Upcoming Presentations at OpenRepositories and JA-SIG
I will be presenting on How We Integrated Fedora into Ruby on Rails, and How You Can Use It at two conferences this spring. You can see the talk at OpenRepositories in Southampton, England on 03 April or at the JA-SIG Conference in Minneapolis, MN on 28 April. Here’s the abstract:
Breathe a sigh of relief, and let yourself daydream a bit. Developing Fedora-centric applications just became a lot easier.
MediaShelf (http://yourmediashelf.com) has created software libraries that allow developers to treat Fedora repository content as Ruby objects. Even better, we have made it so you can use these objects natively within Ruby on Rails. Matt Zumwalt, MediaShelf’s Lead Architect, will demonstrate how this graceful union was achieved.
Matt will start by reviewing Ruby on Rails fundamentals and showing how the new RubyFedora and ActiveRepository libraries fit into Rails. He will then walk you through a simple Rails application that uses these libraries. The session will conclude with a look at some of the underlying code and a discussion of the current development status for this work.
We will be putting out a pre-release of the RubyFedora and ActiveRepository libraries in conjunction with these presentations.