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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.50, 78 ratings)
A 3 hour tutorial with Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard on jQuery on Rails.
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Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)
Average rating:
(3.21, 34 ratings)
Future web apps will be built on the client-server model: faster, more fluid, desktop-like apps that cannot be fully realized with traditional Rails techniques for building browser views. But Rails is the perfect server framework to integrate with SproutCore, an exciting new framework for building web browser clients. Students will build a full-fledged client-server app using both frameworks.
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Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC),
Joe O'Brien (EdgeCase, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.69, 52 ratings)
Everyone seems to be on the TDD/BDD bandwagon these days. We have gotten very good at the first two phases of the Red/Green/Refactor cycle. But in our push toward releasing new code and functionality, sometimes the Refactor phase gets the short end of the stick. Sadly, without refactoring, our code base can quickly become a nightmare of highly coupled, highly redundant code.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.11, 64 ratings)
Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson.
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James Adam (Free Range)
Average rating:
(3.38, 69 ratings)
A no-nonsense guide to making the most of the newly-integrated "engines" functionality in Rails 2.3, from the guy who wrote the engines plugin itself.
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Jeremy Hinegardner (Collective Intellect)
Average rating:
(3.56, 9 ratings)
Sometimes the best solution is a standalone application that you can give to a client or customer to just drop on a machine and run. This talk will cover the Crate project and how it may be used to package your application, be it commandline, server, or web application.
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David Chelimsky (DRW Trading)
Average rating:
(3.54, 80 ratings)
Used appropriately, mock objects are a powerful design tool that can lead to highly maintainable applications. Used in the wrong context, they can lead to painfully brittle test suites. Attendees will leave this session with more insight into mock objects, and a better handle on when it makes sense to use them.
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Ryan Singer (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.65, 106 ratings)
Ryan will explain the key concepts you should understand to design and implement UI for your apps. He'll cover screen-level details like language and visual techniques as well as implementation issues like modeling, markup, and view code.
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Kevin Barnes (OG Consulting)
Average rating:
(1.89, 47 ratings)
This talk explores why fixtures are mostly bad, what can be done to “fix” the unmanageable miscreant that fixtures have evolved into, and cross-examines the new breed of data generators.
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Marc-André Cournoyer (Sauté Inc.),
Christian Neukirchen (Rack Core Team),
Blake Mizerany (Heroku),
Ryan Tomayko (GitHub),
Adam Wiggins (Heroku),
James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
Average rating:
(2.54, 28 ratings)
The way we deploy ruby apps is changing. This is a a rare opportunity to discuss issues and ideas in real time, directly with the key people from each part of the stack, all in one room.
This is truly a killer line-up: Marc-André Cournoyer (Thin), Christian Neukirchen (Rack), Ryan Tomayko (Rack::Cache, Sinatra), Blake Mizerany (Sinatra), Adam Wiggins and James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
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Davis W. Frank (Pivotal Labs)
Average rating:
(3.77, 40 ratings)
What's next after reading 'Extreme Programming Explained'? Are you suddenly now an Agile Developer? Likely not - you don't become Agile overnight. It's more of a journey to change how you think and work. Learn by example with tips and tricks from someone who's made that journey and is happier and more productive because of it.
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Noel Rappin (Obtiva)
Average rating:
(3.59, 37 ratings)
This talk explores what makes Test Driven Development really work by showing what happens where the process breaks down, focusing on rapid feedback as the key to asuccessful test-driven process. It also creates a vocabulary for talking about malformed test processes.
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Aslak Hellesøy (Bekk Consulting AS)
Average rating:
(3.91, 87 ratings)
Cucumber is a novel tool for Behaviour Driven Development. While early BDD tools like RSpec and Shoulda are geared towards programmers, classes and objects, Cucumber nicely fills the communication gap between customers, programmers and testers. This session will change how you approach requirements and testing of Rails applications.
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ)
Average rating:
(4.51, 43 ratings)
Obie reveals secrets of survival in the Rails consultancy and contracting business, based on his real-life experience as founder and CEO of Hashrocket.
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Timothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek)
Average rating:
(1.80, 87 ratings)
Keynote by Tim Ferriss, author of the Four Hour Work-Week.
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Jon Crosby (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(3.55, 31 ratings)
The ability to release early and often becomes more important as your product scales. With Engine Yard Flex, we'll demonstrate creating 'One Button' deployments that scale. We'll demonstrate building a high-volume Rails cluster and show how easy it is to create a 'Clone of Production' to test at scale.
