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Mingle: Building a Rails-Based Product

Posted by Neal Ford on Jun 06, 2008 03:51 PM

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
JRuby,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails
Tags
JAOO Conference,
Mingle,
JRuby,
Ruby on Rails
Summary
Neal Ford talks about Mingle, Thoughtworks Studios' project management software. Mingle is written or JRuby - Neal explains the experience with building a product on JRuby, solutions to problems, and future plans for using JRuby in Mingle.

Bio
Neal Ford is an senior application architect at ThoughtWorks. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers conferences worldwide. Check out his web site at www.nealford.com.

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.

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