Philippe Hanrigou

ThoughtWorks

Philippe Hanrigou has over ten years of experience developing enterprise software and web applications. As a software engineer and ThoughtWorks consultant, he focuses on designing enterprise software — understanding what makes a good design and implementing practices that encourage it. For the last 2 years he has enthusiastically embraced Ruby and used it to deliver large enterprise systems.

Philippe is the author of Troubleshooting Ruby Processes , an Addison-Wesley Ruby Professional Series shortcut, that introduces key system diagnostic tools in the context of Ruby development. Philippe is also the principal developer and author of Selenium Grid, a tool that transparently distribute your web testing infrastructure so that you can run Selenium tests in parallel.

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4:25pm - 5:15pm Saturday, 05/31/2008

What To Do when Mongrel Stops Responding to Your Requests and Ruby Doesn't Want to Tell You About It

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Location: Portland Ballroom 253

Philippe Hanrigou (ThoughtWorks)

Building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale Ruby on Rails applications involves overcoming a variety of vexing problems that prove difficult to investigate using just the traditional Ruby stack. This session features field-tested tools and techniques that can used to in these situations, focusing on techniques for DTrace, strace, gdb, lsof and XRay. Read more.