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Jruby: Ready For Action!: Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo

Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo of Sun Microsystems presented on JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. They discussed JRuby enhancements including a new compiler and performance improvements. They also demonstrated how JRuby enables GUI, web, and graphics applications through libraries like Swing, Ruby on Rails, and Processing. JRuby aims to provide a fully compatible Ruby experience that leverages the power of the Java Virtual Machine.

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Jruby: Ready For Action!: Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo

Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo of Sun Microsystems presented on JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. They discussed JRuby enhancements including a new compiler and performance improvements. They also demonstrated how JRuby enables GUI, web, and graphics applications through libraries like Swing, Ruby on Rails, and Processing. JRuby aims to provide a fully compatible Ruby experience that leverages the power of the Java Virtual Machine.

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JRuby:

Ready for ACTION!


Charles Oliver Nutter and
Thomas Enebo
The JRuby Guys
Sun Microsystems
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Agenda
• JRuby overview
• JRuby enhancements and additions
• Swing programming
• Demo: Swing in Ruby
• Web applications
• Demo: JRuby on Rails
• Graphics and applets (that don't
suck)
• Demo: Pretty graphics!
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The JRuby Guys
• Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas
Enebo
• Longtime Java developers (10+ yrs
each)
• Engineers at Sun Microsystems for 1
yr
• Full-time JRuby developers
• Also working on JVM dynlang support
• Wide range of past experience
> C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Delphi, Lisp,
Scheme 3
JRuby
• Java implementation of Ruby
language
> “It's just Ruby!”
• Started in 2002, open source, many
contributors
> Ola Bini, Marcin Mielzinsky, Nick Sieger,
Bill Dortch, Vladimir Sizikov, MenTaLguY
• Aiming for compatibility with current
Ruby version
> Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111 (114 was just
released)
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JRuby 1.1 Released!
• Announced today: JRuby 1.1 is
finished!
• Massive improvements over 1.0
> Full compiler for Ruby code to JVM
bytecode
> Performance is many times better across
the board
> New Regexp impl with full Oniguruma
features
> New rewritten IO subsystem to parallel
Ruby behavior
> Reduced memory footprint
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Compatibility
• Applications are king
> Rails, Rubygems, Rake, Rspec, ...
• Testing rulez (~42,000
expectations/assertions)
> Prevents regressions
> Helps to better define Ruby
• Prevents fragmenting a community
> Like Sapphire or ...Sapphire???

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Java == A Dirty Word
• “The answer is Java. What is the
Question?”

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Java != A Dirty Word

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Java != A Dirty Word
• Fantastic Virtual Machine
> Tuned for over a decade by an army
> Runs on virtually all os/hardware combos
> Dynamic optimizations (Hotspot)
> Keeps getting faster:

Java 5 Java 6
Rexml 10.9s 7.41s %32
Hpricot 4.06s 2.59s %36

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Java != A Dirty Word
• Fantastic Garbage Collectors
> Compacting
> Concurrent
> Many tunables and choices

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Java != A Dirty Word
• Native threading
• Tools
> IDEs (refactoring, debugging)
> Profilers (instrumenting, sampling)
> JMX (ask VM for stats)
• Libraries
> Anything you can think of...
> Write image_science in 60 lines of Ruby
using Java 2D

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Where is JRuby being used?
• Swing GUI development
> Makes Swing much nicer to use, easier
to handle
• Ruby on Rails
> Better deployment options, better
performance
• Tooling for IDEs
> JRuby's parser enables NetBeans,
Eclipse, IntelliJ
• Graphics
> Ruby + Processing = cool demos
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Swing GUI Programming
• Swing API is very large, complex
> Ruby magic simplifies most of the tricky
bits
• Java is a very verbose language
> Ruby makes Swing actually fun
• No consistent cross-platform GUI
library for Ruby
> Swing works everywhere Java does
(everywhere)
• No fire-and-forget execution
> No dependencies: any script works on
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Option 1: Direct approach
import javax.swing.JFrame
import javax.swing.JButton

frame = JFrame.new("Swing is easy now!")


frame.set_size 300, 300
frame.always_on_top = true

button = JButton.new("Press me!")


button.add_action_listener do |evt|
evt.source.text = "Don't press me again!"
evt.source.enabled = false
end
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DEMO
Swing in Ruby

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Option 2: Cheri (builder approach)
include Cheri::Swing

frame = swing.frame("Swing builders!") { |form|


size 300, 300
box_layout form, :Y_AXIS
content_pane { background :WHITE }

button("Event binding is nice") { |btn|


on_click { btn.text = "You clicked me!" }
}
}
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Option 3: Profligacy (targeted fixes)
class ProfligacyDemo
import javax.swing.*
include Profligacy

def initialize
layout = "[<translate][*input][>result]"
@ui = Swing::LEL.new(JFrame, layout) {|cmps, ints|
cmps.translate = JButton.new("Translate")
cmps.input = JTextField.new
cmps.result = JLabel.new

translator = proc {|id, evt|


original = @ui.input.text
translation = MyTranslator.translate(original)
@ui.result.text = translation
}
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Option 4: MonkeyBars (tool-friendly)
• GUI editor friendly (e.g. NetBeans
“Matisse”)
• Simple Ruby MVC-based API
• Combines best of both worlds

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MonkeyBars + NetBeans Matisse

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MonkeyBars Controller
class RssController < Monkeybars::Controller
set_view "RssView"
set_model "RssModel"

close_action :exit
add_listener :type => :mouse,
:components => ["goButton", "articleList"]

def go_button_mouse_released(view_state, event)


model.feed_url = view_state.feed_url
content = Kernel.open(model.feed_url).read
@rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)

model.articles = @rss.items.map {|art| art.title}


model.article_text = 20
Web applications
• Classic Java web dev is too
complicated
> Modern frameworks follow Rails' lead
• Over-flexible, over-configured
> Conventions trump repetition and
configuration
• Rails deployment is still a pain
> You shouldn't need N processes!
• Rails performance should be better
> JRuby has potential to be much faster
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Production JRuby on Rails
• Oracle's Mix – digg-like social
customer site
> mix.oracle.com
• Sun's MediaCast – file distribution
portal
> mediacast.sun.com
• ThoughtWorks' Mingle – collaborative
project mgmt
> mingle.thoughtworks.com
• Sonar – code/project analysis tool
> sonar.hortis.ch 22
DEMO
GlassFish Gem

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JRuby Enables Tooling
• JRuby's parser used by most Ruby
IDEs
> NetBeans Ruby Support
> Eclipse RDT/RadRails/Aptana, DLTK, 3rd
Rail
> IntelliJ
> Jedit
• Roman Strobl's NetBeans session at
13:00

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Graphics with Processing
• “Processing is an open source
programming language and
environment for people who want to
program images, animation, and
interactions.”
> Basically a cool Java library for 2D
graphics
• Ruby-Processing wraps Processing
with JRuby
> Cool, rubified 2D graphics environment
for you
> Eye-candy demos for us
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DEMO
Pretty Graphics!

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Thank you!
• Main JRuby page: www.jruby.org
• JRuby Wiki: wiki.jruby.org
• Charles Nutter
> [email protected]
> headius.blogspot.com
• Tom Enebo
> [email protected]
> www.bloglines.com/blog/ThomasEEnebo

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JRuby:
Ready for ACTION!
●Charles Oliver Nutter and
Thomas Enebo
●The JRuby Guys

●Sun Microsystems

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