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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.23, 61 ratings)
Keynote by Chris Wanstrath, GitHub.
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Adam Wiggins (Heroku)
Average rating:
(3.58, 78 ratings)
Rails 2.3 introduces a hot new feature: Rails Metal. Metal allows you to build Rack endpoints for selected URLs in your app and get a 2x - 3x performance boost.
Even better: you can use Sinatra, the microframework that everyone's talking about, from Rails Metal. Capture the speed and elegance of Sinatra from within your existing Rails app!
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Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited)
Average rating:
(3.65, 31 ratings)
Sometimes as developers it can be a little too easy to lose sight of
the big picture sometimes, we can get carried away with following the
conventional wisdom without thinking about why that wisdom became
conventional. Several great ideas and techniques can become huge
time-sinks or distractions if we're not careful.
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Matt Aimonetti (m|a agile consulting)
Average rating:
(3.55, 60 ratings)
Rails3 is the result of the Merb and Rails merger. While the usual ActiveRecord/ERB/Prototype/Test::Unit full stack is still the default, Rails3 now let you step off of the golden path.
Learn more about alternative stack components, when and why to use them by looking at concrete examples.
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Erik Kastner (Etsy / Meta | ateM)
Average rating:
(2.88, 26 ratings)
Webhooks and Protocols (like Rack) are dumb. Like a socket, they work with anything that fits. We'll look at a whole class of problems that can be solved creatively with similar solutions. We will also look at some popular and successful real-world implementations.
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Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(3.00, 8 ratings)
Come see how well IronRuby runs Rails.
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Robert Martin (Object Mentor Inc)
Average rating:
(4.94, 81 ratings)
Keynote by Bob Martin, Object Mentor, Inc.
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Jeff Dean (Pivotal Labs)
Average rating:
(4.00, 14 ratings)
Erector is a pure ruby Builder-like view framework that you can use instead of ERB, inspired by Markaby. In Erector all views are objects, not template files, which allows the full power of object-oriented programming (inheritance, modular decomposition, encapsulation) in views. Among other benefits, Erector allows for inherited layouts and auto-closing tags.
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Bryan Helmkamp (weplay)
Average rating:
(4.44, 64 ratings)
Webrat, a Ruby DSL for interacting with Web applications, helps you write expressive, maintainable acceptance tests while sidestepping the issues traditionally associated with in-browser approaches like Selenium and Watir. We'll look at how you can use Webrat to develop a robust acceptance test suite to ensure your app stays working as you refactor mercilessly.
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Average rating:
(3.27, 11 ratings)
Has the corporate gig or client work sucked all the fun out of coding? Looking to build your freelancing portfolio? Find a cause you care about build something! Micro apps can have a big impact and build your career in the process. We'll share tips we learned in building TweetCongress.org, an effort to promote government transparency.
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Ben Scofield (Heroku)
Average rating:
(4.42, 43 ratings)
The benefits of Rack support in Rails have become increasingly obvious; Rails Metal and integrating multiple Rack applications have made possible architectures that were impractical before, and some long-held opinions are ripe for change. In this session, we'll see how to set up this integration and explore real examples of how it can be used—including the rehabilitation of page caching.
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Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)
Average rating:
(3.61, 18 ratings)
For all its hype, cloud computing really has introduced a potent new scaling mechanism for Rails apps, enabling your architecture to be as nimble and intelligent as your code itself. Yet there are hidden challenges and dangers for the would be cloud-jumper. In this case study, instead of hype, you'll hear the story of OtherInbox, a Rails app that scaled rapidly and cheaply (but not painlessly).
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs),
Jason Seifer (Twistedmind Inc)
Average rating:
(4.36, 39 ratings)
In this talk the Rails Envy guys will attempt to sum up a year of Rails innovation in 45 minutes, covering 20 of the most useful, ingenious, and innovative new developments.
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David Bock (CodeSherpas)
Average rating:
(4.64, 25 ratings)
Workflow is a broad concept, and there are many different approaches to it. Our options in Ruby, especially declarative programming, make workflow applications fun to write, as well as very customizable without building huge "application engines". Come see how.
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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Carl Lerche (Strobe, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.48, 65 ratings)
One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to embed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the development of components that range from user authentication to a fully featured forum. In this talk, Yehuda and Carl will give an in-depth tutorial by building a CMS, creating a gem out of it, and integrating it into another app.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Jeremy Kemper (37signals),
Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited),
Rick Olson (GitHub),
Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Joshua Peek (Consultant)
Average rating:
(3.59, 39 ratings)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers.
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