blum (adam at rhomobile.com), Building Mobile Apps with Rhodes
Majority of development in HTML (erb templates).
Gives you access to PIM, camera, GPS etc.
On Github, bugs in Lighthouse.
Rhodes
- Microframework for building locally executing natively optimized mobile apps.
- Developers run app generator for their pbjects of interest the edit HTML templates.
- Contains first mobile Ruby implementation.
RhoSnyc
- Handles syncing of web service (REST, SOAP) data.
ORM = Rhom
Gave a demo. Seems pretty simple. Didn’t seem as easy to debug.