In recent years the Ruby language has become very popular for developing web based applications, largely driven by the success of the now ubiquitous Ruby on Rails framework.
Ruby developers usually name dynamic typing, the compact yet expressive syntax and powerful abstraction mechanisms as strong points of the language, allowing the user to write elegant code in a short amount of time.
The goal of the Ruboto / JRuby on Android project is to build the necessary framework and infrastructure to make Ruby a viable option for Android development. The talk will present some of the challenges faced during this process and show that Ruby can be a valuable additional tool for Android developers.
Jan Berkel is based in Berlin where he works as a software developer for the music sharing website SoundCloud. For a change he hacks on several open source Android projects, usually with the goal to make languages other than Java available on the platform. So far both Scala and Ruby look very promising.