Jason Rudolph
Author of Getting Started with Grails
Jason Rudolph is a Principal at Relevance, a leading development and training organization specializing in Ruby, Rails, Groovy, and Grails, and integrating them into enterprise environments. Jason has more than nine years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations.
Jason is the author of the highly-praised book, Getting Started with Grails, and speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups. Jason also contributes regularly to the open source community, both as an early committer to Grails, and also as a committer to the Streamlined framework and numerous other Ruby and Rails projects.
Jason holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. You can find Jason online at http://jasonrudolph.com.
Blog
Grails vs. Rails: Are we seriously still talking about this?!
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I had the pleasure of meeting a local Grails enthusiast last night who was new to the Triangle, bmore »A Month of TextMate Productivity Tips
Posted Tuesday, November 4, 2008
I’ve had the joy of calling TextMate my editor of choice for almost three years now, and as the The Pragmatic more »Testing Anti-Patterns Potpourri - Quotes, Resources, and Collective Wisdom
Posted Tuesday, October 7, 2008
While working on the Testing Anti-Patterns series over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of reading some great writing on testing, test-driven develmore »Presentations
Refactotum
Contributing to open source is great for your career. In a few short hours, you can learn, teach, promote your skills, and improve the quality of the community. In this session, we will show you how, by doing it.more »How to Fail with 100% Test Coverage
With an expressive language such as Ruby and with modern test practices, 100% C0 test coverage is readily achievable. But 100% coverage is meaningless without other supporting habits and practices. Over the last few years, we have taken dozens of projectsmore »Git Control of Your Source
By now you've probably heard about Git - the version control system used by the Linux Kernel, Ruby on Rails, Google’s Android platform, and many other projects. Perhaps you've heard something along these lines: "Git is a version control system, and more »Refactoring Javascript
The rise of Ajax and Rich Web Applications, plus the success of dynamic languages, has caused people to revisit the JavaScript language. Now that we take JavaScript seriously as a language, it is time to get serious about the quality of JavaScript code, tmore »Books
Getting Started with Grails
by Jason Rudolph
- Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Ruby on Rails pioneered the innovative coupling of a powerful programming language and an opinionated framework that favors sensible defaults over complex configuration, but many organizations aren't yet ready to stray from the safety of Java or forgo their current Java investments. Grails makes it possible to achieve equivalent productivity in a Java-centric environment. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore the various aspects of Grails and also experience Grails by building a Grails app.
