My colleague Ariel at Cyrus Innovation has started a new series of blog posts entitled "How Ruby made me into a better Java developer". In this series, he's going to be talking about he and his team applied many of the techniques from Ruby and Rails to a Java web application.
I've seen some of the changes the team has made and I was impressed; I especially liked the way they built action tests that could check the view (just like Rails functional tests).
I'm looking forward to reading the whole series!