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There are many options out there for serving your Rack/Rails applications,
but how many run under the fastest Ruby implementation available (JRuby)?  
And have built-in asynchronous processing using real threads?  With built-in 
job scheduling?  And built-in clustering?

In this talk, we'll explore TorqueBox, which combines JRuby with the
JBoss Application Server to provide Ruby developers with all of the above.
'Java' is a scary word to Ruby developers, but with TorqueBox, you develop,
deploy, and manage your applications without writing a single line of Java
or XML.

TorqueBox takes the pain out of background processing (e.g. BackgrounDrb, 
DelayedJob, Resque, etc), scheduling (multiple cron-backed gems) and 
clustering (e.g. HAProxy) to provide a uniform deployment environment that 
scales down to your laptop or up to hundreds of clustered servers, allowing 
you to build, test and debug your applications consistently.