How We Integrated Fedora into Ruby On Rails, and How You Can Use It

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 now 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 that framework. He will then walk you through a simple Rails application that uses the 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.