BostonRB Remote

New Hampshire Rubyists! We're going to try an experiment with our southern neighbors, BostonRB (http://bostonrb.org/)

On Tuesday, June 12th, BostonRB will be streaming their presentations (http://bostonrb.org/presentations/month/June-2012) live via YouTube. We're going to setup a projector, camera, and microphone at Alpha Loft and participate in the meeting via Google Hangouts telepresence. So join us 7:00pm Tuesday at Alpha Loft for and evening of Ruby with two great talks:

TorqueBox
by Kevin Menard

TorqueBox (http://torquebox.org/) is a new kind of Ruby application platform that integrates popular technologies such as Ruby on Rails, while extending the footprint of Ruby applications to include built-in support for services such as messaging, scheduling, and daemons. TorqueBox provides an all-in-one environment, built upon the latest, most powerful JBoss AS Java application server. Functionality such as clustering, load-balancing and high-availability is included right out-of-the-box.

Introduction to JRuby
by Jay McGaffigan

This will be a general introduction to JRuby (http://jruby.org/), should be a great primer for anybody that is interested in getting their feet wet.